cnet top 10 of tech we miss

coming to a museum near you

only the first 40% make sense to me. And there is so much older technology that they missed: Like pneumatic tube mail systems. I am sure there is enough to fill a book.

open source and business

history internet

Paul Graham writes about open source and business.

It’s interesting. And long, so I post it here when having read only 20%.

In the background sings Dawn Upshaw, found without effort and within 5 seconds via Yahoo audio. Nice.

power

daily life free of any reason

in case you need a power cable

Since people sell this, it looks like people buy this as well. Which does surprise me.

flickr

internet photo

interesting

so many questions

free of any reason

so few answers

yahoo buyw konfabulator

misc

Yahoo continues to buy good things. Their purchasing team almost rivals the one from Trader Joes by now. This move makes allot of sense for both sides:
Konfabulator survives the complete rip off that 10.4 is. And Yahoo get’s a reference implementation for their XML services. Which puts them more in the middle of things. There were rumors that google builts its own browser. Yahoo has now something a little bit apart from a browser, but fully supported,
with developer community and known javascript. Nice.

I am personally a little bit attached to Konfabulator, since I wrote the first game that my son designed in it.

pregnancy test

free of any reason

no comment

astala

M$

vista , Billy …

one trick pony

misc

A while back somebody figured out that it would look neat if you take a line of pixels and repeat it over the screen.
It is very sad that MK12 still makes an entire music video based on this simple gag in 2005.

I liked the effect. When I saw it in the first 3 commercials and videos. I am still surprised how people will over use everything. MK12
did some really nice work. How sad that they seem to be trapped in their own concepts.

please

misc

in Germany you might get prosecuted for saying something like that

It’s called “Volksverhetzung” and Germany has very good reasons to restrict the freedom of speech, where it’s damning entire populations.