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- God texts the Ten CommandmentsJune 3
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McSweeney’s crushes one out of the park:
3. no omg’s
(And yes, that was a baseball metaphor. I died a little writing it.)
- Probably not a future NFL punterJune 2
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Just taking a wild guess.
- What’s good for GM isn’t what’s good for AmericaJune 1
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Forgive me if I am skeptical that the government is going to show GM how to streamline its bureaucracy. Nor do governments historically have a good record as cutting-edge auto designers.
All the government can give GM is money. Our money. Perhaps we should change the name to American Leyland.
As one commenter notes, GM has every possibility of becoming Obama’s Vietnam.
- Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant update secretly installs Firefox extensionJune 1
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Community backlash is building against a routine .NET Framework update for Microsoft Windows that quietly installs a browser add-on for user who surf the Web with Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser. From WaPo’s Brian Krebs:
I’m here to report a small side effect from installing this service pack that I was not aware of until just a few days ago: Apparently, the .NET update automatically installs its own Firefox add-on that is difficult — if not dangerous — to remove, once installed.
Annoyances.org, which lists various aspects of Windows that are, well, annoying, says "this update adds to Firefox one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities present in all versions of Internet Explorer: the ability for Web sites to easily and quietly install software on your PC." I’m not sure I’d put things in quite such dire terms, but I’m fairly confident that a decent number of Firefox for Windows users are rabidly anti-Internet Explorer, and would take umbrage at the very notion of Redmond monkeying with the browser in any way.
Big deal, you say? I can just uninstall the add-on via Firefox’s handy Add-ons interface, right? Not so fast. The trouble is, Microsoft has disabled the "uninstall" button on the extension. What’s more, Micros
- The Deck readership surveyMay 22
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Usually corporate surveys piss me off. They’re self-serving, boring and exhibit a complete disrespect for the survey-taker’s time. So when I saw The Deck’s readership survey, I pretty much scoffed. “Sure, I’ll take your shitty little survey, but mainly because I dig Field Note journals, and I see they’re a possible prize.”
Full stop: I was wrong. Here’s a clever example of a survey done right. Among the sample questions:
Are you one of those people who thinks you’re right all the time, and that if everybody would just listen to you things would be a whole lot better?
And
If you were to become romantically involved with a typeface, which one would it be?
And
Where are you, emotionally speaking?
There’s even a trigonometry question that I did my best to solve, but probably buggered to high hell.
