My friend Electron posted up this webcomic, and just like with XKCD I’ll share it here. It’s his first, and I hope he does many more. Only the truly hard-core nerds will get this one:
He only has one so far, but when he puts up more you’ll be able to see a list of them at http://www.shinyshell.net/comic
Happy Reading! ^_^
Everything was going normal, until I wanted to go look at my feeds using the wonderful Google Reader of course, when this showed up in my browser:
Then, I asked twitter about it and got a reply from who is now a newfound friend @MathGeek06, who reported that he too was having troubles. After a couple messages or so, I got this:
It looks like the Internets are conspiring against me tonight. Google, tell me, why are you crashing so much lately? We need you, we depend on you, YOU ARE THE INTERNET!
I'm just kidding of course, but this has allowed me ample time to reflect on how dependent I am on central services. Just about the same time as I was giggling at Dave Winer for blogging about Why Decentralizing Twitter is so important. I'm starting to agree with him.
From bushing's blog, HackMii, the un-"official" Homebrew Channel has gotten a massive amount of updates. Including a very nice mini-banner, the sound on the banner, and a wonderful user-interface. It's quite beautiful and workable. I hope it includes Wiimote support too! Heh.
I can admit to being impatient about it, but now that I see some updates, I'm glad that they've been taking the time to make it the best that it can!
I do submit, for your approval, that a developer log would be great for us nerds who really want to see what's going on, and how it's going!
Channels for the Wii are getting closer and closer, with the newest bit done by PaRaDoX; yes, finally, custom banners! Below is a screen shot posted to #wiidev not too long ago.
He will be releasing documentation and the new WAD file for the NES emulator soon. Good job!
They've done it now. Digsby is the first IM client (that I'm aware of) to add Facebook chat to their client. Now, we all know that Facebook chat is readily accessible on the website from all the popular web browsers, but it really is a wonderful direction for Digsby to continue moving in.
My friend Electron wrote this funny strip of IE Formulas, so I thought I'd share them here.
You can view his site at http://www.shinyshell.net/
Look at this. MySpace is getting closer and closer to attempting to be the new Facebook.
First, Applications. Facebook had them first, but nothing surprises me more than this little blog post from Tom about the new navigation on MySpace: (click images to enlarge)
Ready for Facebook's?
Is it just me, or is MySpace taking a page out of Facebook?
As we speak, Facebook is developing their own chat application, which may or may not allow communication over the Jabber/XMPP Protocol (we all hope it will though).
I, however, like several other nerds that probably exist out there, am trying to get a look at it first. And, I've gotten very close to succeeding, but I'm very far away. From the video, I discovered that the employee was using http://www.dev.facebook.com/ which is a special domain name, resolving to 10.1.100.106, and Internal IP address. Upon setting the IP to that of Facebook in my HOSTS file, I can manage to very slowly pull up a web page.
Anyone else have any further luck getting to the Development version of Facebook?
How many people have wondered which social networking website they should use? Of all the choices, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, and so many others. Yet, with all of the competition, the majority are at either MySpace or Facebook. Well, which one should be your main account? Some people (like myself) create multiple accounts on nearly every network just for the sake of staying connected to your friends. So, why are these two networks so popular?
| MySpace | |
|---|---|
| Fully Customizable Layout | Can Only Customize the placement of the applications |
| Discernable and Unorganized UI across multiple profiles. | Standard, Clean, easy to navigate user interface |
| (Beta) Applications | A large library of applications that can interact with the user's profile or computer |
| Fully Public Profiles | Profile's blocked off of visibility by network or friends added |
| Meta Networking Support | Full-Fledged Networking embedded |
| MySpace TV | Facebook's small video app |
| Large Ads Everywhere | Small, generally un-obtrusive ads. |
All in all (in my opinion anyway) Facebook is a lot more organized and a lot easier to use (once you get the hang of it). Maybe this is why it had a growth of 102% when MySpace only grew 2?
