Oct

20

Google CEO to Join Obama on Campaign Trail

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Is it the battle of the internets? McCain said that he’d turn to former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a possible treasury secretary. Today’s WSJ reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will back Obama and join him on the campaign trail. Powered by ScribeFire.

Sep

25

I could not make this shit up….

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I’ve been trying to formulate a post about ‘how stupid are the American people’ for a couple of days now. It’s one of those things that I remember I’m doing whenever someone points out some other ridiculous statement by the McCain campaign, or bit of idiocy out of Sarah Palin’s mouth and people exclaim, “Surely [...]

Sep

4

Chrome is for Whom?

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Google claims that their new Chrome browser was designed with users in mind – but Thomas Claburn’s article over at Information Week makes me seriously question that assertion. Quite a few of the browser’s features seem tailor-made to advance Google’s business interests rather than those of their users. For instance: Rather than blocking popup ads, [...]