It’s been pretty scary lately. Now, hurricane Wilma has broken a record with the lowest minimum pressure ever measured in a hurricane in the Atlantic basin. The weather the last few months reminds me of that episode of Family Guy where Peter tells everyone he’s healed Chris and they start worshipping him. He starts acting like God and when bad things start happening he doesn’t understand why, so Brian explains it to him.
You want an explanation? God…is…pissed.
Ok, back to work.
Time Magazine has released its list of the top five tech innovations of 2006. Nintendo Revolution comes in strong at number two, right behind Boeing’s new 787 dreamliner. So where are Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360? Oh wait…they’re just shinier versions of their former selves.
Recent research says a large monitor makes you more productive. Now I have some research to justify my request for a second monitor at work.
Print out thousands of speech bubble stickers. Place them on ads all over town. Enjoy the results.
Nintendo has announced a partnership with Wayport who provides WiFi for McDonalds. So now you’ll be able to play your DS online from McDonalds. I also like the fact that Nintendo’s online support is free as opposed to Xbox Live.
This is a step-by-step guide by “Samy”, the guy who created a MySpace Javascript worm that quickly made him the most popular guy around. This probably isn’t going to mean much to most people, but it’s pretty interesting how he got around all these hurdles. Basically, he created a worm so that anyone who viewed his profile would add him as a friend (and hero) without knowing it. Than anyone who viewed that person’s profile would add him as a friend (and hero) as well. The original story goes into more detail.
It’s official. I’m popular.
I have hit 1,000,000+ users. In less than 20 hours, I’ve hit over 1/35th of all myspace users.
As someone who’s worked with this stuff before, it’s pretty incredible how he accomplished it.
For some strange reason, this makes me very happy. Seriously, I’m grinning right now.
I’ve never really cared for /. much. Digg.com is quickly reaching Slashdot when comparing daily visitors according to Alexa’s Traffic Rankings. Slashdot isn’t as cutting edge as it used to be: stories get barely 200 replies. Maybe their new CSS update was too little, too late.
This is a nice overview from 1up.com detailing everything known about the Revolution and what it will mean for the next-gen of gaming.
Edit: One thing I didn’t already know – the next Smash Brothers will have online support, which likely means other popular games (at the least) will follow.
A company has made dialing Information free by coupling it with short strategic advertising. 1-800-Free411. Awesome.
I don’t know what to think of this. Nothing would really surprise me anymore.