We keep this up, and people are gonna think that us C-F folk hate conservatives.

Which, uh… anyway…

On the heels of every other fuckup Republican VP pick Sarah Palin has on her so far there’s a much lesser known scandal lurking in the shadows. One which, I think, says more about her character then most other stories out there. Many talk about her daughter, but you can’t necessarily hold that against Palin. This, on the other hand…

Apparently, during her time as mayor of Wasilla, Palin went about poking at the idea of getting books banned, even going as far as firing a librarian and then reversing the action when residents of the town became outraged. More, after I get on my fireman uniform.

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At GameCon 2008, Activision showed off more of the Music Creator in Guitar Hero World Tour.

While I like that competition between rhythm games is producing features like this, I can’t help but still screwed by the lack of vocal support. I mean, really… I don’t want to play fucking acoustic songs. I wanna sing.

Color me impressed when they allow you to set the vocal ranges for songs. I don’t give a shit if they’re worried about people ripping off popular songs, they’re going to anyway. Maybe it’s just because in Rock Band I sing vocals more then anything, but to me, a “music creator” without vocals of some sort is like a car customizer in a racing game that forces the car to be blue.

All I want is to be able to sing Vermilion and Stricken while pretending I have talent, surrounded by people pretending to play instruments. Is that so much to ask?

I’m no fan of Vista, for a myriad of reasons both technical and personal. I knew that many companies continued selling XP after the cut-off date, using the downgrade feature of Vista, but I wasn’t aware how many machines actually ended up running XP in the end.

I think it’s very telling that over a year since Vista was released, Windows XP is still selling strongly amongst not only common end-users, but people who actually know the technical differences enough to make an educated choice. Personally, I think Microsoft should use Windows XP as a base for the next version of Windows, if they have to base it off an existing OS.

Personally, I’m wishing they’d restart like Apple did. Make an OS that doesn’t share any code with Windows, and then make an emulator to run Windows programs. At least I can dream…

It saddens me when I see all sorts of technology bills being passed by people that have no idea how it works. If a person is going to vote on something, they can at least have the decency to have a vague idea on how it works beyond Voodoo Magic. I’ve been watching America slide down a slope of the lowest common denominator voting on policies for everyone, and it’s frightening how quickly we’re becoming an Idiocracy.

That being said, Canadian citizens are doing a damn fine job mobilizing against a DMCA-like bill that’s been proposed in the Canadian Parliament. The fact that there’re local chapters, and a significant number of people on a petition, gives me hope that the Canadian politicians might actually listen to them. It seems like the Canadian citizens have learned, seeing what occurred when the DMCA was passed in the USA. The fact that they’ve chosen to actually protest for their freedom to use media they’ve purchased, instead of sitting by and hoping for the best, gives me another reason to pick up and move to Canada.

…other then me, that is. Yeah, I went there.

Recently, Sean Tevis decided to run against his current state representative, Arlen Siegfreid. Being a nobody, Sean found it difficult to secure financing for his campaign… until he decided to put it online. Then he broke the record for the most donations ever to a state representative, with over 3,000 people, beating the old record of 644.

I’m not a fan of politics in general, feeling that it’s more about image then actually getting anything done. But things like this just plain warm my frigid heart, and remind me what an amazing tool the internet really is.