ifstone commented on Bill Gates's relevance -- and irrelevance

"Of course Boutin leaves out a very good point from the Economist's leader: "Even as firms like Apple clung on to both the computer operating system and the hardware-just as mainframe companies had-Microsoft and Intel, which designed the PC's microprocessors, blew computing's business model apart."

ifstone commented on Seth MacFarlane Will Now Take Over The Internet

""But even though the FCC lets him make edgy jokes now, it will never allow him to make edgy enough jokes." There's a difference between "edgy" and sophomoric."

ifstone commented on Barack Obama's First Ad is Very Kansas-y

"Time to start a betting pool: which take did they use?"

ifstone commented on The Scale of Celebrity Death

"I think the only 10 occurred when Nietzche broke the news that God was dead."

ifstone commented on Dan Lyons going to Newsweek makes encounter with Real Steve Jobs almost inevitable

"@penguin07: Memo to Time: of course Boutin's cheap -- he doesn't know sh*t."

ifstone commented on One More Thing: Movies' Most Awesomely Lovable Losers

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ifstone commented on One More Thing: Movies' Most Awesomely Lovable Losers

"Don Logan, the Rasputin of "Sexy Beast""

ifstone commented on Bill Gates divesting from Pacific Ethanol at a loss

"Pacific Ethanol's announcement of a corn-to-ethanol plant -- the worst form of biofuel there is [www.pacificethanol.net]-- was obviously written on a Mac and posted on the web without fixing the curly quotes and apostrophes, hence the familiar garbage characters."

ifstone commented on Attempt to spark Kindle flame leaves publishers cold at Book Expo

"Borders books here has a Sony Reader on display that customers can play with."

ifstone commented on Twitter's existential crisis a masterwork of fingerpointing

"This does seem to be a great opportunity to settle the endless debate about Ruby on Rails and scalability."

ifstone commented on Obama Will Be Rupert Murdoch's Next Tony Blair

"Yes, many people mistakenly believe that Murdoch is ideologically conservative, but he's only interested in power."

ifstone commented on Bill Gates's presentation at D6, the four-word version

"It's appalling to see how out-of-gas Microsoft is."

ifstone commented on Freaks Behind the Candidates: A Video Retrospective

"You left out the speech Obama gave in West Virginia with all the crackers behind him looking very sorry to be there, gazing off to the sides or looking down at their shoes, wondering "Why am I here behind this dark-skinned secret Muslim?" Very weird scene!"

ifstone commented on Keith Olbermann Attacked By Post On Behalf Of Bill O'Reilly

"Is there a single thing on any cable news channel that isn't garbage?"

ifstone commented on Whatever Happened to Karen Allen?

"What, she should have been doing "Air Farce One" with Harrison Ford?"

ifstone commented on NSA site goes down in blaze of badly-engineered DNS glory

"It's "National Security Agency""

ifstone commented on William Shatner's (and Star Trek's) Gay Panic

"Wasn't "Deep Space Nine" filled with gay characters?"

ifstone commented on Humble Diller Not That Humble

"Diller still hasn't lost his sense of tackiness, which was always odd given what a bright guy he is."