This guy's story is very Robert Ford.

What this graph shows is that The Others are up to something. Everyone goes "oooh China" while The Others build a giant concrete ... something. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Full of nerdy goodness: Guacamole Ukulele Song

For clarity here is the clip clipped and clopped from my clipboard. Clap.
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New York is named after York, in England. The USA, Australia and New Zealand share this symptom of colonial history: British place names all over, treated as original names by the inhabitants. Imagine what it's like for a British person visiting!

Some other entertaining reading, from a journalist who was once employed by DEN:
http://mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/DEN.htm

I've been telling this story for years (and linking the FC video) on MMORPG boards. But people still fund these creeps by buying gold.

Most of the gold-selling shopfronts are actually IGE in disguise. They buy out their competitors. Most 'gold farmers' in games actually sell their gold wholesale, because it means instant US$ cash, and IGE on-sells it at a mark-up. IGE set up its own parent company and started doing things through subsidiaries, to hide the fact it was still IGE. It's a very complex web of denials now.

It's a company worth hundreds of millions, or more. If you have ever bought gold, you directly caused IGE's ownership of Allakhazam, Wowhead and Thottbot.

What goes on in a sweatshop industry of young Asian boys, with rich US sugar daddies at the top? If you have ever bought gold, you funded whatever that means.

Transactions involving virtual game currencies are also ideal for money laundering. There they are, in Triad territory, with an untraceable way to clean money. What do you think goes on?

Further reading:
http://wow.azzor.com/445/truth_about_IGE.php
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/The-last-pixel-show/0,139023166,120106716-1,00.htm

Yeah! Great move moron!

Oh God. I need this.

The only other thing I need is all the EZ Streets episodes (cancelled awesome Paul Haggis TV show of the late 1990s). Not just the random handful of out-of-order episodes on the EZ Streets DVD.

Was Thomas Edison assuming people would just share music? Because it wants to be free? Interesting.

«The phonograph has no commercial value at all.»
Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1880s.

> To #7: The context-free rant

I like the band Hard-Fi. Who plays drums in Hard-Fi? Steve Kemp. Used to be a pest controller. How do I know? Web search. "The web is where the context is."

"Wow. There's Yahoo! in a nutshell -- "make sacrifices." Dude, make a compelling product -- and asking users to "make sacrifices" ain't it."

Come on. I don't make the products, I'm not PR, I'm just an anonymous geek. Yahoo Music is a compelling product to me - no sacrifices required, I already use it.

I work for Yahoo. Here is the one thing you need to remember:

SUPPORT IAN. He has a clue and so do I, whether or not there is a public image of anyone having a clue. We are you. Make sacrifices to support an alternative to Google, if only to support Ian. Otherwise you won't have an Ian.

Thanks. Google is wonderful and I use it, but we need more. You and I need Ian (who I don't know) and you might even need me.