Here are my weekly notes:
- As I write this, Sharon is busy watching 24: Redemption. The DVD will be released on Tuesday. I have written about simultaneous movie releases in the past, and this is pretty darn close. Start of a trend, perhaps?
- Here’s another interesting post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, this time about the taskbar.
- Interesting map of alcohol consumption around the world.
- The Dark Knight, the most successful movie of 2008, is also the most pirated. I think the lesson there is to make great movies, and the money will follow.
- Fascinating article about The Netflix Prize in the NYTimes recently. Apparently “Napolean Dynamite” and a handful of other films are preventing the leaders in the competition from making further progress.
- All good technologies will be used for negative purposes, there’s no avoiding that. Still, it’s sad to hear that a 19-year-old committed suicide on Justin.tv.
- I love looking at pictures of Dubai. Here’s another great set from Boston.com. I really like their “The Big Picture” feature.
- Something I’ll need to look into further: Twilio, an API for phone services.
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Ditto on the Boston.com display of photos. They resisted the urge to spread 50 mid-sized photos over 50 pages jammed with ads. Good on them!