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Archives for January 2006
links for 2006-01-25
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Various movies reenacted by cartoon bunnies. It’s cooler than it sounds.
links for 2006-01-24
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This will come in handy when (and if) VMWare releases a version of their product for Macintel harware.
links for 2006-01-19
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Erin and I have a few of his tape sculpture works in our living room.
links for 2006-01-17
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This will scare the crap out of you if you ever have an MRI.
Get Your Helmets Ready
One of my New Year’s resolutions from last year was to finally do something about my hunt-and-peck keyboard technique. To meet that objective, I enlisted the help of a computer program that employs a friendly animated viking to help children learn to type.
Over a three month period the viking whipped me into shape. I eventually learned to type with good technique at roughly 55 words per minute. Although the program was effective, I still believed it could have used improvement, so I contacted the software developers last year with a great idea for a fun typing exercise game they could include in their next release of the program.
I thought it would be cool if the viking could run through a village in a drunken mead-induced haze plundering and murdering villagers with varying degrees of bloodiness based on the user’s typing speed.
I haven’t heard back from them yet.
links for 2006-01-16
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Who wants to go?
links for 2006-01-11
links for 2006-01-07
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Some people have way too much free time.
Maybe He Really Is the ‘King of All Media’
When I first heard about Howard Stern’s deal with Sirius Satellite Radio in October of 2004, the numbers involved made me think that the folks over at Sirius were smoking crack. How could the value of Stern’s audience possibly justify the “approximately $100 million per year” salary they had agreed to pay him?
It looks like I couldn’t have been more wrong.
According to this Wall Street Journal article, Sirius brought in 1.14 million new subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2005, earning Stern an additional $200 million bonus.
If you look at the following chart comparing Sirius’s stock growth to that of rival XM Satellite Radio, you’ll see that it’s not unreasonable to assert that Stern is responsible for doubling Sirius’s stock price and pushing their market capitalization well past that of their rival. (The chart begins the day before the deal was announced.)
In fact, the increase alone in the market capitalization of Sirius is more than four times the value of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
links for 2006-01-05
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Guaranteed to make you smile.
links for 2006-01-02
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Now that TextMate finally has documentation, I need to reconsider using VI.
