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Month: September, 2009

Five for Friday, Sept. 25

Five apparel brands I hate:

  1. Ed Hardy takes the top spot from…
  2. Affliction. If everyone who ever bought anything from these two companies fought to the death over who had the biggest deltoids, humanity would be richer for it.
  3. Crocs. Very few things in this life gave me more pleasure than reading that these awful-as-microwaved-crap sandals were going down in flames.
  4. Life is Good. I don’t honestly understand wearing slap-happy slogans with shitty designs on ill-fitting t-shirts.
  5. Thom Browne. Hey, guy? Your suit doesn’t fit.

Entirely in favor of net neutrality.

Outstanding news:

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a new so-called net neutrality rule Monday that would prevent wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to a source at the agency.
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The rule, which is expected to come in the form of a fifth principal to existing guidelines for network operators, would clearly spell out that carriers can’t discriminate what applications run on their networks, according to a source at the FCC who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement was still pending.

And no, I couldn’t think of a better title. This stupid sickness is lingering.

Back again.

It turns out that getting sick is not as conducive to blogging as I had thought. More updates soon.

Update: Animals with lightsabers! Dot com!

Five for Friday, Sept. 4.

  1. It’s been floating around the blogosphere, but this NYer article about Cameron Todd Willingham’s execution after being conviced of arson and murder is a monster. Read it.
  2. I joined a fantasy football league. My goal is to not finish dead last.
  3. If you haven’t read it yet, point your RSS reader at the Best of Wikipedia.
  4. If you use Google Reader, may I suggest replacing its screenful of bag-over-the-head-ugly with Helvetireader? For Gcal fans, Helvitical provides similar serif-free sexiness. (Firefoxers will need Greasemonkey)
  5. I need some more reading recommendations. Fiction, this time.