Technology

Kitten meets MacBook. (YouTube) Link courtesy of Kitta.net.

When I run across interesting things to link from my blog, I usually send them to my Gmail account with the best intentions of blogging about them “when I get some time.” Well, that doesn’t happen as often as it should, so I’ll clear out a few items now: 5 Lamest Charlie Brown Cartoons - 10 Zen Monkeys covers the five worst Peanuts animated specials. I can’t agree with the inclusion of Snoopy, Come Home, though. Link courtesy of TV Squad. ...

Samsung has a promo video out for a sentry robot armed with a machine gun. The video is disturbing, at least partially due to overly celebratory music. The only question now is do we end up hooking the robot gun platforms to mouse brains, or to Skynet?

Yep, I’m looking at you, Quicktime Player and EA Link. You aren’t the only offenders, but you’re today’s offenders. Seriously, why does Quicktime end up in my system tray every time I upgrade iTunes? The checkbox to remove it is in exactly the same place with each new version, using the same language, so I think it wouldn’t be too hard to keep that setting through the upgrade. I really don’t have any occasion to need to open Quicktime faster than it already does. ...

Oh good, IBM apparently has patents covering Internet interactivity and e-commerce. I was getting tired of this whole Internet thing anyway. :| Link courtesy of ongoing

When I was in college, I used Eudora for email and actually carried around a disk to store it all. I still have some of those disks, and going into the mail files with a text editor brings back memories. Until I started using Gmail for most mail, I was using Mozilla Thunderbird at home, which felt like the logical free extension of Eudora. So, my surprise at this announcement came not from the fact that Qualcomm was giving Eudora to the Mozilla Foundation, but that Eudora still existed. It’ll be interesting to see what results. ...

Steve Yegge writes about the Google Way. Interesting stuff. At Google, projects launch because it’s the least-energy state for the system. Link courtesy of Joel on Software

37signals, the company that offers products such as Basecamp, Backpack, and Writeboard, noticed that a plurality of their users use Firefox. Not real surprising, since 37signals has done a good job of marketing its wares to a techy, early-adopter type crowd, but hasn’t completely broken into the mainstream. It’s interesting to see, though, that Basecamp, their project-management application, has the highest Internet Explorer usage. Good indication that people are using them at work, which is still heavily IE-dominated. ...

I’m a bad Web guy, because I haven’t been really keeping track of the search terms leading people to this blog lately, since almost all of them seem to involve Jackie Manuel or Jawad Williams. However, I just happened to notice one special search term of which I am so proud: stargate boobs girl Stargate boobs girl indeed, my friend. ;) Update: Oddly enough, I’m very low on Google (4th page) for that combination of words. But now that I know what my audience wants… ...

Matt Cutts installs Ubuntu Linux on his computer, and finds the only pitfall walking around behind the computer desk.