This posting has a nice listing of North Korean anti US propaganda posters. Nice style, very kitsch.
Entries from January 18th, 2007
Myspace, how does this piece of shit website actually work and scale?
January 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Coding & Web Development
Well, to keep a long story short: it doesn’t. While I am not a fan of myspace (pick a reason): it’s an ugly bitch it doesn’t adhere to web standards it’s badly designed technically it has a horrible interface all morons and attention seekers seem to be perpetually drawn to it I could go on [...]
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Distribution of world wealth
January 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Business, Globalization & Debt
Econbrowser has generated a cool map & analysis of world wealth distribution by multiplying GDP per capita by the number of people per square kilometer: A paper by John Gallup, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Mellinger in the International Regional Science Review in 1999 introduced the concept of “GDP density”, calculated by multiplying GDP per capita [...]
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Top 10 robots mortals can actually buy
January 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets
Productdose.com has a cool top 10 list of robots that me & you can actually buy at the moment: We all love robots, but we’re used to enjoying robots as concepts from the future. What we often tend to forget is that we’re now living in an age that is increasingly characterized by robotics. To [...]
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Porn: Is it really the cash cow people think it is?
January 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Business
Boing boing has a great summary on the myth that porn is a huge financial powerhouse. The following samples nicely illustrate their point: An average gonzo cost about $13,500. Than editing hard and soft is about $1,200. Design a sleeve is about $600, authoring is about $700, sleeves are about $500, replication is about $1,500 [...]
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Windows Vista vs Mac OS X
January 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Apple, Microsoft
To start the new year properly here’s a nice review that compares Windows Vista to OS X: I could keep bringing up examples, but I think you get the idea. At the UI level, the human level, Vista is different far more often than it is better. Even so, I think it must be said [...]
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Happy new year!
January 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Personal
Greetings blog readers, Just the quick obligatory new years greeting. So here it is: HAPPY 2007! Great, now that that’s over with, back to business…
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