The Coffee Desk

So, remember last summer, about late August/early September when every nerdy science-type of guy was bugging out? They were either in fear or awe of what had been built below the French-Swiss-Italian frontier: the Large Hadron Collider, what was seemingly one of the greatest engineering and scientific achievements mankind has ever produced. And then it broke after running for 12, count ‘em, 12 seconds.

I was in both fear and awe. A micro black hole in the Earth’s atmosphere is a fair trade in my book for the Higgs boson and dark matter.

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So I think most geeks or curious people in general have checked out @Microsoft’s long-unused Twitter account, only to find a skimpy amount of followers and no tweets to speak of.

Today, that changed in what is apparently Microsoft’s effort to get in on the Twitter marketing business (as 1 out of every 2 Twitter spammers love to tell you about).

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I don’t know about you, but I just love to mess people. Since our humor pieces tend to get more hits than our serious articles, I decided to put together a step-by-step guide for how to mess with people in general, as well as specific targets you’ll get the most fun out of. We’ve tweeted most of these before, and given the responses I think most will enjoy these.

There are a good number of them here, so just because one sounds stupid doesn’t mean the next one won’t make you laugh.

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I aim for this to be a politically un-biased, FYI article regarding the effect most of Obama’s policies have had on the U.S. middle class, which any economist can tell you is the most important class in a healthy nation’s economy (charts below to demonstrate this). Everybody needs to know this, so we can hopefully move beyond this poor economic state.

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Joining the ranks of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and (the currently-unconfirmed reports of) Jeff Goldblum, Richard Nixon died today while suffering from what witnesses say was a “minor heart attack”.

This is the fourth celebrity death this week, and the third today. Our very reliable witness states that the ex-president was eating dinner at Studio 54 when around noon he walked to the restroom claiming minor chest pains. He was found dead an hour later in Australia while at an Opera, our reliable sources say.

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…is by far the most annoying thing to find on the Internet when you’re in an honest search for something. This “tagline” is part of a fake “search engine portal” used by the world’s largest cybersquatter, information.com, and this article aims to outline just how they “get away” with these registrations while gaining the audience and revenue they were really seeking all along.

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The loosely-described Web 2.0 has done nothing short of increasing user interest and interactivity in the Internet’s content.

…And spammers are starting to realize and take advantage of this fact.

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PETA people flipped out when President Obama swatted a fly today during an interview. The post linked to above makes the loss of the fly sound like the loss of a Nobel prize winner, as opposed to a non-endangered insect that annoys us to no end:

Our Response

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We’re pleased to announce our first annual Watching Paint Dry Contest - here’s the flyer:

Watching paint dry contest flyer

*remember, this is not real even by a long shot

Recall the web of the mid to late 90’s: few images, largely informational, and e-commerce was just starting to take off as more and more users joined this new informational network called the Internet. Then, throughout the 2000’s, Web 2.0 placed a name on a collection of design patterns to move the web to a more graphical and dynamic JavaScript-based user experience.

As the web continues to evolve, however, we see a new type of design pattern cause the Web to further evolve - something we’ve covered here under a new name: web darwinism.

Continue reading "Web Darwinism: A Move To A Simpler Web"