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This was too fun to pass up. Create your own album cover according to the rules set forth here and post it somewhere… This is mine. Could it BE any more emo?
I can’t stop laughing at this one though…
Peter Elkind of Fortune just wrote a scathing article about Steve Jobs in Fortune Magazine, but this post isn’t really about this. It’s about this included quote from former Apple CEO (and sacker of Steve Jobs), John Sculley:
“Apple was supposed to become a wonderful consumer products company. This was a lunatic plan. High tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.”
This wasn’t just an offhand comment to the press. It’s committed for posterity in Sculley’s memoir: “Odyssey” (13 used copies are currently available for $0.01 if you’re looking for further inspiration.)
And this is why he really should have stuck with selling “sugared water”.
Beware the Rickroller.
Also, check out this video of Scarlett Johansson naked
A little mechanical engineering humor for the weekend.
From vowe dot net.
Some folks at Hill Holliday put together this great satire of the Obama “Yes We Can” video.
Nothing, NOTHING, can possibly top this guy’s performance.
The West Midlands Fire Service has certainly gone out of their way to make their web site accessible - to the deaf. Kudos to them for figuring out a way to convey information to the deaf via the visual medium of the web.
A while ago, I bought one of the coolest books ever - the Omni Future Almanac. The Omni Future Almanac was written in 1982, and its purpose is to describe what life will be like, well, now.
An entire blog could be devoted to the contents of this book. Sometimes it’s spot on, sometimes it’s way off, but the most interesting parts are the ones where life could easily have turned out they way they describe if a butterfly flapped its wings in just a slightly different way.
I’ve kept this book on a table in my office that I always walk by, and I’m constantly picking it up and perusing a random page. Today, it was about the effects of inflation. So, without further ado, here are the prices we’re looking at in 2010, three years from now (p. 158).
Oh, but wait:
Well, the good news is that a factory worker will be making $197,000 a year to help pay for all this stuff (p. 159).
Thanks to Matt D.
This xkcd comic made me LOL at least twice. xkcd appears to be a great webcomic masquerading as a crappy one. And the author encourages hotlinking, in case you were wondering.
Non-parents may as well ignore this post, but I found this random baby video on YouTube quite amusing. Seems the kid wants to skip crawling… skip WALKING, and go straight to flying. Very cute.
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I randomly stumbled upon Sunrise Earth the other morning and actually started Tivo-ing it, not so much to save for later, but just to have it automatically turn on every day… Sunrise Earth is a show consisting of nothing but 60 minutes sunrises from gorgeous places around the world. Tranquil, peaceful, beautiful.
I’ve only watched brief snippets of it, but I had it on this morning while the baby was wandering around the living room getting into his usual trouble, and it dawned on me that since the show was on basic cable, it must contain commercials. I thought about how unfortunate this was - to break up such a pure, unadulterated experience of natural beauty for crass commercialism. But now I was intrigued… I had to hang out to see what would happen. Did The Discovery Channel have some trick up their sleeve to handle this gracefully, via some sort of more subdued ad unit? Then, as if to confirm my worst fears, it struck…
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
I’m glad I left advertising.
John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, is sued by an ex-tour drummer… on Judge Judy. Not quite sure what to make of this.Yes, I realize this is an odd post to come back with after almost a month and a half of absence. Things will start ramping up soon, I promise.
The Google maps folks have a sense of humor. Check out their directions to drive from New York, NY to Dublin, Ireland.
I’m sure this is an ancient joke, but it looks so good with Keynote… [from: Presentation Zen]
I just stumbled across this somehow… Is this what our House of Representatives looks like now that the Democrats have taken over?
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Here’s the actual link, but I’m assuming someone will fix this at some point.
Either there’s a glitch somewhere in Google Maps’ routing logic, or I really don’t ever want to have to drive Route 1 in New Jersey.
I’m feeling a bit blog/web 2.0 fatigued at the moment. I was planning on writing a long whiny post about it, but instead I’ll put it this way…
“I don’t want to blog anything, aggregate anything, or syndicate anything as a hobby. I don’t want to aggregate anything blogged or syndicated, blog anything aggregated or syndicated, or syndicate anything aggregated, blogged, or syndicated, or tag anything aggregated, blogged, or syndicated. You know, as a hobby. I don’t want to do that.”
You haven’t seen the last of me, but excuse me if I go underground a while as I ponder my role in the blogiverse (or not).
