Archive for the Interestingness Category

How long will it take before the iPhone kills flash Web sites?

Flash as a platform, of course, will never die. In fact it is proving to be a pretty nifty tool for delivering content.

But I’m thinking about those bubble-gum sites that are designed in that horrid 550pxx400 keyhole. Because iPhone doesn’t like them. And iPhone is proving to be a pretty big deal on the Web. Just look at this interesting little factoid that popped up on teh interwebs this week. That’s right, kids. Ever since the launch of the iPhone GS Youtube has seen a 400% a day spike in increased video uploads.

So the more people realise that their content is being accessed on the Jobsphone, the more they will veer away from Flash.

An old joke

| April 10th, 2009

1600 years old to be precise:

A barber, a bald man and an absent-minded professor takes a journey together. They have to camp overnight, so decide to take turns watching the luggage. When it’s the barber’s turn, he gets bored, so amuses himself by shaving the head of the professor. When the professor is woken up for his shift, he feels his head, and says “How stupid is that barber? He’s woken up the bald man instead of me.”

Food for thought

| March 29th, 2009

Natural World – A Farm for the Future.

powerlinerflyers on Vimeo

| March 11th, 2009

Wonder what the effect would be if this had scary music on it?

Essential Reading

| February 9th, 2009

The Manual.

How to fix Microsoft Word’s spell-checker. – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine.

I agree.

Here is another, similar open-source idea I added to my idea-stream this week.

xkcd on Windows 7

| January 9th, 2009

xkcd – A Webcomic – Windows 7.

This is our mind

| January 8th, 2009

Desmond Tutu, on Obama, in the Atlantic. Love this quote:

The African in him is the one who is making him ask, “What is the consensus?” That’s the African way at its best. The good leader in Africa is the leader who keeps quiet and lets others speak and then says at the end, “I have heard you all, and this is our mind.”

Iphone Sketches – a set on Flickr.

A meteor on Wall Street

| December 30th, 2008

Agree or disagree with James Howard Kunstler (I sometimes do and sometimes don’t), you have to love the way he writes. From this week’s Clusterfuck Nation:

The American banking sector imploded spectacularly to the degree that investment banking actually went extinct — as if a meteor landed on the corner of Madison Avenue and 51st Street.