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NY Times gets pwnd by malicious adware
A scammer pretended to be a legit national advertiser, provided some legitimate ads for a week, then switched them to pop-up fake virus warnings over the weekend. The Times has suspended ads automatically inserted by third party ad-placement agencies.
advertising  nytimes  dumb  viruses  tumbl 
september 2009 by jimray
Internet Explorer 8 - Nickelback edition
As best I can tell, this is a real thing. A hilariously stupid, real thing.
dumb  ie  browsers  tumbl 
july 2009 by jimray
Pope encourages young to use internet
Well, now that the Pope's behind it, I'm sure this internet thing will take right off
dumb  religion  funny  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
New Danger Mouse CD released as a blank CD-R
An unnamed dispute with EMI means the actual CD won't be released. EMI is, of course, the label that owns the copyright on The White Album and sued to keep The Grey Album from being released.
music  copyright  dumb  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
Newsweek is framing links to external sites/partners with their very own DiggBar
I have no clue if this is a previously agreed upon partnership thing or if they're treating all external links like this but it looks pretty lame.
media  web  dumb  newsweek  magazines  tumbl 
may 2009 by jimray
"Techcrunch are full of shit"
Grammatically, I prefer "is full of shit" but that's just one of those delightful Britishisms. The sentiment is still the same as it ever was.
music  techcrunch  dumb  media  awesome  tumbl 
february 2009 by jimray
Techcrunch acuses Last.fm of colluding with the RIAA on the leaked U2 album
Last.fm categorically denies the claim and says Techcrunch just made the story up. A new low, even for tech reporting.
dumb  music  riaa  techcrunch  tumbl 
february 2009 by jimray
The Kindle's text-to-speech features is illegal according to the Authors Guild
Just when you thought asinine applications of stupid copyright laws couldn't get any dumber.
dumb  copyright  tumbl  writers  writing  reading  books  amazon 
february 2009 by jimray
Why you won't see MLK's most famous speech on the news
One of the most powerful pieces of American history is locked away because of copyright.
copyright  dumb  history  civilrights  tumbl 
january 2009 by jimray
SNL launching a video sharing site just in time for people to go back to not caring about SNL
I'm guessing it will use technology from Hulu with some exclusive content unavailable anywhere else. Likely to succeed only if NBC can sue the crap out of every other video sharing site that hosts SNL content. Myeh.
video  television  dumb  tumbl 
october 2008 by jimray
Scamming the true believers
I don't know how to feel about a group of Republicans duping right-wing idealogues into donating millions of dollars for no-name campaigns and pocketing most of the cash. Just desserts?
schadenfreude  republicans  dumb  politics  tumbl 
july 2008 by jimray
YouveBeenLeftBehind will send a post-rapture email to all us godless non-believers
I love this idea, if only because it's duping moronic evangelicals out of $40/yr so that they can feel smug and superior for believing in fairy tales.
dumb  religion  tumbl 
june 2008 by jimray
Creationists are trying a new approach, this time it's about the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution
How about a strengths and weakness of Intelligent Design? It allows small minded idiots to continue to ignore science (strength) and is complete bullshit (weakness).
dumb  creationism  education  science  tumbl 
june 2008 by jimray
Comcast buys Plaxo to boost video sharing
Alternate headline: "Crappy monopolist buys into hype of idiotic, spammy email harvester" These two deserve each other, may they rot in hell
comcast  dumb  tumbl 
may 2008 by jimray
NBC and Microsoft want to lock down your Zune so you can only play "allowed" content
"Apple refused to cooperate with NBC on building filters into its iPod player to remove pirated movies and videos. Microsoft, by contrast, will accept NBC’s pricing scheme and will work with it to try to develop a copyright “cop” to be installed on
dumb  copyright  drm  microsoft  nbc  tumbl 
may 2008 by jimray
If you bought anything from MSN Music, better listen to it before August 2008
"If you attempt to transfer your songs to additional computers after August 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play." This totally bodes well for Zune. No, seriously, I'm sure it'll be fine.
microsoft  dumb  drm  tumbl 
april 2008 by jimray
Florida Senate amendment takes on "Truck Nutz"
"I find it shocking we'd tell people with metallic testicles on their bumpers that this is a violation," said Sen. Steve Geller, D-Hallandale. "There's got to be better things for us to spend time debating." [via Kottke]
dumb  legal  florida  tumbl  via:kottke 
april 2008 by jimray
Microsoft Windows 7 Exclusive!
This is so laughably stupid. Vista's performance problems have to do with the fact that they decoupled their monolithic libraries? WTF? Lots of good OS X FUD in this one, too
dumb  microsoft  windows  mac  tumbl 
april 2008 by jimray
Poor upper Queen Anne left with nowhere to park
I swear, the snooty yuppies of upper Queen Anne would wall off their precious shitty neighborhood of lingerie boutiques and overpriced European toy stores if it wouldn't ruin their precious water views
seattle  dumb  schadenfreude  tumbl 
march 2008 by jimray
The Sharper Image files for bankruptcy
But... but... where will I get my shiatsu ionic scalp massaging raygun with electronic organizer and sudoku puzzle generator?!!?! Also, good riddance.
dumb  awesome  business  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
Library of Congress taps Silverlight to "enhance" access
One of those nifty projects where Microsoft is giving away $3 million - in Microsoft software. I wonder if they get a tax break on that!
dumb  microsoft  silverlight  libraries  government  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
Yet another reasong to hate Facebook: they won't let you leave
Deactivating your Facebook account still leaves all of your personal information up
facebook  suck  dumb  privacy  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
Verizon refuses to do the MPAA's bidding
Says that monitoring traffic for copyrighted work would be expensive, a waste of time, a violation of their user's privacy and could make them liable for legal action. Man, I wish I could get FIOS to my apartment.
awesome  telecom  piracy  privacy  dumb  burnhollywoodburn  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR Pool
Self righteous Flickr users vs. Microsoft -- which is more idiotic? I bet that at least half of the members of this group regularly leave sparkly animated blue ribbon GIFs as comments, i.e. are the types who make Flickr suck
flickr  dumb  microsoft  photography  yahoo  tumbl 
february 2008 by jimray
Utah film "cleaner" arrested for paying for sex with 14 year-old girls
Conservative wacko who edited and resold movies sans sex, nudity and swearing (but not violence?) proves that irony is not yet dead.
religion  dumb  censorship  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
Books that make you dumb
The one useful feature of Facebook - aggregating people to statistically mock them. Also, I love that "The Holy Bible" makes you dumber than not reading at all.
via:kottke  stats  dumb  tumbl  awesome  data  visualization 
january 2008 by jimray
I really wish Choire Sicha's response to Daniel Schorr wasn't so goddamn predictable
Schorr, a veteran journalist who, at the very least deserves a modicum of respect, makes some salient points about the inevitable friction between bloggers and journalism. Sicha responds with a boring, unfunny dolop of snark.
media  dumb  bloggers  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
The next version of Windows Mobile will be heavily focused on touch
WM 7 won't release until 2009 and the most interesting new (read: not already on the iPhone) feature seems to be that you can doodle on the lock screen. Can't wait.
microsoft  mobile  windows  dumb  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
Oklahoma has an official state meal
Are you read for this? Barbecue pork, biscuits, black-eyed peas, chicken-fried steak, corn, cornbread, grits (that's three corns!!), fried okra, squash, strawberries, sasuage and gravy, and a slice of pecan pie for dessert.
dumb  south  food  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satan
AIDS, poverty, war, pestilence, etc., etc. to continue to flourish
christianity  religion  dumb  tumbl 
january 2008 by jimray
Burton is offering $5,000 to snowboard "poachers" who invade the last 4 ski-only slopes
This just proves my rule of thumb that most skiers you know are assholes, but every snowboarder you know is
via:kottke  tumbl  dumb  outdoors 
december 2007 by jimray
U.S. hopes to use Pakistani tribes against al Qaeda
Arming a group of, at best, ambivalent, at worst, openly hostile, tribal leaders in the vain hope that they'll help us kill their own countrymen while we maintains almost zero military presence in one of the most unstable parts of the world. WHAT COULD GO
dumb  politics  pakistan  war  terrorism  tumbl 
november 2007 by jimray
How the candy lobby got an extra hour of daylight on Halloween
Apparently, moving daylight savings time past Halloween is something they've long lobbied for and only the completely ill conceived Energy Policy Act of last year was able to deliver.
business  funny  dumb  politics  tumbl 
october 2007 by jimray
FEMA is just another word for FAIL
So, FEMA holds a press conference, gives 15 minutes notice, opens a listen only 800 number, then stacks the room with FEMA employees to ask softball questions. I believe I speak for America when I ask what the FUCK?
dumb  republicans  government  tumbl 
october 2007 by jimray
Those fires in California? Clearly the work of al Qaeda.
The experts at Fox News are at it again, citing a four year old FBI memo as a possible al Qaeda link to the southern California wildfires. Way to stay on message, Fox News!
dumb  foxnews  republicans  terrorism  media  tumbl 
october 2007 by jimray
Noted Islamic scholar and state representative Rex Duncan returns donated Quarans
Says that the Muslim holy book condones the killing of innocent people. Oh, wait, he's not a scholar on anything other than trying to find new ways to insert his own head into his ass? Huh.
dumb  republicans  religion  tumbl  politics 
october 2007 by jimray
Dear Fortune, please stick to your mission of making boring rich people richer
And stop pontificating about shit you know nothing about. Facebook is not "the closest thing the world has to a next-generation Internet [sic]"
dumb  facebook  microsoft  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
NBC ready to start a Windows-only download service for television shows.
What's interesting is that they're saying their big concern is over piracy, yet they promise a version that will work on Macs and iPods sometime in the future. My bet is that this will fail spectacularly before they ever get around to the magic of making
dumb  nbc  television  itunes  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Startup founded by a sixth grader receives $6.5M in funding
TechCrunch, of course, fails to realize how absolutely absurd this is.
dumb  web2.0  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
New York Times officially drops TimesSelect
“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others.” Huh, that's odd, because I remember EVERYFUCKINGBODY saying that when TimesSelect launched.
newspapers  dumb  media  nytimes  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Music industry betting on ‘ringle’ format
A CD (wtf?) with three tracks and a ringtone, for $7, brought to you by the forward looking innovators at Sony BMG and NBC Universal. The only way this could be any dumber is if they'd chosen the cassette tape as the format.
dumb  music  mobile  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Microsoft finally figures out that people hate Redmond
In a half-hearted attempt to keep people from jumping ship to Google, Microsoft is finally leasing space to move about 700 employees downtown. That's out of 35,000 who work in Puget Sound. FAIL.
microsoft  seattle  dumb  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Lulu suing Hulu over trademark infringement
It's like watching an airplane crash in to a train wreck. Go, Zucker, go!
nbc  awesome  television  trademark  dumb  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
After ditching Apple, NBC opts for flex pricing and more DRM with Amazon
Ars really nails the crux of the NBC/Amazon deal - basically, it boils down to much more restrictive DRM and the ability to bundle crappy content with the (increasingly rare) good stuff
television  nbc  dumb  amazon  itunes  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Boy injured on escalator, parents blame Crocs
Not only are they ugly but they will KILL YOUR CHILDREN!!!
dumb  fashion  tumbl 
september 2007 by jimray
Apple is pulling NBC shows from the iTunes store before the fall season
NBC wanted $4.99 a show, inspiring a well deserved W.T.F? I'm sure whatever craptacular solution the big old brains working for Zucker are sure to hastily deliver will suck royally, driving folks like me to torrent the next season of Battlestar Galactica.
apple  itunes  nbc  television  dumb  tumbl 
august 2007 by jimray
NBC won't renew its iTunes contract for shows
And just how in the hell am I supposed to watch The Office? This is so goddamn dumb I don't even know where to begin.
dumb  nbc  media  apple  itunes  tumbl 
august 2007 by jimray
Why FireFox is blocked
Some wanker is all upset about the AdBlock plug-in (never mind that similar plug-ins exist for IE and Safari) and has decided to block all Firefox users. Yeah, good luck with that, asshat.
via:unstoppablerobotninja  dumb  advertising  firefox  browsers  webdev  tumbl 
august 2007 by jimray
What happens if you get called in for cheating the HOV lane in Seattle
If we receive several complaints on the same vehicle, a letter will be sent to the registered owner... advising them of the law and warning that continued violation will result in enforcement actions" WTF! This should result in immediate castration!
seattle  traffic  travel  dumb  tumbl 
august 2007 by jimray
Fremont Chamber of Commerce convinces Seattle to get rid of bike lanes on Stone Way
So this is what all the old folks mean when they say Fremont sucks now. Well, at least we've got a bunch of crappy luxury condos!
seattle  dumb  tumbl  biking 
august 2007 by jimray
BibleTech 2008
Oxymoron or just cognitive dissonance?
dumb  religion  culture  tumbl 
july 2007 by jimray
Belltown residents get all pissed off becuase they live in a neighborhood with bars
Jesus, this is what annoys me the most about people in Seattle. They want to live in a city, just not, you know, deal with the fact that THEY LIVE IN A GODDAMN CITY! Passive aggressive egg throwing douchebags should move to fucking Kirkland.
seattle  dumb  tumbl 
july 2007 by jimray
Arrington continues to prove that credibility means nothing
Why bother with silly things like ethics and standards when you can make plenty of money sitting in the middle of the bukkake that is the fanboism of Silicon Valley
dumb  bloggers  weblogs  media  ethics  asshats  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Adverblogger actually defends Federated Media's embarassing Microsoft blogola gaffe
Money quote: "The best publications have always been dialogs between great writers, passionate readers, and, yes, advertisers." Ah, yes, payola is just part of the conversation!
advertising  dumb  microsoft  marketing  media  ethics  tumbl  ac 
june 2007 by jimray
Remember the judge who sued his dry cleaner for $54M? Yeah, he lost that.
The guy was/is clearly suffering from some sort of mental problems but the fact that this didn't get tossed out immediately is evidence that something in the legal system is completely broken.
legal  dumb  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Doctors' beliefs hinder patient care
When you choose a career based in science, you have to check your inane religious superstitions at the door.
dumb  religion  politics  medicine 
june 2007 by jimray
Murdoch wants to swap MySpace for 25% of Yahoo?
Yahoo has a market cap of $37B. Do the math, that's a pretty lousy deal.
yahoo  myspace  media  dumb  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
AT&T to target pirated content
You guys just keep on believing that'll actually work.
dumb  at&t  piracy  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
More Americans belive in creationism than accept evolution
Here's the nice thing about science and facts, though: it's still true even if you don't believe it.
via:kottke  religion  politics  dumb  republicans  science  evolution  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
'Unlocking Value' at Microsoft
"Success in my role isn't about understanding technology, it's about understanding the customer." Or... neither
microsoft  dumb  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Under Consideration takes a look at the London 2012 logo
A mark so bad they moved it from their Brand New blog to the more general designy Speak Up blog to riff on it.
design  typography  dumb  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
Faulty fax, mistaken as threat, prompts evacuation of stores
I've said it before, I'll say it again: we'll know that we're in The Future when people are no longer using fax machines.
dumb  technology  terrorism  tumbl 
june 2007 by jimray
eHarmony sued for excluding gays
This is lame. There are plenty of alternatives to eHarmony. Do gay people (or anyone) really want to meet people at a dating site run by a guy connected to James Dobson? And what about dating sites that cater to gays and lesbians? Can I sue them?
dating  homosexuality  sex  dumb  legal  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
Engadget fesses up to the fake iPhone delay screw up, fanboys fall over themselves to heap praise on over eager bloggers
Once again, the bloggers get to play by different rules than the rest of the media that they have so much disdain for and yet their adoring fans can't help but join the love-in. Or is it bukkake? So hard to tell these days...
apple  media  dumb  bloggers  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
It would seem Flickr has fucked up
Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, an incredibly talented and well-loved Flickr user, found that her copyrighted photos were being sold, she bitched about it on Flickr, they deleted her post and comments and threatened to delete her account.
dumb  flickr  photography  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
8020 Publishing has an official response to the JPG mag flap
I dunno, sounds kinda corporate-ish and wonky. Not exactly the best way to tell your side of the story to a pissed off community, upon who's support your business depends
media  magazines  dumb 
may 2007 by jimray
Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement
Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.
absurd  dumb  congress  legal  piracy  privacy  riaa  copyright  tumbl 
may 2007 by jimray
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