It's Fixed in the Next Release - Humor

Feel Free to Ignore this Link

nospam@example.com (Alan Langford) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:49:21 -0500

In his article If You Can't Understand The Difference Between Money And Content, You Have No Business Commenting On Business Models, Mike Masnick takes a shot at some "logic" advanced by Canadian IP lawyer James Gannon, who wrote "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Copy".

Masnick is justifiably unforgiving in his analysis: "It's brilliant only if you don't understand all of the following: money, economics, copyright, business and value. If you understand any of those things, you might recognize that the analogy makes no sense. Misunderstand all of them... well, then I can see how this argument might make sense."

Then Gannon stopped by to claim that it was rude or discourteous for Masnick to link to his content.

Newsflash: It's neither. It's what HTML was designed for! Seriously, welcome to 1990. Personally I think it's rude to advance obviously illogical arguments in defence of legacy content providers, but that's just me.

Onion Sends Apple Up with the MacBook Wheel

nospam@example.com (Alan Langford) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:40:51 -0600

[Note: this article is still on the Onion site but the video is broken there too. Leaving this post up in hopes that they fix it one day].

This is just too good to not post.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Stephen Harper Crosses Floor to Join Liberals

nospam@example.com (Alan Langford) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:56:19 -0600

OTTAWA -- In a bold and unprecedented move, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party.
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Jon Stewart Admits to Pat Robertson Payoff

nospam@example.com (Alan Langford) — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:30:00 -0600

Following the disclosure of financial transactions by a disgruntled former employee, Jon Stewart, star of The Daily Show, has been forced to admit to making clandestine payments to far-right evangelist M. G. "Pat" Robertson, in exchange for making ludicrous comments in public.

Faced with copies of bank statements as evidence, Stewart reluctantly admitted to the payments. When contacted by telephone, he justified his actions: "Hey, really good wing-nut material is hard to come by these days, and Pat has a natural talent for it." He later added "considering the ratings boost we get when lampooning this guy, a few hundred grand is peanuts."

The disclosure is unlikely to affect Stewart's scheduled appearance as host of the Academy Awards. Anonymous sources in the Academy said that they briefly considered replacing Stewart with Robertson himself, but soon discounted the idea. "Our people talked to his people," the source said, "but apparently he's not ready to 'come out' as a natural comic talent just yet." A spokesperson for Robertson denied any contact, saying "Dr. Robertson has no intention of 'coming out' of anything for any reason. We just don't use that phrase around here!"