The Sh*t L*st

Gladstoning is the latest internet-inspired real-life activity that's sure to find a loyal geek following among the steampunk/flash mob crowd and be much twittered about if little practiced. It is inspired by the morally ambiguous extra-curricular work of the late British Prime Minister and is kinda like geohashing, except instead of trying to meet up at a random place on the map, you find a random wfm in the erotic services section of craigslist and set up a date with her. But then instead of having sex, you talk about technology and the internet and how craiglist and cell phones have changed our lives. Oh, you pay her for the half-hour or hour. And maybe get a handjob, if she's up for it.

A friend of mine turned me on to this. It's the nerd.

You may remember OLPC from such rants as "No Laptop Per Me program update". Well, they've pissed me off again.

First, let me say I finally got my laptop near the end of February. Played with it for about a week. Some things were fun. But generally it was slow and certain touted features like being able to peek at the source code of any application don't seem to work yet. It's been relegated to trips, where it's handy, but are very occasional.

Now OLPC has done something that totally -- well, it just saddens me. Like when a cute girl spurns you for some douchebag you know will break her heart. They've inked a deal with Microsoft. /. is there with the requisite contempt and scorn.

I agree with Oscar Wilde: I like people better then principles and I like people with no principles best of all. But Microsoft is the tool of tools.

Can I still get my refund, Mr. Negroponte?

Don't love Hillary. But she'd probably be my pick right now, for the nostalgia of the Clinton era if nothing else.

Don't hate Obama. But I'm sick of his internet flunkies. These guys make Ron Paul's supporters look like affable slackers. What I get I suppose for looking at Digg. Consider today's top stories (this will probably be true until election day -- and then months after that):

http://digg.com/news/popular/24hours

I'd actually be happy to vote for Obama. But if these keeps up, I won't vote at all. So add to the list of white voters who won't vote for Obama cynical Eurasian bloggers tired of the zealotry of his supporters.

Got my 20,000th visitor some time in the last couple weeks. That means enough people have read this blog over the last 4 years to fill half a Rangers' game.