Chrome

Google's new browser "Google Chrome" has an interesting comic-presentation to go with it explaining all the revolutionary new features that they hope will take market share away from the old generation of browsers. I've been testing it out since noon and so far I'm impressed. There are still some kinks to work out (no middle mouse button panning/scrolling, some funky page rendering, a couple of issues with text boxes), but on the whole it's pretty neat. Nice and speedy, very sleek, and overall it just feels nice to use. It's always good to have some competition to spur creativity between companies. [ Chrome ]

/b/ is the designated “random” board of 4chan.org, a group of message boards that draws more than 200 million page views a month. A post consists of an image and a few lines of text. Almost everyone posts as “anonymous.” In effect, this makes /b/ a panopticon in reverse — nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center. The anonymous denizens of 4chan’s other boards — devoted to travel, fitness and several genres of pornography — refer to the /b/-dwellers as “/b/tards.”

The art of a troll. Easily the best article on Internet "trolling" ever written. A link to 4chan in the New York Times? I can't believe that just happened. This can only bring hilarity. [ Malwebolence ]

Welcome to Knol
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
Here are some examples of knols.

This week google finally went live with their project Knol. Knol is its own user-generated encyclopedia. Unlike Wikipedia,those users who write articles on Google's encyclopedia are given public recognition and have an opportunity to earn profit from their articles with advertisments. [ Knol ]

This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

This is outstanding.  I wish I had the time and expertise to construct one of my own and then play bioshock on it. So pretty. ahhhhh. The computer portion of this, I can do, it's everything else I can not do on my own. >_< [ Steampunk Laptop Mod ]

If you are Batman fan, you need this desktop computer. The Batmobile PC is way cooler than your boring, square computer.

It's a batman filled day today. It can be yours for $450.00 on Ebay. I think the best bet is to make it yourself but hey, if you've got 500 bucks lying around, It's a pretty decent way to spend it. [ Bat Mobile Casemod ]

I got a sneak peek at Mio's new Knight Rider GPS, and it's more fun and cheesy than I expected. As you can see in the video, William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, guides you as you cruise the streets, fighting crime. Flashing red LEDs are synced up to the speech, and the screen marks your location with a Pontiac Trans Am icon. My favorite part is that is has 300 names built-in when you're done pretending that you're Michael Knight and you want KITT to call you by your real moniker. It'll be $270—a bit less than we thought—when it's out in August.

Ummm hi, colour me jealous. Oh my goodness... WANT! [ Mio's Knight Rider GPS test ]

Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter:

Who doesn't love the smell of corporate intarweb drama in the morning? It's actually a great resignation letter despite Butterfield's haters. He's funny, entertaining and uses just enough obscurity that you can read in more wisdom than is intentionally present. All in all, no harm no foul right? It's not exactly like they just gave Flickr away. I'd take the money and live on an Island for the rest of my life if I were Butterfield. An island full of robot minions...to do my evil island biddings... I'd also probably buy a pirate ship and a crew. But I'm just getting ahead of myself here.[ Butterfield's dramatic Resgination Letter ]

*ahheem*

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil have done for the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]

 

Malwebolence

/b/ is the designated “random” board of 4chan.org, a group of message boards that draws more than 200 million page views a month. A post consists of an image and a few lines of text. Almost everyone posts as “anonymous.” In effect, this makes /b/ a panopticon in reverse — nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center. The anonymous denizens of 4chan’s other boards — devoted to travel, fitness and several genres of pornography — refer to the /b/-dwellers as “/b/tards.”

The art of a troll. Easily the best article on Internet "trolling" ever written. A link to 4chan in the New York Times? I can't believe that just happened. This can only bring hilarity. [ Malwebolence ]

Welcome to Knol
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
Here are some examples of knols.

This week google finally went live with their project Knol. Knol is its own user-generated encyclopedia. Unlike Wikipedia,those users who write articles on Google's encyclopedia are given public recognition and have an opportunity to earn profit from their articles with advertisments. [ Knol ]

This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

This is outstanding.  I wish I had the time and expertise to construct one of my own and then play bioshock on it. So pretty. ahhhhh. The computer portion of this, I can do, it's everything else I can not do on my own. >_< [ Steampunk Laptop Mod ]

If you are Batman fan, you need this desktop computer. The Batmobile PC is way cooler than your boring, square computer.

It's a batman filled day today. It can be yours for $450.00 on Ebay. I think the best bet is to make it yourself but hey, if you've got 500 bucks lying around, It's a pretty decent way to spend it. [ Bat Mobile Casemod ]

I got a sneak peek at Mio's new Knight Rider GPS, and it's more fun and cheesy than I expected. As you can see in the video, William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, guides you as you cruise the streets, fighting crime. Flashing red LEDs are synced up to the speech, and the screen marks your location with a Pontiac Trans Am icon. My favorite part is that is has 300 names built-in when you're done pretending that you're Michael Knight and you want KITT to call you by your real moniker. It'll be $270—a bit less than we thought—when it's out in August.

Ummm hi, colour me jealous. Oh my goodness... WANT! [ Mio's Knight Rider GPS test ]

Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter:

Who doesn't love the smell of corporate intarweb drama in the morning? It's actually a great resignation letter despite Butterfield's haters. He's funny, entertaining and uses just enough obscurity that you can read in more wisdom than is intentionally present. All in all, no harm no foul right? It's not exactly like they just gave Flickr away. I'd take the money and live on an Island for the rest of my life if I were Butterfield. An island full of robot minions...to do my evil island biddings... I'd also probably buy a pirate ship and a crew. But I'm just getting ahead of myself here.[ Butterfield's dramatic Resgination Letter ]

*ahheem*

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil have done for the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]

 

Knol

Welcome to Knol
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
Here are some examples of knols.

This week google finally went live with their project Knol. Knol is its own user-generated encyclopedia. Unlike Wikipedia,those users who write articles on Google's encyclopedia are given public recognition and have an opportunity to earn profit from their articles with advertisments. [ Knol ]

This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

This is outstanding.  I wish I had the time and expertise to construct one of my own and then play bioshock on it. So pretty. ahhhhh. The computer portion of this, I can do, it's everything else I can not do on my own. >_< [ Steampunk Laptop Mod ]

If you are Batman fan, you need this desktop computer. The Batmobile PC is way cooler than your boring, square computer.

It's a batman filled day today. It can be yours for $450.00 on Ebay. I think the best bet is to make it yourself but hey, if you've got 500 bucks lying around, It's a pretty decent way to spend it. [ Bat Mobile Casemod ]

I got a sneak peek at Mio's new Knight Rider GPS, and it's more fun and cheesy than I expected. As you can see in the video, William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, guides you as you cruise the streets, fighting crime. Flashing red LEDs are synced up to the speech, and the screen marks your location with a Pontiac Trans Am icon. My favorite part is that is has 300 names built-in when you're done pretending that you're Michael Knight and you want KITT to call you by your real moniker. It'll be $270—a bit less than we thought—when it's out in August.

Ummm hi, colour me jealous. Oh my goodness... WANT! [ Mio's Knight Rider GPS test ]

Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter:

Who doesn't love the smell of corporate intarweb drama in the morning? It's actually a great resignation letter despite Butterfield's haters. He's funny, entertaining and uses just enough obscurity that you can read in more wisdom than is intentionally present. All in all, no harm no foul right? It's not exactly like they just gave Flickr away. I'd take the money and live on an Island for the rest of my life if I were Butterfield. An island full of robot minions...to do my evil island biddings... I'd also probably buy a pirate ship and a crew. But I'm just getting ahead of myself here.[ Butterfield's dramatic Resgination Letter ]

*ahheem*

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil have done for the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]

 

Datamancer's Steampunk Laptop

This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.

This is outstanding.  I wish I had the time and expertise to construct one of my own and then play bioshock on it. So pretty. ahhhhh. The computer portion of this, I can do, it's everything else I can not do on my own. >_< [ Steampunk Laptop Mod ]

If you are Batman fan, you need this desktop computer. The Batmobile PC is way cooler than your boring, square computer.

It's a batman filled day today. It can be yours for $450.00 on Ebay. I think the best bet is to make it yourself but hey, if you've got 500 bucks lying around, It's a pretty decent way to spend it. [ Bat Mobile Casemod ]

I got a sneak peek at Mio's new Knight Rider GPS, and it's more fun and cheesy than I expected. As you can see in the video, William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, guides you as you cruise the streets, fighting crime. Flashing red LEDs are synced up to the speech, and the screen marks your location with a Pontiac Trans Am icon. My favorite part is that is has 300 names built-in when you're done pretending that you're Michael Knight and you want KITT to call you by your real moniker. It'll be $270—a bit less than we thought—when it's out in August.

Ummm hi, colour me jealous. Oh my goodness... WANT! [ Mio's Knight Rider GPS test ]

Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter:

Who doesn't love the smell of corporate intarweb drama in the morning? It's actually a great resignation letter despite Butterfield's haters. He's funny, entertaining and uses just enough obscurity that you can read in more wisdom than is intentionally present. All in all, no harm no foul right? It's not exactly like they just gave Flickr away. I'd take the money and live on an Island for the rest of my life if I were Butterfield. An island full of robot minions...to do my evil island biddings... I'd also probably buy a pirate ship and a crew. But I'm just getting ahead of myself here.[ Butterfield's dramatic Resgination Letter ]

*ahheem*

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil have done for the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]

 

Batmobile casemod

If you are Batman fan, you need this desktop computer. The Batmobile PC is way cooler than your boring, square computer.

It's a batman filled day today. It can be yours for $450.00 on Ebay. I think the best bet is to make it yourself but hey, if you've got 500 bucks lying around, It's a pretty decent way to spend it. [ Bat Mobile Casemod ]

I got a sneak peek at Mio's new Knight Rider GPS, and it's more fun and cheesy than I expected. As you can see in the video, William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, guides you as you cruise the streets, fighting crime. Flashing red LEDs are synced up to the speech, and the screen marks your location with a Pontiac Trans Am icon. My favorite part is that is has 300 names built-in when you're done pretending that you're Michael Knight and you want KITT to call you by your real moniker. It'll be $270—a bit less than we thought—when it's out in August.

Ummm hi, colour me jealous. Oh my goodness... WANT! [ Mio's Knight Rider GPS test ]

Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter:

Who doesn't love the smell of corporate intarweb drama in the morning? It's actually a great resignation letter despite Butterfield's haters. He's funny, entertaining and uses just enough obscurity that you can read in more wisdom than is intentionally present. All in all, no harm no foul right? It's not exactly like they just gave Flickr away. I'd take the money and live on an Island for the rest of my life if I were Butterfield. An island full of robot minions...to do my evil island biddings... I'd also probably buy a pirate ship and a crew. But I'm just getting ahead of myself here.[ Butterfield's dramatic Resgination Letter ]

*ahheem*

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil have done for the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]

 

Mio's Knight Rider GPS Test

I got a sneak peek at Mio's new Knight Rider GPS, and it's more fun and cheesy than I expected. As you can see in the video, William Daniels, the original voice of KITT, guides you as you cruise the streets, fighting crime. Flashing red LEDs are synced up to the speech, and the screen marks your location with a Pontiac Trans Am icon. My favorite part is that is has 300 names built-in when you're done pretending that you're Michael Knight and you want KITT to call you by your real moniker. It'll be $270—a bit less than we thought—when it's out in August.

Ummm hi, colour me jealous. Oh my goodness... WANT! [ Mio's Knight Rider GPS test ]

Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter:

Who doesn't love the smell of corporate intarweb drama in the morning? It's actually a great resignation letter despite Butterfield's haters. He's funny, entertaining and uses just enough obscurity that you can read in more wisdom than is intentionally present. All in all, no harm no foul right? It's not exactly like they just gave Flickr away. I'd take the money and live on an Island for the rest of my life if I were Butterfield. An island full of robot minions...to do my evil island biddings... I'd also probably buy a pirate ship and a crew. But I'm just getting ahead of myself here.[ Butterfield's dramatic Resgination Letter ]

*ahheem*

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil have done for the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]

 

Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo

Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with Flickr's other original employees, a "Vestfest" for their take from the $35 million sale of Flickr to Yahoo three years ago; we'd heard as long ago as October that Butterfield was ready to leave. But we couldn't have anticipated the manner of Butterfield's exit. In a long, rambling email to Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse, under whose aegis Flickr fell, Butterfield described the company as a tin-smithing concern, but found that there was no place for him as the company left its metallurgical roots. Better this entertaining nonsense than some tired cliche of "bleeding purple," I suppose. I'm also told that this email is classic Butterfield, and that his employees at Flickr would stage dramatic readings of some of his better missives at Flickr's San Francisco headquarters, which will now be run officially by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's longtime de facto chief. Butterfield's full resignation letter:

Who doesn't love the smell of corporate intarweb drama in the morning? It's actually a great resignation letter despite Butterfield's haters. He's funny, entertaining and uses just enough obscurity that you can read in more wisdom than is intentionally present. All in all, no harm no foul right? It's not exactly like they just gave Flickr away. I'd take the money and live on an Island for the rest of my life if I were Butterfield. An island full of robot minions...to do my evil island biddings... I'd also probably buy a pirate ship and a crew. But I'm just getting ahead of myself here.[ Butterfield's dramatic Resgination Letter ]

*ahheem*

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil have done for the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]

 

Totlol

A web developer (and father of two) from Vancouver, British Columbia created Totlol.com. A community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. All of the content on totlol is submitted and screened by parents. The site just launched and I for one, hope it creates a trusting environment for children and their parents to share fun videos.

I am in love with the concept of this website. It allows parents to safely find videos their children may enjoy and adore without having to worry about objectionable content. Maybe if it becomes popular enough and content continues to be submitted by the Totlol community maybe you'll save a few bucks in the long run from not needing to purchase so many dvds to entertain your children.

How does Totlol work? Parents skim YouTube for videos using a special "Totlol tool", tagging candidates for addition to the Totlol library. Then, those videos are held in a screening pool, allowing Totlol members to vote on whether or not clips should be added to the site's collection. I hope this community grows and maybe even stops relying on youtube at some point. This is a site all parents (and parents to be) should bookmark and check back on.

It's about time the internet included the toddlers demographic.  Face it parents, your tech savvy children are going to surf the internet sooner or later, you might as well get them started as early and safely as possible. [ Totlol ]