Apple has finally realized that their core customers are aloof twits. Well, atleast that’s my interpretation of what The Inquirer reports as Apple’s decision to fire ‘the smug little twit’ used in their I’m Mac, He’s a PC ad campaign:
Alas while viewing audiences felt that while the Mac Guy may have proved his case, most of them wanted to pummel the smug little twit into a coma and jump on his bleeding body until the cops arrived.…
The Mac Guy was Justin Long, whose agent has confirmed that he is no longer hawking Macs for Apple and was getting on with his memorable film career. When the ads came out, Seth Stevenson, ad critic for Slate, complained that Long was just the sort of unshaven, hoodie-wearing, hands-in-pockets hipster we’ve always imagined when picturing a Mac enthusiast.
Goatseeker: all goats, all the time.
The internet never ceases to amaze.
My initial reaction, after stumbling upon the site from the drupal showcase, was that this had to be a gag site. I mean, it’s billed as a site for goat lovers and it features goat classifieds!
Sure, there are probably a fair amount of people who would be indifferent upon finding a site dedicated to goats, but I’m from the generation that grew up hearing “that blows goats.” Plus, it doesn’t help that I can’t help repeating the following joke whenever goats or the Rolling Stones are even peripherally related to a subject:
What’s the difference between the Rolling Stones and a Scottish shepherd?
The Rolling Stones sing “hey you, get off of my cloud.”
A scottish shepherd says “hey, McLeod, get off my ewe!”
It’s hard to pay attention to 9/11 conspiracy theorists. The actions of the Bushmen after the twin tower and pentagon bombings already fail the smell test for most people who have followed the machinations of the oval office since the terrorist acts. But Barrie Zwicker takes conspiracy theories to the next level. The journalist and documentary maker reveals to George Straight reporter Terry Glavin that he’s not only a whack job who believes that the entire events of leading up to 9/11 and after constitutes “a giant terror fraud” orchestrated by the the Bushmen, but Zwicker also contends that Noam Chomsky, the venerable American anarchist is in truth an apologist for the CIA:
Zwicker said readers should find the fifth chapter very exciting. Its title is “The Shame of Noam Chomsky and the Gatekeepers of the Left”. You can probably guess the general drift of its contents. Sneak preview: it turns out that Chomsky, the famous MIT linguist, is an apologist for the CIA, and, worse, “he is a member of the community of apologists for the official story” about 9/11, Zwicker said. “When I really started to research him, I was shocked.” For instance, Chomsky never questioned the assassinations of John K. Kennedy, his brother Robert, or American black Muslim leader Malcolm X. “There’s something very strange here,” Zwicker said.
Noam Chomsky participates in the further dissemination of CIA propaganda? Really? That’s like claiming Stephen Lewis goes to Africa for the sex tourism.
It would be easy to dismiss Zwicker’s sensational claims for the over-the-top drivel that it is. But then we’d be missing the real troubling aspect about gonzo anti-right wingers like Zwicker: their spurious claims compromise the voice of thoughtful and legitimate dissenters to the policies of the Bush government. There are much more immediate and more important issues to hold the US regime’s feet to the fire to such as the admitted outright lies used by the hawkish White House as the pretext to invasion of Iraq. Is it too much to ask for Bush haters to crucify him for the right reasons? There’s no need to go over the top when you already have a president and cabinet that everybody and their uncle has documented to be incompetent warmongers.
Glaven’s comparison of Zwicker to Michael Moore is apt. Both film-makers are egotistical blowhards who distort and manipulate their forums for self-promotion. They appeal to a spoon fed sensationalist fringe and end up doing more to hurt the left-wing than help it. Just like the Bush government, conspiracists like Barrie Zwicker doesn’t even pass the smell test.
The International Astronomical Union just hit Pluto with a semantic Death Star ray. Pluto, is no longer officially considered a planet. Burn your old high school textbooks. We have just 8 planets in our solar system now.
The only benefit I see from this reclassification is that it is now 11% more likely that any randomly chosen planet in our solar system will turn out to be Uranus.