Just read this over on ReadWriteWeb and found it particularly poignant.
“One of the reasons social media can be so challenging is that it often challenges hierarchies… and people at the top of those hierarchies have grown comfortable there.
“Some see the potential advantages of an engaging, open online presence, but others feel threatened and vulnerable. They have a wide range of hostile responses at their disposal: from the passive-aggressive to the outright belligerent.”
The other night I noticed two bright stars in the sky, the only ones visible at that stage, in close proximity to the moon. I thought it looked pretty cool and thought nothing else of it. Turns out, they were Venus and Jupiter! I’m still amazed to to think I could see a planet 540 million miles away with the naked eye.
At WDS08 I discussed using Javascript to create games with Miles Eftos, who created a version Super Mario Bros in Javascript. Matt Wescott has gone one better to create a ZX Spectrum emulator in JavaScript. Now, how about a C64 emulator? 
I first saw lead Django developer, Adrian Holovaty, speak brilliantly at Web Directions 07 about how to present data more effectively. Now, I’ve just learned that he is also an awesome guitarist! Also he’s a fan of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Ahhh… Now it all makes sense.
In a world… ah, who am I kidding. Nobody can do Don LaFontaine quite like Don LaFontaine, who sadly died on Monday at the age of 68. Movie trailers will never be the same again. The Washington Post has a touching tribute.
Not only does this article have one of the greatest main-stream-media headlines I’ve ever seen, but the actual article (and accompanying YouTube video) is just as funny.
Michael Bay’s proposed script for The Dark Knight is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while.
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life.
Ryan Nichols has written an excellent article on DWM about designing the websites and branding behind Carson Systems’ “The Future of…” series of conferences. It must have been a great experience for them to sink their teeth into a project like that, and then to see the fruits of their labour all over the web as well as the real world.