I thought this Google Easter Egg deserved a link.
March 2008 Archives
I listen to an unhealthy number of podcasts in a week, but since I don't have cable, spend 12 hours per week commuting to and from work, and don't have satellite radio, I hear all kinds of interesting things. I have been listening to FLOSS Weekly on the TWiT podcast network.
FLOSS Weekly is about free and open-source software. This week's episode includes a rather lengthy interview with Ward Cunningham. He is the guy who invented wikis. Not just a guy who invented a type of wiki. Back in 1995, Ward invented the wiki. He wrote it in Perl. Here is a link to the original. Check out the show for some really interesting stuff.
Is anyone else experiencing campaign fatigue? This editorial cartoon bears striking resemblance to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
For anyone who doesn't get the title of this post, I say "Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!" Watch this to begin your training young Padawan.
If we all pull together, we will find a light at the end of this tunnel.
I love my Netflix. Three years ago, I gave up cable, but we kept our Netflix. Now they have the Watch Now service that is unlimited. (How's that Mac OS X support coming?) I saw a story this morning from Newsweek that was linked from the Hacking Netflix site about people using Netflix in "creative" ways.
Netflix of course doesn't like the practice of using their personal service for profit. Well, Netflix, this could be an additional service offering. Why not create business plans that allow small rental companies to source those obscure titles from you? I won't pretend to understand the legal wrangling that would of course have to happen, but what company is in a better position right now to have a go at this plan?
As for libraries, couldn't we cut them a break? Public libraries provide a service for the common good, and in small towns especially, their budgets are constantly shrinking. If a library lends a title from a Netflix account, Netflix still only ships it twice. It is also likely that these library lenders take longer to cycle a DVD. That translates to fewer DVDs than I watch with my home account. Helping a community's public library...that sounds like a positive PR/marketing opportunity for the company to me.
I was skimming the digg.com feeds this morning and ran across this Washington Post article that definitely should get the Headline of the Year award. They had me at Skywalker!
