Ars Technica is reporting that RIO is abandoning the MP3 player business. For consumers this means less choice as to which players you can buy. For Apple it means more market share. Ars Technica: “So much for first-mover advantage. D&M Holdings, Inc., owner of the Rio digital music player brand, has decided to pull out…
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Flickr: The Clock is Ticking. Move to Yahoo or Else.
Well, it’s happened. Yohoo has given Flickr users one year to create or migrate to a Yahoo User ID or they’ll be locked out of Flickr. Flickr: “… we will be migrating all independent Flickr accounts to Yahoo!’s network in 2006. At that time, if you have not done so already, you will be asked…
...Read MorePodcasts Getting Down and Dirty
SF Gate: “It didn’t take long for sex to rear its heavy-breathing head in the nascent world of podcasting. Now, in addition to free audio shows on music, politics and sports available for downloading onto your handy-dandy MP3 players, you can access old-fashioned — or not so old-fashioned — sexcasts as well, for repeated aural…
...Read MoreWhat’s the difference between e.g. and i.e.?
Ask Yahoo!: i.e. means “in other words” and e.g. means “for example.” There. Now STOP SCREWING THEM UP. Tags: writing, language
...Read MoreYo. Peeps.
So, all you fellow web developers and designers out there, are you reading the IE Blog from the team at Microsoft? If you’re not, you’re going to be a page behind when it finally goes RC. Friday there was a post of changes still to be made and Sunday there was a discussion on printing…
...Read MoreAn Interesting Conversation
Here’s a very interesting conversation taking place over on Flickr. JIHAD IS NOT TERRORISM: Everyone in flickr, westerners or arabs, jihad is NOT terrorism! what poeple like Osama Bin LAden and other terrorists are doing is NOT JIHAD! What they THINK is jihad is NOT! jihad is about DEFENDING ISLAM INCASE SOMEONE INVADES! NOT GOING…
...Read MoreThe Secrets Out
I stumbled across this the other day and felt a moral obligation to post it. THE SECRET IN-N-OUT BURGER MENU! w00t! Now I wanna go try one of each. genex’s In-N-Out Burger Secret Menu: “Animal Style” – bun is grilled with mustard, sauteed onions instead of raw, pickles, extra “special sauce” – [this can also…
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