Not So Fast

A chart depicting how far our TV shows have gotten in space. Further than I thought.

Ironic old ads.

Modern-day promotion schemes run amuck. (Cracked, NSFW) A surprising number involve baseball.

A giant mega-colony of billions of ants has spread over the world and they refuse to fight with each other.

Here’s how to start.

Roger Ebert on kids today. The videos are particularly worth watching.

The new Firefox 3.5 is available. It’s fast. And it supports the new HTML 5 <video> and <audio>  tags.  Sweet.

A 14-year-old tries out a Walkman. Hilarity ensues.

It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.

But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly – effective, if a little laboured.

When playing, it is clearly evident that the music sounds significantly different than when played on an MP3 player, mainly because of the hissy backtrack and odd warbly noises on the Walkman. The warbling is probably because of the horrifically short battery life; [LOL: ed] it is nearly completely dead within three hours of firing it up. Not long after the music warbled into life, it abruptly ended.

Did my dad, Alan, really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?

Laugh it up kids, eventually you’ll be shaking your head a the ridiculousness of the iPod.

President back-tracking on No New Taxes for the middle class. And the press corps laughs at the tap dancing.

Hedy Lamarr co-owned the patent on freqency-hopping, spread-spectrum invention which became the basis of modern spread-spectrum communication like wi-fi and your cell phone.

From this above-average Lileks B&W movie review.

Note: this is the appropriate length for a SNL skit. Anything longer drags down into epic unfunny.

Charts and graphs about the Cap and Trade bill. Looks bad. Crippling our economy, in this economy? Who thought that was a good idea?