08 Jul 06 Net Crap (7/8)

• Wired News: Games for Control Freaks
  Actually, although this is a humor piece, the “action figure controller” sounds like a pretty damn good idea …
  (tags: games geekery funny)
• “It is not the role of journalists or newspapers in America to champion issues, or campaign for or against the Whie House. (…) If a columnist presents himself as a non-political observer, [...] he is no longer a constructive critic, but a partisan playe
  Well, one slight change to the above statement. But, come on, it didn’t seem that outlandish when you first read it, right? That’s a little scary.
  (tags: censorship politics government)
• Star-Telegram: Losing their jobs and even their iPods
  Hi. You’re fired. And you know that video iPod we just gave you to celebrate such a good year? We want it back. No, seriously, man, we’re gonna call the cops.
  (tags: corporatism whaddafuck macintosh dumbass)
• Google to Congress: we will not tolerate net abuse
  “If we are not successful in our arguments… then we will simply have to wait until something bad happens and then we will make known our case to the Department of Justice’s anti-trust division.”
  (tags: censorship geekery goodideas)
• A fox trying to get a rabbit out of its cage. (Not a gory pic.) Man, oh, man, look at the expression on that bunny …
  (tags: funny photos nature)
• “While the tourists were admiring one of the great mammals of the sea, however, a Norwegian whaling boat approached and shot the whale in front of their eyes.”
  Dare I say … good? I mean, it happens. Whales get shot. They shouldn’t get shot. And now there’s a whole boatload of tourists who got to see the grisly truth right in front of their eyes when all they wanted was the empty beauty.
  (tags: horrifying nature food4thought)
• Kotaku: Nintendo Gifts DS Lite to President Bush
  Wow, could Nintendo’s letter have sounded any more full of super-advertising-pap? How entirely unoriginal.
  (tags: neocon weird games)
• Hmmm. Mac OS 10.4.7 phones home to Apple. That’s a little disturbing.
  (tags: badideas macintosh)