Yglesias appears to be upset that he doesn’t get to see Nicole Kidman play an Australian in the latest Baz Luhrmann blockbuster, Australia. When I saw that she was going to be starring in a movie called Australia, however, I just took it for granted that she’d be playing an Australian. But no! …and if you’re going to make […]
Calling him a serial skeptic would be too kind. In fact, calling him a skeptic at all would be wrong — he’s just a shit stirrer. Nothing more, nothing less. I wonder what he actually believes? I know what he writes, but if I were to hazard a guess, I’d say that he just writes what […]
Andrew Sullivan on the financial crisis: The truth is: we had this coming. We deserve it. And we deserve leaders who are able to tell us that. Yeah, no. I’d like to see any leader in charge of a government try and tell the people that we deserve this and that we should just sit […]
Man, they really screwed up the ending of the season 5 finale. They should have left things unresolved with E and Vince for the next season. Showing them having a massive fight and then making nice within the space of a few minutes was bizarre and off-tempo. In fact, the last couple of minutes of […]
Cuil has received a lot of bad press over the past few months. Unfortunately, much of it deserved. I hadn’t used Cuil since it was launched but after it’s spider visited one of my websites (and proceeded to trigger a bunch of 404’s by looking for files that are long gone — a mistake that […]
The long saga that is Omnidrive appears to be over. For those of you who don’t know, Omndrive was an Australian startup that offered free online file storage and had some early success. I have been a registered user of Omndrive for around three years, although I haven’t actively used it in about two years. […]
I was excited when TechCrunch first unveiled TechCrunchIT, but not anymore. Steve Gillmor is obviously very passionate about his writing — but he doesn’t really cover the topics I imagined an IT Enterprise blog would cover. What’s more, every post is a mini-essay and he’s the only (active) writer. If the TechCrunch gang are serious about […]
Google SearchWiki is a bad idea. Google’s regular old search engine might not be perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the competition and it’s a hell of a lot better than any human powered search engine could ever be. My hope is that Google isn’t serious about this and that it’s […]
A few weeks ago Microsoft unveiled a new little projected called Small Basic. The projects aim is to provide kids with a simplified environment where they can learn the basics of programming — and have some fun while doing it. Derived from the BASIC programming language, and based on the .Net platform, Small Basic has […]