Geek Smackdown! - Google mocks Bing and the stuff behind it

Google mocks Bing and the stuff behind it • The Register

Google gives a geeky bitch slap to Microsoft.

The sour Wikipedian

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The sour Wikipedian

This article and the related research makes me feel ... "grumpy" and "disagreeable".

John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner

John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner | quietube

Nice video of Hodgman's speech including the slides of his presentation. Geeky highlights include references to Dune, hobbits, Conan (the Barbarian), and of course ... Star Trek (mainly Spock and the Vulcan salute).

And the three-part answers are (from geeky memory): Shai-hulud, a thumper, and the Water of Life.

Enjoy

Jeremy's Extreme Ford Fiesta road test

YouTube - Jeremy's Extreme Ford Fiesta road test - Top Gear - BBC Autos

It just gets better and better as it goes along ... right up to the beach assault! Great video.

How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing

How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing

I agree that blogs and other electronic writing tools are opening up a great deal of options that the traditional, physical publishing media does not allow.

But I think it also changes thing with regard to simple quantity. Physical publishers can only publish a limited amount of content, and each and every item published is a gamble of sorts. Web-based publishing has nearly zero incremental costs in publishing new material and allows for material deemed marginal to be published anyway. Without the scarcity of the physical, more content will be published through publishers.

In addition to this extension of the traditional publishing model, the decreased publishing costs have made it possible for almost anyone to publish their content. This is both a good and a bad thing.