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Waking the human
I’m worryingly familiar with this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmwqpHsMExg[/youtube]
Links o' the day
How the Edwardians spoke. I don’t really care about Edwardians, I just like examining how language changes over the decades.
A sad day for internet freedoms in China. Traffic from search engines Yahoo!, Live.com and Google are being redirected to Chinese-owned Baidu.com. Bastards.
How to make a floating skull illusion. Don’t tell me you’ve never wanted to do this!
Why Facebook needs money: data centres. The snowballing social networing site has taken out a lease on a 10,000sq ft facility to house data servers.
Lessons learned from a near disaster. Please excuse me while I back up my hard drive…
Canadian paedophile suspect arrested in Thailand. Oh, they’re gonna love him in prison!
And last, but by no means least, 10 ways to geek out this Hallowe’en.
Microsoft will devour us whole
Possibly. I had to laugh when I read this report from Reuters:
Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company aims to pursue an independent path, focusing on up to 20 smaller acquisitions of $50 million to $1 billion each annually rather than mega-deals.
Excuse me, but since when was $1bn a small acquisition? Given the $23bn or so Microsoft has lying about it might seem that way. It just shows the relativity of it all. But if they were willing to buy this blog for, say, €2m or €3m I wouldn’t necessarily say no. 😀
Hooray!
Hooray for Humans have released their first single, “Signature”.
Here are your instructions: Go on iTunes. Buy. Listen. Love.
Links o' the day
Mulley ups the ASNO ante. 2FM dj Rick O’Shea has sworn off Facebook for the week, and is feeling the brunt of Damien Mulley’s mischief making. Send Rick your FB love!
13 strategies for breaking bad habits and cultivating new ones. We’ve all got them, now it’s time to kick their habitual asses.
Geography of barbecue in the United States. Why did I become a journalist? To find strange stories like this one and spread them across the interweb.
The future of electronic paper. And thus, the newspaper industry. Minority Report had something along these lines.
India plans to impose restrictions on foreign investors. The economy is steaming ahead but the plan almost crashed the stock market. Way to think ahead, guys!
Face transformer. Upload a pic of yourself and change it to a different age or even see how you look as drawn by one of the masters. Via Cian Boland.