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Does anyone have any history behind this? The subtitles are hilarious, but I'd love to know what the back story is behind the video.

I've been trying to figure out who the Web 2.0 bubble's Henry Blodget is* over the past few days and then along comes Fake Steve Jobs to remind me that Blodget himself has a chance to keep the crown. The following quote is brilliant stuff:

Folks, if you're working at any of these "digital startups" you really don't need Henry Blodget's Silicon Alley Insider index to tell you what your options are worth right now. I'll tell you the answer right now. They're worth nothing. That's for most of you anyway. Because one day very soon this whole crazy mess is going to blow up and you'll be looking for work at Starbucks again, just like you were after the last bubble burst.

My advice? Print out this crazy list and pin it to your wall and wait for the crash. Then you'll have a wonderful keepsake by which to remember Bubble 2.0.

Because if there's any sure sign that the end is near, it's the fact that Henry Blodget is publishing an index with ridiculously high valuations for companies that don't actually make products and don't have revenues. What drives this ridiculous man? Why the obsessive need to hype and tout? Is he not satisfied to have played a starring role in the greatest financial mess of our lifetime? Now he needs to do it again? It's like a real-life version of Groundhog Day. Or one of those rings of hell in Dante's Inferno where people are condemned to keep performing the same sinful acts over and over again into eternity.

Read the rest:

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Alley Insider creates Bubble 2.0 keepsake

*since we've clearly transitioned into a world that parallels the "irrational exuberance" of the late 90s. I knew something bizarre was afoot when Facebook's "$15,000,000″ valuation was actually swallowed wholesale by people who should know better. That feeling has been furthered by the idea that it's a good thing for apps like Twitter just grow and grow and grow only to "figure out how to make money later." I like Twitter a lot and am impressed by Facebook's core application and API, but I look at these and other services and just don't see big $$. At the end of the day, real money (cash flow) is what's going to keep this euphoric wave going. Without some real cash for some of these services, things have the potential to go south in a big way and if they do people are going to be hurting again. We went through that once already and I'd like to see this valley be a little less painful than the last time we were in a downturn. I survived the early part of this decade and came out stronger (unlike many people I was able to stay in the industry during that period,) but that doesn't mean I want to go through that again any time soon.

Any dramatic chipmunk tattoos out there? Internet, please say yes.

I'll be adding to this all day.

• SlideShare Blog » Blog Archive » Tufte joins SlideShare board of advisors; No more bullet points on SlideShare

  My reaction? Funny

(Tufte famously hates Powerpoint)

• John Resig - Classy Query

  My reaction? Funny, but only to JavaScript geeks.

• Diesel Sweeties drawn in a "normal" comic style: "Not a Dream, Not an Imaginary Story."

  My reaction? Kind of funny. More clever than anything. Bonus points for it featuring Indie Rock Pete.

• New ASO rules; Ball buys time; OBRA bans Astana?

  My reaction? Funny, but only for people who know what I mean when I say I'm looking forward to the Ronde van Vlaanderens.

• Introducing Gmail Custom TimeTM
  Be on time. Every time.*l

  How do I use it?

  Just click "Set custom time" from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.
  Is there a limit to how far back I can send email?

  Yes. You'll only be able to send email back until April 1, 2004, the day we launched Gmail. If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born — crazy talk.
  How does it work?

  Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality (see Grandfather Paradox).

  My reaction? Funny

• Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages

  My reaction? Surprised that anyone would fall for it. Not that the underlying issue is so far-fetched, but that they believed TechCrunch would sue Facebook. In case people haven't noticed, TechCruch lervs Facebook. "TechCruch and Facebook sitting in a tree…" That said, it is a funny piece, so they get points for that.

• YouTube is rickRolling its users!

  All the "featured videos" on the home page are RickRolls.

  My reaction? Funny like Turducken

• Best one so far for me:

  Inside AdSense: Introducing AdSense for conversations

  My reaction? Laughed way out loud

  

As long as you're happy with 5 being the definition of an explosion

Craftsmanship

Markup & Style Society Talk - Bokardo

"For my talk, I picked something I’ve never talked about before: web craftsmanship. I chose this topic because I’ve been thinking a lot more about it since going out on my own last August. I also consider both Dan and Ethan craftsmen, obsessed with doing quality work vs. gaining notoriety or getting rich. So I thought it would be a good fit for the audience as well."

Not the greatest slideshare, but the very thought of it speaks to me as I'm trying to improve quality across the presentation layer at work and getting people to think in those terms is a key to getting the work I want to see produced on a consistent basis.

Wayback machine

jwz - Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!

jwz has resurrected a ton of old Netscape/Mosaic history, including the old Mosaic Communications Corporation web site and some ancient versions of their software (with which to browse it.)

SEO

Free Firefox Rank Checker - Check Your Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Search Engine Rankings : SEO Book.com

Pretty self-explanatory, no? I took it for a test drive this morning and it's a fine tool.

A New Blog I Love

The Leila Texts

When you send a text message on the Verizon network, you can address your text by choosing a name out of your contact list, or you can address it by typing in a phone number. You can also type in a name. And if you type in L-E-I-L-A, then– bizarrely– your text will come to me.
This is a blog about the texts I have received. All of them are from strangers, intended for other Leilas, but obviously they missed their marks.

Just read it. It's not a big time investment and it's interesting/funny/weird/cool.

Creative Wins at PR

Message to Daniel_K - Sound Blaster - Creative Labs

Description cribbed from metafilter:

"A geek named daniel_k wanted to help his fellow Vista users. He created a set of drivers that would get their Creative sound cards working under Vista — something beyond the ken and expertise of Creative's engineering team. Creative VP Phil O'Shaughnessy, however, took umbrage. The results? A PR disaster with hundreds of users pledging to boycott. "

It made slashdot, digg, reddit, etc. Nice work Creative!

Replubocrats unite.

Blogged mostly for the fantastic photo on the page, which is this close to being my desktop wallpaper (for at least a day- then it's back to something nerdy. Cowboy Bepop FTW.)

"Ready from Day One, we've crossed the Commander-In-Chief threshold!"

McCain/Clinton — The Dream Team for 2008

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

garfield minus garfield

The difference, of course, is that Crockford should understand that things are a little more complicated than that, but the ideas that he thinks are good enough to announce to the world are no better than the ideas a 5-year old has before breakfast. “No more iframes! No more document.write!” he declares, blissfully unaware that his employer’s home page uses both. “Strict entity parsing!” he demands… in a page with unescaped ampersands. “UTF-8 is the One True Encoding!” he proclaims boldly… in a page that declares itself as ISO-8859-1. “No more javascript: URLs! In fact, let’s replace Javascript altogether! And I’ll be back to talk about CSS!” It just goes on and on, the awesomeness gradually swelling until it all folds back on itself like a Möbius strip of self-parody. It’s the Bolero of trolls. Everything he claims is secure isn’t, and everything he claims would increase security wouldn’t. Everything he wants to add to HTML would make it worse, and everything he wants to remove would also make it worse. Please, please tell me he’s shooting the moon to make the worst proposal ever. It just doesn’t make sense any other way, at least not from anyone older than 5.

The Bolero of trolls [dive into mark]

The Fixing HTML page itself.

Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

Alternatively:

The '… Is Your New Bicycle' Meme Is Your New Bicycle
Steve Jobs Is Your New Bicycle
Ron Paul Is Your New Bicycle

Explanation:

Change of Subject - Observations, reports, tips, referrals and tirades | Chicago Tribune | Blog

I just clicked for a good five minutes. For me, someone who's seen the entire internet twice, that's a significant amount of clicking in one place.

Check out this incredible collision between everyone's favorite administration and everyone's favorite Xenu hunting A+ list megastar