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Man, I love The Macalope. The way he and Daring Fireball’s John Gruber (I still think they’re the same person) tear down the jackasses of the PC blogosphere is just exquisite. In a world where taking shots at Apple just to exasperate the Mac community, gain attention on Digg and get people to check out your article because you’re a hack, or worse, John C. Dvorak, and can’t gain attention any other way, the Macalope is doing more than tow the Apple line, he and Gruber are fighting The Monster The Blogosphere Hath Spawned.
Since corporate media companies have mined the phenomenon known as blogging to the point of death, “journalists” has become a twentieth century notion. You gotta be a blogger to have cred and get read… cool, did I just make up a catchy phrase? Bloggers were known for their on the spot writing and thus became the next best thing to being at the moment. Books are slow, magazines are monthly or weekly at best, but blogs, oh man, so instant. How can you go wrong with blogs? Why read anything else?
Dude, that was so five minutes ago. Hit “refresh” on your browser… see, it literally was so five minutes ago.
Another thing that was mined from blogs was their IMHO-ness. Bloggers opined about their lunch, the movie they saw last night and how they’re battling with their cell phone carrier to get some charges reversed. “This is giving me a headache, I hate it, they suck.” No fact-checking necessary to hit “submit” on that Blogspot page. Your opinion is now out there.
Rats can fit through the smallest of spaces
Fuck journalism and all that baggage, I’m gonna be a blogger and write the next Great American Shit Pile. I’m gonna work for a huge media corporation but hide under the title of blogger and write yellow journalism. The pissiest shade of yellow, in fact!
So I guess it doesn’t really surprise me that Gruber and the Macalope seemed to have increased their take-downs of jackasses in the past few months. And they’re doing it with well thought out writing, logic, and analysis. Ironically, they’ve kinda reversed gears and are defeating the hacks out there with the one thing corporate, quota-based bloggers don’t have: time.
And that’s why you should read Modicum of Modernity – I’m not paid AND I’m a shitty writer. Best o’ both.
Get a job!!
So let’s blog
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A little about the whale:
Name: Right Southern
Weight: 44 to 88 tons
Length: 44 to 56 feet
But at least they can afford a nice car and will dance with you.
Björk video Triumph of the Heart by Spike Jonze (.mov 16MB)
I’ll be a typical blogger and post pictures of cats. It’s in my contract.
Thank Gosh the weather has been warm these past few days. I wasn’t ready for the cold, forty degree days and even cooler nights that rudely barged in. I think the poor trees are a bit confused on what to do with their leaves, but they’ll figure it out. They’re brilliant saps.
Down by the lake today, and all over I suppose, the ladybirds, or ladybugs, were out in full force. It seems when they get into great numbers, they get bity. One went for my jugular. But soon mother nature will say, “Okay, they’ve had enough. Mr. Frost, you’re up!” And then we’ll see how cocky you ladybirds are without heat!
I caught some National Geographic on television the other night, and watched an episode about dolphins. Not just cute images of dolphins flipping out, but footage of them (bottle-nose, mostly) beating up other dolphins. It also showed dolphins, in a coordinated effort, rush out of the water onto a muddy bank. The wave they would create pushed small fish onto the shore where they would flop helplessly and get snatched up by the dolphins. Sometimes a dolphin will wiggle too far onto the land, becoming stuck and eventually dying.
It all reminded me of a Simpsons episode where Lisa frees a show dolphin and unwittingly enables the dolphins to take over the dry-land world. But seeing those dolphins use land to hunt fish made me think about their place in evolution. They’re mammals that live in the water with a bunch of fish, they’re highly intelligent (one of the few creatures that acknowledge their own reflection in a mirror), and now, some of them are turning to land as a way to get their food. They’re totally going to take us over!! Of course, by the time they evolve into any kind of opposing power, we’ll have evolved into pure energy and the Earth will be so close to the sun that the surface will be a charred, barren wasteland. Enjoy! You fuckin’ fascist dolphins.
