Woah 🙂 As seen in various places on the net…
Don’t forget the The Mario Brothers Saga movie series.
The Big Hard Drive In The Sky
If it is as economical as they say to give people a gigabyte of e-mail storage, expect them to provide you with storage for other reasons down the line. Imagine having all of your mp3s stored by Google. Searchable and reachable, only by you, on various devices. Forget needing a bigger iPod hard drive. You just need a wireless connection.
It’s the ‘big hard drive in the sky’.
Gmail is real
Google’s Gmail is a galactic April’s Fools
I am loving watching the mainstream media bite down hard on Google’s biggest April’s Fools joke yet. Believe me, someday Google will release an e-mail product, but it’s not today.
More at Slashdot and John Battelle’s Searchblog.
Then again… I could be wrong, which would be nothing new. This could just be a case of terrific marketing.
Propaganda techniques
There is too much usage of these persuasive argument techniques to keep track of.
We use these outside the media and outside of politics. We use them in family arguments, in social settings, and at work. Is it that the same culture, which tells us an argument is for winning instead of finding the truth, which pervades our politics, has crept into our personal lives? I’ve used quite a few of these instinctively. How about you?
Condi About To Speak As They Attempt To Muzzle Others
Let’s get this straight, Condoleeza Rice is going to testify (NYTimes), in public and under oath. That’s great news and about time.
On the flip side, the GOP is making so that anyone who criticizes the federal government must register as a political committee. Scary.
Two radical web designs
And two links to two Metafilter threads….
Whenever Google changes, even as subtly as its latest, it’s big news (Metafilter). I like what they’ve done. There are more search results “above the fold” and the placement of Froogle on the home page says something.
newsmap, found in the Metafilter post, is a pretty nifty attempt at graphically presenting news headlines.
A few links on asfunction
You use asfunction to have a hyperlink, in Flash, execute an Actionscript method.
flashmagazine: Linking to Flash frames.
actionscript.com: getting to know asfunction.
Jesse Warden: How to break a Flash MX chatroom.
Mike Chambers: asfunction alternative.
Just for reference…
Art and the Zen of web sites
This link of simple tips is for some loved ones that just refuse to get web design. Read it please. Pretty, pretty please.
Contrast and compare will ya?
While our sons and daughters are fighting in a foreign land, the President cracks jokes about it: “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere”. Har, har, har. (Yahoo! story)
And….
“Your government failed you,” he said. “Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you. We tried hard. But that doesn’t matter, because we failed. And for that failure, I would ask, once all the facts are out, for your understanding and for your forgiveness.”: Richard Clarke, in testimony before the 9/11 commission. (NYTimes story)
How can anyone vote for Bush? How can you not vote?