Monthly Archives: June 2016

Dell Drops Out And Abandons Android Tablets

Posted on June 30, 2016 by mikecane

Dell stops selling Android devices “The slate tablet market is over-saturated and is experiencing declining demand from consumers, so we’ve decided to discontinue the Android-based Venue tablet line,” a Dell spokesman said in an e-mail. They’ll continue with Windows-based 2-in-1 … Continue reading →

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Android N Is For Nougat And I Hate All Of You

Posted on June 30, 2016 by mikecane

You didn’t stuff the ballot box for Neko. So it’s Android Nougat. Sit there in your shame and disgrace. Burn. Previously here: Vote For Android NEKO!

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Shoeless Walt Disney

Posted on June 30, 2016 by mikecane

More from Walt Before Mickey. As the end of 1922 loomed, Laugh-O-gram Films was, as Rudy, Max, and Walt Pfeiffer later agreed, “down to the last penny,” and the payment deadline for the $11,000 owed to the company by Pictorial, … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. Futurist Alvin Toffler

Posted on June 29, 2016 by mikecane

Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87 Alvin Toffler, the celebrated author of “Future Shock,” the first in a trilogy of best-selling books that presciently forecast how people and institutions of the late 20th century would contend with … Continue reading →

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The Book Walt Disney Read

Posted on June 29, 2016 by mikecane

I’m reading Walt Before Mickey and came across the title of a book that greatly assisted Walt at the start of his career: Animated Cartoons by Edwin Lutz.

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VR Shark Tank

Posted on June 29, 2016 by mikecane

HTC Announces VR Venture Capital Alliance with $10 Billion in “deployable capital” According to the group’s official site there’s a staggering $10 billion in “deployable capital” between the investors, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that all of this money will … Continue reading →

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ME-diocrity

Posted on June 29, 2016 by mikecane

Mediocrity: The race to the bottom While spouting the politics of compassion, this generation of hysterical, reality-deficient weaklings is bubble-wrapped in fluffy non-specific theory. It worships consensus, and expresses rebellion through increased conformity and political orthodoxy. I love the term, … Continue reading →

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Video: Space:1999 VR

Posted on June 28, 2016 by mikecane

I tripped across several such videos on YouTube, indicating a work in progress. Space 1999 the VR Experience Version 1.2 See more here.

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Victory! The Return Of Diet Pepsi.

Posted on June 27, 2016 by mikecane

Twitter: Pepsi To Reintroduce Aspartame In Diet Drinks I’ll be able to stop drinking that fucking swill called Diet Coke. I thought it was aspartame alone that my brain needed. But drinking that fucking swill Diet Coke revealed there’s some … Continue reading →

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Diary Of A World Gone Mad

Posted on June 24, 2016 by mikecane
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