Random Thoughts on Technology & Culture
- Use of the N-Word in Rap “Music” — Enough Already!
- Why does my cell phone battery become incapable of holding a charge, for a full day, at precisely the same time my contract is about to expire?
- When Google started charging businesses for placement in search results, that was the beginning of the Internet’s decline.
- Twitter has a market capitalization of $26,300,000,000. Making one of the world’s top 125 companies — without a tangible product or creating original content.
- When news sources started trolling Twitter for stories, that was the end of journalism.
- Facebook’s decline occurred the moment they started catering more to paid advertisers than to the visitors who provide the content making the site’s profits possible.
- Can someone explain the reason anyone would download and use Snapchat?
- The Brother arrested in New York City on suspicion of stealing a $350 belt he’d just purchased; should have been arrested for spending $350 on a belt.
- How can a country that enjoyed the genius of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, or Ray Charles also fuel the career of a Kanye West?
- Why does a football jersey cost $100 to over $250, and when did it become a requirement for fans to wear them to the game?
- When did educating people become so difficult?
- Why are the American unmanned death machines given innocuous names like “drone”? It is like calling a Hellfire Missile a bunny.
- My microwave oven is really a popcorn popper with a clock. Now that trans fats are banned it is just a clock.
- Many Twitter account holder say they just don’t get it. I think they do.
- Am I the only one who misses the days when people created and visited websites?
