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Josh Harris: "Pseudo was a fake company."

June 27, 2008 3:18am

Bah, if the late-nineties habit of treating investor cash as your private party fund is an art form, Dennis Kozlowski is the Rembrandt and Josh Harris is merely School of. Anyway, it's not very pretty to see Josh pretending to laugh at the people he pretends to have suckered. Pseudo was not merely an Underpants Gnomes corporation with pretensions. Pseudo was a genuinely good idea (interactive Web TV) ruined by bad management. (Also, not enough people had broadband yet, and the content was a little too free-cable-channel in tone to be convincing.) The Pseudo vision of the Web has come to pass, but other people made it happen. That said, it's nice to see Harris in an environment that raises his chances of waking up and smelling the coffee.

Sunspots don't cause global warming, people do

April 4, 2008 7:09am

Aw, c'mon. Don't use the word "denialist" which makes questioning any aspects of the mainstream view of climate science tantamount to denying the Holocaust. Climatology is a complex and evolving science and the details are important, just as they are in any science. Calling various hypotheses "denial" based on whether they seem on the face to support a given conclusion or not is just lazy.

Law-firm: copyright prohibits "view source" on our page

October 18, 2007 9:00am

That's really goofy! I think bloggers need some ludicrous legalese of their own. You know, "TERMS OF USE. By letting your eye graze the banner on this website or even simply its URL, you agree that I have the right to link to and discuss publicly available material on this website, no matter what your sucker-ass small print says on your own lame-o site. If you employ me, you agree not to fire me or discipline me in connection with anything I have written here, and you agree to give me a raise next week. If you provide goods or services to me, you agree not to sue me for complaining with cause about the quality of said goods or services, on this very website or elsewhere. Also, you agree that you are feeling very sleepy. By the time I count to three, you will agree that you are a chicken. One, two, three."

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