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TMBG on Unicorns, Angels, and Elves
I just purchased the latest They Might Be Giants album and started listening to the fist song and the lyrics are fantastic...
Science is real, from the big bang to DNA
Science is real, from evolution to the milky way
I like those stories about angels unicorns and elves
Now i like those stories as much as anyone else
But when I'm seeking knowledge either simple or abstract
The facts are with science
Its interesting that it is getting some religious people quite upset (surprise!). The main complaint seems to be around the fact that this is a children's album. And apparently teaching your children science is BAD, or at least is ok if you teach the-bible-as-fact on equal footing (a thing I believe MOST reasonable religious people understand is not the case). Anyhow - lets raise our glasses to a new Age of Reason, where hopefully people will (at a minimum) evaluate their personal mythos as such. I'll start holding my breath... now.
The first step to recovery is being followed on Twitter
I have a like/hate relationship with Twitter. I like that i can spam people, I hate that they can spam me back. this is the result of my using the word alcohol in a tweet.
So I'm still calculating my Personal Value (abbreviated PV) to my Volunteering to be Tracked and Spammed (abbreviated VTBTAS) ratio for Twitter and things like this make me shift a bit towards the latter.
Still, I invite quitalcohol2, quitalcohol3, and quitalcohol4 to follow me as well.
Mr. Jobs - Does General Purpose mean Tablet?
“I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages in doing just one thing,” he said. “But I think the general-purpose devices will win the day. Because I think people just probably aren’t willing to pay for a dedicated device.”
He said that Apple doesn’t see e-books as a big market at this point, and pointed out that Amazon.com, for example, doesn’t ever say how many Kindles it sells. “Usually, if they sell a lot of something, you want to tell everybody.”
Maybe I'm reading between the lines a bit here - but Job's recent pot-shot at Amazon's Kindle makes me think that Steve has been thinking a lot about his top-secret new tablet-like device that may or may never be released and why it would be a superior reader to a Kindle.
I do love my Kindle, mainly because its easy on the eyes and i only charge it ever couple of weeks. So in that way, its a great digital replacement for *most* of the books i read. I still end up buying big old heavy computer books because reading them on an Kindle sucks and I'm not paying $450 for the huge Kindle DX.
If (or when) Apple releases a tablet computer, I'm guessing it will have some functionality that makes it a very good reader (probably not 2 weeks battery life). If so, I'll still use the kindle to read books, but I'll very much enjoy going digital for all my 10lb tech books.
Gource software version control visualization - Git to v1.0
via youtube.com
A (quite kick ass) visual representation of all the source control on GIT up to version 1.0.
For those of you who don't know and barely care, GIT is a code "management" or sharing tool created originally by Linus Torvalds to allow people working all over the world to work on the open source Linux operating system.
props to KG for the forward
Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8B, 3Q profit slides
Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8B, 3Q profit slidesNEW YORK — Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday it will buy the Web analytic software company Omniture Inc. for about $1.8 billion, giving the maker of content-creation software a way to let marketers measure the effectiveness of such content.
my gut says, bad for Omniture.
Microsoft teaches Best Buy employees how to troll Linux users - Ars Technica
This Microsoft training material for Best Buy retail staff is deliberately attacking Linux. While there are correct assertions in the slides, the majority of the statements are inaccurate, or are only accurate in the specific way they are worded.
via arstechnica.com
Seriously, are people going to BUY Windows 7, or just get it on the next rickety plastic laptop they get for $199 with a coupon? Click the arstechnica link for the full article.
The Effects of Display Media on Search Traffic
Check out this website I found at icrossing.com
Awesome!!
John Haro
I am a software designer turned suit, occasional low-rent photographer, and as a friend once said a "sarcastic mother @#$@r". I can sleep soundly through any team sporting event but I'm passionate and politely opinionated about music, technology, and many other less valuable topics.
