Evidence we’re back in the 80s

I pity the fool!

This week I woke up back in the 80s. You do not believe me? Take a look at the evidence:

A-Team? Check.
Russian spies? Check.
Tories in power? Check.
Argentina v Germany? Check.
Fashion? Check.
Lakers v Celtic? Check.
1984? Check.

Now, where did I put my [...]

Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock

I do not have much to talk about this morning, but I have been unhealthily amused by the game Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock. Here is Sheldon explaining the game to us:

Scissors cuts Paper. Paper covers Rock. Rock crushes Lizard. Lizard poisons Spock. Spock smashes Scissors. Scissors decapitates Lizard. Lizard eats Paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock [...]

Android v iPhone

(via Claudio Ruiz) Loved this geeky comic book picture which, as such funny images are wont to do, encompasses the current Flash interoperability support debate with no words. You have to pay close attention, I missed it at first.

Found [...]

My TED Talk

(via James Burke) Errr…. no, I have not been invited to speak at TED… yet

Check out this great TED Talk generator. Someone has taken 525 published TED talks and created a random generator with it. Here is my “good” presentation. The platitudes almost make sense:

I’ll give you a couple of examples. You. will see [...]

Acquiring souls, one contract at a time

This qualifies as my favourite April’s Fools yet. UK  e-commerce game retailer Gamestation has modified their Terms and Conditions to include the following clause:

“By placing an order via this web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, [...]

How not to suck with PowerPoint

Mark Conguista gives his talk ‘PowerPoint: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. (Just Kidding: There’s Nothing Good About PowerPoint’. (Warning, swearing!)

Following this week’s PowerPoint theme [...]

Boss buttons

Great Boss Button from Scott Adams, at March Madness website:

Read the flow-chart [...]

PowerPoint and kittens

Every time you make a PowerPoint, Tufte kills a kitten

Brilliant background from Mark Goetz. Given the fact that today I’m working on 4 presentations for the next couple of weeks, I am afraid I might have feline blood on [...]

Copyright infringement is not theft

Tired of hearing copyright infringement called “theft” by all sort of people in the content industries? James Murdoch of News Corp is just the latest in a long line of  industry shills who favour this wrong-headed argument. I could write a long retort to that statement, but I will simply reproduce a comment from The Guardian [...]

The Internet? It will never work!

Bah, humbug…

Ah, 1995, the early days of the Internet. Windows 95. The Clinton era. Apollo 13. The Unabomber Manifesto. And in Newsweek, a columnist says that the Internet is all hype. He said:

“But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. [...]