And again, life imitates art — in this case, the horse-racing game in the men’s bathroom in one of the Austin Powers movies, which was controlled by the “flow” of those standing at the urinals below it. Gotta love technology… and admire the business sense of the two guys who created it.
Archive of entries posted on May 2008
Firefox’s Download Day 2008: Help Set a Guinness World Record!
The people at Mozilla have come up with a neat idea for Firefox 3: they’re trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most-downloaded program in a twenty-four hour period, on an as-yet-undecided day next month. To see a breakdown (by country) of how many people have pledged to do, or to pledge to [...]
“Retired Dictator Program”
Scott Adams writes this with his tongue firmly in his cheek, but you have to stop and wonder… maybe it could actually work.
The Agony of Switching IDEs
(For the unenlightened out there, IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment, a program that usually includes a text editor specifically geared toward program source code, an integrated project manager to keep track of what files are part of your program, some kind of parser for error messages from your compiler, easy ways to call up [...]
“10 most annoying programs on the Internet”
Extremely snarky, but oh-so-accurate. I couldn’t have picked a better group of software to piss people off with, or described it more eloquently.
“Lies We Tell Kids”
(I’ve been too busy over the past couple weeks to keep up with low-priority things, so now that I’ve finished part of a project, I’m playing catch-up.) One of the things that I like about Paul Graham’s essays is that they’re always thought-provoking. This one is no exception, and I recommend that anyone who has [...]
“S’pore firm claims patent to image search”
From the WFT? department… a company in Singapore is claiming that they own a patent for linking to other web pages by way of an image, and is trying to extort money from companies whose websites use that method (which is very common, and was enshrined in the HTML specifications well over a decade ago). [...]
“OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF”
An interesting view of why Microsoft now says it’s going to add Open Document Format support to Office. I’m not sure I believe it though… Microsoft has a very long history of being less than truthful about why it’s doing things.
Thought For The Day
“Cats are like potato chips, you can’t have just one.”
The Iron Man Movie — Sheer Geek Genius
GoddessJ and I went to see the Iron Man movie a couple days ago. Even she loved it, which is saying something, but I thought it was awesome. I’m definitely going to get the DVD as soon as it comes out… I hope it includes an extra about the scene where the red-and-gold armor is [...]