How the candy lobby got an extra hour of daylight on Halloween
Apparently, moving daylight savings time past Halloween is something they’ve long lobbied for and only the completely ill conceived Energy Policy Act of last year was able to deliver.
So they’ll sell you a double bed, and give you privacy and endless champagne and then say you can’t do what comes naturally?
—Tony Elwood, Singapore Air passenger, displaying with stunning clarity the sense of entitlement that comes with flying first class. Singapore Air has politely asked passengers in the first class “suites” not to engage in any mile high antics.
Filter del.icio.us dailies from RSS feed using Yahoo pipes
Because all my friends seem to want to aggregate their Twitter/Del.icio.us/Flicker/whatever feeds into their blogs when all I want is the goddamn good stuff
Amazingly, this is the first album I’ve been excited about in months. Also, Trent was an OiNK user and says he paid $5,000 for In Rainbows.
“Prism isn’t a new platform, it’s simply the web platform integrated into the desktop experience. Web developers don’t have to target it separately, because any application that can run in a modern standards-compliant web browser can run in Prism.”
Ben Brown, the Consumating guy, on what not to do with community reward systems
“We had essentially short-circuited our rewards system by handing over all of the power to the whims of our fickle members.”
Sharp looking video and good looking player, if watching video in a tiny Flash box in your browser is your thing
Act now and get White Space Eliminator spray!
New Saul Williams album is self-released and download only
Produced by Trent Reznor, you can choose to pay $5 or nothing at all, and if you pay, you can download in a variety of formats, including FLAC. Preordered.
Publishing 2.0 takes a look at the user-generated content “myth”
Most UGC is created by people already pre-disposed to create content, not by “average” users. To be fair, though, I’d estimate that this number of creators is still in the millions.