tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53490772007-03-30T18:21:09.248-07:00MichaelBlogger5001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349077.post-7382239224412538562007-03-30T18:21:00.000-07:002007-03-30T18:21:09.426-07:00

I so agree with fake-Steve. Dvorak has been making bad calls for so many yearsDvorak: Still crazy after all these years: "I swear John Dvorak just writes stupid things in order to provoke people and get traffic. How else to explain this article where he argues that 'Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone'? Dvorak, you have never, ever been right on anything. Have you? How do you keep getting

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been there,done that, at a startup in the 90's that went thru middle managers like shit thru a goose - I also was offered a lower paying position. God bles having enuf fukyu money at the time!Circuit City and the American Dream: "An anonymous reader writes 'Circuit City said yesterday that it had fired 3,400 of its highest-paid sales staff — 8% of its employees — and will replace them with

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more proof of the end of intelligent civilizationHomeland Security Classifies TRON as "Sensitive": "Edward Jeffries -- FPI BURBANK, CA - Reports are emerging from members of the movie industry that the Department of Homeland Security has designated the 1982 film TRON as 'sensitive', and ordered Walt Disney Studios to turn over all copies of the film in its posession. Retailers are also

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arrgh - hope I die before I get oldyeWho hasn't heard of The Who? A couple of teenagers, that's who: "I asked if either of them watched CSI. 'Oh my gosh, I love that 'Who Are You' song!' one of them said. 'I keep meaning to download it. That's from The Who? I can't believe I haven't heard of them!'" (Via MyMac.com.)

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Photo in the News: Hexagon Spied Around Saturn's Pole: " Site Index | Subscribe | Shop | Search    TODAY'S BEST NEWS PHOTO Photo in the News: Hexagon Spied Around Saturn's Pole VIDEO IN THE NEWS Video: Grand Canyon Skywalk's 4,000-Foot View News Front Page > Photos in the News Photo in the News: Hexagon Spied Around Saturn's Pole Email to a Friend More Photos in the News RELATED Photo

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Evolution of Mammals Re-evaluated: "AaxelB writes 'A study described in the New York Times rethinks mammalian evolution. Specifically, that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs had relatively little impact on mammals and that the steps in mammals' evolution happened well before and long after the dinosaurs' death.' " (Via Slashdot.)

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strange, I've always felt that way tooHotmail users deemed too dumb for employment at firm: "Mark Frauenfelder: Pete says: A guy, who works in the department of a Human Resources consultancy company, says they made a selection process in which, among other things, they asked for a person with ample experience in using the internet (navigation, searches, formats...). They received 50 candidacies

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Hexagon on Saturn: "David Pescovitz: Just a few months after the Cassini spacecraft imaged an eyeball-shaped storm at Saturn's south pole, the orbiter has captured new images of this bizarre hexagon-shaped weather pattern at the north pole. It's approximately 15,000 miles across and has held its shape since astronomers first discovered it 26 years ago via the Voyager space probe. From

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Bloggers sift through late-night, 3,000-page DOJ newsdump: "Xeni Jardin: Snip from a New York Sun article: A time-honored Washington practice of trying to extinguish, pre-empt, or redirect news coverage by dumping stacks of previously secret government documents on the press may be in for some changes after a headlong collision with hundreds of liberal Web loggers in the wee hours of yesterday

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Hinode spacecraft reveals new details about the Sun: "Xeni Jardin: NASA has released never-before-seen photos showing the sun's magnetic field to be more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. Snip: The international spacecraft Hinode, formerly known as Solar B, took the images. Hinode, Japanese for 'sunrise,' was launched Sept. 23, 2006, to study the sun's magnetic field and how

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Dog-sized toad: "David Pescovitz: This massive cane toad, 15-inches long and weighing in at almost two pounds, was captured in Darwin, Australia by a group called Frogwatch. The group seeks and destroys non-native toxic toads that are apparently wreaking havoc on Australia's ecosystem. From the Associated Press: 'We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then

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i like itSuper Mario, the stop-motion Legos edition: "Cory Doctorow: This little stop-motion animation recreates Super Mario Brothers in legos, which is charming enough, but what's even better is the theme, performed on guitar and recorder, and the sound effects, which appear to be some guy going 'week! week!' and so on. Link (via Wonderland) " (Via Boing Boing.)

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shame on himArchitect of Smithsonian/Showtime sellout quits in disgrace: "Cory Doctorow: Lawrence M Small has resigned -- without severance -- from the head of the Smithsonian. This is the guy who sold out the Smithsonian's video archive to Showtime, giving the commercial entity the windfall of exclusive first-refusal rights to all the footage in America's national, tax-supported archive. Small -

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Happy tapir receives massage -- exclusive video: "Mark Frauenfelder: I took my 3-year-old daughter to the LA Zoo yesterday and we were treated to the spectacle of a very relaxed tapir receiving a body rub by a gentle zookeeper. I videtaped the procedure with my digital camera: Link " (Via Boing Boing.)

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I always suspected as much ummmm what was I doing?NYT on multitasking myth: "David Pescovitz: Multitasking may be an illusion that actually hurts productivity and increases error, according to various scientific studies. An article in yesterday's New York Times, looked at the 'limits' of multitasking. For example, a recent Vanderbilt University experiment with brain scans showed that particpants

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like the image anywayDoD's Augmented Cognition plans - EPCOT meets PK Dick: "Cory Doctorow: The Department of Defense's 'Augmented Cognition' video is supposed to represent a plausible scenario for a human-computer interface that uses EEG and other technologies to figure out what to feed to operators, allowing teams to do fast analysis of giant amounts of data. The video is like a 1960s

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mmmm suiteNew batteries run on sugar, are susceptible to cavities: "Soon, your gadgets will be able to get their energy from the same place you do: sugar. Scientists at St. Louis University have developed fuel cells that run on any sugar source that happen to last four times longer than standard lithium-ion batteries. So I guess that means that eventually you'll be able to rejuice your phone or

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like, who would live there??Suspended tower office block: "Cory Doctorow: Singapore is building this crazy housing block with four towers kind of hanging off the sides of another, central tower. The 153 meter tall tower will be located at the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, in close proximity to Orchard Road, Singapore’s famous shopping and lifestyle street. With 20,000m˛ of

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family togethernessMore photos from Rand Holme's posthumous art show: "Mark Frauenfelder: Patrick Rosenkranz, author of the highly recommended history of underground comics, Rebel Visions, says Thanks for your advance listing for the Rand Holmes art show. I helped to organize it. It was a unique experience in a wild and wooly place. My son Crispin and I spent six days shooting a documentary

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another db bytes the dustMicrosoft to Open Source FoxPro: "rah1420 writes 'Microsoft has announced that it will open-source the core portions of the Visual FoxPro DBMS software to its CodePlex community development site. At the same time, Microsoft has announced that it will no longer be making new versions of the FoxPro DBMS.' " (Via Slashdot.)

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heh hehSlobs Found To Be More Productive Than Neatniks: "writertype writes 'Are you a slob? Do you pile papers on top of folders on top of game boxes? Here's the thing that those anal neat people can't even conceive of: you're more productive than they are. That's the conclusion of 'A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder,' by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman, a new book that argues

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oooh ooohMicrosoft Gives In To the EU: "An anonymous reader writes with word that Redmond Developer News is reporting that Microsoft has given in to EU threats of further fines. The company has opened up a whole host of protocols, including the Exchange protocol, under a license, the terms of which are not known. No other news outlet has picked up this story so far. " (Via Slashdot.)

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Ron Turner's sci-fi pulp art: "Mark Frauenfelder: Nice Flickr gallery of 1950s pulp art by Ron Turner. Link (Via PCL LinkDump) " (Via Boing Boing.)

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and put it where?McDonald's: take "McJob" out of the dictionary: "Cory Doctorow: McDonald's is taking action to get the word 'McJob' taken out of the Oxford English Dictionary. Let's be clear: the job of a dictionary is to record language as it is spoken, and people clearly say 'McJob' to mean a crummy job. McDonald's argues that jobs at McDonald's aren't crummy, so people are wrong to call

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boss The Last Supper, with dogs, by Ron Burns: "Xeni Jardin: Link to full-size image, 'Dinner and Drinks with the Son of Dog.' I am rendered speechless, so I'll let the press release do the talking: One gallery owner in a 'Bible Belt' state has already refused to carry Ron Burns' latest work portraying a gathering of pooches around a well-known supper table. 'Maybe the world isn't ready for

Michael