I’m not sure what to think of this. Jonathan’s tractor toy has a hippo instead of a pig:
Here’s the original:
When you press the hippo, it still sounds like a pig though.
I guess we got the middle eastern version, pigs being considered impure and all.
I wonder if it’s also the version sold in large Seventh-Day Adventist communities.
Best TV show ever, now as a musical
To watch the opening race of the 2012 F1 season, I had to set up a VPN connection to a server in Italy (for Rai’s live TV feed), and a virtual machine running another VPN connection to the UK (for BBC Radio’s audio commentary). The VPN service only costs $10 a month, but I’ll pay 4 times that to get a proper legal direct feed, if anyone will sell it to me.
C'est en 1966 au collège, que je découvre Pilote. Jusque là j'étais un fervent de Spirou qui m'offrait des rendez-vous hebdomadaires avec Gaston, Spirou et Fantasio, Lucky Luke, Johan et Pirlouit, Jerry Spring, Gil Jourdan, Boule et Bill et compagnie. Pilote m'offrit Blueberry, Astérix, les Dingodossiers, le grand Duduche, puis Reiser, Brétécher, Mandryka et compagnie. Autant dire que je baignais dans l'âge d'or de la BD franco-belge.
Great comic on the Oatmeal.
This is ten times worst if you don’t live in the U.S.
Working at the local college. These library cubicals are really helping my concentration. Props Paolo for the awesome Foursquare -> WordPress ifttt recipe.
Updated: Xavier Niel, the maverick founder of Iliad, the company behind Free.fr broadband service, is about to redefine the mobile landscape, perhaps as early as tomorrow, when he launches the much-talked about Free Mobile. In doing so, he will redefine what the idea of a carrier in the 21st century is, thanks to a radical new approach. Utilizing a blend of Wi-Fi, HSPA+ 3G, femtocells and its all-fiber backbone, Free will offer unlimited voice, texting and data over the mobile networks; just bring your own iPhone(s aapl).
I recently watched the 3 part british mini-series called “Black Mirror“. Each part is a different brilliant simulation of a dark technological future. Just fantastic – don’t miss it.
Via Yuval Dror (Hebrew)
“I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58)”
https://buy.louisck.net/statement
Louis CK is selling a professionally produced show for $5 with no DRM or regional restrictions. Success.
I steal content when I’m not allowed to buy it legally. If I can, I make the effort to connect through a proxy to buy some music, or change the country setting of my phone to buy an app, but if it takes more than 5 minutes to work around some stupid rules, I’ll just get the torrent.
This experiment is yet another example of how “Piracy” is about convenience, not price or moral values or whatever media execs say it is.
Sell me you stuff, with no stupid rules. I’ll buy it.
John Gruber:
Only 30 percent? That seems crazy to me. 70 percent of Apple TV owners don’t rent any movies or TV shows?
From How Do People Use Apple TV?.
Well, in most countries movies and TV shows aren’t even available in iTunes. We (I) just use the AppleTV to run XBMC, my 2nd favorite open source project.
