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- YouTube: Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl #
- These little finds really interest me: it's like an unholy union of politics and cheerleading. At any rate, that's a very ambitious animated GIF.
- Interesting Thoughts on Software Piracy #
- "That's how it works in every market - the people who buy stuff call the shots. Only in the PC game market are the people who pirate stuff still getting the overwhelming percentage of development resources and editorial support."
- TMN: Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down #
- The Morning News is great, Rosecrans especially. "How do you judge this? It is a soda and a woman. Then how do you decide?"
- LA Times: Rickrolling, Rick Astley and Scientology #
- This is the kind of story you only get on the internet.
- Microsoft Succeeds in Making Vista Even Worse #
- I don't know how they do it, but apparently Vista's much-anticipated SP1 has actually paddled them further up shit creek. Hey, did you know you can run Windows games on Mac and Linux without even rebooting? I'm thinking this monopoly is over.
- YouTube: Obama Speeches It Up #
- My top priority today? Emigrate to America so I can vote for Obama in the November elections. It may be the greatest thing I have ever done. (Speech is 30-some minutes long; Daily Show has brilliant summary and sketch).
- TMN: Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s #
- Are you one of those people who loves to listen to music that suckers like me have never heard of? Well, Merry Christmas.
- FT: Apple in Talks for All-You-Can-Eat Music #
- Either monthly subscription or just a one-off fee, potentially part of the purchase price of an iPod. Revolutionary, huh? (I tell you what, though: Apple sound like huge cheapskates.)
- Stuff: Search on for NZ naked news anchor #
- Bringing credibility to the non-mainstream TV channels.
- iPhones may be sold by Telecom NZ #
- So... Telecom is building a entire 2G GSM network in addition to the CDMA one it already has? Their shareholders must be very understanding people.
- YouTube: TENIX! #
- Erects a formidable energy-photon forcefield to deny his mortal enemy, Hayvan.
- Trailer: Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder #
- I'm not the world's biggest Stiller fan, but this looks pretty good.
- Year of the Gecko #
- Heaps of memory usage improvements, along with other performance improvements, slick new UIs and more web standards than you can shake a stick at: Firefox 3 is on its way!
- MP3: Star Wars Episode 3: Abridged Script #
- This is great. E.g. Padme: "I refuse to entertain this notion and will dismiss your concerns outright! [Anakin] would never kill children! (Well, unless they were sandpeople. Then he would kill them.)"
- The Logic Was Sound #
- "The basic story is that last March, the wise men who run Circuit City came up with the brilliant idea of laying off their more senior salespeople, who get $14-$15 an hour, and replacing them with new hires who get around $9 an hour." From the point of view of justice, this was a good battle in a bad war.
- Honda X-Wing #
- Oh yes.
- YouTube: Liam Finn - Lead Balloon (Red Bull Studio NZ) #
- NEW MEETING INVITE. To: Azrael's I'll Be Lightning CD. Venue: My Mac. Purpose: Illicit.
- The Robots Are Coming! #
- Wicked first-run page art for the latest Firefox 3 beta.
- Newsweek: Gone, Without a Trace #
- "...can you really blame a guy for losing something called Air?"
- Best MySpace Page on the Internet Right Now #
- Take a deep breath...
- I'll Take That Job #
- No, seriously. I would.
- Best Picture on the Internet Right Now #
- As per the title.
- Fortune Interview with Steve Jobs #
- As you'd expect, it's compelling stuff.
- Lock Up Your Keys #
- A good warning here about whether you should be typing your Gmail password into untrusted sites or apps (hint: no).
- When Piercings and Tats Aren't Enough #
- Horn implants?! This falls somewhere between "awesome" and "ludicrous".
- YouTube: On-Air Cockfight #
- Newsman and anchor tell each other what they really think.
- Security vs. Privacy: Not Actually Opposites #
- Dare I say it, an important essay in these dark times.
- YouTube: Liam Finn on Letterman #
- Well spotted by comrade Underwood. Geez, that is one cracker of a televised performance.
- Kottke: Single Serving Sites #
- One-page wonders, my picks: Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle, It Will Never Be the Same, Zombo, Spinning Beachball of Death, and finally... Am I Awesome?
- Daily WTF: We Need a Body #
- "...the interview moved past 'ridiculous' and into 'hidden camera TV show' territory."
- Rolling Stone: The Tragedy of Britney Spears #
- DY writes: "A fascinating and riveting read." Only one link today because it's a long one, but geez, it's worth it.
- IEBlog: We Hereby Cease Hurting the Internet #
- "We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can."
- PA: PON PON PATA PON #
- Great noir webcomic from the industry titans. (Side note: did you see the DDR video they posted? Wicked.)
- Flickr: Beware of possible PEACOCK ATTACKS to cars! #
- I can't wait for the YouTube of this.
- DreamHost: Hosting Ruby on Rails Sucks #
- Hilariously, in the comments the RoR people say, "No, it's your fault! Fix it for us!"
- Video: Airbus A310 Extremely Low Pass #
- I don't think it's meant to be flown like that.
- Wired: 37signals Interview #
- The creators of Ruby on Rails. Worth a read, it's interesting and important stuff. See also 37signals' response.
- Breaking: Sony Forgoes Opportunity to Fuck Consumers Over #
- "The PlayStation 3's DVR/PVR will record television to MPEG2 files that can be easily copied off the system to any storage medium you'd like. That's right, no DRM."
