Reading an End-of-the-Decade baby name round-up, I ran across this:
The last few years have shown a dramatic increase in the influence of everything from blockbuster movies to celebrity babies on naming trends ... Marley, from the film "Marley & Me," is gaining numbers for both sexes.
"[Parents] ... More.
Google's Jonathan Rosenberg wrote a paean to 'open,' in which his company's commitment to 'open' is pitched at great length. The most remarkable paragraph, however, is the one dealing with things that Google keeps closed:
While we are committed to opening the code for our developer tools, not all ... More.
Botnet and malware creeps are setting up their own ISPs, with their own IP blocks, so that spamfighters don't have anyone to complain to when they run them to ground:
"It's gotten completely out of hand. The bad guys are going to some local registries in Europe and getting massive amounts of IP... More.
Richard Metzger writes:
When Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin and I interviewed Throbbing Gristle in Los Angeles, during the sound-check we were talking to Charlie Poulet, TG’s brilliant sound engineer. There was an insanely trippy song coming over the PA system and I asked him what it was. &... More.
Forbes on another tablet: "The $75 Tablet Computer." You'll never guess who!... More.
They're using that PHB song in a ladies underwear commercial here in AUS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk4-BbWwCNE
dude in white suit in upper left is bing ji ling. didn't dig around, but didn't see his name here, so i thought i'd mention it.