Saw this recently, and couldn’t resist posting it. This was the sort of shit that was popular when I was 13-14. I wonder what sort of crazy shit pop culture is going to be showing my kids, because honestly I think this is pretty crazy (although definitely juvenile).
And who could forget this one..
Either this guy has a terrible skin disease or … I dunno.
From the front page of CNN…
Of course, I thought it might be a brace or something, but it appears to also take up parts of his ear, just as if someone had done a poor job of photoshopping it with the magic wand tool. Perhaps this guy has really fucked up skin, or perhaps we’ll never know.
Skype partner company “TOM” is not only untrustworthy but also incompetent.
It’s interesting to note that you can’t actually download “normal” Skype in China from the Skype site (at least not intuitively). You’re forced to use TOM-Skype – which aside from having a bunch of useless shit attached to it, is now apparently also a huge privacy risk. I really don’t think that it’s at all out of the ordinary that the betrayal of consumer trust was done in such a haphazard way, though, although I do find it somewhat humorous. I mean, if you’re going to go through all the trouble of spying on people, wouldn’t it make sense to hire people who are competent enough to not leave servers unsecured? Somebody really dropped the ball on this one.
Needless to say, you can bet some colourful words are being said behind closed doors. Anyhow – this, of course, raises new questions regarding the security of Skype in general, but I’d say for certain that you want to not be using the “partner version” of Skype (not that there was any reason to before, since it was bloatware anyway).
