• Techcrunch » Deleting Online Predators Act: “An incredibly vague law, DOPA will require schools and libraries to block access to a potentially huge range of sites on the internet.” More dumb laws in the making. Most of our elected legislature is *staggeringly* unqualified to legislate.
  » USHOR dumblaws savethechildren
• Faggoty Ass Faggot: Burning a few more bridges: Brian lays the smack down on the one-issue gays. Good readin’.
  » politics society thegay

• VoxRichEdit.user.js: I think we all know the deal at this point.
  » 6a greasemonkey userscript vox

• Waiter, there’s a fly in my studio [dive into mark]: Mark is doing videos now, and it’s great: “I need to implement some sort of CAPTCHA based on Strunk & White. If you can’t tell me the difference between ‘continual’ and ‘continuous,’ I don’t want to talk to you.”
  » diveintomark grammar greatquotes vlogging

• “Apple iPod Nano won’t turn off? Help!”: I was freaking right the hell out, and then boom, problem solved with a quick search. Blogs + Google = Yay!
  » help ipod support

The unordered list has a storied history in blogdom, as does random bitching, so here I give you my bid for inclusion in the annals of history. Also, I don’t really have time for the well-written, well researched post these days, plus I fear that my boring working environment may be killing my brain, so expect me to be hitting ‘publish’ instead of ’save’ more often from now on. Fair warning.

• Soccer, Football, Footie, Futból, whatever you call it, I don’t care. Oh, you say it promotes international unity and ZZzzzzz. I don’t care. True, the rules are admirably simple compared to most American sports; but why is it that people assume I’m supposed to like soccer even though I don’t enjoy watching football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, softball, or any other sport involving moving an object from place to place? I just don’t enjoy it. Incorporate this into your worldview and move the fuck on.
• Terrorists. McDonald’s and R.J. Reynolds will each kill more people this year than all the world’s terrorists have since the modern media created them. It is terrible that anyone must die due to another person being so warped that they place a lower value on human life than they do on some other goal. This holds true whether that villain is a religious extremist, a corporate CEO, or an American president. But terrorists hold no patent on callous disregard of life, and their stated goal is to inspire fear. Their victims should be mourned, they should be brought to justice, but they should otherwise be resoundingly ignored.
• How close to insolvency the [movie | music | TV | bandwidth | aerospace] industry is. Good! That’ll teach the indolent bastards to innovate more and lobby less. Fuckers.
• How great you think Vox is. If I don’t get to play with the shiny new toy, then kindly shut up about it. I’m currently involved in a couple of private betas, and yet somehow I manage to hold conversations on other topics.

And last, briefest, and certainly not least:

• Amanda. Fucking. Congdon.

• Why Middle Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke: The American middle class is vanishing. Historically, this is never a good sign. “Over the past generation, the signs of middle-class distress have continued to grow. […] This year, more people will end up bankrupt than will suffer a heart attack.”
  » culture economics poverty

• Carl Jung’s Diagnosis, Bill Jensen’s Treatment: “Generally, though, professional security and workplace autonomy are opposites. […] Sometimes I make the case that self-employment is best for introverts.”
  » business careers culture psychology

• The Breakdown of Modern Web Design» humor webdev