{"id":3650,"date":"2007-03-19T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:16:37","slug":"charlie-brooker-sends-coded-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/charlie-brooker-sends-coded-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Brooker Sends Coded Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,2006031,00.html\" target=\"_new\">this column<\/a>, he subtly hints at how he feels about competing computer technologies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don&#8217;t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on how many Linux adherents lost lunch money on the playground to Brooker immediately after publication of said article.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/giving_mac_guy_the_what_for\/\" target=\"_new\">Outside the Beltway<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this column, he subtly hints at how he feels about competing computer technologies: I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don&#8217;t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18200,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/18200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}