radiant.matrix

Sometimes the comments are better than the article:

Extreme Christians call him a terrorist Muslim plotting to overthrow the USA. Terrorist Muslims plotting to overthrow the USA call him a Jew plotting to take over the Middle East. I think I just confused myself. — OneAegis, in a comment on an article in The Economist

Sometimes advertising can be so very cool:

Sea Orchestra from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.

Definitely pop over to Vimeo and watch the HD version!

The gay lifestyle involves stuff like doing laundry and taking the dog out. — comment by marymactavish at Flickr

Via DaringFireball: A first look at Windows 7 from ArsTechnica.

I’m struck by how many of the ‘new and innovative features’ are essentially re-implementations of OS X features.

• The new taskbar is an awful lot like the Dock
• The “peek” feature is a lot like Exposé (yeah, a different interface to it, but substantially similar)
• New Explorer features mimic the Finder pretty well
• New Tray features ‘common tasks like switching wireless networks’: similar to OS X’s menu-bar functionality

Not that MS might not improve the implementation of some of these things (not holding my breath on that, but…), but there’s nothing truly “brave” or “innovative” here. Sad, because MS has some great engineers — I wonder what holds them back.

Politics and religion are just like software and hardware. They all suck, the documentation is provably incorrect, and all the vendors tell lies. — Andrew Dalgleish, in the Monastery