- If the Empire’s IT tech’s wrote a blog, it would look something like this.
- Really nice HDR wallpapers.
- If I’m ever old and have a disabled parking permit, I’m going to be just like this guy.
- 10 Things you Didn’t Know Google Maps could do.
- The hacks will always continue: CSS3 solutions for Internet Explorer.
- XKCD’s results from its color survey are in.
- Top 10 Reasons you should quit Facebook.
- After Steve Jobs ripped up flash, Adobe responds and confirms plans to move away from Apple.
- The Taco Bell Chihuahua is going on a beeg, beeg treep (thanks, Dren!).
- Somebody with far too much time on their hands: A DIY Lamborghini (thanks, Ben!)
- How Wired.com Tracked Down The iPhone 4G finder.
- 17 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs To Know (related: 60 Tweaks and Hacks for Windows 7, Vista, or XP).
- The most clever ways to use Dropbox that you’re not using.
- What is everybody on Facebook “Like”-ing? Find out (though I still prefer popurls to see what everybody’s liking or linking to).
- TechCrunch hacker identified: Should they press charges?
- All newscasts could be better if their cutaways were accompanied by the Law and Order “chung chung” sound. Anybody want to over-dub a KTVZ broadcast and send it my direction?
- Bend is #4 in America’s top-10 cities for start-ups.
- Think an image might be photoshopped? Throw the URL into here, and it might help you find out.
- If you’re going to plagorize somebody’s art and win a huge chunk of money, the original artist is bound to find out.
Reading Material
The Bulletin Reports 34% Circulation Gain By Fudging The Numbers A Bit
The latest ABC numbers are out, and the Bulletin’s numbers grew 34%, which is an astonishing number, considering newspaper circulation is down or flat pretty much every where else. So how’d they do it? By counting their e-edition subscribers, something that ABC is allowing them to do. So basically, they’re counting the same person twice in many cases.
I know a bunch of people over at the Bulletin, some I’d consider friends. and if this news helps folks there keep their jobs and brings in more money so they don’t have to be forced to take days off every month, than all the better. But I’d fully expect The Source to rip into this the first chance they get.
Apparently “The Liberal Agenda” Is The Cause For All Problems
The American Spectator is asking its subscribers to pony up some $26,000 in donations to help it offset increased printing costs. Their reasoning? The shortfall was “created by the perverse incentives of the liberal agenda.” Um…OK…
According to the conservatives, the liberals are to blame for everything, including rising costs of paper. Apparently costs for paper weren’t rising at all over the last decade, just during the last two years.
This is why I avoid political discussion, as this kind of crap is so prevalent on both sides of things.
Bend’s A Thriving iPad Market, Apparently
Quoting Fortune/CNN: According to Net Application’s May 1 report, the five U.S. market areas with the largest concentration of iPads — measured by its clients’ browser data — are as follows:
- San Francisco, Calif. (0.25% Internet share)
- Grand Junction, Colo. (0.23%)
- Santa Barbara, Calif. (0.19%)
- Honolulu, Hawaii (0.19%)
- Bend, Ore. (0.19%)
The author obviously knows nothing about the area and apparently forgot that you could get the iPad at places other than an Apple Store. They have the Internet over here in the sticks.
As Robert points out, however, the margin of error on the ±0.9%, which is nearly half of our percentage which is nearly five times our percentage (I mis-read the decimal point), so I wouldn’t take those numbers too seriously.
However, the best part of reading it is the comments. Many folks from the area have obviously found the story and are commenting on it (I saw it when it was posted, thanks to Barney, but didn’t have a chance to post/comment), and smacking the author around a bit for thinking we’re completely isolated morons out here. Robert and I share a favorite:
One came down on an ox cart from the Cascades with the Indian traders. i defrosted it by the campfire. i use it to kill rock chucks so there is food for dinner.
Let’s Party Like It’s 1996
The Geocities-izer will make any site “look like It was made by a 13 year-old In 1996.” I’m thinking about redesigning this site based on its suggestions (be sure to turn up the volume for full effect).
Time Killer For The Evening
What if you could play the classic Super Mario Bros. not as Mario but as a different classic Nintendo character? Easily one of the most well-done games I’ve played in a while.
Awesome Reaction To Unpaid Bill
Client doesn’t give a crap about paying you? Give back the crap.
Personally, if I worked with gigantic amounts of poop on a daily basis, I’d probably have the same reaction, and would probably do the same thing.
Steve Job Rips Up Flash
Rarely does the Apple founder come out and write something like this, but his open letter against Flash is well worth a read, and he makes a lot of valid points. I’d like to see Adobe’s response to this.
Personally, I see both sides of the argument, and while I typically don’t agree much with Jobs, I kind of have to on this. Flash is a resource hog in many cases, and holes in it (along with Acrobat Reader) have been the cause of many malware infections I’ve had to deal with. I can see why Apple doesn’t want it running on their phone.
More on the Gizmodo Stolen iPhone Police Raid
- Editors from LA Times, Salon, CrunchGear, Hot Air, and Mediaite weigh in on whether Gizmodo editor should be considered a “journalist”.
- One expert says that and invalid warrant was used in the raid.
- cnet posted a new story to follow up yesterday’s piece about this interesting mess.