Who's nuttier, a grown man self-identifying as Slobzilla or the ten year old kid bullying him over that username on Twitter? I'm thinking about holding a fundraiser for the poor kid once we have identified the neurological disorder that causes a finger on one hand to spontaneously hit the shift key while a finger on the other hand is typing. Of course, by the time we've figured it out he will have reached puberty and will be doing most of his typing with his one free hand.

My first crack at HDR with iOS 4.1

Slobzilla's 2010 WWDC crackpot prediction:

An HTML5 OS X that will run iPhone and iPad apps. Think about a cloud-based Snow Leopard that would kill Google Chrome in its infancy and put Flash in a death spiral. I'm just sayin'.

Unspeakable horror. Great article in the WSJ!

Please buy Adobe and make them play nice. Wouldn't it be nice to own Flash so you could give it away?

OK, so the iPad looks like an overgrown iPod Touch and does all of the same things. Sadly, it does not have a camera so there go the photography apps, but everything else is supposed to work peachy and Apple whipped up a version of iWork because they insist businesses will use their stuff someday! Just when you thought you were out the 3G version pulls you back in, with AT&T that is. They have another exclusive deal with AT&T, but no contract this time. Either pay the monthly fee or don't. Surfing the web via 3G will cost fifteen clams per month if you can limit yourself to 250mb of porn (so that's out) or thirty bones for unlimited porn-gazing. It surfs more than porn, too, for those rare occasions you need the web to augment your non-porn trivia bank. All in all, not as much to write home about this time.

We can and should be getting excited about the A4 chip, though. Should you still have an Edge model or plain 3G, how is it performing? Notice it slowing down? Try putting some larger apps on it an try again. If we're going to really use this stuff we need powerful chips and, according to Apple, the A4 is a screamer. Let's hope they soon start stuffing them in the phones. Opening the iPhone up to other carriers is the only thing higher on our wish list.

The Supreme Court didn't mitigate Obama's shitty week with the 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. FEC or at least you can draw that conclusion from his reaction. Frankly, the Department of Justice shouldn't have taken it that far. Obama's DOJ took one for the team, though, the team of Democrats and Republicans that have been limiting speech (money) in politics for as long as they've had control of government (what are campaign finance laws written by the two parties if not to limit the rise of a third?). The poor progressives who haven't already jumped off a bridge, succumbed to catatonia or just tuned out are worried that the Republicans will somehow use corporate dollars to buy the Democrats out of their half of the franchise. C'mon, do you really think George Soros will let that happen? Or, the trial lawyers, or the unions, or even corporations? Obama raised over 1 Billion dollars in the last election cycle. Remember how he went without government matching funds in keeping with the ridiculous and, thankfully, now anachronistic McCain Feingold campaign finance law? He got a lot of that from small donors, yes, and large donors alike. Really, a billion fucking dollars last time around. Do you think he's sweating the next election for want of money? What he and Republicans all worry about is the possibility of money going to an independent or third party candidate that will fuck up the two=party franchise they've crafted for over a century.

If you still don't feel any better check out OpenSecrets.org, good people that keep track of such donations. Witness how the top donors are equally corporations and unions alike. This and sites just like it are now more important than ever. As before, we will want to know who our politicians are beholden to, won't we? If you don't like from whom a candidate has taken money you don't have to vote for that candidate. You don't have to give them your money, either. In fact, what's to keep the disaffected from pooling their money into a third party rich enough to pull along side and change the political discourse once and for all? Nothing, now.]]>http://www.slobzilla.com/slobservations/rss-comments-entry-6409059.xmlSlobzillaFri, 22 Jan 2010 22:38:24 +0000http://www.slobzilla.com/slobservations/2010/1/22/apocalypse-tuesday.html357465:3818841:6402182

The sky fell Tuesday when soft-core porn model (kidding) cum politician Mark Brown beat Martha Coakley, heir apparent to Ted Kennedy for his Senate seat, or so it seams she thought. Now, the Democrats no longer have their filibuster proof 60 seat majority and, since the Republicans promise to be as obstructionist as possible, Democrats are beside themselves. Obama repopulated his populist repertoire with another threat to punish banks or bankers. The DJIA rightfully finished the week in a free-fall. And everything had just been going so well. Maybe floating the idea of national health care before anyone felt the warm breeze of economic recovery after the winter chill of our worst recession wasn't such a good idea after all.

My fat fingers, taken with my iPhone, posted with Squarespace App!

There's (finally) an app for that! Our friends and hosts at Squarespace have released their long awaited iPhone/iPod Touch app and I am excited as a schoolgirl. Why schoolboys are usually not perceived as excitable as schoolgirls (at least not to the extent they deserve a cliché) or what it will take to finally calm those girls remain elusive topics. However, Squarespace has come through for it's patrons and good on 'em.