Windows is a Cheap Hooker
I’m not all that sure that I agree with this attempt to characterize Windows vs. Mac OSX, but it’s entertaining, nonetheless. Found on Scobleizer.
“There’s a certain painted-on mystique to her, of course. We’ve all been indoctrinated with the propaganda, the hooker with the heart of gold, the disturbingly wide-mouthed Pretty Woman. When you find her, though, beneath the paint she’s really quite plain. You take what you need from her, but reluctantly and because you have no alternative. You get what you want, but she is almost peripheral to the act.”
Actually, I think what makes me uncomfortable about this is that he may be right. Of course, from all appearances this will change drastically with the release of Longhorn.
Taking Ice Scupltures To A Whole New Level
From boingboing.net:
Amateur digital photographer R. Todd King has posted a set of startlingly gorgeous photos of the snow and ice festival in Harbin, China.
“The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both farenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course!”
Below is one of his photos showing buildings made entirely out of ice, with coloured lighting inside. Unbelievably beautiful, and other-worldly.
Rodeohead
What do you get when you cross a contemporary band like Radiohead with bluegrass music?
One word: Rodeohead.
My Canada Includes Accordian Guy
Read the response of AccordianGuy, a Filipino-born Canadian, to a racist blogger who maintains that non-white Canadians are somehow less Canadian. AccordianGuy (Joey DeVilla) is my newest hero.
Photo Gallery of Deserted Island
Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called “Gunkanjima” that is hardly known even to the Japanese. Check out the photo gallery, and description of this forgotten place.
“I was twenty-two when I first visited the island I had dreamed about ever since childhood. Much like a fortress built upon the sea, surrounded by high walls, the island possessed an air of a small kingdom, where its denizens boasted ‘There is nothing we don’t have here.’ They were right. They did have everything within their miniature kingdom - except a cemetery. But, the irony of it was proven by the passage of time. Already, the island had been doomed to turn into an enormous graveyard.
Eventually, the mines faced an end, and in 1974 the world’s once most densely populated island become totally deserted. The island, after all its inhabitants departed leaving behind their belongings, became an empty shell of a city where all its people disappeared overnight, as if by some mysterious act of God.”
