Quick clicks so far today
Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:28 PM by Will Femia
It's no great puzzle to figure out that I have too many balls in the air at work right now and Clicked updates are suffering. I'm bound and determined to keep the updates going and the "smaller pieces" strategy may be the best solution.Music catch is a strangely soothing game although if you turn off the music it gets pretty stressful.
Funny Web jargon phrase of the day: "
social geobrowsing." By the way, I think that's what
Whrrl is supposed to do as well. Even though I'm rolling my eyes at the language, I actually really like map interfaces and wouldn't mind at all using one covered in opinions and citations from people I respect as a guide.
Beard stroking ponder-sentence of the day: "
The signature defect of modern political journalism is that it has shredded the ideal of proportionality." In fact, "modern political journalism" is just a subset of the modern Web-powered media environment. The actual subject of the piece, "How small stories become big news" is interesting to me so I'm making this my Commuter Click.
Here's the print link so you don't have to turn the page.
Speaking of beard stroking... (thanks Matt)
Find Sarah Connor:" "Metal Storm's 40mm weapons mount, the company tells us, can deliver both high-explosive and less-lethal rounds. Which makes it perfect for
everything from urban assaults to "border patrol" to 'infrastructure protection' to 'crowd control.'" The craziest part of this item is the mention of the firms showing off at a defense trade show. How many movies have some crazy death robot displayed for an approving military audience? Check out that poster in the photo.
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1940's Picture of The Minutemen from Watchmen - I try not to be distracted by comic book movie spoilers and sneak peeks but there's something in the
steampunk retro quality of this that makes the mind wander in a fun way.
Beautiful And Original Product Designs - Sometimes there will be a list like this that'll have one or two good ones and mostly clunkers so I'll single out the good ones through their original sites. In this case, however, the list seems to go on forever and is guaranteed to elicit multiple "oh damn!"s.
Somehow not on the above list, these
super-sick touch screen turntables.
Cat ladies is the new man babies.
