March 19 2008

links for 2008-03-20

• Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air
  I see only one scenario that would have made this story even more Apple-riffic: if Rose had sustained his injuries in a rumble with tech troll extraordinaire, John Dvorak.” altho one of the other commenters said he heard it was a bar fight.
  (tags: funny mac)
• indexed: He knew science fiction didn’t have to be an oxymoron.
  lovely. (check out the amended version linked in the comments, too.)
  (tags: writing science)
• home · LOLCODE
  “HAI! This site provides community documentation of the emergent LOLCODE language.”
  (tags: weird funny web_dev cats)
• Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 – Yahoo! News
  strangely, I got this from the LOL-ized version of Daring Fireball. Childhood’s End genuinely and totally terrified me in an existential way when I was in high school. I still shiver thinking about it, and I can’t even remember why.
  (tags: writing science)
• Bb’s RealTech | Joel Spolsky: Crap is Good
  “Spolsky’s whole pitch is basically a race for the bottom” – plus OMG ponies! also, alan’s comment is well worth the read.
  (tags: standards browsers x-ua-bs)
• Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” [dive into mark]
  “I demand documented standards with open reference implementations. That’s why I only develop with Microsoft technologies.” – one of my other favorite curmudgeons. very high snark content.
  (tags: browsers standards x-ua-bs funny)
• Cornfield Electronics :: Cornfield Electronics – Maker Faire Page
  includes “brain machine” info
  (tags: weird science sxsw crafty)
• SXSW Videos – Anil Dash wins Battledecks II
  I kinda wish I’d been there for this one. He actually manages to make coherent points with entirely goofy slides. (Graph of cheese vs. libido?!)
  (tags: blogosphere sxsw misc_tech funny weird)

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