Steve is Listening (or iPhone 4)
Some time ago I said that Apple should call their phones simply by numbers in the order they’re released, instead of adding suffixes such as G and GS. Now they do.
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Coincidence
[Y]ou can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence — that’s all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence. [...] There are no miracles. There is no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be.
— (500) Days of Summer
Sunday with Beethoven
Web Infinity
Web has that enormous feeling of infinity — every word and though never lost or erased once it’s up there on the web. Incredible, isn’t it, that feeling of never loosing something you hold dear.
Pāri jumtiem lido kaijas
by Ainars Mielavs.
US Stimulus Package: $2588 to Every American
The US Government stimulus package of 787 billion US dollars ($787,000,000,000) divided by the US population of 304,059,724 equals to $2,588 for every American.
Signs which some economists currently call showing recovery are actually signs of increasing amounts of money being poured into the economy. The economy will be on its way of recovery only when Americans will have repayed this loan and generated some additional return on this investment. Read more »
Education, Creativity and Individuality
TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson on importance of education and creativity (via a comment at swissmiss)
Global Debt Comparison
Every Latvian owes $3,766 while every American $22,177 for the amount of public debt its government has accumulated since 1999 — see Global Debt Comparison.
Why do only few economists notice these staggering numbers?
Hey, You’re OK
You’ll be fine. The good old song from Ze: zefrank.com/chillout_.mp3
Jill Barber
Long time favorite — Jill Barber — on video and audio.
I still believe in two hearts
I still believe in two hearts by Christina Martin & Aveiro (and praça do peixe, to be precise) in Portugal.
Microsoft, you finally got it!
The new Microsoft ads are absolutely brilliant — Mr. Bill Gates turns out to be the marketing talent they have been missing since the very first day. These ads are already the second thing that Microsoft has gotten right over the past year, first being the Internet Explorer 8 and its support for Web standards.
Google recursion?
Go to Google advanced search and search for the following: all these words: php this exact wording or phrase: *RECURSION*. You should get the We’re sorry… page because of too many automated requests, which you are cleary not doing. How weird is that?
issuu — simple and intuitive document viewer
issuu is a really simple, intuitive and easy to use document viewer for your offline publications or portfolios. And there is so much great stuff to read already.
In the World of Open Source
“In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and jobs?”
A little modified version of Linux Owns slogan.