Bacon Lorem Ipsum

The constant celebration of bacon has more to do with its reputation for being horrible for you than the actual truth of bacon. Sure, it's great. But everyone goes nuts when Bacon is added to something, like it imparts something incredible. Bacon flavored martinis! Hey. No.

But this is amusing. Wonder if they'll find this code when debugging healthcare.gov:

It's from the Bacon Ipsum, which generates Lorem Ipsum - placeholder text for mockups - based on meat products.

Just reading that makes you need a stent.

DOOM Never fails. All Apple news is the same: doom. Doom! AP, in today's paper:

Now, the analysis:

You know what's coming next, don't you? Sure you do. Tech writers have the sentence welded into a macro key.

But let's gaze back at the mists of history, and see if any lessons might be learned there. The article says it hasn't reshaped a market since the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad in 2010. Ergo they are out of gas and running on fumes. (The sort of rich, aromatic fumes you get when you're powering your vehicle with gasified foie gras, which they can certainly afford.) This timeline leaves out the iPod, which redefined that category as well, and came out in 2001. So they putzed around for six years, NOT INNOVATING AT ALL, until shazam the iPhone fell out of the sky, right? In the meantime the iPod went from a big chunky thing with physical buttons and a greyscale screen that ran the Chicago font to something with much higher capacity, smaller size, and the ability to play movies. But that wasn't innovating.

Here are some bullet points from CultofMac:

SELL! SELL! SELL!

TECH Are we in a tech bubble, or are things just frothy? That's the term people use to avoid words like, oh, "Bubble." Here's a piece from last year about Airtime, when the tech hub - er, boom - was revving up nicely.

How's it doing? This Kernel editor signed on and waited for someone to show up and chat. No one ever did. It's probably bombing because it didn't nab the teen / early 20s social market, who are staring at phones instead of computer screens. From my observation of the demographic - i.e., watching my kid - I don't see a lot of desire for video conferencing, because you have to concentrate while doing it. You can text and snapchat and the rest while you're doing something else. Videochat with someone who's doing something else, and you feel slighted. It's a medium that requires eye contact.

If the idea of all-young journalists piques your interest, this is the site for you. Here's an example. Discussing Russell Brand's incoherent philippic, this writer concludes:

You have to admit, it's a fair critique; Brand isn't stood. You could say he won't and am not. Also, he's right to say that everything has to change, and violence isn't good, but that's the only way to get what has to be done, so maybe someone will do it and it'll be cool because it won't be totally ugly and maybe a bit poetic.

Earlier, the author scolds Brand for being vague about how he wants to transform society to fit his ideals.

Other than the terribly important movement that reveres Russell Brand. In the interview, he said:

Russell Brand is worth $15 million. His 2010 movie "Get Him to the Greek" made $90 million on a production cost of $40 million. Ergo, profit. Did this cause deficit elsewhere? If the movie had only made $10 million, does that mean he thinks another movie would have broke even instead of going $30 million in the hole? He goes on to refine his philosophy thus:

Perhaps he's sold it since that picture was taken. For the exact same price he paid, of course.

MEANWHILE IN SYRIA

Let's take another look at that play in slo-mo: