Moving Servers
I’m moving servers. Things could get messy and there could be some downtime.
For Ratings
In one murder after another, the “Canal Livre” crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim.
Brazilian host of “Canal Livre” has been accused of murder and drug trafficking.
Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show’s host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil’s Amazon region is awash in violent crime. Police also have accused Souza of drug trafficking.
Review: Monoprice
Cables are cables are cables, but these are well made and work.
Great – fast shipping. Prices were ~10% of the local big box stores (including Frys).
John Dvorak Jumps the Shark
Yuck.
Update: LOL. Thanks to reader Deven, we have the following real date of when Dvorak jumped the shark:
“The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse.’ There is no evidence that people want to use these things. What businessman knows about point sizes on typefaces or the value of variable point sizes ? Who out there in the general marketplace even knows what a ‘font’ is ? The whole concept and attitude towards icons and hieroglyphs is actually counterrevolutionary — it’s a language that is hardly ‘user friendly’. This type of machine was developed by hardware hackers working out of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. It has yet to find popular success. There seems to be some mysterious user resistance to this type of machine.”
John C. Dvorak on why the Macintosh would fail, San Francisco Examiner, 1984
Infographics by Theo Deutinger
Theo Deutinger, an infographic designer, has a really impressive guerrilla perspective on the emerging era.
Would be great to sit down with him and talk about this stuff sometime. Check these infographics:
- Walls! (Anyone see a parallel with Barnett’s map?)
- The importance of Frontiers in country gaining wealth. (More on this.)
- New nation-states – a take on how the world would look if all the separatists won.
- Gauging urbanism across the world.
- Why Skype is only an equalizer for the already-wealthy.
- China vs. the World Bank in terms of international investment.
- Europe melting into itself as a giant city.
- On privatizing water.
- Lost Cities, Lost Empires.
- The rhythm of the global workplace.
- All budget airlines.
- A brief history of human migration.
