The Blog That Goes Ping

From Google Video, a classic SNL sketch about the phenomenon of premature obituaries — relevant today, of course, as one of Grand Rapids’ own most famous citizens has passed away.

The holiday commercial for Macs (vs PCs) made me laugh, because it has some nerd cred: one of the things that sucks about programming for PCs is you typically need to do it in C++, whereas on the mac you get to use tasty Objective-C. (Unless you’re me, in which case you are stuck in a C++ API anyway because you use a cross-platform toolkit which happens to be done in C++…)

The embodiment of the PC, by the way, is comedian and author John Hodgman, who uses a Mac.

I can’t believe I missed this article when it came out on the first of this month. Explains a lot.
jonnybaker: the cure for information overload

TGI Fridays Menu Prank

It’s cruel, but fair.

Overcompensating: Actual Things That Happen to Jeffrey Rowland: Blog Song

With the new iBlogoscope Pro you can wriggle blindly through the moist, decaying flesh of free information just like the maggot you are. Three hundred and sixty degrees of things you never really needed to know about.Just kidding, Blogosphere, you know I consider you mildly digestible on occasion. But I’m calling you the Blogodrome from now on. You know it’s cooler!

The comic itself made me laugh.  I’m hooked on Jeffrey Rowland’s stuff.