Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 2nd:

• Sucks to Be Nintendo… – Come one everyone, let's show some proper levels of skepticism out there please? Everything I've seen on this is clearly emblazoned with some such disclaimer, "Vision presentation only, actual functions and features may differ". Sure, this is cool if you can actually pull it off and I'm SERIOUSLY dubious that this can be done in the next couple of years. Cool as the Wii controller is it isn't anywhere sensitive, responsive or accurate enough for serious game playing. Anyone who's played with the Xbox or PS2 camera games has to be seriously skeptical, right?
• Millions of Chinese Twitter Users Suddenly Unaware That I Dislike Ramen – No wonder President Obama sees so much to admire in the advanced Chinese regime. At least the cattle are moved around by modern trains though, eh B.H.O.?
• Nintendo Hard at Work on Wii Catheter, Wii Hip Replacement – OK. So regardless of anything else in this article, the title alone made me LOL.
• US CIO Kundra Calls for Web 2.0 Co-Creation of Knowledge With Citizens – Friggin' government. The internet has been fine without you. Go away. Don't you have some hard working entrepreneurs fortune to confiscate or something? Oh, that's right, you'll steal that money to fund this complete and utter boondoggle. At least thats all I hope it adds up to. Bahhh, bring on the revolution!
• Ten Years After Napster, Musicians Are Still Getting Screwed – and here I thought the point of being a musician was to achieve the title of this article? Or is that just guitarists? Sorry to be so flippant, but I'm so VERY tired of this topic. Distinguish yourself from the clutter of junk out there and you'll do fine. If not, then embrace the oft-repeated ethos of "not selling out". Mission accomplished… I'm not buying.
• Supreme Court to Review 'Business Method' Patents (Michael Orey/Business Week) – So unless you work for a consulting company where your ego is already way out of whack, any reasonable thinking person knows this whole business process patent crap has been just that. The Amazon "one-click" fiasco was the poster child for this for a long time. The interesting thing to me isn't whether the court will come down on the side of business method patents as being unpatentable, but how they define the line separating what "ideas" may or may not fall into that category. Of course, the court has ruled contrary to the Constitution quite a bit lately (no, I'm NOT talking about domestic – overseas wiretapping… completely legal under Rep and Dem admins), so I could be unpleasantly surprised, though this case hardly ranks as high as some other bonehead calls by the high court lately.
• *Left 4 Dead 2* Announced For November – Yeah, baby! Bring me more of that zombie shootin' goodness!