Copyright Infringement Karma

A reader tells me that an old post of mine called Tweet Your Breakfast is #2 on Reddit right now via Twitpic. The best part? I don't get any credit. Maybe my future comics will carry some sort of watermark. My 15 minutes of internet fame are almost over and I didn't even get to enjoy them, much less monetize them.

But I guess it serves me right since I "borrowed" the picture from Getty Images to begin with.

Here it is again.

Bigness

The Internet Makes People Think They're More Important Than They Are

It gets bigger

Title and accompanying pop-up inspired by zoneviii's Twitter feed.

Obama Looking for People Who've Never Seen a Computer

...to help run his administration.
Here's one of the questions from the incoming administration's lengthy questionnaire for potential employees:

Electronic communications: If you have ever sent an electronic communication, including but not limited to an email, text message or instant message, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the president-elect if it were made public, please describe.

So, assuming everyone guilty goes to the bottom of the pile, that leaves only Ted Stevens and John McCain to help Obama run the country.

Hannity: HEY! He can't even lift his arms to comb his hair! It's not his fault he can't use a computer!
Jetpacks: STFU, Sean.

Via 23/6.

Check Your Bounce Rate, Washington Post

It's almost 2008, and we still have major news publications insisting we fill out these forms if we want to read their news. Get over yourselves.

I’ll read the same story at one of 50,000 other news sites that aren’t requiring I agree with your “user agreement” and “privacy policy” (8 pages, 3,327 words long. Really.) Buried in that massive pile of legalese, naturally, is your acquiescence to receive “offers” by email from the Washington Post’s “affiliates.”

I prefer my information without strings attached.

Blog Cleaning

Things were moving very slowly here at Where's My Jetpack? headquarters (read: the house) Internet-wise. Crawling, dial-up speeds from the 90s. Very hard to get things done at that pace when you work remotely and rely on (and take for granted) high-speed Internet.

Then the idiots from the IT Department (read: me) finally figured out that all the traffic from BoingBoing was also pulling the Open Mic Night music from the sidebar, which is hosted on the RFB server array. (read: the computer in the kitchen.)

Open Mic Might is temporarily cancelled until a solution is found.

Imaginary reception area stolen from DWR.

You Better Get Back, Honky Cat.

“The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision.

Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet. Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.”

- The Increasingly Irrelevant and Irritating Sir Elton John, quoted in yesterday's New York Times.

You know what would be an incredible experiment, Elton? You shutting up. While people do sit at home more than they did, they are far more in touch with each other than they've ever been. And as a result of this connection, they actually get out and meet each other now, too.

You know, Elton, it seems to me you lived your life like a gasbag in the wind.