Friday linkage
Dec. 28th, 2007 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. P.Z. Myers rebuts yet another creationist. I know that it's the intellectual equivalent of King Kong Bundy squashing S.D. "Special Delivery" Jones at the first Wrestlemania (except for the fact that I always liked Jones), but it's still an entertaining read.
2. Oh, remember how your mom always used to say that you shouldn't run with a screwdriver in your hand, because you might fall and stab yourself in the head, thus blinding you, killing you, or causing brain damage? Turns out that's just another old wive's tale.
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coffeinhell shares the real secret behind the Wolverine/Cyclops rivalry!
4. This is made of win: a stapler whose head turns 90 degrees to make stapling the binding of, say, zines really easy.
5. The top videos on MTV, VH1, and CMT's online networks in 2007. Note that #1 is clearly an example of virtual rubbernecking.
6. David Pogue stages a one-day strike, and his son explains why you need the tutorial to play Wii Table Tennis.
6.5 Pogue also has a follow-up to the responsible downloading piece from last week.
7. Two banks in our small town have been robbed in the last few days. Neither is ours, but both are walking distance from our bank.
8. Radiohead's free download experiment is ranked as the 59th dumbest business move of 2007. Surprisingly, 1-58 do not include the people who actually spent money on Radiohead's music*.
9. Walmart's cheap-ass Linux box nabs a 1.5 star review from PC Mag. Ouch (although citing things like, "Programs written for Mac or Windows will not run" as a con is silly).
10. Finally, Netscape is officially on its deathbed, If you're one of the seventeen people still using it as your primary browser, switch to Firefox (or Safari, or Opera, or Anything But IE) by February 1.
*Have I mentioned that I find Thom Yorke almost as annoying as Rivers Cuomo?
2. Oh, remember how your mom always used to say that you shouldn't run with a screwdriver in your hand, because you might fall and stab yourself in the head, thus blinding you, killing you, or causing brain damage? Turns out that's just another old wive's tale.
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coffeinhell shares the real secret behind the Wolverine/Cyclops rivalry!4. This is made of win: a stapler whose head turns 90 degrees to make stapling the binding of, say, zines really easy.
5. The top videos on MTV, VH1, and CMT's online networks in 2007. Note that #1 is clearly an example of virtual rubbernecking.
6. David Pogue stages a one-day strike, and his son explains why you need the tutorial to play Wii Table Tennis.
6.5 Pogue also has a follow-up to the responsible downloading piece from last week.
7. Two banks in our small town have been robbed in the last few days. Neither is ours, but both are walking distance from our bank.
8. Radiohead's free download experiment is ranked as the 59th dumbest business move of 2007. Surprisingly, 1-58 do not include the people who actually spent money on Radiohead's music*.
9. Walmart's cheap-ass Linux box nabs a 1.5 star review from PC Mag. Ouch (although citing things like, "Programs written for Mac or Windows will not run" as a con is silly).
10. Finally, Netscape is officially on its deathbed, If you're one of the seventeen people still using it as your primary browser, switch to Firefox (or Safari, or Opera, or Anything But IE) by February 1.
*Have I mentioned that I find Thom Yorke almost as annoying as Rivers Cuomo?
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Date: 2007-12-28 11:48 pm (UTC)It's linux. I bet the reviewer actually tried to install a program for mac or windows to see if it would work, and then had to find out "the hard way" that it wouldn't.
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Date: 2007-12-29 04:40 am (UTC)Is "Inspite" a real word? And was that quote a copy of her book? Because if it is, someone seriously needs to beat up her copy editor.
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Date: 2007-12-29 05:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-29 03:52 pm (UTC)Regardless of what you think of the band or the downloading public, Thom Yorke's on record (http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/12/thom-yorke-disc.html) as saying that they've already made more money from digital sales of In Rainbows than online sales of the rest of their catalog put together, and they still have a physical release coming in '08.
Personally, I'm still attached to outmoded physical data carriers, so I'm waiting for the CD.