Message for Morten Harket
Hi Morten! The odds of you reading my site is close to 0. But if you do (or a friend, or a friend of a friend), please show up on stage in Spektrum October 31.
I know Chris Martin loves your songs, and I know that you know he does.
a-ha is playing in Köln October 29, but the next concert isn’t until November 13 in Brüssels.
So here’s the perfect occation: Do a duo.
Most kickass FPS gun
Games.net has compiled a top-10 list of the 10 baddest FPS guns.
The winner was a surprise…!
Roboraptor attacks!
Lucky you, Eirik! Playing with the new Roboraptor. I have to hide this post for the kids…
Technorati Tags: games, robots
CIA, Area 51 and the Newton easter egg
Maybe it’s very old news, but still cool: Back in 1995 the Apple Newton came with a new model, the Newton MessagePad 120. One of the engineers on the Newton loved Area 51 and all the stories surrounding it. So he came up with the idea that if you chose Area 51 as your howetown in the map, the OS of the Newton changed to an Alien-looking theme.
Cool enough. But the CIA didn’t like the idea! Read more Cupertino.de.
Customer for 70 years
What if someone is a customer in a bank for 70 years, and still they check her signature every week when she’s in the bank? Seth Godin has the story.
Minus points to Seth for not telling which bank this was.
Free broadband in hotels
Radisson SAS today announced that their hotels now will offer free broadband for guests. Most hotels also have wifi. So now you can surf from the lounge or stream “The girl from Ipanema” in the elevator!
This is a good thing. Start the competition! Hotel wifi has been too expensive for long, and hopefully others (like Best Western) will follow. See this post at Flickr.
I recently paid NOK 50 (7,84 US Dollars or 6,33 Euro) for 30 minutes in a Norwegian hotel. It was at Fru Haugans hotel in Mosjøen, Norway. Way too expensive, even though it was better paying a lot for it than not getting it – which was the option at the other two hotels I asked at in Mosjøen.
Doc Searls posts about ridiculous prices for broadband at Royal Sonesta Hotel Boston. 56K is free, Premium service is $10 day. Bally’s in Las Vegas is even worse.
If you experience bad service with wifi at hotels, upload a screenshot or even a picture from the hotel at Flickr. Tag it “bad service”.
Hotelchatter lists best wifi hotels 2006. The winners are Kimpton hotels.
Kimpton doesn’t count on their lobby WiFi network to reach the top floors of their buildings, instead, at the hotels we visited, Kimpton actually had two separate WiFi networks–one for the lobby and the other for the guest rooms. Both networks are easily accessible by clicking on a standard terms and conditions. Furthermore, during our Kimpton visits, friendly staffers went out of their way to ask us if we were getting a good reliable WiFi signal in both the lobby and our room, and guess what? We were.
10 things that need to be set free
Ross Mayfield is at the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. And blogs about Jimmy Wales’ “10 Challenges for the Free Culture Movement”.
Very interesting. Which of these do you think is the most important? Mine would be no. 3. Encyclopedias and dictionarys are very important. But “just” raw data. It’s how you use the words and the data that makes people educated.
Coldplay – live in Oslo
Coldplay is playing here in Oslo at October 31. Tickets are in house, and concert added to Upcoming. Add yourself if you’re going!
Something wrong with the RSS feed
Do you read brilliantdays.com in a RSS reader/feed? There’s something wrong with my setup for the moment, articles that should be full-text are not. I will fix it asap.
NetNewsWire needs tags
I have been using NetNewsWire as my main RSS reader for some time now. It’s a brilliant app – I highly recommend it! It’s like a Ferrari: Fast, good looking and going where you want it to go.
But that doesn’t mean that it can’t be improved. Being an avid Flickr and Del.icio.us user, I have fallen completely in love with tags. Tags are – in my opinion – the most clever concept that has been introduced on the net the last years. It gives you and me a fast and easy way to organize bit amounts of data.
You may have read my post about tagging, smart folders and getting things done here on brilliantdays.com. I use this technique a lot, and the excellent Tagbag! widget by Benedikt Terhechte helps me find my tagged documents, files and folders without setting up lots of smart folders “manually”.
The top 50 spam words
Activsoftware has posted a list of the 50 words with the highest spam/ham ratio. In other words: The 50 words that most often show up in spam but NOT in normal mails. “Click” is not a such word, as it’s often used in normal mails.
Are you as smart as Einstein?
Coudal Partners has a great exercise for your brain. Figure out who owns the fish. Apparently only 2% of the population will be able to solve this. Give it a try. Don’t google the solution. Did you make it?
The yellow chair escaping
Yeah, I know. Lot’s of Flickr posts lately. But this one was too cool to be missed. From an art project in San Francisco.
Also see the Defenestration project’s home page.
Apple Mighty Mouse pirated!
Flickr user “a superhero by night” thinks Apple marketing got it a bit wrong this time (for once I must add). So he improves the new Mighty Mouse web page.
Those Pesky Ninja’s!
LOL. Seth Godin would love this.
