22 June 2007

Lilly Calls Out Lord Of Our Earthly Realm?

“Remember on Monday when Steve Jobs, Lord of all our Earthly realm, proclaimed Safari as the best browser ever and that Apple wanted to steal market share from Internet Explorer? The COO of Mozilla noticed that too and didn't like it one bit. So he called Apple out."

According to crunchgear, anyway, and that's good enough for me.

What I got to say to John Lilly, I doubt he cares to hear: What's With That Funky Browser, White Boy. Yet I suspect he knows, deep down, knows his precious Mozilla-anything is the strangest piece of crap to come down the highway in a long time—only Captive Nation would clasp to its bosom a misbegotten mess like Firefox.

Why mess? Let's start with all those extensions. Where is any intelligent advice for management of all these add-ons? Left for the poor fucking user to find out, and, as I say, only a captive nation etc etc.

Yes, if you're on Windows, use them, use Firefox, Sea Creature, whatever their latest weirdness is called. Because they will keep you safe online. I know, I know, you're sick unto barfing of hearing it, but were you on a Mac, any Mac, the whole frigging point would be moot.

Moot, not mute, nor any other of the misuses and misspellings that litter the web. Moot seems like a particularly hard one. God knows why. You bunch a stinkin' illiterates.

The Illiterati. A much larger group than the Illuminati or whatever they call in on Edge. Does anybody read Edge anymore. Now that it is not the edge.

(This is me in a good mood.)

Mozilla “extensions” and themes. I believe I already ranted the theme rant ... but to a Mac user of lo these many years, you gotta know, people, those ... those things you call themes are a horror show of atrocious design, (I like the pink kitties) and the fact that people are happy with them, that people make more, reflects an aesthetic (aesthetic?) that makes my brain hurt.

New one: Tasteless Nation.

To bring today's wander of a rant to a close, we know that Lilly's remarks are drenched in envy by virtue of kindergarten psychoanalytics. Nothing could be more obvious.

Show me an actual critique, I may not like it, but I will also not be able to go to work on the author.

Let that be the lesson for today. And if you find out what it is, be sure and let me know.

1 comment

Patricia said...

Moot, not mute, nor any other of the misuses and misspellings that litter the web. Moot seems like a particularly hard one. God knows why. You bunch a stinkin' illiterates.

The Illiterati...

Too damn funny! p.

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