Thursday

test flkjdsflksdlfkjlsdkfj hiyeeee study engrisheeeeeeeee!

tØmybØt | 18.59 | nothing i like about you

Friday

Everyone and their Shetland Pony is using Facebook and Twitter and loads of other social networking crap. And I’m in hiding. The net ain’t what it used to be. It’s morphed into something everyone does and marketing interests are finally (sort of) figuring out how to leverage for the old TV money. The bombshell of 2009 was my mom going, “I don’t think we should be Facebook Friends.” I’m quite sure that’s when the killer-app high-five site social networking clusterfuck fell far from my view and habits. Then there’s Twitter. Even Stevie Wonder has got some of that bitchy blue bird. The sad part is that all these sites are generally pretty good ideas. They’re great for keeping in touch with peeps, stalking hot avatars, allowing anonymous sharks to keep feeding in the low end of the gene pool, trolling for prostitutes, race-baiting strangers, grooming children for sexual slavery, peppering minds with tailored proganda, ordering a bride, it just goes, on and on, like the technology juggernaut and the ignorant fools yucking it up.

Meanwhile, in Canadia, a tree has died. It happened when a local activist tried to “jack-in” and get closer to nature after rejecting a six figure job in Silicon Valley earlier this year. His friends and family say he was radicalized after accidentally stumbling upon an independent Dj’s rendition of Jello Biafa’s FBI Earth First conspiracy theory / required graduate level course in mass-media communications at the University of Al Gore.

Feast, if you like.

tØmybØt | 22.06 | nothing i like about you

Tuesday

More Chaebol Monkey Business in the Korea Times today, as it rubs off another Apple sucks when compared to the mighty Samsung piece. There is real fear, I guess, when considering a superior product that is dominating the market and offering way more for way less to self-righteous, informed Western consumers. And reflections of losing control of the cultural import and watching supplant your own dubious culture is no doubt swimming around in a few corporate heads. But the Korea Times has the back of the average Kim by laying out why we shouldn’t have iPhones and why if those evil Westerners get their way it will fail:

Higher subsidies, less specifications, a lack of clear customer service policies, and a disappointing debut in China are casting raising doubts regarding profitability.

—Korea Times, SK Telecom Faces Dilemma Over iPhone

Now we all “get” it—even if we get an iPhone, we won’t get the same ’ser-bus’ like couple messaging and the ever useful Coloring. Of course, anyone with an individual mind watching this Chicken Little Fiasco (”The iPhone is coming to Korea! The iPhone is coming to Korea!”) for the lest several years knows the truth:

1. The higher subsidies are the result of tariffs imposed by introverted Chaebol inspired government policies.
2. The less specifications are the result of a government imposing ridiculous restrictions—like every app from the App Store must be approved by the government, yeah all 100,000 of them, I’m sure someone will get right on that. iPhones in Korea are likely to have their WiFi disabled, or so the rumor churns.
3. “Lack of clear customer service policies” is fear mongering and market tampering at its finest. There is a reason there is no Apple Store in Korea. Just like there is a reason there is no iTunes store. And why there has been no iPhone for three years.
4. And my favorite, “a disappointing debut in China” the Korean way of saying, “If those dirty, stinking, Goguryeo thieving Chinese don’t want the iPhone, no self-respecting, soju drinking, whoring, BMW driving, English cramming Korean is gonna want one.”

Fookers!

UPDATE: Another Day, Another Apple Sucks Article from the Korea Times

This time the motive is to crank up hype about Android, nothing wrong with that, but the article hammers home the biggest point of all: loss of profit to a Korean company.

Apparently, SK Telecom is not crazy about the idea of sharing data revenue with Apple, as the American device maker does with all of its partner carriers around the world.

That’s right. Apple, an American company, wants a piece of SK’s phone monopoly!

A snubbing from SK Telecom would deal a serious blow to Apple’s plans to make iPhone popular here, as the carrier controls more than 50 percent of Korean mobile users.

Somehow, I doubt Apple gives a flying fuck about “a snubbing” from a company that is no threat to its business interests. This is a tiny market anyway, not like China or Europe where there are millions upon millions of potential costumers, and if SK has more than 50 percent of the market that leaves an even smaller number for Apple to gobble up.

tØmybØt | 13.54 | nothing i like about you