Um, who was the maverick? Obama won “Maverick” county in Texas in a landslide.
An unfortunate ad on YouTube. (The video is of Noel Gallagher of Oasis speaking about how awful Britain’s growing knife crime problem is.)
I have had a lot of respect for Techcrunch and ReadWriteWeb, but their new second-string authors aren’t anywhere as smart as the people who got them to their current level of success. - Tim O’Reilly
That was Tim O’Reilly talking about a recent Bernard Lunn post over at ReadWriteWeb. Since I was the first full-time writer for RWW other than Richard, let’s just pretend Tim is talking about me. Of course, we can ignore that I wrote an article at SitePoint back in July that raised a very similar question.
To be fair, most of my readers took me to task the way O’Reilly slammed Lunn. ;)
So, the Parallels Transporter refuses to work (there’s 12 hours of my life I’ll never get back). I guess now I’ll just install XP Pro and transfer over the stuff I need manually. Good thing I bought that 8gb thumb drive the other day. :)
So I think I’m finally starting to recover from my 43 hour journey to Melbourne, Australia… and I leave in 2 days. D’oh.
Bad enough that this might be the final year for my favorite sport in the Olympics, but they’re also playing with the sanctity of the game itself. Apparently, the IBAF is so concerned by long games that they’re changing the rules for extra innings.
Each team’s at-bat in the 11th inning and beyond will begin with runners on first and second bases. Teams may start the 11th at any point in their batting order.
Seriously, what?! Awful, despicable, horrible, bad.
Is the Internet making Attention Deficit Disorder the norm? It would certainly seem that way. Our attention spans are eroding and the web may be to blame. With services like Twitter and 12seconds.tv it’s no wonder — the new crop of microcontent applications appear to made specifically for a populace with an attention span of zero.
I talk about the disappearing attention span in a post on SitePoint today.
