Today, I’m just going to post some subject lines. I don’t think it gets much better than this. If you’re ever looking for a good dose of crazy, check out alt.apocalypse.

• Prison cells for pension thieves no matter what the price of tomatoes is in crazytown how about for starters?
• War Criminals are shifty. But we are up for the challenge. Justice for All means America wins
• PROOF: Right Wing Americans are true Socialist Commi Pinkos – Bush “We don’t need any evidence” – No evidence for terrorists means the bad guys escape
• Satanic Enemies of Christ at Demon Liar’s Rally ..standing for nothing but injustice against Mankind
• Immortality for All
• God Wars Corporate America
• America Is Going to Hell!! – Ha hA HAa haaaha – American “Christians” yelling ‘GOD IS A LIE’ – Can You Believe It?

I don’t even know where to start.

Got a craving for talking UK Football? There’s a great group for you to head over and check out: uk.sport.football

Seems there’s a group of regulars who are running some kind of a betting pool. Doubtful it’s real money – altho the trash talk is pretty good.

Here’s an exchange today about Pro Footballers without contracts. Seems not a lot of love is given to a certain Fulham and Bristol Rovers midfielder, Barry Hayles on he is a victim of the credit crunch.

Post title: “Oh boo f*cking hoo”:
“There’s a teh article on Radio5 right now about the worrying increase in the number of professional footballers who are currently without contract. Former Fulham and Bristol Rovers midfielder Barry Hayles gave a brief but touching interview in which he explained how he and countless others are victims of the credit crunch.

Is he f*ck.
I had that <snip> in my Yahoo team one week, he earned me 1.17 points, and that was one of his better games.  And yet, in his brief but spectacularly mediocre stint in the Premiership, he earned himself way, way, way more money than I can expect to in an entire lifetime.  If he’s a victim of anything, it’s poor forward planning, ridiculously optimistic perception of his own potential as a sportsman and the insane wage demands of him and his mercenary colleagues which have driven most clubs to the brink of financial disaster.  The Premier League, so called ‘greatest league in the world’, has yet to turn a collective profit in any season.  And it’s not like people aren’t buying the product.
If I see that useless bastard shopping in Asda I’m going to laugh my arse off.  Although, obviously not to his face.  He’s a big f*cker IIRC.
– Joe”

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So the event is over (Chris Martin from Coldplay? someone stab a pencil in my ear please), and tons of cool stuff has come out of it: iOS 4.2, HDR pix, Game Center, Apple TV, new music devices, Ping, and a new iTunes. Lets break these down one by one.

iOS4.2 – iPad connectivity. Great for you iPad users all about accessing the content. The printing stuff is nice (although I hate actually printing anything nowadays), but the multitasking and folders are where it’s at. They make life easier for me on the iPhone and will for you iPad users.

HDR pictures – first off if you’re unsure about what an HDR pic is, it’s basically three pictures, one with highlights, shadows, and midranges and it combines them into picures that have a greater range of color. It’s about time, better looking pix with details that pop. Good for you Flickr and Facebook posters, but even better for people who actually print them out on photo paper (yes people still do that from time to time).

Game Center – and the iPhone continues to forge ahead in the mobile gaming world. Project Sword, the Unreal engine on the phone, and oh yea things are looking good for iPhone gamers. Plus I like the fact that there will be one spot to see leader boards instead of all the competing networks like Open Feint, Crystal, and Plus+.

Apple TV – this one just makes sense. I don’t know about you but given recent news about cable subscription rates falling and from friends and family I know considering going the streaming movies and TV shows route it makes sense. Netflix is available on this and it can stream from your main computer not to mention the TV show and movie rentals it can do. I wish there was some free content available via iTunes but I’m sure that’ll get worked out one way or another.

Ping/iTunes 10 – you can’t really separate these from one another. iTunes by itself got a new logo and a slightly revamped view, not bad but no biggie itself. The real news is Ping. According to Apple “It’s like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes. It’s all about music.” On initial glance Ping looks to be one of the rare cases where social networking can be 1) done right 2) adds value to the end user and 3) has a direct commercial tie in. It would be pretty cool to find people with similar taste in music to myself and to see what they’re listening to. It can be another great way to find music beyond Pandora (currently digging The Polish Ambassador whom I found on Pandora). I’m interested to see how it actually works.

New music devices – ehhh ok so I’m not quite so gung-ho on these. I mean ok they’re pretty cool looking and the Nano and Shuffle will probably make great stocking stuffers, but this is a declining market. As more people go with an iPhone or iPad there is little reason to deal with a secondary music device. I did the switch from one to the other two years back when I got my iPhone 3G, and forgot all about my iPod.

My faves from this event are: Ping and the HDR pictures. I only leave Apple TV out because with 3 small kiddos dropping my cable is out of the question. A loss of Team Umizoomi, Caillou, and Scooby Doo could lead to a full scale revolt, and trust me you don’t want an angry 4 yr. old to have a burning torch inside your home. For more thoughts on this you can always check out the Apple discussions going on at: misc.phone.mobile.iphone.

~ Zaaa

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