“10 Funny Programming Cartoons”
Well, it’s not quite like this… but there’s an uncomfortably high amount of truth there too. 😉
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“UK ICT classes killing kids’ interest in tech”
Here’s the first paragraph: The Royal Society is to investigate why British schools are failing to interest children in information technology – and why numbers taking classes are falling so fast. Well, duh! There are two main reasons for this. The second one is that the dot-com era turned into a dot-bomb — you can …
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“AOL sales drop by a quarter, reports billion dollar loss”
Before the Internet became widespread, AOL made money by charging ridiculously high rates to access the content on their network. Afterwards, their content was worth less every day as web sites sprang up everywhere, so they reinvented themselves as an Internet Service Provider (a pretty slick move, in my opinion, not that they had a …
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“Last.fm’s robots.txt”
robots.txt is a file used by convention to tell web spiders (systems like those at Google or Microsoft that “crawl the web,” indexing files for their search engines) to ignore certain files. It seems that someone at Last.fm has a geeky sense of humor… User-Agent: * Disallow: /music? Disallow: /widgets/radio? Disallow: /show_ads.php Disallow: /affiliate/ Disallow: …
“World’s Funniest Tech-related Demotivational Posters”
Here’s a bit of Friday-the-13th fun for you. I have to admit, they had me smiling pretty widely.
“Brainless slime mould makes decisions like humans”
So you mean that there’s even less reason to consider humans intelligent? 😉 (Actually, I’d argue that the human brain works somewhat the same way, the cells “deciding by committee” what path to pursue based on how strong its good and bad points are.) (Via BoingBoing)
“Cashless World”
Sometimes I think Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) is just throwing outrageous stuff out there on his blog, to provoke reactions. I can’t tell if this article, on getting rid of cash and making all financial transactions digital, is one of those though, or if he truly believes that it’s possible. It would offer …
“Microsoft writes down $240m on Kin debacle”
I’ve often wondered just how Microsoft could be so incompetent. This quote might just shed some light on it: […] Notwithstanding Kin’s shortcomings as a product, the most entertaining aspect of the cock-up is that it appears to be the result of ego battles in Redmond: rumor has it that Kin was throttled in its …
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“Cheap nanomaterial won’t grow bacteria”
Graphene. It’s what’s wrapping breakfast. 😉
“Movie, tech giants prep universal online media store”
It’s a good concept, but is it going to catch on? […] the question remains, will consumers care about not possessing the files? There are clear advantages in not doing so: you don’t need buckets of local storage, and you don’t have to fear losing your collection to burglars or housefires. There are clear advantages …
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