September 2008
64 posts
“Unfortunately, it sounds like the consumer won’t win here at all. Hollywood...”
– RealNetworks Files Suit Against Hollywood Over RealDVD
WatchVia Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Is it strange that as a PS3 console gamer, I still play Team Fortress 2 regularly?
Talking Points Memo | Humiliated →
“I appreciate what you’ve done here, but I’m not going to sign on to a deal just to sign the deal,” McCain told the gathering, according to Graham and confirmed by multiple Senate GOP aides. “Just like Iraq, I’m not afraid to go it alone if I need to.”
For a moment, as Graham described it, “you could hear a pin drop. It was just...
WatchThe Dark Bailout
WatchT-Mobile G1 video hands-on - Engadget
“For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government...”
– Senator Bernie Sanders
via Daring Fireball
“Unless Nokia is going all out and is working with providers directly to make...”
– Me, on the final shutdown of Nokia Headlines
Watchyeahapparently:
Holy shit, this is the greatest thing ever. Thank you, Will O’Neal.
Holy shit, he’s right.
Watchdesigninginnovations:
Been playing with Spore Creature Creator and this new Avatar system coming for Xbox is remeniscent, but much faster/smoother and intuitive. (Dislaimer, I consult for MSFT, but not on Xbox.)
Text Messaging Makes Your Brain Blank Out →
Not long after a train crash in California was linked to possible distraction via text messaging comes this report:
The ratio communis, a key region of the brain, was malfunctioning. Instead of fluorescing on brain scans, it flickered, grey and dull. What science was trying to work out was the link between this dead zone and gadgets. When we chat on the mobile phone, text furiously, browse the...
Zune 3.0 video blowout with just a hint of Zune... →
from I ♥ Huckabees
Mr. Hooten: God gave us oil! He gave it to us! How can God's gift be bad?
Tommy Corn: I don't know. He gave you a brain too and you messed that up pretty damn good.
WatchPre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life
Now I just want to watch I ♥ Huckabees again — this kind of humor always gets me good.
WatchRemember the Demakes Competition? Well, Bytejacker has a perfect round-up of the submissions.
I gotta buy me one of them pogo-sticks.
WatchLock, Stock, and Four Hungry Hippos on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Daring Fireball: Things That Podcaster's Rejection... →
Really can’t agree more with the part about 3.3.3.
Here’s my recent experience with Nokia Download!, which has a nice “store on the phone” app that is usually in firmware with all of their new phones.
I decided on a whim to download JuiceCaster, as it claimed to be some form of Twitter client. Opening the app said that the price was “0” —...
“For Google, literally everything that happens on the Internet is a complement to...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The Omnigoogle
It’s that simple, really. And a key to understanding both Google’s psyche and actions.
WatchSarah Palin’s Churches and The Third Wave on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“Censored by YouTube at Palin’s request. So it has to be good.”
WatchPalin / Hillary Open: Saturday Night Live
“We all know that the highest priority [in a VP choice] is someone who can take...”
– John McCain (via McCain’s Age May Figure in Choice of a Running Mate - New York Times)
WatchBlip.fm gets embed tags. I like where this site’s been going lately.
“There are numerous apps that duplicate the functionality of other apps. For...”
– Almerica Blog: Podcaster rejected because it duplicates iTunes functionality
WatchSonyEricsson Xperia X1 Panels SDK