Funny commerical

As all of us should have learned in Marketing 101 -- never underestimate the humor in a cute baby monster eating people.

10 most important technologies you have never heard of

OK, I expect you have heard of several of these pervasive technologies, but perhaps you will have renewed appreciation :)

101 - Semantic Web

Pretty decent explaination of the "semantic web"

Plus a less visual, but also helpful, text overview of cloud computing

World's largest internet population is in...

... China. Go figure. And this is only with 16% of the population having access. Was also surprised to see the average % access worldwide is only 19% or so.

Apple's "Second Life" store

Apple is trying out the Second Life thing for a storefront.

I stick by the "just 'cuz you can, don't mean you should" credo. Maybe I just don't get it, but it annoys me when I am shadowed in real life be a "helpful" store clerk -- why would I want to upgrade to annoyed AND mildly creeped out online?

Shopping isn't something I want to "experience", I want to just do it - quick, easy, and avatar free.

Still, in terms of the grand mal misuse of virtualization, I will stick with this.

Name the robots....

Interesting challenge to see how many robots from TV and film you can identify... packaged as a geeky t-shirt.

Top 10 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Interesting thoughts. I miss this guy.

Destroy all gadgets....

... well, at least some of them. Fun pics of gadgets being dusted - you can vote for your favorites.

Social media - en francais

Bonjour Facebook...

Cool chart - in French - but that is the international language... n'est pas?

Super Mario in 14kb of javascript!

Pretty amazing. Check out a very reasonable version of Super Mario coded in javascript - only requiring 14kb (35kb uncompressed).

Would take me twice as much code to create 1/10 of the functionality here

Bizzare history of phrases

Backstory for 10 common phrases. I could have lived happily without the "wrong end of the stick" explanation (2nd page).

Ewwww.

We have BOTH kind of ships...

... frozen AND abandoned

Online, free, Photoshop

Given my remarkably limited graphic skills, my circa 1950s version of Paintshop Pro meets most of my needs - and when it doesn't Picsa usually does.

Now there is a free (with 2 gigs of storage) online version of Photoshop out there. Perfect price for me to try out.

Ten worst job interview questions

Fun list of the ten worst job interview questions ever. Some sound vaguely familiar, but the whole "why did you take the pen?" one is news to me.

Argus, creature of 1,000 eyes...

... meet Mogulus, creature of 1,000 video feeds.


Pretty cool, thanks for sharing Dave.

Worst - online game - ever

And these bums CHEATED the White Sox out of an opening day victory to boot.

http://www.cleveland.com/snowball/