A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
Niall Kennedy has been picked up by Microsoft to work on clever RSS and Atom stuff. He celebrates by linking to the Steve Ballmer monkey video.
Lee is reporting that Adidas have hired porn star Jemma Jameson to do a ‘viral’ video podcast which explores her “splayed out, oiled-up breasts”. While most people are using podcasts for slightly more cereberal experiences, treating their customers as intelligent subjects, it’s good to see that Adidas aren’t going down that route… “;->”
Lisa points to this guy who thinks that email is the new RSS. RSS takes me about five seconds to subscribe to. I click Subscribe, wait a moment, confirm, wait a moment, click ‘OK’ to acknowledge that I’ve been subscribed. To subscribe to an email newsletter, I’ve got to type in my email address (and be sure I trust the person/organisation), then load up Gmail, click on the email, find the URL within the email (and possibly reformat it so that it works), load it up, wait for another email, then wait for an actual email from the list, then set up a filter to put it in to a different Label, then remember to go and read it. Such usability benefits! “Less cumbersome”? What a joke.
I wonder why this research on Near-Death Experiences doesn’t surprise me. Yeah, we do this thing called dream. It’s not supernatural, nor is it a portal to another dimension, you fruitcakes.
The ATL want to abolish the National Curriculum. Hooray! But they want to replace it with something equally silly. Boo!
Congratulations, Lance James, you are the winner of the stupid creationist letter award for April. Please collect your prize: a replica of the Archaeopteryx fossil.
The Royal Society have audio and video podcasts and are streaming tonight’s creationism event (kicks off at 6:30 London time). This is good because I’m lazy and broke and don’t want to go in to the city.
The ATL want to rid us of faith schools too. Cool! “;->”
Guy Kawasaki has a post of observations for his first 100 days blogging. I’ve found that I get no bozos. It’s a real advantage in not having comments.
How many warnings do we need against web filtering? Well, here’s another. If it’s filtered, it’s barely the Internet anymore. It’s a crappy walled garden like AOL. And we should oppose it. And help the people behind those crappy walls get access to our sites.
I’m calibrating my MacBook Pro battery. In about twenty minutes I have to turn my computer off for five hours. I can use my PC, and my iPod, but this is a ludicrous Appleism. Then once this battery is calibrated, I’ve got to see if I can get the buggy battery to calibrate on the same principles. My replacement battery does seem to be working - no random cut outs. No more blogging today though. See y’all tommorow.
