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From Robot Overlords to FireFox Callout

  • A scary vision
    of the future the
    freakish fly-eating robots project
    will bring:

    “…8 years from now, when we’re all kept in laser-cages by our robot
    overlords and forced to shit into tubes to sustain the robots’ enormous fly-farms
    like some nightmarish version of The Matrix, think back to this post and remember
    me!”

  • Anil claims that
    “The tech community is hungry for a digital Martha Stewart”
    and somehow I think
    I agree with him, however absurd a statement it seems out of context 😉
    Even though I haven’t read the particular book he’s on about

  • Underused Yoga Positions
  • Great article here building on Joel
    Spolsky’s

    “Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code”
    , but bringing the same principles to web
    development … unsurprisingly called
    The
    Joel Test for Web Development
    . Some great points, my favourite being:

    Whereas source control is pretty commonplace in software development, it?s less
    common for web development. This is probably because no-one?s figured out they?re
    writing software yet.

  • Mechanical pong
    is kinda sweet, but I think that this
    mechanical tetris
    is just wrong
  • Hilarious
    open letter to the media industry from the tech industry
    . Go read it now
  • As Anil notes,
    this is the
    “software equivalent of babe ruth pointing at the fence”
Posted by Meri @ 10:55 AM on September 26, 2004
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