Pixar’s next film, ‘Up’ will premier at and open Cannes

The first for an animated film; still no word if it will be eligible for judging

Internet Explorer 8: History of the internet

Microsoft must’ve realized that anything serious would’ve just been torn apart. This is actually pretty damn good.

I approve of these IE 6 splash pages. Getting them approved for work might be an uphill battle.

Google Reader hacks

Kottke’s got a great Google Reader setup, via Fluid and Helvetireader

Among today’s announcement was the unveiling of Playboyarchive.com. 54 free archived issues of Playboy magazine will be available for free through the site starting late Wednesday night. The site will showcase Silverlight’s Deep Zoom technology that pretty much does what its name suggests.

—In an attempt that is as blatant as it is awesome, [Microsoft announced an exclusive partnership with playboyarchive.com](http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/MIX09:_Silverlight_3_Brings_HD Multi-Touch Offline_Apps_to_the_Web) that will be Silverlight only. Be sure to use that Deep Zoom technology to check out the kerning while reading all those articles.

Trent Reznor explains how Ticketmaster and Live Nation are going to screw you over even more

Well written, clear piece on the problem with big ticket live shows. Basically, Ticketmaster could stop scalping but there’s too much money for them to lose and they’re likely to simply skip the…

Fake twitter gets it so right it hurts

No mean feat, indeed

You’re just stuck waiting until you’ve had 17 fights with your new girlfriend, and that’s the only time that you can even start comparing her to your old girlfriend.

—Saleem breaks down the rule of 17 fights.

On the App Store

Adam gets positively Gruber-esque over a preposition and I love it.

For what it’s worth, I use “within” because I’m fancy like that.

Any economy which charges ever less for ever more intrusive ads will eventually be successful not in creating wealth but in driving the readers away, until the only ones left to heed the ads are all the other ads, the cell phones searching in vain for a target market among the cellulite.

—Mandy Brown, on advertising