The Beyond Black Mesa video is finally out. And really good.
But it's remarkable how much my appreciation for Google has shifted over the last year or two. I use their products, but I don't love the company anymore. In fact, I'm kind of nervous about them.
Stealing high-end cars equipped with keyless entry while, well, keyless.
More in-depth information from the New York Times on the origin of the Stuxnet virus.
Alex Payne on platforms, quality, and user-friendliness, particularly Adobe Air.
Nice infographic on the average price and sales volumes for phones, computers, televisions, camcorders, MP3 players, etc over time.
Most men aim to like their jobs, and all men want to be respected. But doing a great job and being respected at work aren't always mutually inclusive.
Sometimes you have to play politics, and sometimes you have to shut your mouth; smart, yet common sense pointers for productivity and respect in the workplace.
A nice primer from Wired on algorithmic trading on Wall Street.
Everybody's navigating a tricky question: what made the iPad such a smash-hit?
(a) Is it a simple case of Apple making a "good enough" product at the right time, selling it at the right price, and then having the market all to itself for an entire year?
or
(b) Is the iPad the residue of a subtle, profoundly canny, and mostly impossible to duplicate comprehension of slate computers and the ways that the Humans respond to them?
I'm guessing that (a) is more true than Apple would be comfortable to admit. I'm even more confident that that overall, the tech industry will be clueless enough about (b) that Apple will hold on to its lead for a considerable time ... assuming that they ever relinquish it.
I'm a slave to my readers, though, and I want them to have a wide gene pool of terrific hardware to select from. So I'm willing to explain to ASUS, Motorola, HP, RIM, and every other company how to build a slate that can answer the question "But why would I buy this instead of an iPad?"
Nice little Asteroid-style typing game with all HTML5 and the Impact JS library.