equivocal ramblings

Blogcritics.org: Why Going to the Movies Sucks So Bad is a nice take on the (sometimes) ordeal of having to go watch a movie…

Its amazing how the usage of email has changed. Once upon a time I could expect most, if not all of the email in my inbox to be of some value to me, something someone had taken time to write up (in plain text, no more) and it had purpose. The subject field still carried meaning with most people, and was filled in with an almost religious effort at meaningfulness. Ah, how I long for those days, when men were men and email was more of a communication vector, and not a public forum for the sharing of pretty pictures and smileys and all that crap.

Nowadays, the only serious email I get comes from clients. Friends no longer send email to say “Hi, how are you?” Actually, come to think of it, some of them do, but its more along the lines of, “Hi, hw r u???”

Its almost not worth my time checking my email anymore. The only folders in my inbox I scan with any effort are the mailing lists, and also an ‘approved’ smart folder.

This video (allegedly) of a Ferrari racing through Paris at up to 140 MPH is just insane. Feels rather like someone is playing Need for Speed actually.

Some have suggested that it may be a motorcycle instead of a car, but the level of tilt on all the maneuvers performed aren’t quite consistent with a bike, and when was the last time you saw a bike drift?

Grab it via one of the methods listed in the post.

Explorer Destroyer seems to be a rather interesting and fanatical take on converting the unwashed masses over to Firefox. Check it out.

Pathetic.

This is a beauty:

In 1918, this was found scribbled on a wall:

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a Communist, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike, and reside in the Castle of aaaaaagggh…

Unencyclopedia

Nasal spray makes people trusting, even gullible…. Interesting read. By the way, you really, really want to buy me this t-shirt

Via The Fishbowl:

Featuring employee blogs on your company’s website is a very cluetrain thing to do. It exposes the unedited, individual voices that make up your organisation, free from the sanitised, corporate veneer. Generally it makes your company look alive, progressive and interesting.

So what happens when you’re a magazine publisher whose founder and CEO has apparently just said “What does ethics have anything to do with professional reporting and journalism?” in a published interview, and the senior editorial staff of one of your magazines has resigned in protest?

Go there, and check out the snapshot of the page :P

I’ve always loved The Register’s sense of style, and this is just golden.

I like being right. I’ve been saying (and so has the rest of the #linux) that Solaris 10 is going to be sort of like Longhorn — a disappointment. Here you go, ladies and gentlemen — Sun plays hide and seek with key Solaris 10 goodies