I love this piece. The Verge has become the philistine's Rolling Stone. It has all the pretentiousness, and none of the cultural value. Everytime I read somethi

I love this piece. The Verge has become the philistine's Rolling Stone. It has all the pretentiousness, and none of the cultural value. Everytime I read something on the Verge, I can't help but feel like there's an air of timeless importance being attributed to things that will be forgotten a year from now. This might also simply stem from frustration over a systemic failure of technology writers to do their material any justice, or the press in general failing to keep people properly informed over the last 25 years. But maybe I'm curmudgeonyly. Maybe there is value in knowing about a bamboo phone[1] while SOPA and CISPA threaten to turn it into a weapon against us. There could be some good reason for me to know that Kanye is banging a Kardashian while our President is allowed to assassinate US citizens with a simple say-so.[2] I guess if I get a nice piece of satire like this every now and again, I'm good with it. [1] http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/2/2/2766670/adzero-bamboo-phone-university-student-design http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/2/2/2766670/adzero-bamboo-ph... [2] http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/obama-lawyers-citizens-targeted-war-us-154313473.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/obama-lawyers-citizen...