I have no idea what this is..oh wait, it's just some cucumber.
- NaNoWriMo, in case you didn’t know, is National Novel Writing Month – where you punch out a novel in one month, no matter how good or bad (mostly bad). Won’t bag you the Pulitzer prize, but will at least motivate you enough to get off your ass and start working on those novelist dreams of yours. One week into the NaNoWriMo, how are your novels shaping up?
- Tweet of the day goes to Alpha-Apple fan, John Gruber, “Steve Job’s biography is written by a man who thinks Mac OS X is named ‘OSX’”. Oooh…epic geek burn.
- Remember Sony Ericsson? That mobile phone manufacturer that used to duel for top spot with Motorola and Nokia in the good ‘ol days of shit phones? Well, its still around and is still pumping out (feeble) punches, most notably, the new Nozomi. I don’t know what it means, but it looks oh-kay. The Verge has a more in-depth report.
- Here’s a magic levitating lamp that floats in the air, brightens up your room, and terrifies visitors at night. Is there a little David Blaine hidden inside? No, its just science.
- Just when you thought it was over, they strike back. DailyDeals is a new daily deals (tada!) site that wants to sell you one more discount coupon for a massage at that crappy spa. Dear God, when will it end?
- How can anyone still hate Bill Gates? Good question. Now hear the excellent answer at Forbes as David Coursey questions the very sanity in hating a man who is curing malaria and fixing global health problems. And the other messiah, Steve Jobs? He’s gone without leaving a doodle to charity. Nothing wrong with that of course, but I think Gates deserves a break now.
- In early 2010, reports leaked of a Microsoft tablet codenamed ‘Courier’ that had the tech community all ga-ga. It would have worked as a digital moleskin notebook, and looked damn impressive. Of course, the product was still at a conceptual stage before Microsoft killed it for reasons of its own. Here, CNET’s Jay Green how (and why) MS killed off such an exciting product.
- Landing page optimization junkies: here’s a veritable bible that will teach you everything you need to know about getting those big conversion rates. It’s a long, long read with 101 tips and should keep you occupied for the larger part of Sunday.
- WikiLeaks, the little company everyone loves to hate, is losing time and bleeding money. Here’s an article about it. It’s the Economist, so at least it has some snob value.
- Finally, The Hobbit press mill is up and running and today it brings to you an article on the cameras used in the making of the movie.Each camera cost $48,000 and there were 54 of these babies on set. Yup, Peter Jackson is a spoilt man.
