I flew in late and missed the Beastmaster’s keynote, but the city still smelled of sulphur so I knew he’d been here. Word was he said nothing new, did a semi-funny bit about his last day at Microsoft and soon after talked about some pie-in-the-sky technologies that supposedly are right around the corner, like cameras in cell phones that will use image recognition so when you point the camera at a Wal-Mart it informs you that that

is a Wal-Mart in case you’re too frigtarded to figure that out just by looking at the building without a camera. Oh, and the good folks at Wal-Mart will beam you data about what kind of super deals they have running today on chicken-fried steak or whatever it is they sell at Wal-Mart; I have to confess I’ve never been inside one of them. Thank you, Microsoft, for the beautiful world […]

Orginal post by Johnny Poison