greenthinks

Night has a new movie, reports Cinematical.

Sorry for the poor quality image. I cannot find a more decent copy of that Newsweek cover anywhere on the web, though I will say MSN Search was much more helpful than Google.

Image replaced with one from IMDB. Old image is here.

Remember how you couldn’t send emails to your friends who used Eudora, because you were using Pine? That’s because it never happened. That shortcoming would never fly, yet we put up with these exact bugaboos on a regular basis. I’m getting real close to dropping all IM activity altogether until the brands get their acts together. That’s likely to never happen, because we have huge egos at stake.

Chris Pirillo, responding to the release of Google Talk – yet another distinct IM universe (albeit this one is open)

OK, I lied. I am still reading Dave Winer’s blog every so often. Today he is having problems hitting the wrong modifier keys on his mac, as the layout is different from that on PC’s.

Tiger to the rescue:

For the uninitiated amongst you, that’s System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard/Modifier Keys button at the bottom.

Wow.

Go watch this trailer

Update: This made me want to go finish the game…

Weird name I know, but one of the coolest things I’ve downloaded in a long while.

from BetaNews

The need to change a laptop battery every few hours may soon be an annoyance of the past. Intel and Matsushita, the maker of Panasonic brand products, are jointly developing technology that would produce laptop batteries with 8 hours of power per charge.
To be finished by next April, the battery is based on lithium-ion technology that can store up to 30 percent more power and has a lower end-of-discharge voltage, which means it can run longer before needing a recharge. The battery would work with current power-saving techniques used by Intel in order to extend its usable life.

Thank God.

I’m liking Dave Winer less and less these days. I still really enjoy his offbeat manner and his aging hippy approach, and still subscribe to his podcast via iTunes, but I unsubscribed from his blog about a month ago when he started talking about nothing but his new OPML Editor. I downloaded an the first public release for Windows and I knew within seconds that I did not care. The interface was not only ugly, but very Windows 3.1-like and it was clear that his talents lie in areas other than user interaction design (like probably programming). I had been reading his blog for his views on web issues and on politics, and also because I found some great content through his links, but as the posts started to be mere inane updates on his own software and how it was better than anything else out there, I just had had enough.

Today I was forward back to him via one of the other blogs I read, and it seems he was talking about something dear to my heart, the Mac. Dave bought a Mac to work on the Mac version of his Editor, which he had been saying he would not do, but whatever. He really did not like it and hates Safari. He then proceeded to bash Apple and praise Microsoft:

I just spent a few minutes playing with the Mac. Our OPML Editor needs a bunch of work, I can see that right away. I really dislike Safari, I so don’t care for their choice of sites to feature and the feeds they chose are all the predictable ones. Where’s the Home icon. I would love to be surprised and see some blogs in their default choices, geez, I mean they did get all this free IP from us, but they’re so into big companies. I really really dislike Apple. Sorry if you love them—I don’t. Steve Jobs has a lot of nerve telling Dean that they’re copying them, when they’re doing such a poor job of copying us. Maybe I’ll come around, but I kind of doubt it. Do they have a version of IE for this thing? I’d much rather use that than Apple’s browser.