This page is for miscellaneous snippets and observations about stuff that looks interesting on the Net that I haven't got a home for, haven't decided if I want to find a home for it, but want a record to be able to find it. Hence they get dropped here...
Interesting snippet from Jonathan Schwartz's blog, calling StarOffice the cousin of OpenOffice. So, not closely related enough to be considered siblings. Hmmm....
Interesting trend - people purchasing virtual items, i.e. possessions that exist inside a virtual game, world whatever... but trading real money for them
http://www.pearworks.com/pages/pearLyrics.html
http://blog.tomevslin.com/2005/12/evolutions_not_.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/fraud.html
There is a difference between the way Americans and the Japanese where flip-flops: Americans grip tightly at the V between the toes, the Japanese drag their heels
Bernard "Bob" Silver, a graduate student, overhead the president of a local food chain requesting a system for reading product information, and set about researching it. Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland's bar code was patented in 1949. But it wasn't until 1974 that a scanner was installed at a supermarket in Ohio and the first product, a packet of chewing gum, was scanned at the checkout.
- Extracts from Humble Masterpieces by Paola Antonelli, published 2006.