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Barenaked USB Drive
CryptoKnight writes "The Barenaked Ladies are releasing their next album via a reusable 128 MB USB flash drive. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article: 'Rather than distribute via CD, DVD or download, the Barenaked Ladies are making their newest selection of songs, videos and exclusive material available on a USB flash drive. Nettwerk Music Group is releasing Barenaked on a Stick beginning today, says the Hollywood Reporter. It plays on PCs, Macs and any other audio product with a USB port -- like some car stereos -- and costs $30.'"
Buttes Announces Victory over Flock
(Palo Alto, CA. - DEVELOPING) The Buttes Foundation, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering tomorrow through trolling today, announced victory over the Flock browser and the piddling company behind it. The announcement took place during a packed session at the Scientology center in Mountain View. Very important Buttes operative rolloffle said he found the air deliciously clear of thetans and other impediments in the pursuit of a good troll.
"Quite simply, Flock sucks," opined Buttes spokesman Khaled to an appreciative audience. "But not only does it suck; it is also a failure", he added to nods of agreement. On the wall was a complicated graph showing blogging activity regarding the dead-on-arrival "Social Browser". Khaled pointed to a sharp color change in the second quadrant which corresponded with the introduction of the Go Flock Yourself weblog, which has been detailing the worthlessness of Flock, its authors, and its fans since shortly after the introduction of the ill-fated application.
"As you can see here," said Khaled, "blogging activity about Flock turned decidedly negative after we began to expose its shortcomings". He then added "we also got Scoble to comment on our blog", pausing a minute before saying "lol". Shouts of "roflmao" and "you da man" erupted spontaneously from the crowd.
Rolloffle took over at that point, elaborating on the negative attention Flock has received, and finishing with Buttes's mea culpa, the eradication of the giant Flock advertisement from wordpress.com's front page. While the administrators of WordPress have not returned requests for comment at this time, it can only be assumed that the Go Flock Yourself blog (proudly featured on the front page since shortly after its inception) has made association with Flock a costly and embarrassing proposition.
During a busy Q&A session, the brainchild behind Go Flock Yourself, a diminutive Canadian who goes by the name "Screaming Eagle USA", offerred to clarify the role of the popular weblog now that Flock has officially failed. "Go Flock Yourself is designed to empower the sarcastic and trollish masses of the internet to drop a big, steaming turd all over Web 2.0 and all of its extravagances." Screaming Eagle displayed a slide of recent posts about say-so, yellowikis, Squidoo, demonstrating a pattern of hard-hitting journalism that leaves no worthless, dollar-stuffed startup with its "perpetual beta" web application untouched. "Our victory over Flock will allow us to leverage all of our core competencies, maximizing ROI across skill domains, in order to architect the synergistic folksonomies that will empower the anti-Web 2.0 revolution."
About Buttes:
The Buttes Foundation is a group of trolls and ne'erdowells that has successfully terrorized the Something Awful forums through its internet terrorist offshoot Team Barry. In recent years, Buttes has expanded the reach of its deadly ruyn-rays to the world's telephone networks and now the blogosphere. More information on Buttes is available at Encyclopedia Dramatica
About Flock:
Flock is an amateurish fork of Firefox which adds various extensions of marginal utility that integrate unaffiliated services (del.icio.us, flickr, etc.) directly into the browsing experience. Flock also includes a substandard blogging tool which even its most diehard users have had a hard time adopting. Flock is currently burning through approximately $1 million of venture capital, after which point it will promptly fold after failing to be at
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How do I get Quake 3 to run in Linux?
Barenaked Ladies is a REALLY crappy band.... $0.30 would be a bit too much to pay for any of their music.
Too bad they suck so bad I wouldn't even download it for free.
"To lead the people, you must walk behind them"
No ??? here...
1. Make album.
2. Release in less-than-CD quality on a $8 device
3. Charge $16 extra.
4. Profit!
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
I know I'll be modded troll for this, but here goes...In Soviet Russia...USB pendrive comes on you!