Friday links and the Realization That 100 Degrees is Really Insanely Hot
So today is 83 and it seems cool. That’s because the last few days have been nearly 100, the exact temperature at which human beings will readily cook on a sidewalk. It seems Spring got trumped something fierce and Summer showed up and took all the money. Spring just got a book deal for a biography though, so no skin off its back.
Bad week for celebrity deaths: RIP Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and The King of Pop, Michael Jackson. At least Fake Steve Jobs can rest easy knowing he wasn’t chosen to complete the triumvirate.
Anyway, here’s my poorly-filtered list of the most interesting links for this week. If you don’t like any of these, perhaps I can interest you in a Land Shark?
- Requests issued into a person’s right ear are more likely to be granted. PROTIP: Jumping around your boss like a rhesus monkey trying to get next to his/her right ear might be counterproductive.
- Corporations have their own little nicknames for their logos. Examples: The AT&T logo is called The Death Star, GE’s logo is The Meatball, SAP’s is The Anvil, and the Warner logo is Two and a Half Hot Dogs. Best of show: Lucent Technologies’ logo is The Coffee Stain.
- Dan Lyons, who recently resurrected his excellent Fake Steve blog, nails why Apple needs Steve Jobs in his latest Newsweek column.
- Not losing weight? It’s because you’re eating, duh. Try a diet consisting solely of air, called breatharianism. If you don’t lose weight, you’ll die. But look at it this way: regardless of what happens, you’re not worrying about weight. (via kottke)
- Jakob Nielsen says it’s time to start showing passwords in clear text as we type them. The insubstantial benefits of password masking are far outweighed by the costs of support calls and failed logins and overly-simple password schemes.
- John C. Welch has a classic rant about the arrogance of Adobe regarding Flash.
- Security expert Bruce Schneier posits that Ebay is becoming useless for selling things like computers due to pervasive fraud.
And, finally, this. Naturally.
