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The (moderated) aftermath of the BBC’s Bill Gates v Steve Jobs.

Vote for yourself and see the results.

Fear this link.

Lindows: The Dumbest-Named OS Ever.

Now With Ultra-Dumb Flash Ad!

Although I must admit that the UI doesn’t look as bad as most Linux installs. I’m more curious about it than I thought I would be, but that’s still not much, as when I moved, I purged all the PCs from my possession in one triumphant trip to the dumpster.

Jeremy at Antipixel has posted (exterior) photos of the new Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo. Notice in particular the line out the door, complete with a helpful clerk telling you where the line ends. Pretty neat shots, even if they aren’t from the inside.

Hello All-

I currently have a lease on a one bedroom apt in downtown Boulder, and I’m looking for someone to take over for me.

2113 Walnut Street

1 bdrm corner apt, first floor in 5 unit building.
Includes washer/dryer, dishwasher, attached 1 car garage
Apartment comes completely furnished; queen size bed, dishes, pots, pans etc. Rent is 1175 per month/includes all utilities

If you or someone you know is interested in looking at this apartment, please email me directly. I can provide pictures in the near future. I’m looking to be out of my apartment sometime between now and january.

Thanks,

Mathias

While searching for KungTunes, an iTunes to web synchronizer, I came across Flexistentialist and was amazed by what I found when clicking the link from Google:

How awesome is that? Especially after doing log analyses yesterday and coming across referrer after referrer, whose sites don’t have archives or searches, and the homepage was listed as the referring page. Many links to Alternate were from 1 day past the threshold. Also, many blogger and MT archive links simply did not work in Safari, as they utilized JavaScript and for some reason kept sending me back to the homepage. Oh well. The cool thing about OpenAlernate is that each post also exists as an index-able page, so most search results and referrers don’t go to the homepage, but to each post’s specific comments/permalink page.

Anyway, just wanted to share in the coolness.

Uh, ok…

the feature hijacks random HTTP requests every eight hours and redirects users to a page advertising Belkin’s parental control software. There is an opt-out link but that failed to appease Net users who accused Belkin of creating a new mechanism for spam.

In response the negative user feedback, Belkin is to give users the option of disabling the feature.

I can hear the sales pitch now… “I got a good idea…” err. Not.

…That there are more people to hack it.

An independent software developer has created a program called MyTunes that lets users of Apple Computer’s iTunes for Windows grab song files from other people on a computer network.

How long did that take? Two weeks? Good work guys, and maybe Apple will remove the feature entirely in iTunes 5!

When you think “hip, happenin’ new nightclub,” what do you think? Warehouse district? Downtown? A 100-year old church converted into 4 floors of dancing heaven? No, dummy, you think of a mall, in particular, a mall in the suburbs, nestled in among the movie theaters, chain restaurants and Home Depots.

Yes, friends, a few of us related to Alternate got to go and witness the VIP night before the opening of Avalon, Denver’s – er- Lone Tree’s – newest nightclub.

Well, I guess it’s not that new, as a club used to be there before. And before that I think it was a roller-rink. And before that I seem to remember it being a giant JCrew store.

I think above anything, it was the lure of free wine, beer and well that drew us down there; we were all pretty wary of a 9,000 sq ft nightclub set in a stripmall. And maybe it’s just really easy to impress the Press (haha) and whoever the term VIP represents, but this place was nothing short of very boring. The DJ was awful and played a ridiculous mix of wannabe-hiphop to a crowd of admittedly beautiful but seemingly bored people. By the time the drinks ceased being free, we were headed back to the Big City to find someplace open to eat.

Next time you feel like driving 30 minutes on a freeway that has traffic at all times of night, drive west on 6th and end up at Colorado Mills Mall. I hear they have ice cream there.

I understand that both Blink 182 and The Cure are bands that make me a loser. I’m over it, you should be too.

Anyway, the latest Blink album, imaginatively titled “blink 182” includes a bizarre cameo. From Robert Smith:

Partially inspired by lifestyle changes–all three members became fathers recently–and side projects, this new untitled CD sports a spoken word piece, plus guest vocals by The Cure’s Robert Smith on “All of This.” “We don’t have any joke songs or anything like that on the record,” says bassist Hoppus. “On the other albums, we’d have 12 songs on them and two of them would be the joke songs.”

Does this seem just a little odd to anyone else? And I gotta say, the album is pretty good, for pop-punk. Is it Ned’s Atomic Dustbin? No. Is it over-produced? Yes. But the emotion is back, and the songs actually sound different from their other songs, unlike the last album which was basically a re-hashing of old riffs with new lyrics and slicker production.

Anyway, the Robert Smith cameo was one I was not expecting and it’s a relatively welcome clash of two worlds for me. Hits kinda closer to home in couple ways. I wonder if David Proulx is still hanging around them these days…