Some might argue that gadgets and technology are humanity's crowning achievements, keeping the world savvy and in-tune. Calvin Klein, for instance, has
figured out a way to give consumers technology and style in a James Bond-like manner, showing how truly evolved people have become. On the other, gizmos sometimes highlight the slowest and most oblivious of the pack, like those who refuse to pull their face away from
texting long enough to see a gaping manhole, or gullible audiences that turn to
Twitter as a morbid celebrity news source. Whether the electronic age is our triumph or our downfall, here are some tech-fueled tidbits you may have missed this week:
- Staff members ask Hillary Clinton why they haven't, like the rest of the world, switched to Firefox. Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy replied something about an expense issue, which sent the State Department, and Internet users, into hysterical laughter.
- Fun exercise or cruel joke? A debate rages at a British school that staged an alien abduction of one of its teachers as an experiment in imagination.
- Video games are meant to entertain, right? So why are these so boring?
- A shotgun with electrified "shells" might be one of the worst ideas ever, but just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean people won't buy it.
- The Twitterati may have invented the most popular micro-blogging platform ever, but that doesn't mean they're immune to bad decisions, like over-using interconnected programs like Google Docs or choosing totally simple passwords.
- Keyboard Cat plus Hall & Oates. Can anything get any better? Warner doesn't think so, and they pulled the plug on our favorite jamming cat and yacht rock collaboration on Youtube.
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Subscribe to commentspaul34Jul 19th 2009 9:29PM
>> Staff members ask Hillary Clinton why they haven't, like the rest of the world, switched to Firefox. Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy replied something about an expense issue, which sent the State Department, and Internet users, into hysterical laughter.
Well, I hope they're laughing at their own incompetence.
Any type of major (or even minor) software change, even if the software is "free," is never free in a business environment. Come on, get real - anyone with even half an hour of real-world business experience knows that. There's a little something called "support," not to mention the actual hours needed to apply the systemwide upgrade and knock out any issues anyone might have.
It's as stupid as those people who say "lolz biznasses shud jus lik, get rid of windoze from m$$$$ and get linucks, dude!!111oneone its lik free n stufff y0," because it's so far from free in support costs that it's not funny.
leviedixon24284Jul 20th 2009 9:32AM
should the president taxe the rich and make americans pay poor on the behalf no if i was poor i wold get my on money . this counry is loosing its power to thr foriegn people to work at cheap labor the americans ars to far behind need help.