Simon's Cat: "Double Trouble"
A new Simon's Cat is out. Love these.
Traffic Accidents Plunge During BlackBerry Outage
Credit to Jim Dalrymple who linked to this article over on The Loop. Original article:
According to The National, accidents fell 20% in Dubai and 40% in Abu Dhabi. Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim from the Dubai Police department said his force saw the largest decrease among young drivers and men. Jim made a good point: If BlackBerry users had Siri, they wouldn’t need to read their texts manually.
One Year-Old Baby Thinks Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work
Jean-Louis posted a video, titled A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work, featuring a one-year old baby trying to manipulate a traditional paper magazine like a touchscreen Apple iPad.
Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison Prank Email Computer Consultant in 1998
A very old article on CNN.com, circa 1998. This is priceless:
The newspaper reported Wednesday that Jobs and Ellison, who is also chairman and CEO of Oracle Corp., both sent e-mail messages to Michael Murdock, a Burlingame, California-based computer consultant, two days before Christmas, telling him he had the job. "OK. You can have the job. -- Larry," was one message sent to Murdock, who has been conducting an e-mail campaign for the top job, the Chronicle reported. Jobs reportedly wrote, "Yep, Mike, it's all yours. When can you start?"