26 Jul 06 Net Crap (7/26)

• Best Buy, Bad Design
  “How about this. If it’s not in stock at a store don’t list the store. If it’s not in stock anywhere just tell me. Don’t play bold vs. normal and black vs gray. Make it simple. If it’s there, show it. If not, don’t.”
  (tags: insightful geekery funny food4thought)
• Wired News: Why I Love Apple
  “Part of the magic of this discovery was the serendipity. If it had been a ‘feature’ — a behavior purposely brought to my attention by Apple — I would have shrugged and said, ’so what?’ But because I discovered it by accident, it struck me as artisan to
  (tags: cool powerful insightful macintosh)
• Sreedhara.com » The biggest hole in the world - great photos
  These photographs are absolutely, categorically *amazing*. WOW.
  (tags: amazing science photos nature holy_shit)
• “Six friends spruced up in fake blood and tattered clothing were arrested in downtown Minneapolis on suspicion of toting ’simulated weapons of mass destruction.’”
  “Apparently the arrest reasoning is a bit weak considering they had the zombies walk to the precinct without searching them. If they really thought there was any chance that the backpacks contained bombs, I don’t think they would have done that.”
  (tags: whaddafuck censorship fascist dumbass)
• “[Parker Brothers has] phased out the standard multi-coloured cash in a new version [of Monopoly]. Players will instead use a Visa mock debit card to keep track of how much they win or lose.”
  BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY … that’s a dumb idea. Because checking a debit card is such an intuitive thing to do during game play!
  (tags: games dumbass)
• The giant cursor-arrow kite.
  Heh.
  (tags: funny cool geekery)
• Some pretty damn cool statuary … the giant thumb, for example, is cool.
  (tags: photos cool)
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Star ’soon to become supernova’
  Don’t get too excited. “It could be tomorrow, but most likely it’ll be 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 years from now.”
  (tags: science space)
• Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’
  No, seriously. And he compared “An Innocent Truth” to “Mein Kampf.” This is so very weird, to live in a world beyond the looking glass. It’s like living in a world where _The Onion_ headlines are real.
  (tags: weather dumbass neocon politics whaddafuck)
• Secret Service Arrests Peaceful Demonstrators in Cedar Rapids
  “Christine Nelson showed up at the Cedar Rapids rally with a Kerry-Edwards button pinned on her T-shirt; Alice McCabe clutched a small, paper sign stating ‘No More War.’ [...] Their reward: a pair of handcuffs and a strip search at the county jail.”
  (tags: whaddafuck dumbass censorship fascist neocon)