Category: Linklog

The web design trend obituary. Whats not hot in the design world? Gradients, low contrast, small fonts and shinyness to name a few…

An awesome little Coke advert. I have to say, this is very well done…

Introducing the Nintendo Wii, formerly the Nintendo Revolution. Uhhhh? Nintendo Wee? Or Nintendo Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

SCI FI Channel announced the development of Caprica, a spinoff prequel of its hit Battlestar Galactica. Caprica would take place more than half a century before the events that play out in Battlestar Galactica. The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high-technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better.

The BBC unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com. No, not a MySpace clone… Thought the ability to download BBC shows up to 7 days after airing sounds interesting.

According to anonymous film industry insiders Apple has been asking studios to include iPod video content on Blu-Ray discs. This is actually a pretty sweet idea, I mean Blu-Ray discs holds about 50GB and a 2 hour movie in iPod format is about 600/700mb, there is more than enough room to share the two.

Google Maps is renamed back to, ummm, Google Maps. Did you even know they renamed it Google Local when they merged it with Google’s local search? True that, double true…

Making a more tasteful MySpace. Mike Davidson “hacks” up his MySpace space to make it more aesthetically pleasing, proving there is indeed hope for MySpace yet. You can see the results here. [via]

Smashing Pumpkins to reunite after 6 years. It’s official, The Smashing Pumpkins are currently writing songs for their upcoming album, their first since 2000. no release date has yet been set, but the band plans to begin recording this summer. [via]

Mexico slams Georgia migrant law. The Mexican government has condemned a tough new immigration law passed in Georgia on Monday. Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said the legislation discriminated against Mexicans and that diplomats would monitor how it was applied. The law, which will take effect next year, prevents illegal immigrants from receiving many social services. It will also require police and employers to report undocumented workers to the Immigration Service.

The Tomkitten has arrived. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had a baby girl Tuesday. The baby, named Suri, weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches long. Remember folks, Mission Impossible III is out next month! [via]

Blogosphere doubling in size every six months. According to Technorati, they are tracking 34.5 million blogs. Back when I started blogging, blogging wasn’t even a word and back when I moved to b2/WordPress in August 2003, there was barely 1 million blogs. Crazy, huh? [via]

ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious, including ninjas. It’s just not safe to be a ninja in Athens anymore…

CNN reported Thursday that the federal government is investigating whether Bonds committed perjury when he testified during his grand jury testimony in the BALCO case in 2003. Now I’m neither for nor against Barry Bonds but I do find it suspicious that the names of Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield are never brought up anymore, didn’t they all admit to unknowingly using steroids during the BALCO Grand Jury hearings? Hell, didn’t Giambi flat out say he did use steroids?

The transcript of the final moments of United Flight 93 that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11. Call me an ass if you like, but given that most of the the last lines are in Arabic, like “(In Arabic:) Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest,” it doesnt sound much like the passengers had overpowered the terrorists and crashed it… More like the terrorists decided to kill themselves and everyone on board before they were shot down, or maybe they were shot down, hence the abrupt ending…