Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Terrifying Microsoft Vista video.

Scary-bad internal Microsoft video for Vista in the enterprise. The quintessence of Microsoft: bad taste.

The utility of Twitter.


Grad student uses it to get out of Egyptian prison.

Obscene wealth.


NYT article on hedge fund managers. Just sick.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

France targets anorexia in the media.


Thin is not in.

The global food crisis.


How did Brecht put it? "Bread before morals."

Starbucks' new-old logo.


Business Week's review of Starbuck's new "retro" logo.

Tresling.


Two-person, arm-wrestling mashup of the best game ever.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Download YouTube videos as MP4 files.


Piece of cake.

$400 Mac clones.


Get 'em before the lawyers converge.

Update 16 April 2008: it now appears to be a hoax.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Nice tip, here's another.


Partagas isn't my favorite brand, but I guess I'll have to make do. Thanks to Steve, the loud asshole with a debit card over on Iditarod.

The drivers couldn't care shit about you, so stop trying.