As the entire universe knows now, Jason is leaving AOL. This is met with mixed reactions, of course. I don't know a lot about what was going on, but I'm sure people smelled it. He's got serious ADD, not to mention he probably doesn't belong in the corporate world. He's got ideas coming out his ears, and I'm pretty sure only he can keep up. Everyone's right about one thing: he's polarizing. I find it maybe just a bit weird that I have a strong urge to defend him, since we had... "difficulties" ... but in the end, he and Brian did a great job with this thing. I'm sure he'll do great in his next venture.
- The New York Times, electing to stay out of the "inventing new terminology" game, interviews "Ask A Ninja" and Ze Frank.
- The UCLA student who was tasered is, like so many things, duplicated about 8,000 times on YouTube. Google should figure out some way to detect dupes, it'd save terrabytes. You know what bugs me about this? Those historical rabble-rousers and troublemakers, college students, are doing nothing. I'm glad someone got it on his camera phone (sorta), but even he could have gotten closer. Hey man, stop that. Oh wait, you'll taser me too? What if I pee? Dear lord. I'd take a taser or two for something I believed was right. It's not like it's a bullet. Plus, these kids had the numbers. Three cops? Come on. They feel pretty big with only one irate troublemaker, but a computer lab full of angry kids bum-rushing them? "Command presence" becomes just a term in the police manual.
- Om Malik called for a week-long boycott of Universal. You think anyone did it? You bet. I did. In what other business are CEOs allowed to insult their customers while moaning about how they (not even the artists they supposedly represent) need to "get paid?" Un-freaking-thinkable, the steel cajones on these guys.
- An old email newsletter called its deadpool segment (think F'ed Company) "Operation Falco," and met reports of demises of dotcoms with cries of "Falco!" Oh God.
- People are trying to kill each other over PlayStations. Check out the fighting in Fresno. Fighting for their right to forgo walks with the dog, TV, creative outlets, sex, dinner, a job, a tan, your own apartment, you name it. You know what I'm getting at... no matter who wins the PS3, you're all incredible losers.
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