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  • And you thought you lived in a bad street

    From the SMH:

    Maori living in a number of New Zealand towns have – not to put too fine a point on it – been living in Shit Street for years.

    Their road name signs actually read Kaka Street and, having been erected by predominantly English-speaking local councils, are supposed to be the name of a native parrot.

    But Maoris say kaka in their language means excrement, while the parrot that councils are trying to honour is either spelled “Kaakaa” or should have two macrons to indicate the vowels are long.

  • Something not right about this line

    From Techcrunch:

    “it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s so ajax intensive that it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s really smooth to use”

    Is it me of does this sound like a pitch for drugs or similar? 🙂

  • Are you cynical?

     

    You Are 52% Cynical

    Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you’re a realist.
    You see what’s screwed up in the world, but you also take time to remember what’s right.

  • Robert Scoble 2.0

    Robert notes over on his blog today “I think Om and Mike are telling all their fans ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?Ö‚Äúemail Scoble, it?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢ll keep him uninteresting”. I’m guessing it’s a reference to his more recent posts to Scobleizer…since he’s left Microsoft the tone has changed alot, it’s more personal, more insightful, sure, perhaps less controversial, but for my liking it shows a personal side of Robert, something that was often clouded in the past due to the intense level of attention his blog received when he was Microsoft’s Evangelist.

    Yes, Virginia, this is what personal blogs are suppose to be about.

    Personally, I like Robert Scoble 2.0, and I’m happy I resubscribed.

     

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  • Macs are a crashing all over the place!

    What would you rather, a Windows PC that runs for weeks without crashing (like mine do, indeed I’ve not rebooted my XP MCE PVR box for about 6 weeks now, and that then was only because of a critical systems update), or a Mac that crashes every other day?

    Lets ask some high profile Mac users, like Dave Winer: “Good question. The answer is that computers crash, even Macs. In my experience, they [Macs] crash more than Windows machines.”, or even Robert Scoble:”Last week on the way home from Montana Ryanne was editing her video on her Mac. The app just suddenly disappeared from screen. In my book that?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s called a crash. I found that to be very strange cause the hype on Macs is that they never crash. But, those commercials are so strong. The hype is so strong.”

    Now sure, PC’s aren’t perfect, particularly when you run Thunderbird on them, but’s it’s just nice to sit here and watch Mac users noting that the hype isn’t all its cracked up to be 🙂

     

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  • Another reason why I’ll be buying a Wii

    From Slashdot:

    [in] an interview in USA Today with Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime confirms that the Wii’s online component will be free to play. The outspoken Nintendo advocate says “We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They’ll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to be Wi-Fi enabled, so essentially, you’ll be able to plug it in and go. It won’t have hidden fees or costs.”

     

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  • AOL Acquires GameDaily

    Looks like another nice acquisition for AOL, with news that they’ve acquired Games Daily:

    AOL LLC announced today that it has acquired GameDaily ( http://www.gamedaily.com ), one of the Internet’s leading independent video game publications, from Gigex, Inc.

    AOL’s agreement with Gigex closed on August 10th, 2006. Financial terms were not disclosed.

    Founded in 1995 and based in San Francisco, CA, the privately-held Gigex serves the mainstream gaming audience with its GameDaily.com website, one of the top three most visited video gaming information destinations on the Web. In addition, the company reaches industry decision makers each day with the GameDaily Biz newsletter, the most widely read video game trade publication.

    As part of the agreement, AOL will acquire both the GameDaily consumer website ( http://www.gamedaily.com ) and the industry-leading newsletter, ( http://Biz.GameDaily.com ), which just received a “New First” award for its outstanding ongoing coverage of the video games industry by AEIM*. GameDaily will become the flagship video games brand within the AOL Games network, and will be united with content and community features currently found on the AOL Video Games website ( http://www.aol.com/videogames).

    Odd thing is, can’t see the news anywhere else other than at the site (nothing at techmeme, techcrunch, even Calacanis.com at the time of writing (3:20pm +8GMT), maybe I’m the first to notice this…as I noted on Jason Calacanis’ blog the other day in a comment, AOL is on one bloody great big rollercoaster of a ride at the moment, although I’m sure this acquisition will be on the up side of the rollercoaster.

     

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  • Handball for adults?

    Looks like a kiddies game called “kickball” which is big in the school yards of America (never heard of it myself) is booming amongst adults, at least according to MSNBC. Which begs the question for Australian readers, will handball be the next big Australian sport? Certainly I spent many, many lunch breaks playing and observing the Quintessential Australian school yard game as I was growing up. It wasn’t of course just about playing it, it was also the social thing around it…ok, I’m being old again, I’m reminiscing….time to be quite 🙂

  • Will the AOL Digg spamming story be the most Dugg story ever?

    This story is going to make big headlines in the next couple of days, although I’m sure I’ve read something similar in the past. What shocked me though was the rate in which the story at Digg itself is getting Dugg. I opened the page up at Digg to see what the fuss was about. I left it for about 5 minutes then came back to it, it was reading 3146 diggs. I thought it was interesting enough to be Dugg, so I clicked on Digg this: the total went to 3265 diggs, thats over 100 diggs in 5 minutes. I’ve just hit refresh as I’m typing this post, maybe 2 minutes later, it’s now reading 3290 diggs! That’s another 35 diggs in 2 minutes…amazing. One to watch!

     

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  • Today’s smiles

    Whilst I’m still waiting on my latest attempt to convert Thunderbird files to something I can use elsewhere (it’s been an hour running now!), two quick smiles both from Fark:

    On this story about a hit and run at a McDonalds outlet, the Fark headline: “Disgruntled McDonald’s customer runs into two other customers with her car after dispute over who was next in line. Victims reportedly not loving it”

    In response to this story on 7 people dying in a toilet accident, the first comment: “Well, that’s a shiatty way to die.”.