Oh, Twitter is fun:
BreakingNewsOn With less than 0% of votes returned in PA, Clinton leads with 66% (1,649 votes) in the Democratic race; Obama at 34% (838 votes). 16 minutes ago from web 
zoliblog Gotta love that less than 0%. Solid lead for Clinton 6 minutes ago from twhirl 
zoliblog Hey, I can get 66% of less than 0% 
5 minutes ago from twhirl
Tags: breakingnewson, clinton, elections, obama, Twitter
This would be funny, if it wasn’t said. Yet I can see all the late night shows making fun of Mexican police trying to shoot on a moving target: killer bees.
Africanized Bees Attack Mexican Police
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least 70 police officers were hospitalized after so-called Africanized bees swarmed a police shooting range in southern Mexico, authorities said Tuesday.
Talk about precision targeting
. But wait, there’s more:
The attacked occurred Monday in Tapachula, Chiapas, after one of the policemen hit the bees’ hive with a bullet.
Oh, so Police started shooting first. AP has the wrong title, it should read: Police Attack Killer Bees - They Launch Counter-attack.
Update (4/9): Simple math from the Beemaster Forum:
70 cops with 36 bullets each (appox) = 2520 shots
1 hive = 50,000 bees (minimum on a healthy well established hive.Sounds like the bees win.
Tags: killer bees, mexico, police
Oh, this is hilarious. All the brouhaha about Apple being aggressive / sneaky … trying to install the Safari browser via Apple Update:
Well, now we know thanks to The Register that it was just a test. They wanted to see if you abide by the legal terms:
Yes, you agree to only use it on Apple computers. And if you took the bait and installed Safari on your Windows PC, expect the Apple lawyers anytime. (OK, not really
).
Update: The Apple Software Update points to this page, a list of all Apple software licences, where, digging a little we find these two documents:
The text in the Update program is clearly taken from the License for Mac, the Windows version of the file uses brand-neutral language, just mentioning “computer owned or controlled by you”.
Related posts: Hardware 2.0, 9 to 5 Mac, Ryan Stewart, CNet, Ars Technica and Channel Register.
Tags: Apple, browser, eula, firefox, ie7, iTunes, microsoft, Safari, software update, update
No, I am not implying that TechCrunch is bankrupt, or heading into their own Deadpool. TC has all the signs of doing just fine, with 700K subscribers and loads of advertisers. But they are in the toilet, nevertheless - at least in a certain toilet.
Online file-sharing and collaboration startup Box.net is changing the ancient habit of reading your newspaper in the toilet. (Frankly I never understood this habit, personally I prefer getting out of there as soon as possible, but for many people it’s a true ritual.) The company, which just a year ago was 4 guys cramped together in a two-bedroom live-and-work apartment has grown to 20 employees and picked up two rounds of funding. Flush with VC money, they equipped their restroom with a flat screen that shows an auto-refreshing display of technology news from TechCrunch. No more newspaper in the bathroom!
I can’t help but wonder about the screen position though. For all I know, this is only for the guys’ entertainment, gals usually face the other way - is Box.net still an all-male team? And, without getting into the very material details, even we boys only perform one “operation” facing that way.., and that’s normally the quicker one. (?)
Aaron, care to clarify? 
Tags: box.net, Collaboration, Humor, online storage, techcrunch, web office, web storage
Amazon will soon start selling wine, reports the Financial Times. Too bad it’s based on an obsolete model: physically shipping bulky goods. It’s like shipping boxed software, when it’s available on the Net. Or bulky books when it’s available on Amazon’s very own Kindle.
It’s time Amazon entered the 21st Century, the age of Waas: Wine as a Service.
(Watch the video here in case the embedded player does not work in your feed.)
Related posts: TechCrunch
Tags: amazon, e-commerce, Humor, On-Demand, SaaS, software as a service, Waas, Wine
Probably a joke but there’s a mockup of what a Google - Alienware (owned by Dell) phone would look like. Personally, I find it ugly. Perhaps if they bundle it with a light saber?
More on: CrunchGear, Engadget, Gizmodo, Gadgetell, Technology Questions, PalmAddicts and Mobility Site
The 2008 edition of the (in)famous Bad Usability Calendar by is here.
The past three calendars have all been successful in distributing examples of bad design around the world. Check out the fresh examples of exaggerated use fancy of Web 2.0 design, cover flow, personalization, pull-down menus and more…
Download the PDF here.
Courtesy of Norwegian design firm Netlife Research.
Tags: bad usability calendar, design, Humor, web design
This is hilarious: my blog stats showed hits for the Google search “gaining muscle”. It turns out that an older post titled Zoho Suite Gaining Muscle is on the first page of the Google results, amongst the real stuff for bodybuilders.
This is almost as funny as when an export/import trading company offered me link exchange, as my post titled How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail came up second on Google for “how to import” 
Update: The combination of a little fun with the title and some Google juice can produce unexpected results. I’m not sure Robert Scoble and Shel Israel wanted to be listed in this company. 
Tags: bodybuilding, Google, google juice, google search, Humor, zoho
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