At least it feels like Friday, so let’s wrap up the week with some humor. Have a happy 4th of July!
Who is godwin, i dont see his or her comment? Head over to FriendFeed, for a discussion of identi.ca, a Twitter clone, and why it wasn’t top on TechMeme. It’s overly meta, but Gabe’s summary makes it worth reading.
I said green, not yellow. 13 uses for dead-tree phone books:
6. Open the book flat in the middle and use for a blotter for crafts projects. Just rip off the upper pages to refresh.
For the love of children. From A List Of People Who Need To Stop Writing Software:
A Printer driver is a folder with one “.ini” file, and a couple of “.dll”s and that’s it. It is not a 50 MB download. It is not an IE Toolbar, and Side Pane. It is not half-baked photo software. It is not a splash screen when your computer starts. It is not a tray icon.
Adobe Reader 9 is out! Or how I let it recompose, install, eat up 189MB and all I got was this lousy “internal error occurred”. (Bonus point, check out the README file type)
Retrochic. From the department of everything old is still old, we bring you the server-side blink tag and Trailing-Edge Computing.
Picture: Is that what it takes to produce an Ubuntu release? (by ALTAIR Crea & Comparte)
links for 2008-07-04 — Chip’s Quips