A while ago I mentioned attending a talk by Seth Godin at Google. I am delighted to notice that the talk is now available online via the selection of Google tech talks now available online. It's also interesting that this collection has grown a lot since last time I looked, so it's worth keeping an eye on.
What happens when you give a little girl a machine gun? Interestingly I was watching a documentary of the training of Marine Corps tank crews, and they're taught not to fire in extended bursts because it is bad for the barrel.
What happens when all four lanes of traffic obey the speed limit in Atlanta?
So, I'm off a somewhat short notice to Portland to talk at their LUG meeting, which is kinda cool. I don't know what I'm talking about yet, so I am going to have to leave that hanging for now. Any suggestions of things to see there in my couple of spare hours?
It's so true... Microsoft could do with some more simplicity in their lives.
The Artisan hotel has rooms with pool tables for a mere $499 US a night. Sounds like fun. Expensive fun. Via Seth Godin.
"Please hold -- you're, like, an awesome customer, which is why we're going to play the Casio Keyboard version of Disco Inferno at you for the entire duration of your call. Please hold". Don't let Rory Blyth's slipping sanity distract you from his awesome sense of humour...
A Sudanese man was recently forced to marry a goat after being caught having sex with it. What I want to know is how they knew it was real man-goat love, not just a fling. Wont someone think of the children?
Apparently you can pack meat in carbon monoxide gas if you're a supermarket in the US and want the meat to be red longer. Ewwww.
Thanks to John N. Rayner for pointing out that figure 7-41 wasn't online. It turns out this is because the script that I wrote to convert the images refused to convert that figure for me because it was compressed with an algorithm that ImageMagick doesn't support for legal reasons. That compression was used because the publishing team tweaked that image at some point, and I simply didn't notice. The problem has now been corrected, and I apologise for any inconvenience.