I never knew

I was expecting more. Denzel was excellent, as usual, the robbery twist is interesting but pretty predictable, Jodie Foster is entirely under used and there are two racism commenting scenes that have nothing to do with the plot and what’s going on.

You’ve probably already seen this in a hundred place but here it is anyway; Flickr have come out with kick ass photo mapping, I especially like the drag and drop localizing in Organize, that way a lot more people can start using the feature now instead of much later, when more users have phones that do it automatically.

I know, I know, quit it with the new Mac ads but I can’t! They’re funny! Seems to be more and more about the PC guy though.

Could there be more social networking websites coming out? For parents, cars, students, churches, christians, bakers and cookers, weight loss, shopping, illustrators, UK centric, boy band based, high school sports, fans, generic versions, add ons for My Space, add ons for Facebook, etc. And that’s just a sampling of what launched in August. Check out Mashable’s social networking archive to see what I mean. Lemmings 2.0.

“Straight out of Cape Cod we’re keeping it real”. “We might be vanilla but our labs are chocolate”. Funny “rap” video Prep Unit with Tea Partay, hilarious. (via Mitch)

The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment.—Air traffic as seen by the FAA

I don’t know the exact demographics for VW Rabbits are but I’m guessing this wardriving commercial is right on the money to get their attention.

If you’ve got a Powerbook or iBook, don’t forget to check the latest battery recall, mine is on it and I ordered the replacement in 30secs with the little form at right. Really sucks though that I had it replaced 4-5 months ago because it had lost capacity and it needs replacement again!

Great post on 37 Signals (something they don’t do as often as they used to, imho), Define your own success. It starts with a quote from John Battelle who thinks there aren’t enough failures, some kind of imbalance.

Fried (and I) agrees that failures are necessary but that failure or rather success should be defined for each person/company. That’s something that I’ve been surprised at again and again in recent years, people who keep pushing to grow, hire more, sell more, produce more, taking on jobs they’re not interested in just to keep growing and paying the growing bills. Why? Why is being a seven person company in one year necessarily better than being four?

Not only should analysts remember that success and failure are relative, entrepreneurs (and freelancers) should remember to set their own success level, not just following preconceived steps to it.

IE 7.0 is coming and they’ve fixed a lot of the crap that plagues my day when doing CSS, although with experience you go around most of them pretty easily, there are still some that have you hitting you’re head on the walls. A few “favorites” that are supposed to be fixed:

• Enable :hover on all elements not just on < a >
• Min/max width/height support
• Selectors: first-child, adjacent, attribute, child
• Addressed many relative positioning issues
• % calculations for height/width for abs positioned elements
• 1 px dotted borders no longer render as dashed (why the fuck that wasn’t the case before, I’ll never understand)
• The IE Three Pixel Text-Jog