Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. A year ago today, the original Morning Coffee made its debut here on the Big Bad Blog. We have proudly been giving you a morning glance through the Internet ever since.
To celebrate, we present to you some of our favourite moments in the Big Bad Blog, in our usual format …
Our most popular Morning Coffee of the past year has been The Morning Coffee will have to stop shooting the cops, in which we pointed out that the British can now be imprisoned for photographing police officers.
(from This morning coffee is nude and covered in silver paint)
Our third most popular coffee is the one on drugs, sexting and bees. Mostly due to the sexting part — the third most popular search term to find the Big Bad Blog (after “weird tattoos” and “origami unicorn”. We’re a strange place).
Fourth on the coffee list is The morning coffee and the world’s strongest vagina, notable for the mighty vagina therein.
Rounding out the top five morning coffees is The morning coffee and the slutty grave. While we’re pretty sure it got lots of hits due to the use of the word “slutty”, we’ll borrow the webcomic instead — we seem to be short one today.
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bees, drugs, guido argentini, law, morning coffee, nedroid, photography, police, sexting, slutty, tattoos, unicorns, vagina
Welcome to the 101st entry at the Big Bad Blog. Exciting.
This morning’s news is telling me that the UK government is now going to consider Open Source software on “equal footing” with proprietary solutions when it “delivers best value for money”. This is good — but only when done properly. Open source software is not necessarily as good as the proprietary kind (although it often is), and is usually unsupported. I can imagine that the UK government has a formula to determine “best value for money”, and that by plugging in £0 for the open source license, it will default to being “best value”. The change in policy ought to be accompanied by a change in this formula, or the change in policy will turn out to be a mistake.
This is a T-Shirt somewhere:
Water powered jetpack? OK.
Today’s webcomic? A beautiful work from Dinosaur Comics:
morning coffee
brains, dinosaur comics, government, jetpack, morning coffee, open source, scarecrow, UK, wizard of oz, zombie
In giant-software-companies accusing each other of antitrust news: Google goes after Microsoft on the browser front. This confuses me, as Microsoft’s browser dominance continues to slip, despite Internet Explorer continuing to be the dominant browser. Why would Google start something like this, when they are likely to face the same type of scrutiny on the web advertising front? The European Commission does not exactly have a track record of ruling in Microsoft’s favour — why not just let them get on with it and reap the rewards?
This goes for Microsoft, too, which has spearheaded antitrust investigations against Google. Do these companies not realise that they undermine themselves as much as each other when they do this?
One of several fantastic images that can be found over at My Modern Metropolis:
The photos are by Koen Demuynck. It is definitely worthwhile to click on the image above, and check out the whole set.
The AppGap presents argument that socialising at work is productive, and your boss should stop claiming that you are goofing off — you are maximizing your potential.
Finally, via BoingBoing. Tearful Atlanta Cops Express Remorse for Shooting 92-Year-Old Kathryn Johnston, Leaving Her To Bleed to Death in Her Own Home While They Planted Drugs in Her Basement, Then Threatening an Informant So He Would Lie To Cover It All Up. Seriously.
Today’s webcomic is from cat and girl:
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antitrust, Cat and Girl, demuynck, google, microsoft, morning coffee, socialising, work
For some reason, the news is not entertaining me this morning — which means more blog content for you!
Starting with Carnival!
(Click for more)
In India, Valentine’s day featured going to the pub and mailing pink panties. An awesome step forward.
Freakonomics looks at emergency rooms, and wonders why they are largely not used for emergencies.
The AT-ATeam.
And, because I love simple wikipedia:
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a team, carnival, emergency room, freakonomics, hospitals, morning coffee, panties, star wars, valentine's day, xkcd