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Warning: Strong language dead ahead, may seem inappropriate to old people, but only if you’re really old at heart. Also if you’re a parent who thinks being overprotective has any positive effects (hint: it doesn’t) at all, this is your cue to cover your kid’s eyes.
Here’s to the 140th American bank to go under this year. 140 is a good number, so I suppose this is a good day to shout it out loud that we fucking told you so!
We told you this would happen, a long time ago, and when it did happen you lot didn’t learn squat from it. You just kept on trucking like it was business as usual, and it took Roosevelt to get you out of your shit. And get you out of shit he did, but did you thank him for it? No! How dare he mess with the market? How dare he fix the economy with his un-American ways? Shun the disbeliever, the market would have fixed it faster than he did anyway, probably… What’s that you say? Capitalism causes this, and it’s inevitable? No, that can’t be true, capitalism is perfect! It must have been all the government interference. Yeah, that’s right, it was the socialist bastards in the government that did it, because they got so filthy rich during the depression, yeah!
Holy fucking shit it happened again!? Are you serious? It can’t have been Bush’s fault, he was perfect! Didn’t care that the market was fucking everyone up the ass, started wars, drove the nation into a disastrous deficit after Clinton, that asshole, dared run a surplus. There’s just no way it was the Bush administration’s fault. No, Obama did it, Obama and Clinton. The aftereffects of the Clinton administration’s socialist cheating ways, and Obama’s first five days in office, that’s what caused this. Hell yeah, praise the Lord, hoist the flag, and pass the ammunition, for peace, justice, and the American way.
Dear God! This has got to be the website of the year! Nay, the idea of the year is more accurate! So what is it, you ask? It is YouTube, but not. It’s the music service you always wanted. Granted, if you simply cannot listen to music that isn’t over 320kbit/s quality, this service is not for you, but if youtube sound quality is good enough for you, it is simply brilliant. It looks roughly like an iTunes spinoff, and it roughly is. It gets music from, you guessed, it, YouTube. I’ve tested getting music from videos I know are HD, but there are no popups or options, so I suppose it automatically grabs the highest quality possible, and plays it back to you, instantly, just like, you know, a normal music player would. It’s free youtube music! With a sleek interface and elegant search function, and functional controls, all on a website.
But, as everyone knows, no one really likes websites, it’s kind of like an evil you have to live with. Except Mozilla has already solved this problem, and recently made the solution available to mac owners too! No matter which OS you are running, even you Linux fans, the combination of Mozilla Prism and moof is too good to pass up!
The service allows you to listen to any music you want, that exists on YouTube, or that you have uploaded. Though I haven’t tried it, due to the massiveness of my library, there seems to be an option to upload your library to their server. The site also allows you to add any song to the library on your personal account (yes, you need to register, but it’s completely free, and ad free to boot). After you’ve added a song, Moof even keeps the playcount for you. The creators really seem to have put a lot of effort into making a fully functional music app for you. What will they do next? Offline support?
So Google has finally decided to get serious about computer operating systems. This can be nothing but great news. Of course, we can’t expect it to compete with the good old contenders as soon as it’s launched, it will most likely be used in the dark by linux enthusiasts. I expect it to be a flawed gem, but around the third release it should at least be good enough to run on netbooks. Around that point, if Google starts a heavy ad campaign, who knows? It’s working for Microsoft’s Bing, and Google is already well known, and used by many. It’ll never be a Windows killer, not even Steve Jobs will be able to do that, and that’s because Microsoft is just too deply embedded in the common man’s perception of computers. Until the computer world is revolutionized, Microsoft will likely be around to torment us all, their blue screens barring their nasty teeth at every corner of every street. 
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In other news, the Chrome browser is almost done for the Mac! Maybe I’ll be able to browse the web without crawling back to firefox now… There are some nasty bugs in the 64bit version of Safari 4 on Snow Leopard. It can’t make comments on facebook, but that’s happening on their server, can’t blame Apple for that, as proven by it’s fluctuation status. More importantly, the browser dies every time I try to use the blogger editor! As I dislike Firefox, I might just not write a lot of blogs until the issues is fixed.
Song of the Blog: Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
Sincerely
Bjørn
