I warned all 20 of you last year that big changes might be coming.
They are.
First manifestation: visiting wiredcola.com in the next day or two may be messy. On the other hand, it is about to be the proper repository of Wired Cola, the world's only Cybermorphic beverage/weblog/synergy leverage project, and a division of Globadom, Incorporated.
Look for exciting Web 1.4-type features coming soon, as we exit the blogspot ghetto.
You know why I did this? Because I have a 50% failure rate on typing blogspot's captchas.
In a comment on my ridiculous prediction post, Andrew asks if I think the revised Apple TV qualifies as my predicted Pippin 2.
Pippin 2. You heard it here first.
TLO and I went to the Macmillan Bloedel Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park on a lark. There, we met Charlie:
Thanks Charlie, we love you too.
Bell is sorta promoting their Unlimited Mobile data plan. It's not clear if this is purely a "walled garden" play, but the short version is that early reports say it isn't: you can just surf the web on your mobile phone's browser, $7/month, unlimited data.
Considering that current data plans range up to something roughly approximating "infinity dollars a month" from most carriers, this is a monstrous breakthrough.
It's good. It's very good. It's less subtle than it thinks it is, and is possibly the least surprising script that could possibly come from the hand of Aaron Sorkin. I mean, he found a story about a Democratic politician who did a little cocaine and did the right thing in Afghanistan? If the story wasn't true, I would damn Sorkin for writing such a banal allegory.
A ridiculous discussion in rec.bicycles.racing (eventually, they all are) led to someone mentioning, in the context of personal art collections, this poster:
Which led me to declare that US aircraft carrier groups, collectively, were the greatest art installation ever conceived.
So, I had to read back to find out what I did this year. Here's what I did:
January: I rode in the snow
February: everything broke
March: I bought a bicycle built for two
April: I helped build a tiny bike
We are, of course, speaking of the definitive Rankin/Bass stop-motion animated version.
Please don't tell TLO I did this.
Wrong! This is what happens when you really like coffee and are a really big nerd:
