Another post at a weird time of the week. Perhaps there’ll be another release this Sunday to catch up. Of course that hinges on whether there are interesting articles to be shared.
iLate, again, and again, and again..
It seems that people don’t really learn their lesson. After a few cases of the alarm clock on the infernal iPhone screwing up, people are still depending on it. It cost them again. I really recommend a cheap plastic alarm clock, so that the damage will be much less if you chuck it out of the window in annoyance in a particularly bad morning.
The front seat, or the back seat?
We’d rather Rebecca Black be stuffed in the boot with her mouth gagged. Along with the lyricist of the now famous “Friday”. Tens of millions of views later with an incredible Dislike to Like ratio, it is one song that has rang (unpleasantly) in many a ear. Notice people like to criticise Dislikes with witty remarks such as (# people are Bieber fans, where # is the number of dislikes to a generally nice sounding song)? In this case, we can probably say the people who clicked Like in the Friday video are either a) deaf, b) nuts or c) Bieber fans. Oh wait, generally these 3 conditions come as a set.
The blame game
Some study suggests that piracy is a result of what is termed “global pricing”. Of course for people like us who don’t live in the centre of the whole darned Universe (this place called the US), things are a little more expensive. Turns out for some things, it’s much more expensive, and people turn to piracy. Of course in the end pirates will still be viewed as pirates, but perhaps it’s worth a think. Then again, we all know that there’ll still be pirates even if music is sold at 20 cents a track.
Let’s call it an Applesuit
Apple sues Amazon for infringing its trademark App Store, which even though being so generic was granted. Amazon’s App Store sells apps for Android. Next up, Apple will be filing lawsuits against all the grocers in the world for selling apples, and against anyone who dares to use the first person singular personal pronoun – I – in lowercase.
Matte is good
Chrome in wanting to reflect their philosophy of simplicity, decides to change their logo to a simpler and less shiny one. Also, instead of an angled view, it’s a plain flat view. Wonder if Firefox will do something about theirs. Like maybe make the fox look fatter. And by the way, Firefox 4 is out. Get yours today. But this post was writte on a 3.6.
A tale of two Marios
Controversial Man City striker Mario Balotelli is known to have a mouth that works independently of the brain (assuming there’s a brain in the first place). Now we also find that aside from kicking and heading a ball, his motor functions include little else. Particularly missing is the ability to wear a bib. Also can be noted is the lack of patience.
Now this Mario is much better. If you ever wondered how a 2D platformer will look like in 3D, this video shows that it’s a narrow strip of land. Our great Mario must have an amazing sense of balance to travel on such a landscape, dealing with dangerous mushrooms along the way.
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This has been a fairly long post. Perhaps the blog will see a rare and more personal entry soon.
