Monthly Archives: January 2006

Predictions for 2006

January 12, 2006Web 2.0Chris

From a comment I posted over at Peter Caputa’s blog:

The Web 2.17 design ethic replaces tiny grey text and big colorful images with tiny grey images and big colorful text. Flickr repurposes itself as a freefont archive.

Yahoo, Google, O’Reilly, and Apple merge into a company briefly named YaGooFoople, then renamed Web 2.0, which manages to acquire Microsoft just before disappearing in a puff of smoke and stock options.

The US Government creates a new RSS Bankruptcy Court to provide citizens relief from crushing attention debt. Options include “Chapter 1.3-NonAttribution” bankruptcy and the more popular “Chapter 1.1-ShareAlike”, which provides debt restructuring across social networks.

Ha. I kill me.

Navigate the Seven Levels of Voice System Hell

January 12, 2006TechnologyDeb

Here is a webpage with the steps to find a human when calling in for customer service to some larger companies. You know, figured it could be useful in this day and age.

One-Eyed, One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater

January 11, 2006You have got to be kiddingDeb

Ok, not quite, but it does have one eye. Um, probably not for the squeamish . . . but most certainly for those awed by genetic freaks of nature.

And oh, yeah, I already checked it on Snopes.com.

autism quotient

January 9, 2006PersonalityChris

I’m not sure what to do with it, but my “Autism Quotient”:http://www.msnbc.com/modules/newsweek/autism_quotient/default.asp is 29, apparently ranked “above average”.

following the north star…s?

January 9, 2006SpaceChris

A quickie from HubbleSite: astronomers have determined that Polaris (the North Star) “is actually a triple-star system”:http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/02/ with two of the stars so close together that it takes the full power of Hubble to differentiate them.

Global Spin

a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff