Talk Back on nicknames
real audio (starts 10:56)
The consumer incarnation of Microsoftiness
"The Microsoft world is all about sushi-ginger stationery. It's synonymous with miniature Japanese rock gardens, aroma therapy kits and velvet pillows stuffed with buckwheat hulls." Does anyone remember Steve Jobs saying that the one thing Apple still had, even when it had hit bottom a couple years ago, was a brand name (read: kool-aid) ? via
jjg.netDoonesbury
"Who's the teeny little man, poppy?" Cookies, registration & other games until next week. Compliments of the No Fun police.
Aubrey Keel 1902-1999
Morning Edition on the last of the Associated Press telegraph operators. real audio
Margaret Wente
"And so, come September, the 1,700 students at Meadowvale will get 2 minutes of TV commercials in the classroom every day of the week, as will the students in at least 30 more schools across Canada."
Richard Morrison on the public domain
"Then last year the US extended its 75-year copyright rule by a further 20 years - primarily because Disney lobbied Congress to keep Mickey Mouse in copyright."
Le bal des cerfs-volants
My friend JB's father is a kite-maker in Montreal. The story goes that the
SRC asked him to do a kite-show in the parking lot of their Montreal studios some years ago. He showed up at the
Maison Radio Canada, got a kite up and soon someone came along and commented on the kite and [Claude] asked him he'd like to fly it. Now there were two kites in air, and after the next person stopped there were three. Eventually, the whole sky was full of kites!
MacWeek on Photoshop 5.5
Call me bitter if you want, but I can't help but feel Adobe is just trying to raise capital to finish PS6. There was never any question that people would pay whatever it cost for multiple undos in PS5 when it was released, so where was the impetus to add web features when they can just call them an "upgrade" a year later? Grrrrr. via
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