http://www.figby.com A weblog by Michael Moncur Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:28:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en List of animals with fraudulent diplomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - This is why traditional encyclopedias will never be as good as Wikipedia. http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/12/27/list-of-animals-with-fraudulent-diplomas-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia/ Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7 - Microsoft - Gawker - This video is the best evidence yet that Microsoft's marketing department exists on an entirely different planet than ours. http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/09/23/host-your-own-awful-party-for-windows-7-microsoft-gawker/ Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com - Wow, Amazon has taken a page from Microsoft's Playbook for getting colossally bad PR. http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/07/18/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others-pogue%e2%80%99s-posts-blog-nytimescom/ Amazon.com: Kindle DX: Amazon's 9.7" Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store - Apple? Are you listening? Please release an ebook reader that looks absolutely nothing like this. http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/05/06/amazoncom-kindle-dx-amazons-97-wireless-reading-device-latest-generation-kindle-store/ Flickr Hit Hard By Yahoo Layoffs - Dear Yahoo: Please put someone different in charge before there are more boneheaded decisions like this. http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/04/30/flickr-hit-hard-by-yahoo-layoffs/ GeoCities will close later this year - this is why you shouldn't be trusting flickr or delicious with your data. Yahoo could get bored of them at any time... [via] http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/04/27/geocities-will-close-later-this-year-yahoo-geocities-help/ joshua's blog: on url shorteners - I hate URL shortening services, and I consider Twitter's reliance on them to be one of its biggest failings. One day of coding and they could have their own URL database to solve this problem without relying on external sites. http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/04/03/joshuas-blog-on-url-shorteners/ Every year on April 1st, sites all over the Web take a break from serious business to post believable, yet strange, announcements. Here are a few of my favorites this year: * Palm announced that the all-new Pre will run old PalmOS software. * Microsoft hinted that they're making a version of ... http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/04/02/best-of-april-fools-2009/ Douglas Bowman leaves Google - that's a shame, Google really needed a good designer. I'm surprised he spent so much time fighting the current there. http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/03/20/goodbye-google-stopdesign/ In The unrecognizable Internet of 1996, Farhad Manjoo of Slate Magazine gives his impressions of the Web of 1996, although he admittedly wasn't there. This is amusing in the same way as hearing a modern high-school student talk about the music and fashion of the 1970s, but I thought I ... http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/02/27/the-unrecognizable-internet-of-1996/