Although it seemed at first that the iPad would only ever be shown in the pale, well-manicured hands of wealthy whites, Apple now appears to be wooing the the non-white hipster market. Thanks to my local bus stop for the update. (And no thanks for anything else, stupid bus stop.) – AS
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
Good News!
June 13th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Technology
Tags: advertising·Apple·bus stop·hipsters·iPad·Juliette Lewis·Macintosh·marketing·white people
What A Girl Wants
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Law and Justice, Technology
Last week, the Third Circuit heard arguments in what has been dubbed the “Sexting Case,” although the case actually has little to do with the AARP phenomenon of sexting. The girls in this case weren’t even old enough to realize their Twilight books are homoerotic: The case goes back to 2006, when two girls aged [...]
Tags: AARP·ACLU·gender·New Haven Firefighter Test·sexting·sexting case·sexuality·Third Circuit
GOP Lies, Makes Friends
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics, Technology
The GOP has created an internet tool. A.K.A. the latest in a series of bad ideas involving the GOP and the internet. Apparently the tool even used to include an animated Michael Steele figure walking about! I have to say, now that we’ve all seen their interns, I’m not totally surprised that nobody on staff [...]
Tags: GOP·GOP.am·GOP.com·interns·Michael Steele
The GOP Could Use Some Advice (On How NOT To Use Facebook)
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics, Technology
Every now and then I notice an unfortunate (to say the least) misuse of Facebook for political debate. It goes something like this: [Insert name of person you went to high school with] is sooooo over the public option! [Insert name of some drunk "friend" of your "friend"] omg you cant be serious [some other [...]
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What Happens In Vegas
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Law and Justice, Technology
Yesterday I flew to Las Vegas for the second time this month. I was sitting in front of a loud, Eastern European couple. I couldn’t recognize the language they were speaking, but at one point in the middle of their impenetrable conversation, the man said in perfect English, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” [...]
Tags: ACLU·airport·airport security·body scanner·idiocy·Las Vegas·millimeter wave technology·national security·privacy·Proust·Susan Hallowell·TSA·War on Terror
Pity the Fool
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Technology
For those of us no-name types, Twitter provides an outlet for the little germs of wisdom we come up with while drunk and/or pathetically lonely. For political types, however, Twitter is an easily mockable (and equally misguided) excuse for a soapbox. Josh Treviño (former Bush writer of some sort, who now runs a “strategies & [...]
Tags: 287(g)·ACLU·Border Patrol·civil liberties·conservative logic·idiocy·immigrant rights·Immigration·Josh Treviño·racial profiling·Texas·Twitter
Things That Are Easier in Movies
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Arts and Entertainment, Law School, Politics, Technology
When it was revealed this weekend that a secret CIA program had been kept secret for eight years under direct orders by Dick Cheney, I was like, say no more. I’ve seen Blade Runner, you don’t have to hold my hand through this. According to the New York Times: The report that Mr. Cheney was [...]
Tags: 1970s·Blade Runner·CIA·Dick Cheney·Harrison Ford·replicants·secret assassinations
Gripe of the Day
June 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Labor, Technology
At this point, I’ve gotten fairly used to phone calls from bill collectors. For the most part, they just roll right off my back. But this morning’s 5:30 wake-up call from Verizon was a little excessive. You would think that if any company would understand time zones, it would be one the boasted incessantly about [...]
Tags: deadbeats·hypocrisy·Pacific Daylight Time·union-busting