If Andrew Keen is a "troll", wouldn't repeatedly personally insulting the dude as if he had peed on your rug indicate that you're a serial biter?

Tangentially, Cory Doctorow is so l337, he hires other dudes to admin his personal computer. For all those times he "needs something fixed in his kernal". You can hardly tell he never finished college, and just barely got his Good Enough Degree. Just barely.

The rest is all the usual "ads for companies we have known business relationships with, masquerading as content", Mark posting ads for his book followed by subsequently, and separately, pimping each and every bookstore he's going to visit in malls all over the San Fernando valley. Or wherever. I don't generally go to book stores, so I assume the threat level for me is low of catching doucheitis.

Hey, it's as much of a word as "spokesdouche", and I don't even pretend to be a journalist.

Did they ever? I mean, besides Cory? "It's hard to write because I get distracted by teh intarweb." Then don't do it, dude. Nobody's going to miss your paranoid, pedestrian diatribes and post-teen-teenage angst, anyway.

Pardon me if I am not thrilled by this, for this reason:

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I'm going to put this as plainly as possible: that is a stupid idea, and it will fail.

No hyperbole. No rant. I'm just that lazy about this entire thing. I care that much. But it's not that I don't love you, I just need some space.

And I think we should start seeing other people.

"I decided to try out veganism a little over a week ago -- so far I feel great, and it's a lot easier than I thought." I'd add a snarky line about this, but it doesn't need one. Xeni did the heavy lifting by establishing her week-long expertise on the subject in the first line.

In case y'all forgot, Cory has a new book, and he also has a new book. Oh wait, that's the same book? You mean the same one that dude has posted at least an ad a day for for the last few weeks? Oh. Oh boy. Let's all go down to Barnes y Noble and stand in line for Cory's new book. Oh me? Well, I'll meet you there. I have some other stuff to do.

Can we stop automatically stating Bruce Schneier's speculation as fact?

Then, of course, there's the classic Frauenfelderian backtracking moment, which you all were kind enough to draw attention to already.

HEY U GUYZ, PHOTOSHOP CONTEST AT WORTH 1000!11111

Also, why does it not surprise me that this is the side Cory would be on, if he lived in the Star Wars universe? When I was in second grade, I rooted for the Rebel Alliance. Eventually, I grew up, and found myself in support of the Empire.

And now, the crowning awkward boingboing moment of the weekend:

"no sneaky running out into the Magic Kingdom and riding the Haunted Mansion in the nude!"

I don't know about all of you, but I'm creeped out now by the visual of that college dropout touching his own junk late at night, running around Disneyland in his Canuckistanian Birfday Suit.

And on that note, work awaits.

1) Looks like Cory's on the verge of catching the same bug someone else on that staff has, or maybe he's just been drinking Potomac water.

2) Shameless Xeni brown-nosing reveals that Battellah thinks 1) blogs should do more merchandising to be more like that other blog, "amazon.com". And 2) he also thinks what we all need are some extra pop-up windows. Both of these ideas are just plain retarded. Nevermind the conflict between this post and, say, the one posted right after it. It's funny, really; Xeni speculating about Google use is like homeless people speculating about mortgage rates.

So that's not two things, it's four. You are all grown-ups, you'll learn to deal with the disappointment over time. Well, you regular readers, at least.

So, I, like, was reading this website called, like, boingboing or, like, something, and, like, did you know that dude called cory or, like, something has, like, a new, like, book or, like, something? WHOA, I"M TOTALLTY GONZA GO GET IT! Cory sez i, like, totally should. He also thinks I should stop drinking and smoking, coz, like, all the cool kids are doing that. And stuff,..

However, in the interest of full disclosure, this actually didn't totally suck. Not totally, anyway. Then again, I'm partial to that cardboard-tearing noise stuff.

Posted live, from the crapflooder's mom's house. She's not that good on the mic, but at least I can chalk "tag a crapflooder's mom" off my list now.

A: Not having a livejournal in the first place, thus being disqualified from Special Olympic participation.

Now, let's get down to business, shall we?

Somebody call CNN, an old tv show filmed in the 60s has cultural debris in the background that's also from the 60s! Can you believe it? Mark can't.

Meanwhile, Cory Doctorow fills in for Xenifer, recycling Ye Olde Ancient Goatse Meme. Always fascinating and in vogue, just like the word "blogosphere". Oh wait...

Still, he finds the time to post another ad disguised as a blog post for his "new" book, just in case you missed the three other times El Mierdaperro shilled himself in the past 7 days. Four times, seven days. I guess maybe he took the weekend off...

OK, people, chat amongst yourselves. And WILKOMMEN to our new German visitors.

Doctorow has a boner over what he's gonna do with that Second Life client source code, and he thinks you should, too. This just in: people with First Lives still don't give a shit about your favorite role-playing game, Cory, you fucking nerd.

What else could possibly explain how he has returned as even more of a shallow, annoying caricature of himself?

SEE HOW CORY SPEAKS OF HIMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON WHILE TELLING EVERYONE THAT 1) HE WROTE A BOOK, 2) IT'S GOING TO COME OUT SOON, AND 3) SOMEBODY INTERVIEWED HIM ABOUT IT. In case you didn't see it, you can see the same shit, some twenty minutes earlier. Oh boy, an action-packed book about systems administration. I can hardly wait.

DRM: It's what clueless white boys whine about when they have no real problems. See you in court, bitches.

Someone should tell all the axe-grinding morons how Jefferson spent 1801 to 1805 before they go off assuming that Jefferson, who I'll fully admit was one rockin' dude, would be their Best Friend Forever.

And, as the prophecies predicted, not only did Cory return from Christmas with a book to pimp, he also wrote a book report. Oh boy.

Here's a quickie roundup before I go get drunk and ask Cindy Sheehan completely inappropriate questions:

I see that Special Mark finally wrote a book about his friends. Thank god he's got somewhere to pimp it as something "wonderful".

Hell hath no fury like a pudgy former street-urchin-turned-"sex-educator" scorned. By statistics. That everybody, like, totally gives a shit about. 'Tis the season to be sitting at home, checking your fucking page rank to see if Google is CENZ0RINGZ J00, I suppose.

My, Xeni, what a lovely color of shit you chose for your lipstick there... Fascinating "insight" from professional blowhard and pimp, John Batelle (Yes, I know I spelled his name wrong, I enjoy the idea of making the use of page rank more difficult): "blah blah blah TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR, YOU, IS TOTALLY WEB 2.0!111!!!! HEY MOM, I'M ON THE COVER OF TIME!1112 blah blah blah". Seriously, ad salespeople and journalists, speculating on technology, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, SHUT THE FUCK UP. Thanks.

I see that Jacob Appelbaum is still pretending to be a hacker. I wonder if anyone at CCC asked him about how he got shitcanned from a fucking VOLUNTEER job at the ACCRC for being completely technically incompetent? I guess the world will never know.

Aww, poor Saddam Hussein. Truly an Iraqi icon, he will be missed.

And finally, whole lotta fascinating navelgazing going on. I'd critique a little more, but I got bored, and I have the ability to walk away from it.

On the plus side, at least that tard Doctorow is still out in the sandbox, crapping himself, and not writing.