Posts Tagged ‘pandas’
4.1: when dorks come to play »
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
If you’re connected to the interwebs (via USB, dial-up or bio-microchip), you’ve likely seen the geektastic offerings for this first of April. I could do the same, but that it’s snowing is joke enough for me.
Instead, here’s a rundown of a few choice celebratory items:
- Google puts Gmail on autopilot
For some reason the dorks at Goog go nuts for 4.1 and this is no different. It comes with entertaining copy and is a funny idea. The bit under “match your personal style” is top notch. (Bravo Goog-ites.) - Woot makes a vague statement about consumerism (maybe)
I like the idea of this more than I like it. (If you no what I mean.*) - And then they fail miserably with CADIE
What in the hell are you thinking? I couldn’t tell you because I can’t make it two paragraphs in without my neurons collapsing at the side of the track vomiting blood. - Identi.ca acquires Twitter
In a too-many-won’t-care move, Control Yourself reports their micro-blogging platform has purchased Twitter. The quote from “unnamed exec” at the end is priceless. (Literally?) - Reddit looks like Digg
And the three of you laugh… and laugh… and laugh… - “It’s like Flickr but for your nose.”
For those that double over in laughter at the dorkness of irony or over-the-top boring, this is for you. The fragrances and “icons” shown are obscure to 98% of the population. (The joke of the frangrance/icon combonations make that about 99.27%.) - Kodak releases eyeCamera 4.1
Kodak still makes cameras? - Flights to Mars from Expedia
The idea is… ish but the math is hilarious. Parts of the rest of the copy are entertaining too. (More than I can say for CADIE, that bastard panda.) - Finally a search engine built exclusively for Fox News anchors and viewers
“Tired of being inundated with the contradictory and offensive beliefs of others? Today, the scientists at Yahoo! are releasing a groundbreaking new search filter…” (Priceless.) - Top Gear comes to Hulu
This one is so close to my heart it actually feels like a vice grip on my aorta. (Lift my spirits and then crush them like so many PBR cans.)
There are many more examples of nerds making barely-known references to arcane at TechCrunch. (They’re updating their list as more come in, unlike me.) Enjoy.
* You don’t. Because it doesn’t make any sense.
greenland has no green… »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
gregwake > Flickr
… and Iceland has no ice. Or money.
Iceland, in all its “we’re so hot we can run day-to-day on geothermal pipes” ways, is bankrupt. This, like the extinction of the panda, is long overdue. If any country deserves financial ruin, it’s Iceland.
Why, you ask, do I so loathe the Icelan-dicks (zing!)? Read this and this and come back. (The staff is off enjoying the fact we don’t live on a continental rift so you have time; no rush.)
All set?
So (for those lazy tools that didn’t read) basically…
- They adopted the American model of greed and imaginary money.
- They don’t realize we can’t even keep ourselves afloat with vast resources.
- They still believe in elves.
Neoconservatives have been forcing pure capitalism on people for decades (Chile, Russia, Iraq, etc) so I can forgive them the attempt at vacuous wealth. Believing there are tiny people disrupting construction projects, though, is a new level of idiot.
Iceland could have used their energy savings, invested in technology or education and lead the world in the new enviro-conscious age. Instead they’re one of the most noteworthy of the recession-related failures.
For a country where more than half the residents can’t deny small, pointy-eared people live in rocks, it’s no surprise they’d think they could manifest financial security by shear will. What’s our excuse?