Mr. Grumpy

With a lead like...

There are a few things I have learned about the Internet since I first logged on to a chat board back in the late 1980s. It promotes anger far easier than it promotes tolerance.

As the public immigrated to the Internet from once productive lives, the real focus has been on the goofy, ridiculous and weird, not on the serious or the productive.

... I am pretty sure this guy needs some decaf.

Read his full grumpiness.

Ed Wood would be proud

Here is a rogues gallery of lame technology mascots. Fairly comprehensive except for the glaring omission of MicroSoft's Bob. The last mascot in the gallery (the bunny in the space helmet) by Plan 9 from Bell Labs is my favorite. Named Glenda... Ed Wood would indeed be proud.

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_mascots

Two days in a row of useless stuff

Of equal or lessor value than the GPS post. But a stupid kind of fun....

http://monster.namedecoder.com

Kinda funny

Playing off our big brother fears

http://www.sat-gps-locate.com/

Go figure

You would think that the growth of authoritative (news sites) and non-authoritative (blogs, wikis) information sources - coupled with easier ways to stay on top of them (RSS, Google start page) - would make it easier to know "the truth" about events.

But instead I keep getting this

What are you looking at?

At last... a professional league I have a shot at... Pro Staredown-ing

Amiga memories

Just came across this great look back at the top Amiga games. Wonderful list (Beast and Another World completely rocked!!), but they omitted TV Sports Basketball, Rocket Ranger, a pretty good submarine simulation that I can't recall the specific name.

My first computer was an Amiga 500 with 512K RAM. Then I went BIG TIME and got an Amiga 2000 with 3 Meg of RAM. I loved Deluxe Paint as the graphics package. And the Sonix music package. And multitasking just to be cool.

Sigh.

Apple sell its 100 Millionth iPod

Hmmm. That is A LOT of iPods.

Pretty sure we will sell our 100 millionth t-shirt on www.foulballguy.com shortly before the sun burns out.

Like 5 minutes before.

Tops.

Google Maps mashups made easy

Since I washed out when I was playing with Google's APIs for Maps... this is welcome news.

I am at peace with being demoted to a lower level geek status.

Vaderpalooza

Three, for the price of one:

1. Darth Vader meets Hello Kitty

2. Chad Vader - Episode 7



3. An oldie, but a goodie - Triumph the Insult Comic at a Star Wars meet and greet.

"Spoiler? You will die alone."

They forget the USB rotary dial

One of the better April Fool's items this year.. the Apple iPhone will NOT be cordless.

Apollo musings

Adobe's Apollo is an interesting concept. AJAX and dhtml narrowed the gap between installed and browser-based applications quite a bit - Apollo looks to blur the line differently.

Flash seems to be a major element here and Flash has always been the Swiss army knife of software - you can do so much with it - good idea or not.

It will be good to watch and see what kind of legs Apollo develops. And then to see it Google apps follows suit.