Absolute Powerpoint
“[Whitfield Diffie] [...] publicly acknowledged his presence at the birth of PowerPoint. It was an odd piece of news: as if Lenin had invented the stapler.”
(tags: code culture microsoft psychology Powerpoint)
YouTube - Sad Kermit - Hurt
cover of Johny Cash cover of NN “Hurt” (aka. why they’re trying to squash youtube and why we should save it).
(tags: music video humor)
YTMND - United States of Barrel Roll
if the audio doesn’t play, use the link in the top left to get to the audio file.
(tags: ytmnd mashup n64)
YTMND - Medieval New Hax
damn you, frijole, for pointing me to this hilariousness
(tags: ytmnd)
Collex Getting Started - ARPWiki
for celtic site
(tags: wiki)
Medical Dispatches : What’s the Trouble?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
(tags: health psychology)
The Big Story: Fall Girl
disney needs to go down
(tags: disney trademark merchandising journalism finke)
NYPOST.COM National News: POOH SCANDAL IS ‘$HRED’ HOT By NIKKI FINKE and LINDA STASI
disney *really* needs to burn
(tags: disney malfeasance)
How I Became A Music Pirate - Consumerist
(tags: culture freedom law music DRM)
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED - Google Video
video from Irish [...]
The Bwog
a nice summary of the history of the “network neutrality debate”
(tags: network neutrality timwu)
John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies - New York Times
the extra bits in the URL let you skip the nytimes login. link via jbeimler in #trilug
(tags: fortran backus programming obit)
swimming with sharks — college republicans
via MeFi
(tags: republican politics)
Just one sentence, from the first paragraph of Chapter 11.
Between 1995 and 1998, the United States completely overhauled its telecommunications law for the first time in sixty years, departed drastically from decades of practice on wireless regulation, revolutionized the scope and focus of trademark law, lengthened the term of copyright, criminalized individual user [...]
Crooks and Liars » Open Thread
via Kevin
(tags: politics)
Baraka - Google Video
netflix this. it’s worth it to see it in DVD quality.
(tags: baraka blessing video)
AlterNet: Peeing by Design
web 2.0 meets gender politics
(tags: gender mashup)
Monster whirlpool off Sydney | The Daily Telegraph
via MeFi
(tags: ocean)
The Tuxedo Travels - Official Home Page
umm. wow. again via MeFi
(tags: tuxedo travel humor)
Corporate Hack–T-shirts with Value-add
(tags: design humor t-shirts)
YouTube - MadTV - iRack
(tags: bush iraq Apple)
