Rainn Wilson, from NBC's Office posts pictures in real time. It's interesting to see him posting casually from the "office." You don't see very many stars straying away from their carefully orchestrated PR machines to post casually -- he even has his own Twitter site.

Well .. I guess this *could* itself be a carefully-orchestrated PR maneuver.

Facebook Connect, I know you're reading this, and we need to talk. It'll only take a second. It's just you and me here, ok? Just us boys. Tell me what's going on. You don't complete your documentation, your code is full of serious bugs, you don't pay attention to your bugzilla...

Wow. Sometimes you read something that sums up your sentiments perfectly. Captures your internal zeitgeist in a way that you wish you could, if only you were a little more eloquent.

This was it. Coding with the Facebook platform has allowed Posterous to do some really neat things. But there's also a dark side and with the sweet comes the bitter: developing for FB requires patience. A loooot of patience.

Thanks to Garry for pointing this out!

On my last visit home, my dad and I got to talking about rural peasants as the source of social unrest in China. I told him I didn't believe that they could organize themselves into a coherent mass movement that could challenge the government, given the communist party's stranglehold over political life in China.

He sort of chuckled and told me that not only was it possible, he even gave a few scenarios about how it could happen. The problem is basically that the Chinese peasant, now armed with a taste of prosperity, will be unwilling to go back to farming and be a "good peasant." In the past, he was content simply to have enough to eat --- now he sees how rich his urban compatriots have become, he wants a piece, and he's going to be angry if he doesn't get it.

Pretty amazing video that summarizes, in a visually compelling way. Excellent for the layperson. (Thanks to Austin for the heads up)

Alcohol is a powerful solvent, perfectly capable of dissolving fingerprints and grime on the surface of a disc. A $5 bottle of Listerine in your medicine cabinet may do the job as effectively as a $75 bottle of DVD cleaning fluid. Also, swabbing your copy of Lost Weekend with Stoli instead of fussing with a Discwasher kit is a lot more manly.

People will find the most ingenious solutions to almost any sort of problem. I remember when the foot pedal on Genevieve's fancy brushed steel trash bin broke. She was going to toss it, but a bit of plastic tubing (swiped from her fish tank) was just the quick fix needed to repair the linkage between the pedal and the steel rod that opened the lid.

Turns out the linkage broke because it was made out cheaply molded plastic. The vinyl plastic tubing is much stronger and will likely last a lot longer! Low-tech to the rescue.

Posterous launched as a simplified blogging process for users that want to stream a wide array of media to the web. Simplicity is key to its design as well as its submission process, lowering the barriers to entry by enabling users to update their Posterous blog by emailing text or media to the Posterous service.

The blogging platform is extending this simplistic view of sharing content by integrating with Facebook Connect. You can now update your Facebook wall by emailing content to Posterous. You can also post Facebook photos directly from Posterous, which will appear on both your Posterous blog as well as your Facebook Photo Galleries. Posting more than 5 photos will create a separate album with the email subject being the album title. Video support for a similar feature is currently being developed by Posterous.

Facebook connect for Posterous is launched! Major props to Garry as we both sat down to debug for IE 6/7 (in all seriousness, probably the worst browsers in the world) , chased down the last few bugs, and even found one that threatened the security of the free world.

Not to mention free beer at 2am ...

I gotta say that I like these t-shirts. Vintage Microsoft. Nothing like nostalgia to get you missing those days of config.sys, autoexec.bat, and emm386.exe. Of dialing up on your 14.4 kbps modem to warez boards when downloading a megabyte took 15 minutes. Playing Wing Commander, 7th Guest, Castle Wolfenstein, Leisure Suit Larry and all of the old school classics.

I guess you never do forget your first operating system.

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Crazy race in NYC!