Freakin amazing fall

Australian Jake Brown attempting a 720 or something. He walked away…

Will apps kill Facebook?

I am one of many people that I suspect have abandoned Myspace in favour of Facebook in recent years. I never enjoyed using Myspace and didn’t see the point of it. I had to set up email alerts to remind me to visit and reject friends requests from porn sites and the like. The most painful thing about Myspace was visiting the pages of people who had stuck every conceiveable widget and slideshow on their page accompanied by some form of auto play god awful music. The vast majority of Myspace pages wouldn’t render properly in any browser.

Facebook’s interface on the other hand is clean and easy to use. The news feeds on each page suck you in and assist you in wasting too much time following what people are up to. You know that when you click on something that it will work. At least until now.

Since Facebook opened up their API there has been an explosion of applications. Some such as the Twitter and Last.fm apps are very good. Others a very bad for a variety of reasons. Some such as the ’super wall’ and the like risk turning facebook into Myspace. Now when you visit a person’s profile you can’t expect to see a clean, well laid out page, but often a hodge podge of crap. Not to mention the incessant invitations to determine your sex appeal score or to rate whose dog is cuter than the other.

Basically I hate them. While I think Facebook did the right thing by opening up, there should have been some form of quality control process. Apps should have to be vetted before they can make it onto the site. Otherwise the user experience will, and is suffering.

Does anyone agree or am I just a big whinger?

Update: I’m not the only one who is concerned

Screenshot from Mashable.com

Greens spoof of Labour party Howard ad.

I think I’ll vote for them.

Nine loses electronic program guide case

Channel 9 can go fuck off too.

Congrats to IceTV

The yes men

This is great. Apparently these guys impersonate executives from unfriendly corporations and get themselves invited to speak to conferences and the like, and then screw with the audience.

Calgary this week, Exxon Mobil executive Florian Osenberg told a rapt audience that the ongoing climate change crisis is no big deal because the dead people can provide “more feedstock.”

In a rousing speech for 300 oilmen and oilwomen with partner Shepard Wolff, the executive reassured the crowd that, even if billions die from expected climate-change-related disasters, the industry will continue to prosper. The oil companies could “keep fuel flowing,” said the execs, by turning all the dead people into oil.

Wolff “described the technology used to render human flesh into a new Exxon oil product called Vivoleum,” according to a press release about the event. “3-D animations of the process brought it to life” and candles were lit in honor of an Exxon Mobil janitor who was the first to undergo the process. The speakers were quickly removed from the stage when it was learned, via a final video testimonial from the deceased, that the candles were the janitor.

from The Consumerist

Everyone hates telstra. A lot

There’s a great piece on The Age website about Telstra and how they’re frackin up the internet in this country by abusing their monopoly and killing off competition. Simultaneously ripping people off with obscenley high prices and slow speeds.

The article is titled, Why We All Hate Telstra. Amen.

Oh, and ignore the propaganda bullshit on the Telstra website, Now We Are Talking