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| Tuesday, June 8 2010 |

Dear Apple,

The improvements to Safari with version 5 are nice and all-- it's much faster, has rather good HTML5 support, and a host of other tweaks-- However, there is one utterly stupid, monstrously annoying "feature" you've decided to add which makes me want to eat glass.

And that, friends, is the same thing that makes me want to draw and quarter as many FireFox developers as I can find whenever I'm forced to use that mismashtastic hell of a browser: Title matching in the URL input bar.

Do. Not. Do. That.

My brain speaks domain names. When I want to go somewhere, I start typing domain names. I do not start typing titles, and your insistence that they be included in autofill matches, and in fact given preference, is about the stupidest thing I've seen since... well, FireFox doing exactly that same bloody thing.

If you've suddenly decided the majority of users' brains operate that way-- fine. Mine, however, does not, so give me an option to turn the goddamn thing off.
posted by Mr. Lion @ 09:56 EST | comments (2)

| Friday, June 25 2010 |

One wonders.

Exactly how prevalent is the theft of My First Borg Baby child car seats at Target to necessitate one of those stupid security-rope devices?

I mean, really. CDs, DVDs, video games, electronics-- I can see the average shop lifter having those items relatively high on the list of things to nab. But car seats?

What's next, security devices on fake potted plants?
posted by Mr. Lion @ 00:26 EST | comments (0)

| Wednesday, June 30 2010 |

Flash: There is, indeed, one born every minute.

So apparently Tesla managed to ~~con~~ convince a number of investors to part with some $226 million in their IPO.

Perhaps it's a good economic sign that enough people are willing to part with their hard-earned to support a company that has never turned a profit, probably never will turn a profit, and produces cars that are generally useless and targeted to an extremely small and whimsical niche.

It's worth noting that said IPO, heralded by the usual suspects as de-facto evidence that people want electric cars, is but a mere fraction of the $465 Million ponied up by Uncle Sam a short while ago.

As it goes, the only thing stupider than someone buying a useless item for a given sum, is a government buying one at twice the price.
posted by Mr. Lion @ 14:25 EST | comments (0)

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