consolejockey

They compiled some video, they wrote a song, they put it on YouTube.

More songs by the same guy.

I’m sure this has been around for a while, but I just discovered Wikiquote. And today they had a link on their main page to some of Douglas Adam’s more interesting quotes. Here one that stuck out, from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency:

“What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?”
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.
Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve learned something about it yourself.

I think this applies to user interface design as well. By the time you take pretty much any process and break down into actions and steps for an end user, you’ve learned a lot about a lot.

This is beyond description.

Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars 2008

I saw this over on BoingBoing Gadgets, a comparison of the Windows Me versus Mobile Me logos:

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” - Steve Jobs after Picaso

Because the world wasn’t ready… until now. Not just glass toilets, but art. Art, I say! Nothing says constipation like Buddha staring at you while you’re on the pot. The bass one is particularly scary.

How many of the Internet People do you recognize? You’d really have be a on the net a lot to know them all. Watch the funny music video (work safe):

From Cory Doctorow’s photos of the San Diego Comic Con.

And of course from the back:

Read it and… weep? I don’t really want to know. Get ready for (work safe) Grope on a Rope. There some other fun stuff on this site too (Gun Hair Dryer)

i can has the meta

This guy is awesome… or something. I saw an article on this guy on BoingBoing. Here’s a YouTube video that captures his paranoid, homicidal, ready to die for any cause personality: