schadenfreude (SHäʹdÉ™nfroid’É™/), noun: Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else’s misfortune. Okay, maybe not full-on schadenfreude, but these stories certainly induced a certain wry smile or two from Yours Truly. JammieWearingFool: Somali pirates receive ransom, hilarity ensues. This is the…
Sony’s forthcoming platformer/world-creation game LittleBigPlanet recently hit beta and folks the world over are giving a shot at designing wacky levels and contraptions. There have been some nifty, as well as tasteless (read: 9/11/01 recreations) levels made, but none, I…
Great, now even my Keynote presentations are going to look lame in comparison to Sony’s annual report, as viewed through the prism of LittleBigPlanet: Guess I’ll put in a purchase request for a PS3…
Ahhhh, Sony BMG, how we love to hate thee! Not only have you been caught installing unauthorized rootkits on your customers’ PCs, but it’s been found that you’re illegally using LGPL’d software to do so. Tsk tsk. What’s the Japanese…
Let’s first posit that you’re a multinational corporation with vast and sundry interests in various industries, including the music business. Let’s then posit that you were caught installing highly dubious software on your customers’ PCs in order to prevent “piracy”.…
