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Peter Moore Backpedals

To everything… Spin… Spin… Spin…

Over the weekend Microsoft VP Peter Moore was interviewed on Major Nelson’s Podcast in which he apologized for the previous misunderstanding regarding his views on making original Xbox titles playable on Xbox 360 and announced games that would be available with next week’s backward compatibility update.

The comment that [...]

Cancelling AOL

How hard is it to cancel AOL?

I decided to find out.

Here’s the setup.

I had an AOL account years ago. I kept it around because many of the suits in my office use AOL. When the boss needs AOL fixed, you’d better have an account to get it running. That’s fine with me. [...]

Broad Strata of Society!?

Are we so far into denial that it’s impossible to understand the obvious?

The Toronto Star ran the following piece of brilliance in their paper after the jihadis in Toronto were arrested.

It’s hard to find a common denominator.

Let me repeat that.

The muslim jihadis plotting to blow up the Canadian Stock Exchange showed It’s hard to find [...]

How to Kill A Computer in 18 Days

How do you kill a computer in 18 days? Steve Knopper of Wired takes a stab at it and reports rousing success in riddling a computer with spyware and viruses. Well done Steve! You’ve now intentionally reached the level of most of the employees in my company do accidentally!

What kind of idiot [...]

Savage Tries To Scare Passengers, Kills One Of ‘Em

A savage driving a cab tried to put a scare into the passengers he was driving, causing an accident that ended up killing one of them.

A terrified coed scrambled to get out of a careening taxi yesterday – only to be clipped and killed by another cab after a horrifying high-speed ride along Manhattan’s West [...]

Hateful Harpee Disassembled

The problem with the left in this country is that they use the word bigot so often that real bigots are either harder to define or there is no real way to identify them. To the left, someone who disagrees with gay marriage is a hate-filled bigot, proving that they really have lost all [...]

Another great Pixar movie?

I don’t know about you, but there’s no way to see the trailer for the new Pixar movie, Ratatouille, and not be excited about it. Damn that looks like a cool flick!

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Toby is clueless…

Toby ran the following picture with a quip about it being something he “expected” from Fox News:

Now why would they show those two pictures side by side? An evil conspiracy by the right wing zealots over at the Pro Bush Fox News Channel?

Here’s Zarqawi’s bio from Wikipedia:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (c. October 1966 – June [...]

Just about done…

Okay. We’re just about done here. Lots to tell you.

Soon…

Posting will resume… And the big news is a comin’.

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HEY SCUMBAG

HEY SCUMBAG.

You know who you are.

You wanna use my blog to hurt my friends?

Go fuck yourself dude. You’re a coward and a piece of shit and I hope you rot in hell right next to some of the other great scumbags in history.

Signed,
Vinny
insignificantthoughts.com

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After these messages, we’ll be right back…

Some behind the scenes stuff is going on that I can’t really talk about. Just hang out. As the saying goes, “all things will be revealed in time.”

Thanks for your patience!

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Arrogance? Ignorance? Both? Neither?

Via Yahoo! News:

Former “American Idol” contestant Chris Daughtry said Saturday he has turned down an offer to be lead singer for the band Fuel.

Daughtry, in Greensboro for a day of welcome-home appearances, said he expects to announce his next career move in few months, probably after he finishes with an “American Idol” summer concert tour.

“I’m [...]

What makes a great Senator?

Apparently, there’s a very simple qualification, and NYC Comptroller Alan Hevesi knows what it is:

NEW YORK — State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a “beyond dumb” remark about a fellow Democrat putting “a bullet between the president’s eyes.”

Hevesi called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth at [...]

Let’s put 2 and 2 together…

The Justice Department plans to ask Internet service providers to retain data for as long as two years in order to aid in criminal investigations. While the proposal is in its formative stages, a final proposal is expected to be given to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by this summer.

Media sources have reported that both the [...]

O&A Syndication Deal With Free FM Expands

CBS Radio has confirmed O&A will start Monday (6/5) on stations in three markets — WXYT-AM/Detroit (6am – 9am), WAZU/Columbus (3pm – 6pm) and WZNE/Rochester (2pm – 5pm). On June 26, the program will debut on WJFK/Washington, D.C. (10am – 1pm). In addition, WJFK will feature an online simulcast of the show at www.1067freefm.com. This [...]

Microsoft Exec: Clueless

Microsoft honcho Peter Moore, in an interview said the following:

Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that. It’s a very complicated thing… very complex work. I’m just stunned that we have hundreds of games that are backwards compatible.

He was talking about the fact that the XBox 360 is [...]

Sony Gets Pissy

SCEE’s Phil Harrison is a little upset that people are calling Sony out on copying Nintendo’s motion sensing controller idea, which will debut on the Wii when it’s launched. Instead of fessing up and just explaining that it was a good idea and they wanted to do it also, we get this playground calibre [...]

What can BrownTM do for you?

UPS is usually pretty reliable. Sometimes, however, that 3-5 day span for ground delivery from California to the East Coast doesn’t apply, as in this case where a package took just under a year to get delivered.

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Have a Donut: Protect the Border

Apparently, Dunkin Donuts (great Donuts, awful coffee) is tired of being the butt of illegal alien jokes, and have started to (note STARTED TO) verify the legal residence of their employees.

Dunkin’ Donuts is requiring all of its franchisees to participate in the Basic Pilot Program, which allows employers to verify a worker’s status using online [...]

More AWESOME USSR Propaganda

Aleks has come through again with another batch of USSR propaganda, this time 1,469 posters!

Simply amazing stuff, and it’s all translated. Now. Seeing as he has helped out IT twice in two days, why don’t you go pay him a visit and check out his mad design skillz and show him a little [...]

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