To be fair, that line belongs to Mosspuppet. He’s referring to the JooJoo tablet, which is actually shipping. So you can give Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathagothehardestnametopronounceintheworldkrishnan your $499 for an unproven product, or wait another week and buy an iPad from Apple. Who would you rather buy a tablet from? Namaste.

This article says that is the precise quote from the ill-fated Apollo 13 flight. It also goes on to add that rather than floating in space forever, they would’ve ended up hurtling back to Earth on a collision course. Kind of a no-win scenario if there ever was one. That, plus then we’d have no Tom Hanks movie, since no way would they whack the star like that. In reality, the three astronauts would’ve already frozen to death, but then they’d get the bonus parting gift of burning up on re-entry.

This article explains what Microsoft was trying to do with that quirky campaign.

As this article suggests, it probably cost them a bit.

Albert Gonzales aka The Soup Nazi, the filthy hacker who was on the government payroll for 75G annually to find hackers who stole CC info, who double crossed the Secret Service and stole and sold millions of cc numbers himself, got twenty years of anal rape hard time and will be sentenced  for another similar crime to be served concurrently today. By the time he gets out, the singularity will have occurred, Jesus, Mohamed, Joseph Smith and  L. Ron Hubbard will have returned and have had their final death match against Satan and the evil aliens, and Steve Jobs will have personally absorbed Google and Amazon and News Corp and Goldman Sachs and Wal-mart and China and be this nice huge wunnerful benevolent cloud thingy and history will be a thing of the past.

Happy birthday to Leonard Nimoy, an authentic part of American pop culture.

A simple idiot’s guide to become a webtrepreneur , or starting a business online, for those who get freaked out by portmanteaus, Rework was written by the geniuses behind Signal vs, Noise, and also the developers behind 37signals. The deadtree version is available on Amazon here or Kindle it here.

Hey, man, I gotta' an idea, I gotta' an idea!

Reddy Kilowatt

Amazon realized something about the Kindle that El Jobso likes to say about the iPad, the iPhone, the iTouch, etcetera. It’s not the hardware (which is cool) it’s the software. And when Christmas happened and Amazon sold more ebooks than hardcovers and paperbacks, Bezos had a light go up over his shiny light bulb-shaped head, which is freakin’ hilarious if you ever see Jeff Bezos get an idea. I mean, he already looks like Reddy Kilowatt, right? So now the Kindle is not just some device you cart with you – it’s software that allows you to purchase, read and get your books on almost any mobile device or PC or Mac (where’s Kindle for Linux, already Jeff? I should be able to get this on Ubuntu by now, ya’ think?). After the 1984 incident, Amazon will never jerk its customers around again, much like Apple does every freakin’ day by ceremoniously dumping apps with nary a plausible explanation, and not even a refund most of the time. So, if Apple does drop Kindle from its mobile devices and even its desktop hardware, Amazon won’t suffer too badly, people will gravitate to other devices that will host the Kindle software. You think Bezos is talking with Schmidt about Kindle for Android and Chrome OS? Duuuuhhhhh, yesssss! So, even if the Amazon abandons the hardware, it still will be have Kindle installed worldwide across a wide variety of formats. I seriously doubt Steve Jobs is going to allow the bookstore for iPad be available for the PC aka Windows, to compete with Kindle, though anything is possible.