Who the Hell thought a 9/11 Coloring Book Was a Good Idea?

Hey, remember when I looked into the future and foretold how money-hungry losers were gonna try to make a buck off 9/11?  Enter Really Big Coloring Books Inc. with We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom.
Here's what Stars and Stripes says is inside this pile of piled stuff:

The coloring book includes pages showing the smoking World Trade Center and mourning survivors. Page 19 depicts a Navy SEAL taking aim at Osama bin Laden, who is seen cowering behind a veiled woman as a bullet leaves the barrel of the SEAL’s rifle. Above the drawing is this message: “Children, the truth is, these terrorist acts were done by freedom-hating Islamic Muslim extremists. These crazy people hate the American way of life because we are FREE and our society is FREE.”

This sounds like something I would make up to scare my grandma into buying extra tickets for the school raffle.  I feel like a part of me just died.  The only comparison to my childhood would be Rocky IV ending communism with Rocky punching Drago's head off and peeing in the hole.

A coloring book should have Barney and colorful stuff in it, not hate-filled sadness.  This does not make me want to scream "America, Fuck Yeah!"  This makes me wanna cry a little for the sad bastards that made this.

Don't Counter-Sue, Play Video Games!

Or use this to bash their heads in!

Notch, the developer of the Minecraft video game, was sued by Bethesda (makers of the Elder Scrolls games) for using the word "scrolls" as the title of his upcoming project.  Bethesda claims that Mojang (Notch's company), is trying to use a word that they use and this will somehow hurt them.  Or something.  As a librarian I should understand all the copyright mumbo jumbo, but it's all a bunch of bull hockey. What is better is the response Notch gave:

Remember that scene in Game of Thrones where Tyrion chose a trial by battle in the Eyrie? Well, let’s do that instead!I challenge Bethesda to a game of Quake 3. Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors. We select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.
If we win, you drop the lawsuit.
If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with.
Regardless of the outcome, we could still have a small text somewhere saying our game is not related to your game series in any way, if you wish.
I am serious, by the way.  - Notch's Tumblr

Hell yeah! This is almost better than the idea Rocky IV had to settle all country disputes with boxing.  Almost as good.

Are You Seeing Color?

Wrong, Just not even close.

The new Iphone/Android app* Color came out today, and boy is it getting folks's panties in a twist.  The app is a photo sharing app, but with a twist.  As PC Mag reports, 

"It taps into your GPS to find your location and shares photos that you took with other users—any other users, not just your friends—who are within a 100-foot radius. It's voluntary in the sense that you have to download and install the app in order to use it or be included in what other people see, but once you're in, you're in, with little ability to limit who sees what."

Government spies!!! The rooskies are a'comin and they are peering in at you peers and there ain't nothing you can do about it.  Look at the guy next to you.  Commie!  And that girl.  No not her, she's cool, the blonde one.  Yeah, that straw-haired vixen's plotting your downfall, looking into your phone and stealing all your pictures.  No more privacy, just the twisted fantasies of a world where all mankind's secrets are locked away in each and every brain not out on the wires-less for all to see.  Hussies.  

Wow.  I am not sure if I channeled crazy conspiracy guy or the old lady who lived at the end of our block.  She smelled like meatballs and burnt tires and loved Rocky IV.  

The best part about "Color"?  There's a little TM after it.  Yep, they trademarked that shit.  Suck it, Crayola!

*Someone at Apple and Google fell over dead when I put them that close.

In Russia, Ebooks Read You!

Ebooks have risen around 250 percent in Russia, according to this article.  And here I thought eBooks were American.

I guess Rocky was right when he said, "During this fight, I've seen a lot of changing, in the way you feel about me, and in the way I feel about you. In here, there were two guys killing each other, but I guess that's better than twenty million. I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change."

I do not know how that applies to eBooks or the modern Russia in anyway, but I will be damned if I am still waiting on the novelization of Rocky IV on ebook.

Read the eArticle before eArticle reads you!

Russia Gives the Library of Congress the Silent Treatment

In a stunning move most of us will remember from Rocky IV, the Russian government gave ten movies for archiving in the Library of Congress.  The movies were from the silent era (from 1893-1930) thought lost forever. Okay, that had nothing to do with Rocky, but it still teaches us that we can all change... everybody can change!

Original story is the second in the lineup

And here's Rocky fighting the Russians