Uh, this isn't about civil rights or stopping a war. It's about middle class kids having to pay more in tuition. Big difference.
I knew a guy who wrote for Men's Health as a freelancer, and he was a dyslexic and a very poor writer. He accepted payments from PR people to hawk products in his articles.
I knew a complete sell-out hack who wrote for Men's Health once in awhile. He was honest-to-god dyslexic. He sold magazine mentions of products PR guys were pushing him.
Someone "invented" PHP? I'd always assumed it had plopped out of the collective asses of a thousand webmonkeys. Seriously, if I'd invented PHP, I wouldn't be bragging about it. #yahoo
@PontiusPirate: Or maybe just 25 years old and no older. In other words, perfect for Twitter.
@shostakobitch: A neck beard would only be "androgynous" in SF, which is another problem to add to the list, no? :)
@Paul_Is_Drunk: BART is a good measure of SF's decline. It used to be nice, but now it's run-down, expensive and unreliable. SF is a good indicator of America's lacking civic culture.
@tjones70000: I dunno, Barton Springs and some dreary lakes don't quite compare to the natural beauty of California, even with Austin's merits. And the tech sector in Austin seems to be fading.
@rhys1882: It may be whiny and hypocritical, but that's not the only problem with SF.
@procrastinator, esq.: Yes, and the gray and cold make the other problems seem worse.
"Portland lacks the depth of tech talent needed to source top flight engineers"
Who says Twitter shows any signs of having or needing top-flight engineeers? They're not doing research in computer vision or natural language processing for chrissake.
"Global warming is bad, but it's not violent."
Uhhhh, have you lost your mind? If the predictions are true, the effects will be far worse than any war. The pressure on countless species and habitats will be comparable to an asteroid impacting the earth. Even the Pentagon has been studying the geopolitical and security consequences, which may be dire.
The writers at Gawker get dumber every week.
Jeez, I haven't had cable for over a year now -- when did Olbermann gain fifty pounds?
@Pope John Peeps II: Then add it to Techclunk, a proofreading-free zone.
I vote for Vanity Fair only because of all the garbage they put on their website.
@doctorzizmor: There's something about her New Hampshire accent that reminds me of a hard-edged woman I dated from Rhode Island.
@TheOnlyNetsFan: The time I wasted watching Letterman when I was younger just makes me sad. That kind of TV has had its day.
I appreciate the sentiment, but when the end titles are longer than the video, we have a problem.
@Pogueman: So, if a movie critic -- also not a terribly serious job worthy of the appellation "journalist" -- had product tie-ins with a movie he was raving about but turned out to have "Ishtar"-sized holes in it, you wouldn't see a problem. Okay.
The whole "gadget reviewer" thing points to precisely the problem with a lot of what passes for technology coverage, on the blogs you deride, and even on NPR, which has its own gadget segment now. I remember when the old BYTE magazine gradually turned into yet another PC Magazine-style product catalog and I knew a fun phase of microcomputers had passed, to be replaced by another cynical, hype-filled arm of the consumer culture.
@poguenyt: Wow. Talk about missing the point, quibbling over shadings and thus confirming the diagnosis.
Dan Lyons, as mean as he can be, at least has a healthy skepticism that's called for in writing about products being pushed by big corporations -- or being pushed by non-journalists.
