Pure Twaddle

Wired EIC (editor-in-chief), Chris Anderson, has just published a book espousing the nature of the free economy. As part of the book’s promotion, he gave a speech at the Wired Disruptive Business Conference outlining his main points (below). I offer a rebuttal in the form of early ninety’s hip-hop. Watch and learn:

Chris Anderson’s “bitch-ass” speech:

V. MC Double Def DP‘s Don’t Copy That Floppy! from 1992 (with extra whitey hate)

Bonus: DCTF sequel coming soon (with extra prison rape)!

P.S. If your game/movie/television show is so bad that only pirates will watch it (read: no one wants to pay to watch it – I’m looking at you, Michael Bay), then you need to re-think your media. Shit’s changin’, yo!

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Wired is reporting that Michael Jackson is the first artist to reach over 1 million (legitimate) downloads in a single week. Having grown up only knowing the weird, ultra-white Michael Jackson, and only first learning about him because of the molestation cases against him in the early 90′s, I never much paid attention to his music.

I admit I immediately went to the YouTube to check out some Michael Jackson hits upon hearing about his death. I never gave him a second thought as a serious artist as I was growing up. Now after his passing, I see the guy had a set of pipes as a kid and had some great moves as a performer. Too bad no one 26 years and younger could have an untarnished memory of a very strange fellow.

Rest in Peace, crazy man.

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Just for Friday, Jack Kerouac reading from On the Road on the Steve Allen Show in 1959:

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Nestlé, no longer satisfied with humping a seemingly perpetual contract with Fox that begat about 150 illegitimate Simpsons Butterfinger commercials, has decided to raise the “things-that-never-should-have-happened” ante. Friends, feast your eyes on the new Butterfinger BUZZ.

Yes, Nestlé’s team of morally-bankrupt chemists have managed to squeeze about a Red Bull size serving of caffeine (about 80 milligrams) into a 3.7 oz packet of chocolate and refined sugar. This is the candy bar for the fat-ass who is too lazy to drive to the Starbucks next door and raise the average 8 ounces of coffee with quivering hand to his caffeine-deprived lips.

As if the existence of this abomination wasn’t enough, they are introducing this new product of post-modern vapidity with an ad campaign that seems to have taken all its cues from the movie Idiocracy.

As a welcome sign, of the 200 million active users on Facebook, only 84 are official “fans” of this new candy bar. Though, disturbingly, they are all very eager to spray-paint the saffron logo onto their fresh BUZZ-cutz.

Pop quiz: Which one do plants crave?

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Signs our civilization is in decline:

Britney Spears at her worst

(From a recent sold-out show in DC)

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