BoingBoing hates Ted Stevens

And in other news the Earth is round.

Yes, I am aware that BoingBoing.net hating Ted Stevens isn’t exactly earth-shattering, but when it’s this blatant, well, what can you do but post it to your blog!?

Today’s “links round-up” post:

Boy, the Peninsula Tokyo sounds sweet: “This being Tokyo, the hotel also includes a futuristic touch: a first-of-its-kind telephone system that allows you to make calls throughout the building with a cordless handset, which then switches to mobile mode the minute you step outside.”

However, when Sen. Ted Stevens said he wanted to switch from his home phone to a phone he could use on his motorcycle (a, duh, mobile phone — or cell phone, as we know them) BoingBoing called it technobabel.

To be fair, Xeni posted today’s post; Mark posted the one about Sen. Stevens (who did, yes, once compare the internet to “a series of tubes” thus giving rise to my favorite term for the web, “InterTubes”) but I still think this smacks of BoingBoing elitism.

“Oooh, we’re all cool hipsters and this is an old (possibly in big oil’s back pocket) geezer who doesn’t understand technology. When he want’s something, it’s stupid, but when the Japanese do it, it’s not stupid. It’s advaaaaaanced.” Excepting, of course, that BoingBoing isn’t cool enough to reference Jhonen Vasquez, so yeh.