Most of these would have been from well before my time. No Microsoft or Apple in sight!
Read more in the BoingBoing, BB Gadgets article 101 Classic Computer Ads.
Quite literally, acording to Dvice.com. Read more about the delicious alarm clock.
The overheard conversation betwen US presidential candidate, Barack Obama and UK opposition leader David Cameron went like this:
Mr. Cameron: Do you have a break at all?
Mr. Obama: I have not. I am going to take a week in August. But I agree with you that somebody, somebody who had worked in the White House [...]
So I found this in one of my RSS subscriptions - A short, and relatively humourous presentation on “How to hack a Technical Interview!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KyCPiJPx48
See the original post at Lifehacker and the guys accompanying site - hackingtechnicalinterview.com.
Not out 5 minutes and someone has done my kind of cracking on the iPhone 3G. Literally cracking it open and taking a look at its innards.
See more in the CNet Crave pictures.
Channel 4 has faithfully recreated the Shining set as part of their adverts for the upcoming Stanley Kubrick season. This accurate depiction even comes with its own look-a-likes for Jack Nicolson and Shelley Duvall. Read the Guardian article for more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6WVurC0j0
I don’t wath YouTube videos an awful lot but I do have an account and I have watched videos. Such is the case then that Viacom will be given my viewing stats by order of a U.S. based judge. Read Wired’s article - Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom.
Law suit or [...]
For me, it is always interesting reading about the culture and working environment at those companies that are perceived by the wider world as a “cool” place to work. In relation to my working life, 2 of the most “cool” are Microsoft and Google.
The cultures facinate me to some extent. What are they doing [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq-QUkE1DGM
In The Ultimate Code Kata, Jeff Atwood,reviews an interesting article published in 2005. While particularly aimed at programming and programmers it could very easily apply to many other if not every other profession.
How do you get better at doing something? Simply doing is not enough, you have to practice what you do. This has to [...]