August 11, 2008
Lenovo ad
Lenovo’s ad with the two guys in the airport is absolutely hysterical. (For all the people here not watching NBC’s Olympic coverage.)
elsewhere
Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.
The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.
The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.
Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”
Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. Good work. Sleep well.
I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.
LibriVox — “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”
I loved the Lenovo laptop product placement at the NBC studios and the “Lenovo powers the Olympics” advertisements. The gymnastics judges, however, were using Dell XPSes.