Linkstravaganza!
I promised a real entry tonight, didn't I?
Well, I'm going back on that. Work was another mind-crushingly busy/frustrating/slow day.
Between support calls and fighting the render farm, I didn't get lunch until 3:30.
PM
In the afternoon.
(How many HitchHiker's Guide references am I going to make in this journal?)
I'm having trouble getting the thinky to work, so you get links instead. Mike (GeekGene) recently described me as a font (of internet goodness) because I send him interesting links I find on BoingBoing and other places. And now I pass them on to you. Apologies if you've already seen/read/heard them, but they're just text links anyway so you can easily scroll past.
First, today's xkcd comic cracked me up. And I haven't even played Portal. Yet.
MPAA: Oops! We lied and reported grossly inflated piracy numbers.
Curious and antique pistols including a 22 caliber pistol-knife, a crucifix pistol, and a pistol ring
Some of these pictures fill me with joy. When cable management become art. I'm with Cory when he says "My cabling tends to look more like an altar to The Flying Spaghetti Monster."
Mike actually linked these to me: The Baen Free Library and Baen's Webscription.net. Publisher Baen Books decides to "thwart" ebook piracy by encouraging their authors to offer free ebooks. The authors have complete control over which books are in the Library and for how long, the only real rule being a strong suggestion that authors should not submit more than five or six books at a time. This lets some of the less well known and mid-list authors get their stuff out in front of readers without being drown out by the top-selling authors. The main theory behind the Free Library seems to be something like "Free books increase sales!" another sentiment I've heard hot-air blogger Cory Doctorow espouse at length. Baen's stance is that if people like the books, they'll buy them, and giving them away free is no different than brick-and-mortar libraries, or friends sharing books to their friends. Free books promote word of mouth advertising.
Strange Maps ... the name says it all. Curious little maps. Amusing!
George Orwell's musings on working in a book shop. A quick, interesting read.
I think that's everything worth note I have open in tabs at the moment. Enjoy!
Well, I'm going back on that. Work was another mind-crushingly busy/frustrating/slow day.
Between support calls and fighting the render farm, I didn't get lunch until 3:30.
PM
In the afternoon.
(How many HitchHiker's Guide references am I going to make in this journal?)
I'm having trouble getting the thinky to work, so you get links instead. Mike (GeekGene) recently described me as a font (of internet goodness) because I send him interesting links I find on BoingBoing and other places. And now I pass them on to you. Apologies if you've already seen/read/heard them, but they're just text links anyway so you can easily scroll past.
First, today's xkcd comic cracked me up. And I haven't even played Portal. Yet.
MPAA: Oops! We lied and reported grossly inflated piracy numbers.
Curious and antique pistols including a 22 caliber pistol-knife, a crucifix pistol, and a pistol ring
Some of these pictures fill me with joy. When cable management become art. I'm with Cory when he says "My cabling tends to look more like an altar to The Flying Spaghetti Monster."
Mike actually linked these to me: The Baen Free Library and Baen's Webscription.net. Publisher Baen Books decides to "thwart" ebook piracy by encouraging their authors to offer free ebooks. The authors have complete control over which books are in the Library and for how long, the only real rule being a strong suggestion that authors should not submit more than five or six books at a time. This lets some of the less well known and mid-list authors get their stuff out in front of readers without being drown out by the top-selling authors. The main theory behind the Free Library seems to be something like "Free books increase sales!" another sentiment I've heard hot-air blogger Cory Doctorow espouse at length. Baen's stance is that if people like the books, they'll buy them, and giving them away free is no different than brick-and-mortar libraries, or friends sharing books to their friends. Free books promote word of mouth advertising.
Strange Maps ... the name says it all. Curious little maps. Amusing!
George Orwell's musings on working in a book shop. A quick, interesting read.
I think that's everything worth note I have open in tabs at the moment. Enjoy!