Predictions for 2006
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
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
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
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”.