I Ate DeWayne!

Droid X with EncounterICS using soft button bar mod. The soft buttons look and feel (haptic feedback) great.

The New Paradigm: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by greed.

FACT: I stole this picture which is so overly used on the Internet, that I don't know who I actually stole it from. That's a FACT. Look it up.

H/T +Chelsea Flowers .

Apparently, they see a little too much similarity between the pigs in Angry Birds and their new leader Kim Jong-un.

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The North Korean government has labeled cell phone users as war criminals.

North Korean government labels cell phone users as war criminals

North Korea is one of the most closed-off countries in the world, and now its government is trying to limit information flow even more by threatening to punish cell phone users. Read this blog post by…

Are you surprised?

Twitter Now Censoring Per Country
Protest starts tomorrow.

Here is what Twitter is doing: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/twitter-block-tweets-nationally-globally.html

Here is how users are responding: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/twitter-nation-specific-block-backlash.html

Forget all this crap about Google being evil with Google Search Plus Your World, Twitter is actively censoring Tweets for individual Governments! If a particular country outlaws certain speech, that country can censor any and all tweet and or Twitter user that appear to users in the censoring country.

Are you in Britain and criticizing the government in Iran? Censored!

Are you in the US and support Tibet? Censored!

Are you in Egypt trying to get out your message to the US? Censored!

This absolutely destroys the core, fundamental reason for the legitimacy and respectability of Twitter!

Read the article, and if you are on twitter, join the #TwitterBlackout protest tomorrow!

#TwitterBlackout: Tweeters protest nation-specific blocks

Twitter is faced a growing backlash on Friday, less than a day after it announced that it can now block specific tweets from being published in specific countries that legally require it.

On Friday…

Spock is not impressed with Lingual.

Spock would use the more Star Trek approach of Google Translate on Android which allows two users to talk to each other by allowing voice input and then speaking the translation. You hand over the phone, and it automatically reverses the From and To language that its translating.

With Lingual, do any of you know how to read Japanese Caligraphy? I can read Hiragana and Katakana alphabets (very slowly), but even I couldn't read the Siri translation better than a service programmed to like Google. Even in Romaji (Roman characters), how many of you could correctly pronounce: "Hajimemashite" ?

Spock is not impressed with Lingual.

Spock would use the more Star Trek approach of Google Translate on Android which allows two users to talk to each other by allowing voice input and then speaking the translation. You hand over the phone, and it automatically reverses the From and To language that its translating.

With Lingual, do any of you know how to read Japanese Caligraphy? I can read Hiragana and Katakana alphabets (very slowly), but even I couldn't read the Siri translation better than a service programmed to like Google. Even in Romaji (Roman characters), how many of you could correctly pronounce: "Hajimemashite" ?

Newt Lightyear promises Florida a Moon Base in his second term.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72067.html

Newt Already Breaking Laws and Ethics Again?

"…I was honored and delighted last night when she said if she were in South Carolina, she’d vote for Newt Gingrich… …I would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if I’m president…" – Newt Gingrich

"Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." – TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 29 > § 599 -§ 599. Promise of appointment by candidate

Daily Kos: Newt Gingrich Promises Palin a Presidential Appointment and Commits a Felony

Clearly Gingrich is sending the message to all the other top-level GOP celebrities, that no matter how unqualified you are, that if you are willing to help him win the South Carolina primary, you too …