Plecebo

I made a posting onto facebook about this article:http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-teaches-best-buy-employees-how-to-troll-linux-users.ars This posting is a response that was too long for facebook to comments on that posting, most people can skip over this unless they are interested.

Every company wants their products to be the best. They want people to use what they have made and be amazed that it works so well that they tell all their friends and the theory of capitalism is proved once again. That is all good and fine until you resort to shady methods in order to produce information that pushes the masses in your favor. There is a difference between putting your best foot forward (read: marketing) and making false comparisons (read: deceiving).

Busting IE8’s Mythbusting

Microsoft unveils its newest Zune add. Almost NSFW

via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5092185/zune-spec-ad-is-gross-and-nsfw-but-at-least-i...

This is really cool technology, using image switching in a SUPER cool way to do some really neat things with a "surface" like display. Hopefully we will see this kind of innovation and technology in use pretty soon.

I said it before here. These adds are a bit... well pointless.

Looks like the folks at Penny Arcade agree.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/9/15/