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March 12, 2008

Multi-display Wallpapers

Filed under: Art, Baseball, Software — Noah W. Smith @ 10:02 am

This absolutely blew my mind (and cost me 20 minutes of work): multi-display wallpapers! Of course it stands to reason that such a thing would exist, but those featured at mandolux are of an unbelievable quality. My favorites?

Now all I need is a couple more monitors on my desk…

March 10, 2008

Larry King visits Spring Training

Filed under: Baseball, Humorous — Noah W. Smith @ 12:13 pm

Normally celebrity news isn’t interesting to me, but this line was too good to pass:

And worse, Larry King showed up at the Sox-Dodgers game with a fourteen-person entourage. In other words, Larry King travels with two more people than Jesus did. That’s more disturbing than any Red Sox woes.

From The Bostonist.

March 1, 2008

The Stay-at-home Server

Filed under: Apple, Humorous, Internet, Marketing, Microsoft — Noah W. Smith @ 10:19 am

I’m one of those guys who thinks the “I’m a Mac” ads are very clever, and funny, and the fact that I’m writing this from my MacBook is in part due to the “Cult of Mac.” Score one for Redmond with their new Windows Home Server ad campaign. It consists of Daily Show-esque videos (not terribly funny), and this satirical gem:

Windows Home Server

It certainly looks like Microsoft is selling branded hardware, which is a big step in the Apple direction. Is this one of Bill Gates’ last acts, or one of the first from the new regime?

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