Category: Linklog

del.icio.us or de.lirio.us? I doubt it will ever be answered fully…

Oasis stage their comeback with “Don’t Believe The Truth” due out May 30th. Ohhh… A day before my birthday, call that a subtle hint.

Microsoft’s tips for buying a flash-based MP3 player. What? No mention of Apple’s iPod Shuffle? AND a sly dig at the iTMS? Colour me surprised… [via]

Matt Mullenweg announces that WordPress, Inc. has been set up at the WordPress 100,000 download party in San Francisco. Matt also announced that the first hire by WordPress will be Jonas Luster.

Manchester United want the format of the Champions League changed to help more big clubs reach the last eight. Looks like another case of Manchester United moaning when things don’t go their way, changing what is already a sham of a competition into an excuse for bigger clubs to suck the revenue dry like vampires. Conveniently it’s the same day they announce their half-yearly profits have gone down 52%…

A dejected Barry Bonds said there’s a chance he might not return this season because of multiple knee surgeries. If he doesn’t make it back this season, he’s fast running out of time to reach the 755 home runs hit by Hank Aaron, he’s currently 52 behind and he hit 45 for the whole of last season…

A US schoolboy has shot dead nine people – seven of them in a rampage through a school that ended when he apparently killed himself. It was the deadliest US school shooting since the Columbine killings in 1999.

AskJeeves to be sold for $1.85bn. It’s getting harder and harder to figure out who owns what nowadays…

Music Midtown 2005. June 10th to 12th in Atlanta, GA. The White Stripes, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Kid Rock, The Pixies, Keith Urban, Loretta Lynn, The Killers, Alan Jackson, Lou Reed, Keane and more… Hmmmmm…

John Z. DeLorean, an automotive innovator who left General Motors Corp. to develop a radically futuristic sports car, has died at age 80. If it wasn’t for the Back To The Future series, I seriously doubt anyone would care…

FREEBIRD!!!!!!! It’s a request, a rebuke, a cry from the heart… “If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?”

Fiona Apple’s CD “Extraordinary Machine” has been on the shelf for over two years, but it’s been “leaked” onto the net recently. Is this a marketing ploy to see how a 2 year old recording will go down in current music conditions? Find out for yourself here. [via]

Could we be seeing all 6 Star Wars films in 3D soon? “While appearing at ShoWest, Lucas said that he would go and 3D up all 6 Star Wars films, starting with the original A New Hope in 2007 to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary.”

A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said. Moments later, the Earth was sucked into oblivion…

People are finding more and more great uses for API’s everyday it seems, like the Flickr Postcard Viewer and AmazType. You have to wonder what they’ll come up with next…