The answer will surprise you, and the background information given in the article will shock you. This is definitely recommended reading. The parallelisms between this “most famous Christian” and what’s going on today in the States may make you utter a nervous chuckle.
Author Archives: Raoul Pop
Microsoft iPod Parody
This is pretty funny! MS just owned up to making this iPod parody video themselves.
New Google Calendar
Just read about Google and its work on developing CL2 – a web calendar. The link will take you to a page with screenshots. CL2 will be done in AJAX, like Gmail, and it’ll be tightly integrated with it, but what I think is really cool is its integration with other calendaring products, like iCal for the Mac. Yay! Integration and information-sharing across programs is always the way to go!
If CL2 and iCal could work seamlessly, and if CL2 would provide a dynamically generated web page which would combine multiple iCal calendars, that would be ideal. What bothers me about iCal is that it won’t let me combine my Home and Work calendars into a single view when I publish them to my .Mac account. If I could do that with CL2, that would be great!
Lawrence Lessig's presentation on free culture
I highly recommend viewing the presentation given by Lawrence Lessig on free culture. I’d been really annoyed by DRM and certainly recent implementations of it by Apple did nothing to help the case for it. Then I viewed this presentation, and it really opened my eyes to what’s going on out there, and why there are more and more restrictions on content. It was given in 2002, and if you look at what’s happened since, you can really see the changes! They’re for the worse, not better – so please, take 20 minutes to watch it or download the transcript, and do your part to save our collective works of culture! Thanks!
Photos as passwords foil hackers
I can’t believe how simple, yet incredibly useful this is! Instead of using silly passwords, with even sillier password rules that give you headaches, just use this! Choose a familiar picture as the password, have the system pixelate the heck out of it, then pick it out from among a group of pixelated photos every time you want to log on. How cool is that? Also, kudos to Tracy Staedter from Discovery News – just about every time I stumble on a cool article at Discovery News, it’s written by her. 🙂
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