Online Journalism: Now Vs. Then
An amusing graphic comparing styles of online journalism today against those of a few years ago.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Who moved my ‘Delete’ key? Lenovo did. Here’s why.”
Interesting… I’d heard the story of the QWERTY keyboard arrangement before, but I didn’t realize that it was developed in the 1800s. I fully support experimenting with the keyboard layout. I’d gladly adopt a different keyboard — but only if I could be sure that it would be available on all the systems I need …
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“Bowling ball for Wii”
Ever since I gave GoddessJ a Wii for her birthday last month, I’ve been amused and amazed at all the different add-ons for the controllers: plastic implements that make them look like tennis rackets, swords, pistols, even faux cooking utensils. But in my opinion, this one takes the cake. (For the record, we don’t have …
“Ad tech can recognize gender – age next?”
I can see this annoying, rather than helping, several of my acquaintances (such as a girl who prefers Lego sets rather than dolls). And I’m sure there are some people for whom it would always choose the wrong gender. On the plus side, it means guys might not be subjected to quite so many ads …
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“Boffins boil down witch-repelling brew”
From the description, I’d say this isn’t specific to witches — it would repel pretty much anyone.
“Apollo 11 – The Owners’ Workshop Manual”
Got a broken-down Apollo command module sitting in the back yard? Now you can get it running again. 😉
Gas Prices
When I was a teenager, I played a paper-and-pencil game called Car Wars with a group of similarly geeky friends. In this game you designed armed and armored vehicles and played them against one another or in missions. The game was set in the far future (2040s, maybe?), and one of the things that constantly …
“Fear of Aerial Images”
More uncommon-sense from security expert Bruce Schneier.
Spammity spam, spammity spam…
SpamBayes marked this one “unsure” (only 87% probability of being spam) so I looked at it to make certain. Then I decided to give my tongue-in-cheek “answer” to it here: To: (someone else’s e-mail address at my ISP) From: jeanette (random nonsense e-mail address) Subject: hi from jeanette I would never have guessed. Hi It`s …
“D&D-style map of C++”
This is like catnip for us programmer-geeks.