Man! I mention H.P. Lovecraft a lot on this blog

While I read and enjoyed a number of H.P. Lovecraft's works over the years I've never been a HUGE fan. I treat the godfather of horror/science fiction much like I do Monty Python - I like it, I don't have a boner for it.

That said, I have mentioned H.P.'s Cthulhu Mythos more than almost any other topic on this blog with the exception of the undead. Here's a little something that was brought to my attention on YouTube


Just another evil attempt to make children think the great priest of the great old ones is cuddly and not the one that will rip out their souls and ... chew them... or something. It's been a while since I read the Call of Cthulhu.

Law Suits, More Like Zoot Suits

I sent most of last week on a vision quest in the desert of California, so I have been a little out of the loop on tech news hence the lack of posts. Luckily Ryan is not as crunch and has been posting alone, but I am back and to ease back into this as well as to get my dander up again about something I wanted to bring up the update on the whole “There’s a Map for That” ad campaign being run by Verizon. ATT is suing Verizon over the ads claiming the ad “mislead consumers into believing that AT&T doesn't offer ANY wireless service in the vast majority of the country.” Basically they are mad because the casual non-nerdy consumer will not be able to tell that the whole in the map are not areas with no coverage rather they are areas that lack 3g. Personally I think this is a great attack, and it might be hard for ATT to win this battle since the ad is pretty clear to anyone in the know that the map is just about 3g and not about total coverage, but since 3g is a cell phone buzz word that all of the providers are throwing around most consumers will have at least heard it before and probably think it is cell phone coverage. On the other hand most judges are not all that tech savvy especially if they try the case in Texas, so maybe they will win. I think the end goal here is to have Verizon stop the ad campaign basically because they don’t want to deal with the ATT law suit. Will it work? I say no.