Random things in the Internet.
I’m not sure who said this first. Apparently this comment on Metafilter.
“If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you are the product being sold.”
Think Facebook. Think almost every Google product including Android. Think Hulu. Interesting point of view, no? Where does this leave Open Source Software?
On the way to the World Cup we stumbled upon Egypt and were able to do a little touristing. Very nice. Now I am at two days of no sleep and no showers, and I walked all day around the desert at 38 degrees. I ate a lot of hummus. I have a nine hour flight ahead of me. I stink. This should be fun (for the guy sitting next to me). More as it develops…
This impressive photo is from the official Flickr stream of the Guatemalan government. It’s a sink hole, and it just occurred. Hard to believe, right?
My cousin has been bumped down to second place and the voting ends tonight. She needs your support. Instructions for voting are here. Go do it, you can make a difference and help improve the world.
Very cool: Only for maybe today and tomorrow, go to Google and you can play Pac-Man directly on the logo. This is celebrating Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary. If you click on the Insert Coin button (where the I’m Feeling Lucky button normally is, you get to play with Ms. Pac-Man.
It’s hard enough to juggle my priorities between achieving world peace, curing cancer, and finding a source of cheap, vast, clean, reusable energy as it is; and now I need to add another thing to be responsible for:
After an excruciating selection process, my cousin Yael got nominated as a finalist for the coveted title of La niña más guapa de México” (Best looking girl in Mexico), which is given out by the very important website Quien. The way it goes, those candidates that don’t make this list are bumped down to the next best thing: the Nobel prize candidate list. And as luck would have it, instead of using a panel of experts to pick the winner, they are leaving it to the fair and balanced democratic process of online voting to pick out the winner!
So here’s what I ask you to do:
Easy enough, right? So go vote!
Someone by the nickname explodingrabbit put together a little Flash game (that’s right, it won’t run on your iPad) in which you can play the original Super Mario Bros as any of the following characters:
Awesome. Twenty years ago, this would have given me a heart attack. As far as I can tell, the Konami Code does not work.
Cool cartoon by Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore. He happens to be the first guy to win an editorial cartooning Pulitzer for an entry of entirely online animations.
After taking over the world by storm, Russian singer Eduard Khil has shown his face and has addressed us, his loyal followers:
Read more to see more of his videos.
This latest internet meme is strangely relaxing, soothing… even hypnotizing. I find myself humming it non-stop. Trolololo!
Read more for more info about this wonderful video.