The Boondocks

Man... Have you seen the Boondocks?

If you haven't, get moving and check it out!

Aaron McGruder's comic-cum-animated series is smart, witty, socially aware...
...seriously. I don't know of anything else that can do such a good job indicting the state of modern television and riffing on Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" in one plot while satirizing the PBS painting show guy in another - that's one episode.

Seriously, I think this might be the best animated series I have seen in a long damn time.

Of course it could be that I just identify with leftist revolutionaries, without regard to complexion.















Or maybe it's all of the above.

Damn you Spammers!

Nothing is sacred... that's not news by any stretch, though occasionally you see something that really drives the point home.

Case in point: I just came back from a long weekend out of town, opened my email and took a look through the spam checking for false positives.
While I was looking through the junk, I noticed the subject line of one piece of spam (I believe it was the highly reputable Bulls - N - Bears report... ah yes, investment advice via spam...) had lifted names and text directly from Isaac Asimov's (original) Foundation Trilogy.

Not even the truly geeky is safe.

Dogmatists, Fanboys, Zealots and other close-minded crap

I love digg, I really do. Feeds me more interesting tidbits than I could possibly surf for myself in a given day, lets me submit whatever I want and has the user base sort it out as to how interesting it is.
Hell, I even like the comment threads... usually.
The exception to this is the relentless "Mac rulez/Windoze drools" and "Linux kicks ass/your platform of choice sux0rz" and "Windows is great/you're stupid" brands of dogma flying around.

For fuckssakes... this is technology, not theology. You don't like a platform? Don't use it!
There is no absolute truth here... there is only the combination of bits that works for you.
You want to take your dogma for a walk? Write a decent article about why you think (that's right, think NOT know) you're right or at least respond intelligently to same.

Well, this will fall on deaf ears and blind eyes, but I've had my rant.

Continue walking the dogma... clearly it needs the exercise.