Smart.fm and the Death of a Free Learning Tool
I haven't been on it for a while, but smart.fm used to be one of my favorite websites to study Japanese. One I'd been meaning to return to recently. But it looks like that is not to be. Smart.fm is switching over to iKnow.jp (which it already was before, I think) and charging a monthly fee at the door.
Free, the site seemed invaluable, but for ¥1000 a month it seems superfluous. It is an annoying shock to see that the service is just going behind a pay-wall with nearly no warning. More or less Read more [...]
Last Palin Post (hopefully forever)
Palin said, "I think if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about NAFTA or about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context, and that is cruel and mean-spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional, and those guys are jerks." Read more [...]
A Nice Summary of McCain's Lies
I feel really sorry for him because he went from being a man a someone could kind of admire to being a man that seems grotesquely obsessed with becoming president to the point where he's no longer even a shadow of his old self. Read more [...]
Rick Davis is a Dick
Davis is the head of McCain's campaign and rather than engage in a sincere and thoughtful discussion of the two candidate's positions and explain why his candidate is the best he's decided that an ad that comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is better. Read more [...]
Should We Keep Letting the MPAA Fib
And an Ars Technica article points out that US box office doing its biggest year of business ever in 2007, growing 5.4 percent over 2006 and bringing in $9.63 billionSo the question is, how much longer are we going to let the MPAA concoct a "truth" that allows them to push new crappy laws that erode our freedoms? Read more [...]
The Most Important Thing for the Internet
Learn more at places like Save The Internet.com And if you think that companies like Comcast and Verizon aren't trying to do things that will negatively impact you then watch this video and answer this question. Read more [...]
