There’s a user revolt going on over at Digg right now. It’s, well, pretty dang funny.
What happened is, someone figured out the master encryption key for the HD-DVD format, posted it on their site, and Digg being Digg, the story drew THOUSANDS of Diggs and rose to the top of the front page.
This one goes out to the guys still working at the DI:
Subtitle: It must be tough to be “venerable” on the internet.
Wired.com just launched a new look about, oh, within the past hour or so. Well, that’s not quite true. They’ve been fiddling with the look for a couple of months, but that’s mostly applied to the internal page layouts. They just flipped [...]
This is pretty spiffy.
I’ve been following the trials and tribulations of the One Laptop Per Child project for some time now. It’s a really neat idea cooked up by some of the hardcore propeller heads over at MIT.
It’s a highly noble venture. Basically, it boils down to creating a durable little laptop that [...]
Subtitle: First Dell asked what their customers wanted, but will they listen to the answer?
Dell has been running a “suggestion box” on their company website for the past three weeks.
Clocking in at over 100,000 requests, take a wild guess at what the top suggestion from Dell’s customers was?
Subtitle: I suspect Vista will become the new bane of my existence.
This one is for the designated “tech guru” in any circle of friends/family. Bear with me while I give a bit of backstory.
About a year and a half ago a friend brought me their defunct PC and asked if I could get it [...]
Subtitle: Newsflash - DRM hasn’t stopped sucking.
Quick linky post.
Here’s a good article over at Listening Post for people who have trouble explaining to others exactly why DRM is a bad thing.
How to Explain DRM to Your DadÂ
Subtitle: For many, Windows is unavoidable. That doesn’t mean you have to be stuck with Microsoft’s other overpriced, crappy offerings.
A coworker reads my blog on a regular basis (lord knows why), and after he read the post from the other day about “Ignorance” he started asking some remarkably astute questions about Firefox and Open [...]
Subtitle: You might want to pass this one along to your friends.
Personally, I refuse to have anything to do with MySpace. I firmly believe it is one of the greatest design disasters on the web. Not only is the core site itself horrifically designed, the user page creation tools are set up in [...]
Subtitle: Ignorant is different from a lack of intelligence.
Many moons ago, in one in one of my occasional escapes from city living, I took a job as a ranch hand at a relative’s. It was a nice enough job, plenty of hard physical work and fresh air. Didn’t pay worth a damn, but [...]