Alt + Ctrl + X More edited then the Darth Vader one but still amusing.
The auto update plugin feature in wordpress 2.5 is awesome. Webapps are starting to get much closer to desktop apps.
Interesting Google talk on privacy. Not sure if there are any good answers here but it’s interesting to note that in England if there is an assumption of privacy between people then that will hold up in court unlike the US.
Yeah Hooray for amusing comment policy for trolls at BoingBoing.
Q. All the vowels have disappeared from a paragraph I wrote! What’s going on?
A. We did it. Someone (a moderator, one of the Boingers) was expressing displeasure at your remarks. The technique is called disemvowelling. It deprecates but does not delete the remark. With work, the disemvowelled text should still be readable.
How to Make a Proper Muxtape. Mine is here: http://sthayden.muxtape.com/
Gary V is right about how technology is making it harder to be two faced in any way. These days if you’re famous for being two faced people will start their own blog for you.
Today this is good for consumers as companies can not hide bad practices. In the end I think it will be good for people as they will also have to think more about how they act and treat others. For people it sounds good but who knows the hidden consequences. I know danah boyd has spoken out against this and has done a lot of research in how we speak differently to different groups of people. It’s interesting to read about how television changed politics so radically. Teens especially act and talk differently as they try and define their own personality.
I think things might seem the worst now at the transition then later at the end. Now as some people are more public then other there will be people getting fired for publicly saying the wrong thing or having the wrong pictures up. Over time though as every one levels out to having the same amount of information available certain scandals become less scandalous.
At the very least it will be interesting to see how this plays out over my entire life. My generation is the first to deal with it but it’s hardly going to be the generation that deal with it the best. In the end I think it will all work out and become at least a small net positive if not a large one.
Rick Astley has aged well. He looks a lot better then he did when he was younger.
I really want to like Sins of a Solar Empire after playing the demo. it’s an awesome game. I just really suck at RTS games and even lost on easy. If you like RTS definitely check out the demo.
There did not seem to be as much blow back about how much sxsw sucks as there has been in previous years. In case you are deciding if you should attend next year here is a list of the only people who should really attend SXSW:
- You’ve just heard of the internet and it sounds cool.
- You love parties and your friends from all over the world will be arriving as well.
- You are a panelist
Otherwise stay home.