In the age of sub-$1000 notebooks, the Ferrari 1000 is a luxury model.

– via Accordion Guy

Yeah maybe, but its not a Macbook.

(ObDisclosure: Microsoft gave me a bunch of free stuff last year, including a book on Outlook, a $100 gift certificate for the MS Store that I never used, an amazing USB laser travel mouse that I use all the time and a bunch of copies of Vista that I promptly lost interest after installing them and realizing that the gloss wasn’t really going to get me enthused about Windows any time soon…and oh yeah, a totally unexpected copy of OneNote which is a story worth reading…)

from the "shoulda-been-on-lifehacker" file. DIY Grow-Op via Google Video.

The intarweb is sooooooooo useful.

Sidenote: I’ve been spending a fair bit of time playing with Google Video and YouTube and their kith and kin over the last couple of days. For all of the fingerpointing at Youtube’s collection of copyright infringing clips, I’m finding that Google’s video collection is waaayyyy more infringing. Youtube only allows 10 minute clips to be uploaded. GV clips can be open ended. Guess which is showing more full length movies and TV shows? The quality is much better with GV, and they allow the download of raw, unencumbered QT files for play-anywhere action.

Complete episodes of “The Simpsons”, “Family Guy” and “South Park” are pretty easy to find… 

 …and full run movies of varying qualities are pretty available too (I managed to find copies of “Lady in the Water”, “Madagascar” and others pretty quickly)

In fact, a quick look at newly submitted content over 20 minutes in duration mostly looks to be pirated in some way – capped from TV, ripped from DVD, etc. There seems to be very little actual user generated media that runs this long.

So it looks like Time’s “Person of the Year” is not only a pothead, but they are a thief as well.

My friend Tim says this is a cliche, but I haven’t heard it before, and I quite like it…

…you don't know what you think until you have to write.

Crap.

Crap. Crap. Crap.

Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap.

(crap).

I’m out of town for a week.

And I forgot the power adapter for my Macbook.

And the closest Mac-savvy store is 90 minutes away.

And they are out of stock on Magsafe adapters.

Crap.

To make things even worse, I brought my old Thinkpad along with me so that I could finish up the data transfer off the unit before I turned it back into company inventory.

Now I actually have to use it.

Crap.

And I *hate it*.

If anyone knows of any stores in the Ottawa/Pembroke region that actually carries (instock) the Apple 85w Magsafe adapter for the Macbook Pro, please (please!) drop me a line.

If that's not enough for you, I've uploaded a bunch of stills to a Flickr photoset as well...

Heh...according to the Google Video Terms of Service, I can pack up my home movies in a box, stick a stamp on them, ship them down to Google HQ, and somehow, they'll end up in online...

You may designate content for hosting and display to end users... by sending copies of Your content to Google at the address located at www.google.com/corporate/address.html, Attention: Google Video Upload Program, in a format designated by Google, or to such other address as designated by Google, and/or by otherwise making such content available to Us...

Having nothing better to do while I fight the Brazilian Face Swelling virus, I might just do that over the next couple of days... :)

I attended two conferences in Seattle this past spring and had a little bit of downtime to do some sightseeing. I've taken advantage of the downtime associated with the allergies/poisoning/reaction/whateveh to put together a quick photo album using iPhoto and WebExport. Pretty good tools IMHO. Enjoy.

Who is Celebrity X?

– via BoingBoing.

Howie Mandel?