Cognito ergo google

So does using Google make you dumber or are you dumb not to use Google?

Linux car crashes

The Linux car crashed and finished dead last at the Indy 500.

The Vista car did not fair much better. The driver complained about the partially inflated tires that he had pit early to fill up the rest of the way, and difficultly in seeing the track through a blue screen.

Legless chihuahuas

First of all, my life is now complete since I have used "legless chihuahuas" as a title for a post.

Check out Google Hot Trends if you get a chance. Pretty cool stuff. Still a work in process though -- on May 21 results included “legless chihuahuas” at 25, and “legless chihuahua” at 36.

Cola 2.0

OK, now there is open source cola under a GNU Public license. Passions run amok.

60 elegant designs

One of my favorite design-focused sites posted their view of the 60 most elegant website designs.

Once I overcame the shock the foulballguy.com was not on the list (buy a freakin' tshirt!), I thought the list was pretty good.

All the sites fall into the emerging web 2.0-ish feel, which strikes me as a meld of Fisher Price and Microsoft clip art with a hard to explain dose of cool.

Not buying it

The Defense department has banned several social networking tools due to bandwidth concerns, not content concerns.

Riiiiiiiiight.

Blogging rules

Interesting read on the concept of regulating blogs. Covers the issues from both sides. I continue to struggle with the "right" to be anonymous. Free speech - I get. But accountability should also be there.

Let everyone be free to say whatever the want -- but have the courage to stand behind your words.

Boo DoD

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/pentagon-blocks-myspace-and-youtube/

For your reading pleasure

Clearly, FierceCIO would only publish material from insightful individuals.

Well, usually.

Today they were willing to include Jeff Grimshaw and me.

http://www.fiercecio.com/node/3760/#part2

IM traffic

There is a pretty cool layer you can add to Google Earth to watch realtime IM traffic. Not sure of the value, but a nice little time waster/mashup

Say Cheese

What did we EVER do without the Internet???

http://cheddarvision.tv/

Numbers game

Hang on past the first few slides on school hardware and you will see some very interesting numbers on China and India.

http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/didyouknow/didyouknow.wmv

Even Zaphod might feel a tad less significant after viewing this.

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.