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- Android Touchscreen Prototype #
- Geez, that's pretty impressive, looks like the iPhone might have serious competition after all.
- Flickr: Interchange #
- Japanese motorway interchanges. Stunning.
- PA: The Unhorse #
- My God. What have you done.
- YouTube: I Can't Believe You've Done This #
- As endorsed by Jess.
- Twitter: Downtime and Architecture #
- Interesting stuff. However, I read it with some disbelief — you've seen Twitter, right? How much code could they possibly need to drive that?
- YouTube: Totally Like Whatever by Taylor Mali #
- So, that was awesome.
- YouTube: Guy Surfs While Being Towed By a Shark #
- And he is suitably amped about it.
- Macworld: Reliving the clone wars #
- An interesting chapter of Mac history - when they licensed the OS, and how Steve Jobs put an end to it.
- YouTube: Indiana Jones and the Lego Boulder of Doom #
- Awesome.
- Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon #
- "As soon as they can break this pesky iPod-iTMS-iPhone nonsense, the labels want to get back to dictating what you pay and how often you pay."
- YouTube: Steve Ballmer Gets the Egg Treatment #
- Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
- Uncool #
- Very uncool.
- Flying Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech #
- This is one of those titles that needs no further embellishment.
- Fake Steve Jobs: Why Dell will not bounce back #
- Always so much insight in this guy's writing.
- YouTube: FOTC - Ladies of the World #
- Nice mo'.
- YouTube: Charlie the Unicorn 2 #
- "Put a ripe banana in your ear!"
- Rands: We Travel in Tribes #
- "Where I used to use Google, I now use Twitter for questions".
- Daily WTF: Code examples and interviews #
- Ah, that last little forum excerpt, pure gold.
- Mark Pilgrim: When the fall is all that's left #
- I don't post many Mozilla links anymore, so here's a revival. Firefox will be the last non-shit browser to pass Acid 3. Remember when Mozilla led the charge on (arguably, saved) web standards? I do.
- Macworld: The new rules for buying a Mac #
- Some really good insights here - many applicable for any computer purchase, Mac or otherwise, such as their thoughts on laptops.
- Electronic Tattoo #
- Very clever - a display just under your skin, drawing energy from your blood stream. So, for example, you can have a cellphone in your arm! Cancerously awesome.
- YouTube: Star Wars Trumpet Solo #
- Beauty Pageants may be the richest source of humour ever known.
- DF: BlackBerry vs. iPhone #
- The epic battle. See also the stupidest marketing ever.
- Fusionman #
- Awesome.
- Wikihistory #
- Ha! Great piece of short fiction.
- Google Search Revenue To Surpass Microsoft Windows Revenue in 2009 #
- I didn't realise it had got this big - but wow, look at the growth on that bar graph. Look how consistently it grows.
- Pixar's Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation #
- "Give us the black sheep. I want artists who are frustrated. ... Give us all the guys who are probably headed out the door." There's some really great stuff in here - did you know Steve Jobs was also an architectural genius?
- Video: R2-D2 Projector #
- It sort of depends how far down the path of ridiculously wealthy (and correspondingly unhinged) you are.
- YouTube: Treadmill Kittens #
- I like the crazy one.
- iPhones Coming to Vodafone NZ This Year #
- It's not as if they aren't here already, but you won't have to hack these ones! Perhaps it'll come with a good data plan too. (I guess this leaves Telecom looking rather forlorn.) See the iPhone Map of the World!
- BusinessWeek: Mac Use Soaring in Corporates #
- Soaring, that is, from 'almost none' to 'a little'. Money quote: "...of some 250 companies surveyed, 87% of them have some Macs in their organizations, whereas this number was only 48% two years ago." See also the full story.
- YouTube: I'm Not Even Going To Look At You #
- We can tell who wears the pants in this household.
- Rolling Stone: Hillary's Bitter Victory #
- Insightful and well-written. Hat tip to Azrael.
- Zeldman: The Loneliest Angle #
- Such a wonderfully written little vignette.
- What the Hermaphrodite Said #
- Very well captioned.
- IEBlog: The Clusterfuck That Is IE #
- It's bad enough that it can't be installed in multiple versions for testing - but now applying XP SP3 will prevent you from even uninstalling a new version!
- Public Service Announcement: Use Flicks.co.nz #
- Instead of the flaming heap of shit that is the Village/Skycity cinemas website.
- Flickr: The Swing Jumping Pool #
- Best set ever.
- xkcd: Jealousy #
- I really enjoy this guys work.
- Asa: Freedom Isn't Free #
- I'm hesitant to link to Asa as he is prone to ridiculous bias, but this post stood out to me as a clear warning of the danger to the open web as we know it. It might be very healthy right now but it's far too easy to take it for granted.
- YouTube: Hawaii Chair Infomercial #
- I think every workplace should have one.
- NYT: Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo #
- Possibly a tactic (of last resort, if it is), but this seems to be the end of what nearly became the most dramatic merger in technology history. (Yeah? I can't think of anything that supersedes it.)
- Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978 #
- They had email spam in 1978? TENNEEEXXX!!
- YouTube: Russell Peters Stand-Up #
- 45 minutes of mostly poking fun at cultural quirks, with brilliant accents.
- Spolsky: Architecture Astronauts Take Over #
- Makes an interesting critique of letting software engineers plan business strategy, before winding up to a damning conclusion.
- YouTube: Kids' Rock by Tim Hawkins #
- Drags on a smidge, but several of them are excellent - Pearl Jam was a highlight for me.
- YouTube: Patrick Stewart Fantasies #
- From the UK show Extras. File this one under HahahaLOL. Patrick Stewart is a dude.
