Peter has added a “Sites I’ve started” section to the navbar of his blog. I like the idea and I started thinking about doing something similar here. Unfortunately, virtually all of the sites I’ve created have vanished into the cgi-bin of history. Most still resolve to something, but bear no resemblance to the sites I [...]
Props to Engadget for making it to the top of Technorati’s list. I may not be part of the gang anymore, but I’m still impressed by what they’ve accomplished. And beating both Boing Boing and Xu Jinglei is definitely a major accomplishment. Congrats, guys. But don’t rest on your laurels for too long; Xu’s got [...]
Great post from Scoble about why the biggest problem with Linux on the desktop is the lack of readable fonts. As he says:
Why is this important? Name the #1 thing you look at most on your computer screen. For me it’s the characters on the screen. If one OS has better looking characters than another [...]
While Ryan may have boldly switched over to the Jobs OS, I’ve recently gone the other way. No, I haven’t abandoned OSX or XP; I’ve got boxes running both (or rather, I’ve got boxes running each; no dual-OS Intel box for me—yet). But when the hard drive on my venerable HP Omnibook 510 notebook gave [...]
Did DCI, Exxon’s DC lobbying firm, have a hand in producing the recent YouTube hit, “Al Gore’s Penguin Army,” which pokes fun at the president-in-exile’s global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth?” It certainly looks like it. Though the video’s creator is allegedly a 29-year-old hipster called “Toutsmith,” his email account has been traced to computers [...]