Flash animation: The End of the World - "Ruling out the ice caps melting, meteors becoming crashed into us, the ozone layer leaving, and the sun exploding, we're definitely going to blow ourselves up." This is a pretty hilarious flash animation with a lot of great quotables.
Monthly Archive for October, 2005
I've only been a member of Amazon Prime for 45 hours (yeah yeah yeah, I only just finally got around to signing up), and I've already placed and received two orders. Basically, wow. This is going to be very dangerous for my checkbook.
Senate votes to freeze pay raise this year - If we just gave all of our elected officials a whack of cash (and made rules so they wouldn't have an unfair funding advantage as incumbants), I can't help but wonder how much of a damper that would put on the lobbying industry.
Apple enhances PowerBooks with higher-res displays - When I saw this headline, I was so ready to drop everything and immediately order a new 12" PowerBook with a higher density display... except the 12" is still stuck at 1024 x 768. Big let down. It seems like that'd be a pretty obvious and easy way to upsell people from a 12" iBook to a more expensive PowerBook.
Benjy: Do you remember what page this AIM icon I'm using came from?
Kevin: hahah. boring3d.com
Kevin: I am Google.
Benjy: Damn you're good. You should be a search ... yeah, what you said.
Ten years of therapy in one night - This is an incredibly interesting article about a drug named Ibogaine and its potential for curing addiction. Pity our drug laws mean there's very little research into this sort of thing.
Nintendo to offer free online gaming at McDonald's - While I think this is a great deal for Nintendo, the thought of even more encouragement for kids to head to McDonald's after school really bums me out.
RollingStone.com: Four Amendments & a Funeral - A fascinating and depressing picture of how congress works.
It looks like a few changes to google maps were just rolled out and then quickly rolled back. While I definitely like the new "Set this as default location" feature (though in my few minutes of usage I couldn't figure out how to change the default after setting it, and the first time I tried it it crashed Safari), the decision to put the sidebar information on the left and relegate the map itself to the right felt pretty terrible. Using it for several minutes, I repeatedly reached for the left edge of the browser for the zoom widget, and how is the map not the primary piece of information on that page?
Hopefully that left / right decision doesn't come back when these changes are re-introduced. And sorry, I didn't capture a screenshot while they were there.
Update: Okay, these changes are back, and I still don't like the left right thing.