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The iPad Might Mean the End of Intel Macs, and That Scares Me

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 10:33 PM on January 29, 2010 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/wt

Yeah, yeah, the iPad wasn’t all that great, and it’s underwhelming, and it won’t cure cancer like we thought it would, blahdeblahdeblah. We all know that, and that’s not what I’m going to rant about right now.

The iPad is the first device to use an Apple-designed processor. This is something one could easily have predicted when Apple bought PA Semi in 2008, but now that Apple’s finally gone and used their newly acquired chipmaker to actually make their own chip, the potential ramifications begin to sink in. Now that Apple makes their own processors, what’s to say they’ll still be putting Intel’s in their Macs?

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MG Siegler Destroys the English Language — Episode 4

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 4:07 AM on January 13, 2010 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/qW

An anonymous MeeboMe tipster informed me that this happened:
The second Google Suggestion for "mg siegler" is "destroys the english language".

How inspiring. I’ve been wanting to do more of these. Thus, without further ado:

MG Siegler Destroys the English Language

Yesterday, MG published an article called “An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Nexus One“, because apparently there aren’t enough reviews which compare the Nexus One to the iPhone. Actually, there’s no shortage of them, just like how there’s no shortage of MG Siegler’s use of the phrase “no shortage of”. Speaking of MG Siegler’s predictable writing, let’s see what he’s predictably done wrong this time:
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Wow, I’ve Been Posting a Lot of Really Negative Stuff Lately

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 7:55 PM on September 8, 2009 in Miscellany. View Comments Tags: , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/Ly

Sorry. I’ll try and write happier things.

Tweetdeck is a Piece of Shit, But I’m Stuck With It

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 7:38 PM on September 8, 2009 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/ie

It's funny because it looks like a 12-year-old did it.
Fuck Tweetdeck. Fuck Tweetdeck sideways with a kerosene-coated pineapple.

Fuck Tweetdeck so hard that I’m not even going to do that middle-of-word-capitalization thing that its creators insist on (It’s supposed to be “TweetDeck,” which is fucking stupid so fuck that, you fucking fuckers).

Normally, I’d just switch to another Twitter client that doesn’t suck, like Nambu, except I switched away from Nambu because the one thing that did suck about it ended up driving me nuts: multiple account support. Tweetdeck, however, solves the problem with Nambu by being a piece of fucking shit.
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“Content” is a Horrible Word That Needs To Die in a Fire

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 11:29 PM on August 22, 2009 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/TR

Parental Advisory — "Content"I could say that I am appalled by the word “content” and find it to be a disgusting blight on Internet lingo. I’m not going to, because that would make it sound like it’s only my opinion as opposed to an undeniable fact.

To clarify, the word I am referring to is not “kun-TENT,” which is an adjective (or less often, a verb) related to a state of peaceful satisfaction. I am referring to “KHAN-tent,” the noun, which is quite appropriately pronounced similarly to an evil dude that makes William Shatner scream loudly. This word, a bastardization of “contents,” is a generic term for some generic thing that you shove into a generic container, generally speaking. But lately, as part of media conglomerates’ transformation into Digital Rights Manufacturing companies, this generic product term has come to refer to cultural works: music, movies, news, games, photos, and anything else containing some form of digestible information and/or artistry.

It groups together everything creative in this world as some mundane product like a dishwasher or a lampshade. Casablanca is not a lampshade.

Well, of course it’s not. Isn’t that obvious? Nobody who watches movies thinks of them as generic objects, nor do they think that of news articles or Facebook photos. So why is anyone referring to them as if they are?
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