Sunday, April 23, 2006
Monopoly bored?
Krugle has a job and a house for you. Qualifying technical wizards only please.
Free Neil
Neil Young's newly recorded protest album "Living With War," including a song calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush, will be posted for free Internet streaming next week, his label said on Friday.
Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young's Web site, www.neilyoung.com, and listen to the 10-track collection in its entirety, free of charge, said Bill Bentley, a spokesman for Warner Music Group's Reprise Records
A little better than half right
Says here I'm 35.
A cockroach theory of Flash intro pages
FARfetched says Amen to Douglas Crockford:
Web sites end up getting polluted with crap like Flash and JavaScript for various reasons, but perhaps the single most common underlying issue is that "designers" have no content to give you, so they substitute an "experience" for something useful. Yeesh. I don’t spend (way too much) time on the Internet to have an "experience," I just want to get some information or look at pictures or something. It’s kind of like the now-defunct Damon’s, a restaurant chain that sported multiple big-screen TVs tuned to various games. They billed themselves as "A Dining Event!" I tend to think of a “dining event” as something like that time when The Boy found a dried-up roach in his cereal — I don’t want a "dining event," I just want something to eat (preferably insect-free). Same with the web: I don’t want Flash and Java$#!+ substituting for content. If I wanted to waste time with mindless garbage, there’s a TV in the living room.
Sorry, Steve. Had to link ya.
Steve Gillmor: These links are pretty nifty for a dead technology...
Whenever
Launch of the CALIPSO and CloudSat satellites from Vandenberg AFB, rescheduled (for the second day in a row) for 3:02am PDST toay, has been scrubbed. Says the SpaceFlight Now Mission Status Center,
Today's scrub was caused by more problems with a refueling aircraft required by a downrange launch tracking plane, a NASA spokesman now confirms. Discussions are underway to determine a new launch date.
When I'll be out of town, no doubt. I take a train to the Desktop Summit in San Diego later today. New York and New Jersey (the homeland) on Wednesday. Won't be back for a week.