“Groovy Motherfucker”

Choose Your Own Adventure edition.

“The only station broadcasting from the afterlife to the living world.” 30 minute radio show from Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz.

Google question 50 people in Times Square. Reminder to the nerds: Users don’t know what a “browser” is.

Genuinely bothersome news from Auntie Beeb. They’ve decided to stop letting people outside the US switch to viewing the News site from a UK focus. That was the whole reason why BBC News has been on my browser toolbar since 1998! Hoping this will be reversed.

“When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.” There’s a whole lesson in User Experience right here!

ZOMG Moral Panic! The things that have doomed America over the last 40 years.

Anil Dash predicts the future of Facebook vanity URLs. Who’s going to be the first to register “mikearrington”, I wonder.

Short story by Robin Sloan (Al Gore’s doppelgänger, dontchaknow) about “recession, attraction, and data visualization”.

One of the more interesting demos at Apple’s keynote today - TomTom are producing an iPhone app, plus a souped-up holster that doubles as charger and GPS “enhancer”. No hints given as to the price, but tealeaf-reading based on TomTom’s previous Palm apps, I’d guess around $150 for the software, and another $100 for the dock.

If you don’t have time to watch the Google Wave presentation video (1h20m), read this, Andy Ihnatko’s piece on why it’s got so much potential.

This cracks me up no end. I now have an IMDB page, thanks to a short film I helped write a few years ago (watchable on the site). Looking forward to when I’m indexed in the Oracle of Bacon.