Count Infinity

Based on art by fleky_lude

I’m allergic to stupid people. Within minutes of exposure I start to feel woozy, then I start to cough. Shortly after that I become uncomfortable and irritable. Pills don’t help. My only relief comes from removing the stupid people. Educating them would be ideal, but stupid people are usually remarkably resistant to facts. Other forms of removal are generally out of the question due to social conventions or legal limitations. The second best treatment seems to be comic relief.

Today, in a matter of minutes, I was exposed to nearly fatal doses of stupidity. Apparently the recent bout of malware at Apple has produced an unusually high outpouring of unintelligence. Enjoy my anecdotal antidote: a collection of stupidity, mingled with facts.

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Yesterday Gizmodo posted an article about a new torrent containing information scraped from 100 million Facebook profiles. Yes, your profile is in there.

Today they traced the IP addresses of the people downloading, and identified which corporations were behind those IP addresses. They posted a list of the companies, but it’s hard to say whether you should be more surprised about who is in the list, or by who isn’t.

To start with, there are two very notable entries missing from the list: Google and Microsoft. I don’t think anyone expected Microsoft’s hands to be clean on this one, but they seem to have held their head high. Similarly, Google seems to have lived up to the image that they try to convey, and kept their hands out of the cookie jar. Microsoft and Google are especially notable because of their size. Nobody, authorized or not, used a Google or Microsoft server to download this. No buts. No excuses.

Now, who IS on the list is similarly interesting. (more…)

Old Spice’s Commercial “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” is one of this year’s best commercials. Not only was it brilliantly fresh, it also succeeded in effectively marketing a mens product to the women doing the actual shopping.

Twit TV interviewed the masterminds behind this project to find out how they did it. Truth is stranger than fiction, and the reality was impressive enough to warrant inclusion in a blog of impossible things. (more…)