Daily Archives: January 19, 2011

Palin’s Facebook

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Fascinating blog post which starts out documenting the speed and efficiency with which critical comments about Palin are removed from her page and then chokes on this.

A commenter posted the following at 18:12:

“It’s ok. Christina Taylor Green was probably going to end up a left wing bleeding heart liberal anyway. Hey, as ‘they’ say, what would you do if you had the chance to kill Hitler as a kid? Exactly.”

I think I literally gasped when I read that. Remember, Christina Taylor Green was the 9 year old girl killed by the shooter. Apparently she had been brought there by her mom, who thought she might get a kick out of meeting Rep. Giffords, having recently been elected to her student council.

I assumed, as a matter of course, that this particular comment would be deleted with greatest possible speed.

So I kept hitting refresh, hoping to use this as an example to say, “You see, Palin’s Facebook editing at least has the good judgement to remove clearly offensive content such as this.” But it didn’t come down.

Thanks to Peter Armstrong for the link.

Apple’s iBoom

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Apple’s iPad business has only been around for 9 months, but it has already generated almost $10 billion in revenue for Apple.

Specifically, Apple shipped 14.8 million iPads last year, generating $9.6 billion in revenue. Last quarter alone, it shipped 7.3 million iPads for $4.6 billion in sales.

That’s amazing. And what’s more amazing is that it’s almost the same amount of revenue as Apple’s almost-27-year-old Mac business, which just put in its best quarter ever, generating $5.4 billion in revenue.

But perhaps what’s most remarkable is how fast Apple is still growing overall. At $26.7 billion in sales last quarter, Apple still grew 71% year-over-year. Crazy.

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Wedded bliss

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Wedded bliss, originally uploaded by jjn1.

Seen in a shop window in Holland.

The strange thing is that the woman looks disaffected and disillusioned already, and the chap is already looking over her shoulder for another model. Or perhaps he’s wondering how on earth they are going to pay for this shindig. No wonder there’s a strong correlation between the price of weddings and the divorce rate.