Archive for October, 2006

Perfect pictures for an imperfect world

Monday, October 9th, 2006

For you photography buffs, this FotoPRIX commercial is simply amazing.

G buys YT

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Google buys YouTube.
Is a buyout an admission that Google Video got their asses kicked in?
Not sure about the price, but it makes some sense. No media company is going to touch YouTube with a ten foot pole and the biggest cost for YouTube is bandwidth, which Google has gobs of.
Does this mean I have to [...]

Photographic height and weight chart

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Someone is putting together a photographic height and weight chart.
The UI is really bad, but the idea is stellar.

Selenium

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Björn Schotte just contacted me via Skype.
Besides the obvious “Europeans are more hip to this Skype thing than us American’s” comment, it gave me an opportunity to find out what he’s been up to since I haven’t seen him for two years.

Willpower

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

If any of you can watch any of these videos to the end, tell me about it.
I’d file this under humor but, I have no idea if any these are funny. I watched the first 12 seconds of the first few and felt that was a pretty good exercise in willpower.
Let’s just say YouTube is [...]