Newsflash: Fads Are Not Important To Microsoft!

Putting the sites on the internet on notice, Google has entered a settlement with the gubmint to protect our privacy.  It essentially amounts to a hand-slap by the FTC.  At LEAST someone is watching....  At the same time, Google has just announced that they are working on an app that will allow a user to snap a picture of someone's face and it will recognize it (? mebbie) and provide access to that person's personal information.  I would wager that the FTC will heavily scrutinize THIS app before we see it in rampant use....  In another move to leach some users from Facebook, Google has introduced a similar feature on Google searches called "+1" providing more "social" information about the search results- with the information presented in a Facebook-like page format (Zuckerberg will probably be complaining also).  [There is so much news to read about Google's hijinks lately that I could probably have a separate blog just on Google!]

Ever wonder what they are doing with all the money that they make from gouging us for gasoline?  Check out this video about the carbon-free city of tomorrow that they are building today....

Now some researchers have created a "memristor" out of human blood!  Activate the Cyborg Watch- The Singularity is approaching!

Google is started to close the open source door on Android. Apparently various phone makers are making too many changes and expecting Google to support the variations. Boo-hoo for the independent developers of apps.

GET THIS: A Microsoft executive says that tablets are just a fad.  This, of course, is from a non-innovative old dog that can't handle new tricks.  If they can't compete with Android and Apple, why don't they just say so....

Two Irish men were looking at a mail order catalogue and admiring the models. 
Paddy says to Mick, "Have you seen the beautiful girls in this catalogue?"
"Yes," Mick replies, "they are very beautiful. And look at the price!
"
Paddy says with wide eyes, "Wow! They aren't very expensive! At this price, I'm buying one." 

Mike smiles and pats him on the back. 
"Good idea! Order one and if she's as beautiful as she is in the catalogue, I'll get one, too."
Three weeks later, Mick asks Paddy, " Did you ever receive the girl you ordered from the catalogue?"
"Not yet," says Paddy, "but it shouldn't be long now. She sent all her clothes yesterday." 

You might be a redneck if...

Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.

You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.

You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it.

You think loading a dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.

Your toilet paper has page numbers on it.

Somebody hollers "Hoe Down" and your girlfriend hits the floor.

If a tornado hits your home and causes $10,000 dollars worth of improvement.

Anyone in your family ever died right after saying, "Hey y'all watch this."

You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia boss.

You think a woman who is "out of your league" bowls on a different night. 

Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet something else to be pissed about. A black congresswoman (this would be Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston), reportedly complained that the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.

She would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture such as Chamiqua, Tanisha, Woeisha, Shaqueal, and Jamal. I am NOT making this up!

She would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in 'language' that street people can understand because one of the problems that happened in New Orleans was, that black people couldn't understand the seriousness of the situation, due to the racially biased language of the weather report.

I guess if the weather person says that the winds are going to blow at 140+ MPH, that's too hard to understand

I can hear it now: A weatherman in New Orleans says...

Wazzup, mutha-fukkas! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo' yo ass like Leroy on a crotch rocket!

Bitch be a category fo'! So, turn off dem chitlins, grab yo' chirren, leavey o crib, and head fo' de nearest FEMA office fo yo FREE shit!