In the previous entry, I made mention of SeatGuru.com, a web site that provides a comprehensive guide to several airlines’ seats, specifying which ones are recommended and which ones are to be avoided. If you fly often and get the chance to pick out your seat, you’ll definitely want to make use of this site.
Here’s the cover art for the upcoming album by The Who (their first studio album since 1982), Endless Wire:
Yeeeeugggh.
The best response to this cover that I’m aware of was made by a guy on a private discussion forum who said: “I’m Kent Brockman, and this is ‘Eye on Springfield’.”
There’s an article over at Chris “factoryjoe” Messina’s blog that’s been getting a lot of attention from the web application development crowd titled The Future of White Boy Clubs. I could describe his article, which is about the race/sex makeup of the speaker list at the recent Future of Web Apps summit, but I can do a better job of summarizing it by borrowing the graphic that Chris created for it:
More crackers than an hors d’oeuvres plate!
Chris’ argument is based on the assumption that multicultural societies are good. This too is is my general leaning, but it’s not everyone’s: the neoconservative side of the blogosphere would very strongly disagree, and I can make some cogent arguments that in a multicultural society, there has to be some agreement on a baseline set of common cultural rules (men and women are entitled to the same right, privileges and opportunies, freedom of speech is a basic human right, and so on).
I think I’ll save the serious commentary for the working week. In the meantime, I’d like to offer my services as a speaker at your next Web 2.0 conference. I’m the Technical Evangelist for a well-respected and long-standing internet company, I can speak and I am very clearly a member of a visible minority:
Even better, I play the uncoolest rock instrument — keyboards — in their uncoolest forms, accordion and keytar. It’s like minority squared! Seriously: every speaking gig I get will come with a free accordion performance. C’mon, can even Scoble promise this?
What are you waiting for? Sign me up as a speaker today!
Back in my early days at Crazy Go Nuts University, a drinking joke that always got a laugh described the “Four Stages of Tequila” as:
The ad shown below predates that joke, but the copy, which reads “If you’re a midget, FLESICHMAN’S makes you a big guy! 90 PROOF is why!” comes from the same basic thought:
(Picture courtesy of davebug and Miss Fipi Lele.)
After over 1700 posts at Tucows Farm, I’m shutting it down. I’ll still be posting Tucow sand programming-related blog entries — they’ll now appear at their new home, the Tucows Blog, located at tucowsblog.com.
In addition to my regular posts (which will return to their regular posting frequency), the Tucows Blog will also feature articles by other Tucows people. Don’t worry, the programming articles will be very clearly marked with these graphics:
…but be sure to read my coworker’s posts too — they’ve got lots of stuff that you might find very useful if you’re making a living off the web.
It’s “The Other White Meat” taped to “The OTHER Other White Meat”.
John Scalzi may very well have earned the title of patron saint of Catmas by taping bacon to his cat.
Time magazine asks: Does God want you to be rich?
I wonder how the preachers at the megachurches would interpret Jesus’ “eye of a needle” comparison from Matthew 19:24.