Blasphemous Apple Logo?

It's 10-11-12. At 1:14 it will be 10-11-12/ 13:14. Some people are excited by those things.

OH, NONSENSE Headline of the day, maybe: Russian Christians boosted by Pussy Riot law spank 'sinful' Apple logo. The article says:

I don't believe it. Also, "orthodox" is not radical. But let's go right to the source, and see what Interfax - the most trusted name in news! - has to say. First we'll wash it through Google Translate. Headline: "Orthodox Christians in Russia are beginning to change the "anti-Christian" bitten apple on their device "Apple" on crosses."

From this thin frayed thread, Xbit spun an entire article. An excerpt:

To paraphrase John Gruber, what is it about Apple that makes otherwise intelligent people take leave of their senses when they write about it? From the sound of the story, Radicals are walking into Apple stores and slapping stickers on the logo, when it's entirely possible that the author of the original piece heard about one guy who taped a picture of a cross on his own computer - which seems unlikely, doesn't it? Wouldn't that be rather sacrilegious? And why isn't that word spelled "sacreligious?"

I give the story one day before it's put up on Buzzfeed. (Checking . . . not yet.)

It makes you want to start with this a little earlier than usual.

From this amusing Esquire whisky pronunciation guide.

WEB "Got a situation? Ask our Bros." At hetexted.com, a team of men is standing by to help women decode that text they got from that one guy. It's amusing to see how many viewers deduce that "he's not into you." If you have to submit to this site to figure out what he means, he's not into you.

YAY US Minnesota is the least miserable state in the union. (North Dakota is 48th.) Does this mean we're the happiest? No; it just means we're not miserable by the Bloomberg definition of Misery, which includes things like "income inequality."

Can anyone explain the first image in the slideshow? It's a map, yes. But there's another layer, and it looks like someone shooting a steering wheel from the legwell of the passenger side. You can head over to Getty Images yourself and do a search for "road trip," if you're looking for the original. Good luck. I gave up after 39 pages of search results. You have no idea how much you start to loathe humanity after looking through page after page of stock photos. STOP BEING HAPPY, YOU PEOPLE. You there, grinning as you hang out the window because you're on a road trip with your best buds: stop being an archetype. You there, little Missy: stop taking pictures of yourself in front of things. You ain't all that.

By "Cloud," of course, they mean "terrestrial-based server farm operating at the pleasure of the authoritarian / corporatist state." This would present the government with a quandary: one kill switch, or lots of individually targeted ones? Hey, who says we can't have both? No thanks. The OS-in-the-cloud thing has been popular with some segments for a long time, and I've no idea why. Oh hai we upgraded the OS with a minor tweak and broke six programs you use daily, and they're all made by small software outfits that gave up long ago trying to address compatability issues.

There's an ad on the page:

Is it just me, or do you automatically skip any ad that uses "Obey" and "Weird"? You find the words in weight-loss ads as well. One Weird Tip to Lose Weight! To me "Obey" and "Weird" are the two words that say "you're about to be sold berry juice or a membership in something that has a recurring fee with a $59.95 'bookkeeping' charge if you cancel."