Matt Eric

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• Commented on US Chamber of Commerce suing the Yes Men
  I'm just wondering what the US Chamber of commerce's cause of action is. Publicly libeling them by pretending they're *not* gigantic douchebags who wouldn't mind destroying the world if it meant a few more precious, precious dollars in their wallets?...
• Commented on KFC as pot dispensary
  All they need now is a drive-through....
• Commented on Kindle owners start to lose text-to-speech on purchased books -- how do DRM-free Kindle books work?
  I wouldn't hold your breath on a response from amazon. This industry (like so many others) seems culturally completely unable to wrap it's collective heads around the idea of a copyright holder who's not a complete control freak....
• Commented on Duelling "Obama" cafes set up on the same block in Toronto
  Damn, if we'd known that all it would take for you all to love us was electing a black guy, we woulda done it a long time ago......
• Commented on Radioactive pedophile suspect at large
  I'm wondering if the radiation warning wasn't so much OMG ATOMZ, and more to aid in catching the guy. While the amount of radiation he's emitting is obviously not dangerous, I know they installed radiation detectors in some traffic chokepoints...
• Commented on Forget your photo-ID for your EasyJet flight? Just go print one up!
  Security, like water, always seems to find it's own level....
• Commented on Michael Moore on Bailout of US Auto Makers
  I think we can all agree that a functional auto industry in this country is a good thing, but can we please have a different one?...
• Commented on Merlin Mann reviews It's All Too Much, a book on decluttering
  I'm feeling a bit conflicted here, as one of the things I have far too many of is books......
• Commented on <i>The <strike>Ultimate</strike> Ubermensch Apple Weblog</i> on the iPhone 3G: "A lot of money for a design bump."
  If I already got an iPhone the first time around, I doubt I'd upgrade either. But I didn't, and the fact that the new one is cheaper, faster, and has the ability to get new apps on it without extensive...
• Commented on Building festooned with inflatable tentacles
  That is magnificent....
• Commented on Server room built into ladies' room handicapped stall
  God, that's not too bad. At least the resulting server room had air conditioning, racks, and so forth. There's a picture floating around of a server room built into the [i]actual ladies' room[/i], literally, right next to a toilet....
• Commented on Ten largest data breaches since 2000
  I think my favorite part of that graphic is the fact that the numbers given add up to 273.9 million, or roughly 91 percent of the population of the United States....
• Commented on Amazon to launch DRM-free iTunes competitor
  It may be that they're discovering they dislike Apple, but are coming around on the drm-free thing. Remember, the iPod is the device that knocked Sony off the mobile music hill, and they may just be sick of dealing with...