DOJ Taps Google as New Microsoft
Congratulations Google, you’re the new Microsoft. And we have that on no lesser authority than the U.S. Department of Justice. Google is the new empire. The new Borg. Aggressive. Efficient. Assimilative. Feared. And lest there be any doubt of that, consider the DOJ’s comments Wednesday on the dissolution of Google’s proposed advertising partnership with Yahoo.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
DOJ Recalibrates Google Arrogance Algorithm
A few weeks back, Google wasn’t at all deterred by regulators’ heightened scrutiny of the company’s advertising agreement with Yahoo. It had no plans to delay the deal with its struggling rival, which was to begin this month. “Time is money in our business,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “… While we have been talking to regulators, we don’t know what their position is. We don’t know if they think it’s a good deal or poor deal.” How quickly things change.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Odd, the Parental Controls on Sen. Kohl’s Copy of IE Have Been Set to Block YahooGoogleFacts.com
With a Department of Justice ruling on Google’s advertising partnership with Yahoo expected by late next week, a key legislator is urging further scrutiny of the deal. In a letter to the DOJ, Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, encouraged it to monitor the Google-Yahoo deal, even if the agency signs off on it.
Told You Those Lobbyists Would Come in Handy, Sergey …
“I’ve never seen a tech company ramp up faster than they have in the last year or two,” tech lobbyist Ralph Hellmann said of Google last year. “They’re using all the tools in the lobbying tool kit.” And with some success, it would seem. With the Justice Department reviewing the company’s proposed online advertising partnership with Yahoo and its critics growing increasingly vocal, Google has managed to win the support of some California lawmakers.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Speak Now, $100 Billion Ad Group, or Forever Hold Your Peace
Much as Google would like us all to believe that its proposed partnership with Yahoo is a benign one, a growing chorus of critics insists otherwise. The latest to take issue with the deal: The Association of National Advertisers, which represents a group of 400 companies with 9,000 brands.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
What We Really Need Is DOPA–The DOJ Online Protection Act
The Department of Justice has failed a third time to resuscitate the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a federal law designed to protect children from the vast reams of smut upon which it believes the Internet to be built. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals struck the law down again today, ruling that it would criminalize a category of speech that, while inappropriate for minors and the DOJ, is constitutionally protected for adults.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Ministry of Love. How May I Detect Your Call?
Is the government tracking us through our cellphones? Of course it is. If the National Security Agency hopes to create an accurate “database of every call ever made” within the nation’s borders, it needs to know the locations from which they were made, right?
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- The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best use of the Beeker “meee” ever.
- Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer”?
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
