On the Radar: Laziness Edition

* Youtube: “Jon Stewart’s Infamous Crossfire Interview”:http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE. This is from the 2004 election, but it’s indictment of corporate media is timeless.
* Simile: “Christianity Timeline”:http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/christianity.html. A demonstration of “Timeline”:http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/, which is to time like Google Maps is to place. Very interesting effect!
* GE: “Imagination Cubed”:http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage (“via Web 2.0 Show”:http://www.web20show.com/articles/2006/07/06/web-2-0-show-episode-22-bram-cohen). Interactive pens are fun!
* ??Metropolis Magazine1??: “Behind the Glass Curtain”:http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2123 (“via Digg”:http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Google_s_new_headquarters_-_the_perfect_working_space). Corin Anderson does not work like most of the world: his office is a glass tent, which he shares with two other people. His desk hides behind a complex Rube Goldberg-esque maze, built by Anderson out of a toy called the Chaos Tower, a sort of theme park for marbles. Each day he sits in the midst of figurines, Legos, and stuffed animals, eyes fixed on his computer screen and earphones strapped on, for hours at a stretch.
* ??Ask a Ninja??: “Ninternships”:http://www.askaninja.com/node/1146. I gotta be honest with you: there are only three people who have ever lived through the ninternship. There was, uh, Joan of Arc — that girl can kill. If you can inspire French people to fight? I mean, my goodness, that’s pretty intense! One of the better ones.
* ??seattlepi.com??: “Q&A with Firefox’s Blake Ross: Extended version”:http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/104679.asp (“via Digg”:http://digg.com/tech_news/Firefox_creator_s_thoughts_on_IE7,_and_Future_of_Firefox). They did exactly what we were expecting them to do, which was take a bunch of time and get IE7 up to feature parity with Firefox. I haven’t seen any real innovation above and beyond what we delivered in Firefox. I think that it’s a solid product, but I think that by the time it comes out, we’re going to be another world ahead of them again, so I think it’s kind of a step or two behind us. We really are trying to make it less of a religious thing. The whole browser space in general has traditionally been very religious.