What To Expect at Macworld 2008 and Why We It Will Be Huge

January 10, 2008

We only know one thing for sure about Steve Jobs’ Macworld 2008 keynote: something big is coming from Apple. Maybe not one single iceberg-sized thing, but this year we believe the Boom Count
™ is going to be so high that Apple had to take their new big irons out of the way. Plenty of evidence points out the magnitude of next week’s announcements.

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Google Processing Over 20 Petabytes of Data Per Day

January 10, 2008

Google currently processes over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its massive computing clusters.

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I Got What America Needs Right Here

January 10, 2008

Sometimes I’m a little stupid, maybe, a little slow in the head, so I’m wondering if you can help me get something straight. Maybe you can help me understand one fucking thing right now, America, and explain to me what in the Christ is going on here. ‘Cause, unless I’m missing something, this country is in the middle of a motherfucking shitstorm, and I have no fucking idea what you’re gonna do to get out of it. I mean, are you seriously considering voting for one of these shitbags you got here in ‘08? Fat fucking chance.

Way I see it, America needs a president who’s gonna somehow un-royally screw up the Middle East, do some serious cleaning up after you dropped your pants and took a steaming dump all over the fucking environment, and—boom!—restore dignity, honor, and all that shit to these United States. (Via The Onion)

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