SKIRMISHER

The year 2007 is almost over, so it’s that sweet time once again that we gazed at the things behind and before us.

The 2007 Foot-in-mouth Awards: “I love my job. I hate my customers.”

The Dumbest Startups of 2007.

Read/Write’s predictions for 2008.

Biggest Internet-related stories of 2007: Japan’s perspective.

Best 19 movies you didn’t see. Or maybe you [...]

If  I remember correctly, Sesame Street is located “somewhere” in New York City, right?
Then as now, I didn’t buy Bert’s “Pigeon Club” hogwash. And I have come to the opinion that his strange ”Doin’ The Pigeon” song is but a clever code only he and Al-Qaeda knows.
Bert was a shrewd Osama spy, who reconnoitered the City That Never Sleeps while [...]

If you and your pregnant wife want baby girls, gently advise scientists, subject every neighborhood cat to the Spanish Inquisition and burn all of them on the stake. Because there’s something about cats –a parasite, to be specific — that makes only male embryos to survive.
…According to scientists women infected with a common cat parasite [...]

* Hitler? LOLX!
* The Chinese supplier of iPod and the two reporters it had sued are now friends. Logic suggests that maybe now they all should get a room and have babies.
* Charmingly fabulous zCodec is like a smiling serial killer who will cut you up in your otherwise happiest moment.
* Inside the meandering [...]

* One simple reason why entrepreneurs are all so willing to take risks: it’s because they think they’re better than you.
* Just sitting in the calm subsurface of the expensive Dell and Apple laptop battery recall is one “explosive” fact that won’t go away: lithium-ion batteries are incendiary bombs just waiting to blow up.
* MyCircles, [...]

* Microsoft Office is a wondeful suite of software so many people are willing to die for, that’s why everybody wants to make its life much more interesting. Google, for instance, has released a delightful ode to all things bright, beautiful, and not bloated with its Office-esque Google Apps for Your Domain. The whole thing, [...]

* Scientists discover a new way to kill cancer cells: By cleverly instructing them to fuck off and die.
* Microsoft hearts Toshiba, and tells the Jap to manufacture its upcoming Zune toys. Bells and whistles include a 30 GB hard drive, 3-inch screen, built-in FM tuner, and the ability to be a “social [...]

* Omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (everywhere), immortal (servers easily replaceable), Google’s presence in modern life seems pervasive enough to deserve a new religion. Oh wait, it already has its own church.
* Exhibit A of the “Google is All-Powerful” argument: Wake up one morning and find your company in shambles, wife mutters, “It’s Google’s will.”
* Speaking of [...]