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Facelift Image Replacement was created as an alternative to sIFR. It will replace headers and pretty much anything else with an image representation of the text. It is very simple to setup, usually only two lines of Javascript, and pulls all text styling from CSS.
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Facebook — in another move to bring themselves down top MySpace’s level — has added Facebook Movies and Music. I’ve recently deleted my Facebook account so I can’t login and really experience these new additions. You can view the main Music page by going to http://www.facebook.com/Music. This should be another blow to record companies as they are no longer needed as middle men between bands and fans.
One positive thing is that the music does not automatically play when you visit the page causing you to frantically search for the Stop button or your speakers volume knob. We hate you MySpace…. we hate you as much as one web site could hate another.
… from Venture Beat
Wired has a great article about the downfall of the economy — and society in general. The article, Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business, is a great piece about computers, and the no cost products they have unleashed upon the world.
I didn’t read the entire article (6 f’n pages long!), but I know what it says. The internet has brought with it all the political ideologies of those barefoot, smelly, patchouli-wearing hippies, out in Silicon Valley. They continue to give away products and services — for free — to destabilize the economy. They claim it is the business model of new media, but we’re onto them, and have had enough.
From the article:
… A typical online site follows the 1 Percent Rule — 1 percent of users support all the rest. In the freemium model, that means for every user who pays for the premium version of the site, 99 others get the basic free version. The reason this works is that the cost of serving the 99 percent is close enough to zero to call it nothing.
Bastards. Obnoxious Mods has decided that, in order to thwart this socialist onslaught, we need to take drastic measures. We will begin charging to read this blog. We figure $0.10/word ought to be about right for the wisdom we dispense daily.
That is $0.09/word more than we pay our good friends over in Mumbai to write it. I love the internet.
Unfortunately we don’t have the means to setup a subscription service so we will be going on the honor system. Just keep track of how many words you read and send us a check. You can make the check out to Cash and send it to the following address.
PO Box 7775 #62266
San Francisco, CA 94120-7775
Remember, we’re all up in your cookies, watching your every move.
… from Wired
It seems a college student from Michigan has accidently opened an email they received from their aunt. It is better just to go to the article written by The Onion. Thank god for The Onion.
Quality journalism is dying off and The Onion is one of the last outfits that can tell a story truthfully, and accurately.
I think I’d rather get v1@gr4 spam then be subjected to an email forward. At least the spam is funny…
…from The Onion
Nikkei’s english news website, Tech-On, gathered some engineers in a room and gave them a MacBook Air to take apart. What did they find?
The engineers all came to the same conclusion; the MacBook Air is badly designed and would cost too much to produce (meaning that there are better ways to do the job cheaper).
No news here. Apple doesn’t make good technology, they make good commercials, something most of us have always known.
I’m a bit surprised by the arrogance of some of these so called engineers. I’m not a PRO Apple Fan Boy (even if I do own a MacBook Pro), but a sentence like this one makes me mad: “I can’t find anything that is technically superior. We can make the same computer at a lower cost”
We can only assume the author is so upset because he paid an extra $1,000 for his laptop, because it is white.
… from Akihabara, News?
From the article:
Linkin Park rocked a crowd of contest winners and industry personnel just after midnight Thursday (Feb. 21) at the Apple Store in New York’s Soho neighborhood, in what served as an intimate warm-up for a show tonight at the city’s Madison Square Garden.
It seems Apple iTunes really does have some weight in the world now. Previously, bands like Linkin Park, could only sell out to corporations like Sony or Viacom (MTV). This shows that selling out to Apple is now possible.
… from Billboard
The other day I was talking to myself, as I often do. I said, “Cory, why aren’t their more novelty, cartoon themed web cams?” GetUSB delivers with a resounding “excellent”.
Nothing special about the web cam other than the totally kick ass Mr. Burns enveloping it.
… from GetUSB.info
It seems Señor Bush has done something right. The US National Do-not-call Registry was set to start removing people off said list per the original plans. You sign up, and after five years, will be removed, and have to sign up again. Great if it is your job to call random people and sell them vitamins. Bad if you’re a homeowner. What the new law does, is eradicate this five year baloney, and makes your number stick. The number will only be removed from the list when you change numbers or move.
God bless this great country and our great leader. If only his legacy could live on through one of his daughters. President Jenna?
… from ars technica
The “laser” has “300 terawatts of power (or 300 times the capacity of the entire US electricity grid)”. Wow. That’s a lotta terrawatts. We can’t possible come up with a better comment than the one already posted on Engadget by someone going by Juice Daddy.
now they just need to attach it to a shark…
Brilliant.
… from Engadget