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- Microsoft Misses Windows Mobile Sales Target #
- Good thing they're doing well on the desktop.
- YouTube: Little Gordon #
- Good work on the hair.
- Daily WTF: The Last Interview #
- The first story's a good chuckle, but that second one really takes the cake.
- Video: Roller Suit in Swiss Alps #
- Great caption; great music.
- Helios House: Gas Station of the Future? #
- Pretty cool (although unfortunately, pretty token). Nice work on that canopy.
- YouTube: The Bite Of The Goblin Shark #
- That is one evil motherfucker right there.
- YouTube: Armstrong & Miller - WWII RAF Sketch #
- Heh heh heh.
- YouTube: Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger #
- This is pretty cool. See also Daft Bodies and a bunch of others. (I have to admit, I do not know the original video.)
- Michael Bay's Rejected "The Dark Knight" Script #
- "We pan to a beautiful woman: platinum blonde with a huge rack. She is the hottest woman in the world, but she wears glasses because she is also the smartest woman in the world." Fuck yes, this deserves a bookmark.
- The Big Picture: Women's Olympic Fencing #
- There's some stunners in here. Nice TENIX!!! reference.
- Mexico '68 #
- I'd love to have this on my wall. Also from Darren.
- xkcd: Voting Machines #
- That is a great analogy.
- Flickr: raining #
- Shot.
- YouTube: Barack Roll #
- Sir, very well done.
- MPT: Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it #
- Six years after his seminal piece, he's back with suggestions of how to make it better. Lots of interesting thoughts. I dunno though, I've kind of moved on. Some software (Firefox) has figured it out, and other software (Linux, why are your default fonts so damn ugly?) hasn't really. To that software I say, adieu! Call me when/if you've got your shit sorted. (Also check out Gruber's succinct response.)
- Microsoft Vista's Mojave Experiment: Not Good (Bad) #
- Here's a taking-apart, and here's another. (I didn't watch the experiment myself as I didn't wish to spend 20 minutes watching a loading screen.) I don't really care that much anymore about Microsoft - I comfortably avoid all their products, and their dangerous monopolies are on the wane - but what a fascinating business study of how to fail when you're one of the most powerful companies in the world.
- Super Slow Motion Lightning #
- Gasp.
- I'll Give You $50 for a Worse Brand Name Than Knol #
- The winners are great. Let's get some Fake Steve in there too.
- This is Steve Jobs #
- Gold.
- TMN: Re: Cephalopod #
- Making fun of how stupid people on the internet are is just about the best thing to come out of the internet.
- The Dangers of Workplace Gossip #
- "On Sunday, we saw a large number of servers that were spending almost all of their time gossiping and a disproportionate amount of servers that had failed while gossiping."
- The Big Picture: Large Hadron Collider nearly ready #
- Reminds me of the time I played Half-Life. Seriously though, I have never seen this much raw technology on display. My head exploded with every shot.
- Yahoo Buzz: Bigger than Digg #
- Man, Yahoo has some serious chops at this internet thing. Would be a shame to see it all wasted away over a number of painful years. Oh...
- YouTube: Kevin Smith: Storyteller #
- The guy barely stops for an 'um'. I'd say he has a gift for it.
- You must be clever. #
- This is excellent. I am guilty. Guilty. There are now two films I must see.
- The Onion: Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet #
- "In a statement made to reporters earlier this afternoon, local idiot Brandon Mylenek, 26, announced that at approximately 2:30 a.m. tonight, he plans to post an idiotic comment beneath a video on an Internet website."
- Homer Simpson Untooned #
- Spooky.
- Flight of the Conchords FFFFOUND! #
- Rendered, in fact.
- With Strange Aeons #
- Cthulhu fhtagn! Seriously though. I think I'd quite like to watch.
- Wired: Southwest Airlines' Seven Secrets for Success #
- Some good business advice, mostly around KISS. I would say, though, that #5, Strong Management, is the enabler of all the others. Keeping things simple just isn't possible without potent leadership.
- Dell Releases Mac Mini Competitor #
- The "Studio Hybrid" - crap name, but looks surprisingly good, in addition to impressive energy savings and some innovative case design (bamboo!).
- Open Source StupidFilter Released #
- "The StupidFilter aims to accurately identify deviation from standard written English, giving web application developers the tools they need to automate the moderation of community-driven sites in ways previously impossible." Pretty ambitious - the amount of stupidity on the web would easily crash the most powerful supercomputers.
- BBC: Cuil Search Engine #
- I only mention this because it has been getting a lot of press. I tried to use it and got crap results - as have many others. Apparently when they launched they had massive downtime because they couldn't scale. Is that how you beat Google?
- On Keyboards #
- God, I hate numeric keypads. I'm really quite surprised that mainstream keyboards still have them - would mainstream users even notice it was gone? Personally I would pay a lot more for a keyboard without a numpad than one with. I'm trying to do some mousing over there, you know?
- Linux Hater's Blog: The fallacy of choice #
- Linux Hating is one of my favourite sports. Good post here, culminating with this great line: "What is the LAMP of the desktop? Whatever it is, it's going to have a lot more letters."
- Google pushes towards 70 percent of all U.S. searches; Yahoo, Microsoft push towards zero percent #
- Both Apple (iPod, iPhone, even Macs in some places) and Google are fast establishing enormous, powerful monopolies - despite doing it "right". They are producing fantastic, useful products that consumers want and benefit from. This is both a deep problem of free market economics, and a damning indictment of their "competitors" - Microsoft (on both counts!) and others. Consider for a moment how many companies produce good/great products compared to how many produce only decent-to-mediocre. For shame.
- Vimeo: OpenMoko To Kill iPhone #
- With laughter. Sequel.
- iPhone OS to Surpass Mac OS by 2012 #
- Interesting prediction. It's difficult to be a futurist: Will desktop PCs always have a place as workstations, or will everyone use laptops? Will laptops always be the premier mobile experience, or will people just use phones? Do phone-less iPods have any future?
- YouTube: Draplin Project #
- While touring the deep south, I remarked to Azrael on the awful state of affairs re: motel signs.
- YouTube: Cookie Monster #
- Check out the cookie-addled eyes on that guy. Take it easy, aye?
- xkcd: Cautionary #
- Hahaha, Linux, LOL!
- YouTube: American "Reporter" Gets Told #
- Oh man, the anchors are even worse. Learn to swim, motherfuckers.
- A Grave Threat To the Empire of Pend Has Arisen #
- Could it be... worse?
- Microsoft Launches Vista Fightback Campaign: "Free the People" #
- Here's why your campaign will fail: it is bullshit. Apple may be closed but you are not open. Why on Earth would you not launch a campaign based on Vista's actual merits? (Heh, OK I can think of one answer.)
- Google (et al) to Fully Index Flash #
- Because what was that horrific animated ad I saw the other day, I must bring that up again, oh sweet!
- 37signals: Features are a one-way street #
- "The lesson: Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you've married it." Watch out for the comments - idiocy of the highest order is on the march.
- Video: Font Conference #
- Heh, the Wingdings cameo was a highlight.
- BIG GIANT HELVETICA.COM #
- Type your message.
- Day of the Cat #
- Join us on this epic adventure.
- Microsoft Cash-Strapped, Cannot Afford Front-End Coder #
- Internet Explorer Lead Architect doing it instead. Honestly, reading IEBlog is like reading a comedy sometimes. Oh Microsoft, wherefore art thou so broken?
