Some Sunday morning reading to share.
North Korea launches its rocket under the guise of launching a satellite. Of course it didn’t launch a satellite, but it did insure that it would be talked about on the Sunday morning talk shows.
Is Google an amoral menace? Henry Porter seems to think so.
Friendfeed is set to roll out a new beta tomorrow and Scoble is doing his best to tease this into a frenzy.
Microsoft releases another ad in its latest campaign and the Apple/Microsoft fanboys go nuts. Steven Hodson of The Inquisitr gets it, and shows how others don’t.
Is the “Vook” the future of digital books?
A Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision that allows trademark owners to sue Google for selling its trademark as an Adword will have some big ramifications.
The New York Times looks at a few of the folks who made some cash by developing iPhone apps. No mention of the fart apps, though. Still, I’m guessing we’ll see a few more folks trying to cash in after this article.
Kathleen Parker looks at the turmoil inside the Christian Right. Good article.
What? The Chicago Bears trade for a quarterback who can actually pass the football? Shocking.
A Japanese Robot with a Biomimetic Body is supposedly developing social skills in the way a child does by watching and interacting with humans.
Some Sunday morning reading to share.
A Internet Spy Network is stealing government secrets in 103 countries and China is the suspect. Anyone surprised by this? Via the New York Times.
The new Microsoft commercials that smack at Apple’s higher prices are getting the Apple fan’s dander up. Some responses are quite passionate. Maybe, I don’t remember this accurately, but it seems like the reaction is much larger than when the I’m a Mac/PC commercials first debuted.
Twitter fun: Marc Cuban criticizes refs via Twitter and a supposed Palm Pre beta tester tweets the release date.
Last night we had Earth Hour and folks around the globe turned things off. (I didn’t because I couldn’t rehearse in the dark, but, hey.) Rush Limbaugh and his cohorts decided to turn lights on to counter the effort. Amazing. While I’m not saying the Earth Hour move was necessarily anything larger than a big symbol, some of the actions of those seeking an opposite action give the term “childish” a bad rep. Check out this list.
Live productions are now slowly going digital. We’re having requests for this at Wayside Theatre, but the costs are prohibitive at the moment. Michael Parekh has a good post on this .
There’s a Top 10 List for affordable bacon products? Who knew.
The Numa Numa guy gets a YouTube video deal with Geico. Check out the little green guy in the background.
Scientists have discovered a new undersea predator from the the age of dinosaurs. Supposedly more vicious than T-Rex.
Liberal Obama critic and Noble Prize winning economist Paul Krugman gets immortalized in song.
It has been and will continue to be a long Act 2 here on Life on The Wicked Stage, although there have been times when I’ve wished for a longer intermission this year. I still find it hard to believe that I’ve been doing this for four years, and yes, it is even harder still to envision not doing it. More to the point, I sit every day in wonder that people actually come here, or read what is written on RSS feeds after all this time. The thoughts, links, and musings here are things that I find of interest and chose to comment upon one way or the other. The fact that anyone else deems that of value is a bit scary and still inspires a bit of awe in my pea brain.
This has been a challenging year for me personally on a number of fronts, and consequently things fell off here in spurts. Even so, I still counted it as a blessing that I could return to share things that I found silly, fun, ridiculous, outrageous, sublime, beautiful, ugly, and above all worth sharing. Yes, it is still a refuge, and yes, it is still a place that I like very much.
Some Sunday morning reading to share. All sorts of hurricanes are swirling around.
While the politicians and pundits focus on the follies associated with the presidential campaign’s the economy continues to unravel around the mortgage and credit crisis. The Feds look like they might take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The candidates are starting to pay attention. Alexander Hamilton would stand in amazement with his mouth open.
Michael Parekh looks at the impact of the economy beyond November’s elections.
Gustav is gone, Hannah is gone, but Ike sounds like a terrible 3 in a 1-2-3 punch.
The two campaigns are succeeding in ignoring most of the real issues and playing games with flags and mooseburgers.
Sarah Palin may or may not have said, “So, Sambo beat the bitch” after Obama clinched the nomination. I wouldn’t be surprised either way. If the Repubs would let her talk, I think she’d surprise and survive. Instead they are adopting a Microsoft strategy of letting others define her. I doubt Seinfeld will be able to help here either.
I’m not sure which is the bigger storm, the presidential campaign or the fracas over the crazy back and forth regarding Demo and TechCrunch50. Fun to watch, especially while Scoble is throwing fuel on the fire.
Is Microsoft missing the boat on mobile? Yes.
George Will looks at that political cliche: Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Obama goes into the eye of the storm when he sits down with Bill O’Reilly. Smart move? We’ll have to see.
Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky gets Tablet PC users attention with this post. Loren Heiny responds. So do I.
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