Phasor Burn

I just trolled an ugly american. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. They can’t even see that they are fulfilling the stereotype.

From the Wikipedia entry on Ugly American

A study carried out in 2002 revealed that Hollywood also contributes to the “Ugly American” image. The study found that the more access other countries had to American programs, the higher their negative attitudes toward Americans tended to be.

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/21/opinion/oe-gingrich21

I really question friends and family that decide to live and work south of the 49th. You couldn’t pay me enough to surround myself with the uglies.

There are many reasonable Americans too, I have met many, but there’s no getting around the fact that the ugly ones ruin whatever the reasonable ones may be up to.

Today companies decide what tools you will use and the manner in which you use them, and are driven by profit, not progress.

And here’s why I find that at least a little demoralizing. Because the real secret they won’t tell you, heck, that I think is only dawning on a few people, is that today’s computing can’t take us into the future. It can’t provide true artificial intelligence or bring the kind of multiplication of effort that hackers take for granted to the masses. Computer science has utterly failed to tackle the real world problems, things like automating jobs so people don’t have to work, or working hand in hand with humans to explore solutions we have trouble seeing ourselves. We are so far from a Star Trek-style future utopia that it breaks my heart.

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You should literally be able to tell it what you want it to do and it would do its darnedest to do a good job for you. Computers today are the opposite of that. They own you and bend you to their will. And I don’t think people fully realize how trapped we are within this aging infrastructure.

http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/10973087527/the-state-of-the-art-is-terrible

Today I happened across the following website

What’s behind all those flash blocked objects you may ask?

Clickable Images!

WTF!? What’s wrong with IMG and A tags?

Flash Abuse has definitely rotted some web designers brain completely out.