Interesting posts, part siete
August 25th, 2007 • interesting posts
While I didn’t find a lot of interesting news this week however, I did find tidbits that made me say “Finally!”
I know this is making kids happier, especially our neighbor. I don’t know why school districts are so hell bent on getting kids out of bed and to school at 8AM — or earlier — because of bus scheduling. I don’t know about you but the time my job starts isn’t dependent on when my transportation can get me there. Hopefully more schools come to their senses and realizes kids hate getting up at 6AM to trudge to school.
SciVee is being pitched as the “YouTube for Science”. Hey whatever works to get people to look at the site. It’s a site chock full of science videos by scientists and it’s all very nice to use. Each video is typically linked to a paper about the subject matter written by the video’s author/producer. Very nice.
I don’t know when I’ll need to use one of these but I know I will need to so perhaps I should order two.
This is an unofficial site that scrapes images/videos from reddit.com however, it’s not actually produced by the Reddit crew. When will the guys behind Reddit learn that the people that made Reddit popular and got it to where it is hate most of the inane images and video posted on the site? We’ve been asking for that garbage to be filtered off into a subreddit but I guess with all the new Conde Nast money, they’re less worried about listening to users. This unofficial site is a nice step in the right direction but by the wrong guy.
A crafty Japanese player has figured out how to turn ordinary Super Mario levels into intricate Rube Goldberg machines. Most of the videos are pretty good however, there are obvious spots where the player is actually using the controller although, these videos are purported to be 100% completed without user intervention.
Maki offers up more helpful tips for generating weekend traffic with little effort. I know that social networking works great, especially from StumbleUpon (submitting anything not Apple/I-hate-Microsoft/Linux-Ubuntu/Bush sucks/etc it’s pointless to submit to Digg).
Something finally surpassed the Nintendo DS in overall sales, that hasn’t happened since the DS was released a few years ago. It’s great to see the Wii passing everything since it was such an underdog system and the overhyped — as usual — Sony product has failed to sell much of anything.