BO2K – What Is BO2K?. I have never used this software but it seems like it has many great features. If I were managing a Microsoft Network I would test it out to see if it could prevent the necessity of buying commercial software.
I have been reading comments from other Internet posters that many tech sites are taking themselves too seriously and alienating their audience. Not just BoingBoing, but also Engadget, and Gizmodo. Taking BB as an example they were rated #1 blog in 2004/2005. Since then they removed their comment sections, only to restore it later. Now comments are highly policed and really only one way. That is against the spirit of the Internet and it is no doubt why they are lowering their raking in Technorati where they are currently #9 tech blog. Two months ago they were at #5.
If you watch movies you will enjoy seeing these. Isn’t it funny how they think interfaces should be designed?
via Faux software interfaces in film – Boing Boing.
How a differential gear works – Boing Boing. This is pretty cool. This is a great website as well to learn interesting things. Worth looking over.
US military launches Operation Sock Puppet, pays contractor 2.76m for social media ops UPDATED – Boing Boing. The government denies this of course. Yes, we can trust them based on history right?
Charming. People can be very silly can’t they? Since when has visiting a public internet site been illegal?
via Normanomicon
Some fascinating pictures of how the future was viewed.
via Wonderful scans from a 1962 book of tech predictions for1975 – Boing Boing.
