http://lightsthatblink.com blogging on stuff with lights that blink Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:41:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brilliant. http://lightsthatblink.com/jason-calacanis-on-internet-pollution/ The IE team announces that IE8 passes the Acid2 test.  Nice. http://lightsthatblink.com/now-thats-progress/ http://lightsthatblink.com/there-is-no-bubble/ ...aka, 20 seconds of GarageBand testing. [audio:http://lightsthatblink.com/wp-content/uploads/lightsthatblink-mini-podcast-1.mp3] http://lightsthatblink.com/mini-podcast/ FreeRice is a brilliant way of harvesting "dead time" on the web. Instead of playing Desktop Tower Defense or clubbing a penguin 300 yards, you can improve your vocabulary and "donate" free rice to the world's poor. The idea is simple enough: for each right answer (read: one pageview in ... http://lightsthatblink.com/one-pageview-is-worth-10-grains-of-rice/ From 1994! :P http://lightsthatblink.com/the-original-24-pilot/ In just under six hours, a army of automobiles will descend upon Victorville, California to race across a 60 mile urban course. Not for the filming of another "Fast and the Furious" flick, or an impromptu rally race, but something a little more historic: in this competition, ... http://lightsthatblink.com/history-in-motion/ Last night a bunch of bloggers here in Cordoba, Argentina got together to drink beer, eat pizza, and talk about technology (among other topics). Tons of fun. Saludos en particular a Pablo (que buen marketing de tu blog!), Nicolas (vamos con la fuerza Mac), Daniel (sí, soy una masa...y humilde!), and Diego ... http://lightsthatblink.com/cordoba-weblogs-evento/ I know everybody is throwing around this insane figure of Facebook being worth $15 billion.  It is not true. Nick Carr gets it right: Welcome to Fantasy Island. Extrapolating Facebook's true worth from Microsoft's investment is a ridiculous exercise, for two main reasons. First, the investment is part of a broader deal, the ... http://lightsthatblink.com/facebook-is-not-worth-15-billion/ If this isn't evidence that copyright law is dangerously out-of-whack here in the United States: Thomas, an employee of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, an Indian tribe, was ordered to pay a 9,250-dollar fine for each of 24 shared songs cited in the case, including Godsmack's "Spiral," Destiny's Child's "Bills, ... http://lightsthatblink.com/what-a-bargain-9250-per-song/