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Archive for April 2008

April 17th, 2008

Steve Jobs Introduces the Apple “i”

Steve Jobs is a genius at both hardware design and public speaking. The guy could package and sell absolutely anything, even if it could do absolutely nothing. In fact, that’s exactly what he does in this parody clip as he introduces Apple’s latest wonder, the “i”.
What exactly can it do? Who cares? It’s Apple! After […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

April 17th, 2008

You Can’t Tell If Microsoft’s Kidding

Microsoft produced this ridiculous internal video about Vista supposedly as a joke, but it’s very telling that people thought it was for real. Redmond’s reputation for stupidity is so well-established, you just can’t tell if they’re kidding anymore.
Hell, I doubt this was really a joke. Microsoft probably just made that excuse after seeing people’s horrified […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

April 15th, 2008

162 Million Web Sites Online

The Web has grown to 162 million sites. You wouldn’t have known it would get this big back in 1990, when there was just one Web site. Yahoo didn’t know it would get this big back in 1995, when they tried to manually categorize all Web sites into a single hierarchy.
Despite the explosion of Web […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

April 15th, 2008

Sarah Brightman Album Features Guild Wars Art

Remember the days when games were based on other media? Now that games outpace music, the tables have turned: music now borrows from games. Sarah Brightman’s latest album, Symphony, features concept art from ArenaNet’s online game Guild Wars.
Sarah herself approached ArenaNet art director Daniel Dociu. Who says artsy chicks don’t dig geeky stuff?
Tags: ArenaNet, Daniel […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

April 15th, 2008

Stick These Around Your Pizza Box Fortress

The New York Times article on blogger stress just keeps getting parodied. If you blog, you might want to stick these warning labels around your little pizza box fortress. If you haven’t built up a pizza box fortress yet, stick them around your monitor before it’s too late.
This is why I go to the gym. […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

April 11th, 2008

***** on iGoogle Digg Widget

So I check my iGoogle for the twentieth time today, and I see this in my iGoogle Digg widget:

First-Ever ***** with Mechanical Digital Display, says the widget headline. I instantly think of a dirty five-letter word, and click through expecting the first-ever pussy with mechanical digital display. Kinky tech, baby.
Tags: Digg, funny, Google, iGoogle, Social […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

April 11th, 2008

Satellite Junked Over Stupid Patent

Sorry, Frankie. What you propose is a crime.
See, this is why we need patent reform. Apparently, flying by the moon is now illegal.
Last month, SES Americom launched commercial geostationary satellite AMC-14. Unfortunately, they screwed up, and now the thing will fall to Earth within days. They could have stabilized its orbit with a lunar flyby, […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

April 9th, 2008

Blogger Sweatshop Exposed!

Barely Political, the people behind Obama Girl, parody the New York Times piece on blogger stress by exposing a blogger sweatshop!
Tags: Barely Political, Blogging, funny, parody

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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

April 9th, 2008

Super Mario Javascript!

The next time your web developer claims something is “impossible” to do on your site, show him this: Super Mario Bros. in one 14KB Javascript file.
Tags: Gaming, Javascript, Mario

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April 9th, 2008

Risk Apocalypse for Faster Porn!

If the Large Hadron Collider doesn’t destroy the Earth, its data analysis network may give us faster porn.
Since the LHC will produce 56 million CD-ROMs worth of data annually, CERN scientists won’t use a central computer to analyze the data. Heck, they won’t even use distributed supercomputing over the Internet. They’ll use a custom grid […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment