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JOHOhoho
The latest JOHO is an "interval" issue occasioned by The Election, or what we have of it so far. Dr. Weinberger is a master of the snarky aside. My fave from this issue:
Has anyone checked to see if the Bush kine are lean? Go feed yourselves The moon was more than full last night. Through the evening it drifted through conjunction with Saturn and east toward Jupiter, which it will conjoin across the sky, in near-fullness, tonight. My son Jeffrey and I stay on top of this stuff. So just before dawn this morning we went back and forth between our telescope and Starry Night (outstanding program) on the computer. Later I followed a link to the program's updates page. There I clicked on a TiVo sweepstakes banner. After registration there failed, where I followed a link to something called FeedRoom, where I was met by a page with the message "We're sorry. This feedroom is not yet available for Internet Explorer on the Mac." Curious to know who or what would design something so non-Webbish for the Web, I clicked on the About link and was delivered to a page so chock full of delusional denial (along with old-media TechnoBS) that I just had to share it. So: the opening paragraph —
The FeedRoom aggregates the latest news, business, sports, weather and traffic video from networks, local TV stations and independent news providers, packaged in an arresting rich-media format that combines the best of television and the Internet. It will offer, among other poop: interactive newscasts... immersive links... surgically targeted advertising... contextual commerce... enhanced community... shared experience... powerful video. I'm sure the media whores among us can't wait to fellate that tube. Which is sure to be a big one. FeedRoom is "a broadband-only site." Or, in buzzcrap terms...
Death by Denial is not a pretty sight. So far it seems to be working. I believe The Will of the American People is for neither one of these fools to become President.
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