Monday, April 5, 2010

The Futility of Twitter:Earthquake edition

Catch up with all the latest aftershocks at xkcd


The misery mystery of tech docs explained

Dilbert.com

Grub test your flake sets to another kernel at Dilbert.com


Google borgs another company

Google makes another interesting purchase, and today’s lucky lottery winner is online streaming video service Episodic, who are as gullible as oysters in a walrus’s tummy happy as clams about being acquired by thieving lying turncoat mental patients joining a world class widely despised respected brand. My guess is Google needs to add some pizazz and income potential to YouTube and none of the geniuses in the people’s republic of engineers running the show beneath management didn’t have an inclination or desire to work on that problem. Whaddya’ do? Buy some brains and intellectual property who’ve already solved the problem. Ta’ da! Enter Episodic, bring in the lawyers, sign the contracts, borg the technology into YouTube, and cross your fingers and hope that baby makes a bigger revenue to line Squirrel Boy’s coffers.


Sunday, April 4, 2010

Google’s Jobso dunk tank

Boy, the guys at Google are truly asking for it.


Long Beach Bunny Party!

Kilw the wabbits?

Good gravy! It’s bad enough they just had a nice 7.1 earthquake, but Long Beach also has an infiltration of Easter Rabbits! Everywhere you go, burrows, droppings, rabbit fights for territory, vegetation decimated, but these SoCal residents are as befuddled as Elmer Fudd on how to eliminate or control this conflagration of coneys, ‘cos they so cuddly and cute when you see ‘em boppin’ on your lawn, ’til they start chewin’ up your prize lettuce patch or burrowing beneath your begonias.

Filthy com-sap socialist-liberal bunnies, I'll blast 'em to hell'n'back, again !!!

Wallace & Grommit are l’il out of the way, so importing these animal removal experts might be a wee bit more than the city council budget can manage. They can always invite this guy to solve their problem, as long as all residents remain indoors until the all clear has been sounded.

And how was your Easter?


“I and iPad”

Woz tweeted this photo with that caption.


Earthquake hits Southern California

The 7.2 quake was epicentered in Baja. This girl just happened to be rolling the video on her guitar performance when the rumbling began.


The science behind the Green Monster

It’s opening night for Major League Baseball, as the hated World Series champion New York Yankees visit historic Fenway Park to battle their bitter division rivals, the Boston Red Sox. (Man, sportswriting is easy.)

Fenway is known for its huge left field wall, known as the Green Monster. And as this report shows, there’s more to it than meets the eye.


FSJ on the politics of the iPad

Interesting article here on CrunchGear about who did and who did not (ahem) get a review copy of the iPad prior to the launch.


Childlike sense of wonder, indeed