Ugh! As a self professed lover of Firefox and a slow adopting convert from Internet Explorer 6.0, I'm crushed to have upgraded from Firefox 1.5.whatever, to 2.0 and discovered that my browser crashes like apps written for Windows 3.1. Good lord, did the old MS engineers move into the open source community? I mean, good for them if they did, but folks, open source only works if it works, no? Yes, yes, I'm a bastard for paying nothing for Firefox and then bitching about how my free software doesn't work, blah blah blah. I'm curious how much they make off Google Adsense... from me alone? Oy... are those black helicopters flying over head... time to jet.

A recent GM commercial marketing technical inno-vestment rather than the stench of man sweat. In a business culture in which the technical resources involved seem routinely to be marginalized by the corporate pants monkeys, a commercial associating the value of a GMC truck with technical innovation and investment leading thereto was surprisingly refreshing. This day I feel my spite for that particular domestic car company wane slightly; That said I'm not going to buy one.

Yet another tribute to Irony; The fuel of the universe.

Here illustrating the dicotomy of patronage through pop-culture phraseology: "Don't patronize me!", ..."Thank you, come again."

This moment of insanity brought to you by the power of sleep deprivation.

I had an epiphany watching a recent SNL deep house dish skit. I'm not sure what the direct connection to the skit was (if there was one), but somehow that's how I've indexed it in my mind. What if mail filters are bringing about the decay of modern language?

Consider that when an email filter is created and flags the word "member" as "spammy" that the innovative human mind simply walks around the filter by spelling "member" as "m3mber". The filter thus rendered inert simply acts as a catalyst leading toward a decay in the power of language to attain sufficient wide acceptance to then convey meaning to the masses. Isn't it simply monetary greed in one form (inspiring the evil that is spam) being attacked by monetary greed in another form (using email as a loss leader for an ISP or hosting subscription for example); A short-sighted reaction to language used as a weapon, but employed on a scale that staggers the mind to consider (there is a lot of email to make the understatement of a still young century.)

While the spammers may be wrong, fighting terrorism with terrorism in the form of forcing such language innovations will have undesirable consequences, and ultimately won't have achieved the desired effect of curbing spam. The cost will have come with nothing but a luke warm short term benefit in the form of spam being blocked for a week, and a pile of false positives getting penalized as well (the ironic flip-side of the instant gratification coin.)

Do we really want ISP's and the technically adept but socially questionable asserting themselves on the process of social dialog in this way? Their cryptic mindset and practices are an endurement for some observers, and a mind-numbing nerd priesthood for others. But consider that these folks aren't elected, they are hired. And that, by the corporate cousins of companies that perpetuate the indentured servitude of displaced men and women, repressed women, and becoming more visible now, children. Companies which seem to have proven recently that when left to their own devices don't morally self-correct.

In a strange world where "porn" has become "p0rn", which is more pornographic, naked people and deviant sexuality or the rape of language?