Bridge the Void

May 14

New Ferrari California. Overwrought, but not unlikeable, if you’re into Euro-thrash.

Mondo Croquet 2005 -

Get dressed up and play Croquet with bowling balls and, one assumes, sledge hammers.

Awesome.

May 13

Too many children dying in crashes - Most children who die in car crashes are improperly restrained, either in the wrong size seat or using an adult seatbelt when the child is too small or they are not restrained at all. I have nothing sensible to say about this. How you can not take every step to sensibly care for your child’s safety is beyond me.

Being google-stalked by your mum

• My mum: I was reading your website the other day
• Me: Oh? Which one?
• My mum: Oh, I don't know. I just look at whatever comes up in google
• Me: ...
• My mum: You're a very strange boy
• Me: Thanks, mum.

Twitter doesn't scale down

Last week I tried twitter, mostly because all the MacBreak Weekly guys are always on about how awesome it is and how it lets your crowd-source all these things that are basically wicked problems. Which I’m sure is awesome if you’re among the most followed people on Twitter and have enough microlebrity to make that sort of use possible.

But, if you’re decidedly unfamous, as opposed to infamous, twitter doesn’t seem to make any sense. It’s like being the only person in a group who uses email, or the only one of your friends who is on Facebook.

In short, twitter doesn’t scale down. The value of twitter comes from the network effect. If you have no network, you get no effect. Normally, I’m all for shouting into the void, and I can see how and where and more importantly for who twitter works.

But it didn’t work for me.

“There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.” —

Bjarne Stroustrup (via warpedvisions.org ) (via inky)

I used to have this on my office door.

May 12

Things Better Than Ironman

scriptie:

• A Maria Carrey music video I saw last weekend
• “Zombie Strippers”
• GTA IV strippers

And that answers that question, Dave and Geoff.

Sydney properties halve in price -

HOUSE prices in some parts of Sydney have almost halved as battling borrowers struggle to keep up with increasing interest rates.

Ouch.

“In 1985, the average American had three people to talk to about their problems. Now the figure is just two. Why? Longer working hours are one reason but the real culprit is technology.” —

Richard Watson writes that Human contact is a cyber failing.

Clearly, Watson is an asshat technological determinist.

“It has cutesy animal “daemons” and flying witches that turn up completely at random, and something about angry polar bears and an old apparently omniscient guy with a balloon, and some secret shadowy organisation that’s stealing kids and cutting their ferrets off so that Nicole Kidman can have a less angry monkey… or something…” —

Dr Dave didn’t like The Golden Compass.

(Ad Hoc - It’s OK, the Golden Compass is crap.)

May 10

nevver:

Mopar

Phat.