Yes, the Web 2.0 carry-on is starting to get people all excited about making squillions of dollars again. Just three weeks ago someone paid US$115,000 for the domain name — yes, just for the name — refresh.com, which looks like it’s trying to clone MySpace‘s success. A shame they didn’t spend a quarter of that on design — though MySpace does just fine while looking pig-ugly.
I’ve discovered life!
And it’s on the side of a car in Sebastopol Street!
6 Lessons from Last Night
Last night I joined ’Pong at the launch of Mardi Gras: The Slide Show. Right now you can see some of his photos from before the Parade and during the Parade and the Mardi Gras Party projected onto the shopfront at 72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. While doing this I learned 6 things.
- Snakebean, at 85 Oxford Street, is worth checking out, since the food they provided for the party was delightful.
- If the smiling waiter keeps topping up your champagne you can say, with complete truthfulness, “I only had one glass.”
- If the café you were planning to adjourn to is closed, there’s a dive selling alcohol just around the corner. It’s open late, even on Tuesdays.
- If you become engrossed in a conversation about military history with the heavily-built heavily-tattooed ex-biker, you will miss the barman calling “last drinks”.
- If the heavily-built heavily-tattooed ex-biker has local knowledge about another pub which is still open and which is only a short walk away, you should choose not to act upon this knowledge.
- No, you really should.
Latest Apple products, yes
I thought this amusing video was going to be another send-up like the iPhone parodies I posted recently, but it’s actually something else again.
Polling booth maps clever, but whose map?
The NSW Electoral Commission has great interactive maps so you can find your local polling booth for 24 March. But they’re based on Google Maps. So as Richard Chirgwin points out, the mapping data is licensed in a very roundabout way.
The NSW Government street data is licensed to PSMA (the public sector mapping agency), which is then licensed to MapData Sciences, which is then licensed to Google Maps which is then licensed back to… the NSW Electoral Commission.
“We are surrounded by cretins,” Richard says. I tend to agree.
Though the defence is obviously that Google Maps provides a nice, convenient interface for programmers to use.
It’s still bestiality if the dog is dead
Sadly, in Michigan, the defence that “a dead dog is not an animal and therefore cannot be violated against its will” won’t get you off charges of having sex with the carcass of your girlfriend’s dog. Saturday nights will never be the same.