I'll be back when I have $18 to spend on a blog I never use ;]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/technology/companies/ 17skype.html?_r=2&ref=business

Those Skype guys are geniuses. Finally eBay gets a taste of their own medicine.

So Warner Bros. has restricted rental companies such as Redbox and Neftlix from offering its movies until 28 days after movies hit retail shelves.

Wow. Seriously? Wow.

I'm at a loss for words.

Do they not realize that doing stupid crap like this is what turns people to piracy? To quote the first comment on the above article, "The more they try to restrict people from legally seeing their movies, the faster they will accelerate the proliferation of their content through torrent sites." This is absolutely 100% correct.

Redbox is a genius idea. Redbox is so smart and reasonable, I stopped pirating movies. And they want to wait a month before releasing movies for rental? So people can buy them retail? Who the hell still purchases movies? Especially new movies? Have Warner Bros. actually watched any of the movies they've been putting out the past few years? But I digress, my rant on crappy movies if for another time.

Warner Bros, I don't understand you. Unless maybe you're doing it on purpose to increase piracy so you can bitch about it some more. Man, I wish I could have an 11.7 billion dollar revenue.

This chart has been making its way around the interwebs, and it's more than just laughable. In fact, it's infuriating.

Claims like "Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium's CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser... Microsoft made a big commitment to standards with Internet Explorer 8." absolutely piss me off. If you've ever used HTML and CSS, you know what a pain it is to develop for IE. You use proper html and css practices, and your page looks great in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. But what happens when you open it up in IE?

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU!

You rage! Because everything is screwed up. Not only that, it's screwed up differently in IE6 than it is in IE7, which is screwed up differently than IE8.


IE8 is not standards compliant. It still doesn't even render divs with min-height properly.

So here, Microsoft. This middle finger is for you.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/ article6478542.ece

Very cool. I hope other countries follow.