The Daily Loper - March 18, 2008
Indistinguishable From Magic Edition
Todays links of interest:
- Fehr says union will investigate why no Bonds offers as it examines free-agent market
Lack of offers?!? We still haven’t heard from Bonds about our offer to let him start for the Medialoper softball team. We’ve also promised that he won’t be subjected to any form of drug testing. Believe me, with our team there’s no way we could risk drug testing. - Battlestar Prequel Finally Taking Off
Be still our ‘loper hearts. - Windows Vista SP1 Available Now–Do You Need It?
Well, considering that nobody has proven to us that we needed Windows Vista in the first place . . . - Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90
Clarke was a lot more hardcore with the science than many of his peers, and it really showed up in his writing. - Survey Confirms iPhone Users Are Hard-Core Internet Junkies
This seems like a bit of a "duh" thing, but the actual point is that the iPhone web experience is zillions of times better than pretty much any other cell phone. I remember "surfing" with my Razr, and it was just about the single worst UI experience I’ve ever had in any context. While the iPhone ain’t perfect — the Edge network still sucks ass — its still pretty useful when it needs to be. - Make Radiohead Video, Get Paid (A Little)
Radiohead continues to play with the traditional business model: after eschewing the label route for distribution, they have now chosen to pay for user-generated content. Or at least one user’s. - FCC and Fox go to Supreme Court
Sounds like a movie title, but it’s more like the sad end to a sad story. The FCC has spent years trying, rather desperately, to pretend that people don’t say dirty words and make mistakes. Now the Supreme Court is hearing the case… - Here?s Looking At You, Kids
Feeling a bit depressed about my generation (which is what?) — today’s kids have two competing titles: Documentation Generation and The Millenials. Both sound like band names. - Punishing the publisher
An author dropped by his publisher for "poor sales" of his first book (honestly, who is to blame here? The author has done the hard work, what did the publisher do?) self-publishes the sequel. Now that first book is up for awards, garnering, yep, natural interest in both that book and sequel. Guess who wins when the latter sells? Or, guess who loses.
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