December 2007
2007: Yet Another Year in Review →
“Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought...”
– Peter Ustinov
“The big thieves hang the little ones.”
– Czech Proverb
“Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count...”
– Dave Barry
Friday Random Ten: 2007-12-28 →
“Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. ...”
– Mark Twain
“All I wanted was to make the world a better place… and to make an assload...”
– Jodene Sparks
“In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians.”
– Spock, “Wolf in the Fold”, stardate 3615.4
2008 Tech Predictions
1: Apple will launch a 3G iPhone powered by a broadcom chipset.
2: Apple will launch a second (cheaper) iphone w/limited functionality.
3: Tivo will be acquired.
4: Tumblr will be acquired.
5: More sites will adopt OpenID, but only geeks will notice.
6: Google/Microsoft/Facebook will compete w/Amazon in the web services market.
7: My family still won't understand RSS, or use it.
8: Semantic Web won't take off in 2008.
9: Semitransparent 'overlay' video ads will finally monetize short-form content.
10: Microsoft will launch a new 360 w/integrated HDDVD/HDMI/250GB HD.
“If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming...”
– Jack Handey
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
– Anthony Burgess
“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
– W. Somerset Maugham
sci-fi geek →
Merry F@#%in’ Christmas →
“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. ...”
– Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb’s Journal
Friday Random Ten: 2007-12-21 →
“You see, boy? The real money’s in bootlegging! Not in your childish...”
– Homer J. Simpson
Happy Holidays →
A Technical Summary of the Major Presidential... →
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“Christianity is destroying America. … America needs to be a progressive country...”
– Tom Gregory: They Still Deliver My Mail on Yom Kippur (The Huffington Post)
“And while I, Robot is slightly more entertaining than Bicentennial Man insofar...”
– Michael Swaim
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
It’s a Philip K. Dick Christmas →
“They’re growing their own talent — like industry bands — out...”
– Anthony Bourdain (on the decline of the Food Network)
“A lot of the stuff I do is so minimal, and it’s designed to be minimal. ...”
– Chris Elliot, writer and performer on Late Night with David Letterman
“This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet...”
– Charles Montgomery Burns
Feel the Joementum →
Merry Christmas →
