Born to be kissed.

[reddragdiva]

• Two words to induce rage: homeopathic plutonium. Atomic universe-destroying rage: HOMEOPATHIC ANTIMATTER. FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU—

• High comedy from Microsoft.

• NotN: Digital Britain to push "culturally British" games; MPs' expenses run through experimental Cleanfeed filter.

DWP: 20 minute wait, two-minute interview. I'm paid till August 24th, so still count as employed until then. My paperwork is all the right stuff should I need to put in a claim then. Stopped in at SpecSavers and they put new nosepads on my five-year-old glasses free.

The strawberries fed on coffee grounds are a huge success! Very nice and taste like very healthy strawberries. I'm not sure if they're actually caffeinated. Certainly the slugs and snails left trails on the ground (and grounds) but no more than nibbled the leaves. (Coffee grounds are full of nitrogen but quite acidic; strawberries like acidic soil, many other plants don't. Experiment at your peril.)

Linutop set up at last, replacing the ancient Thinkpad 560X I was using as a server. It has not much CPU (though quite enough to happily play full-screen video off the USB drive without a hiccup — 400MHz Geode), 512MB RAM and only 1GB disk. This means that you can't aptitude update; aptitude safe-upgrade without FILLING THE DISK. You need to remove OpenOffice.org first (because frankly, it's so fat you'd have to be on crack to run it at all). As a bedroom video player and household server, it's ideal. And it's SILENT. Utterly silent. I like it. I like it a lot. Many *pint*s to lproven!

pndc: "Ah, iPhone OS 3.0 finally admits the thing is an Etch-a-sketch: you shake it to undo."

Comments

[tcpip]

Heh. I made an almost identical comment about the iPhone yesterday when being shown the shake to undo "feature".

homeopathic annihilation

[spz]

that study is rather good fun :) looks pretty much like what the true believers produce, too.

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

High comedy from Microsoft.
Yes. They forgot both Opera and a tick for "Deletes system files".

Only Internet Explorer 8 has both tab isolation and crash recovery features?
I'm pretty sure FF doesn't yet have tab isolation, but it does crash recovery out of the box.

many of the customizations you'd want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 – right out of the box.
So, IE8 has NoScript and AdBlock installed?
I'm sold...

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Chrome has crash recovery, and I'm pretty sure it has tab isolation (each tab running as a separate process was one of the big features about it, IIRC).

I'm surprised this sort of advertising is legal... Shouldn't they just be comparing to a "well known brand" like the washing power adverts, if they don't want a lawsuit from Google?

[damerell.livejournal.com]

US law is much keener on it. Generic US medicine all says "COMPARE ACTIVE INGREDIENT TO <branded medicine>" in big letters.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

There are definitely limits on that in the US; “compare active ingredient to <foo>” is allowed, but (at least the last time I watched TV on any regular basis) explicit “our thing is better than their thing” claims have to refer to a “major leading brand”, and not show the brand name on the competing product either if there's a visual demonstration (though they can generally make it quite clear whom they mean).