Merlin Mann on the KFC Double Down, and other things
misc. From his blog:
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/528493449/brown-thing
And, it’s become abundantly clear that you sad bastards will eat literally anything that we can find, photograph, and shit into a little plastic coffin.
Believe me, we know. Because, for years now, we’ve been testing you. Aggressively. Time and again. Through a mind-boggling series of product releases that call to mind Europe’s inexorable slide into the Second World War—with each new development bringing something more unfathomable, disturbing, and unspeakably inhumane.
But, just to be dead honest, it stopped being fun for us a long time ago; you guys have been like the Neville Chamberlains of dignified food. At a certain point, we realized you didn’t even need to be sold on this inedible dreck.
Seriously. It became surreal—like you couldn’t stop hitting yourself with your own hand. Only that hand happened to be clutching a glistening piece of fried bird like it was a pontoon on the last chopper out of Saigon.
Also, listen to him talk eloquently as always on the douchebaggery of a certain tech site.
And chase all this down with a cool refreshing blast from his guest appearance on This Week in Law talking about douchebaggery, this time from a book publisher and its thieving "writer".
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