Matthew Gifford

Dressing up as Steve Jobs for Halloween this year is going to be expensive. Seriously, though, those are some pretty sweet shoes. (via TUAW)

What would happen if Microsoft designed packaging for the iPod? (via Scobleizer)

Could someone at Google please explain to me why e-mail with subject lines like the following consistently get through Gmail’s spam filter?

***SPAM*** “СПОСОБЫ ОПТИМИЗÐ?ЦИИ Ð?ДС И Ð?Ð?ЛОГÐ? Ð?Ð? ПРИБЫЛЬ”

I’d think the ***SPAM*** part would give it away.

If you suspected that the chefs in Iron Chef America knew what the secret ingredient was going to be prior to taping the show, you were correct. Kind of. MSNBC gives us a look behind the scenes. (via Slashfood)

Jenn is wanting to start an informal photography club in the Porland area. Please let her know if you’re interested.

Wednesday night, Google Page Creator (via TechCrunch) went live. The service allows anyone with a Gmail address to create pages using a web-based editor.

Pages are saved at http://username.googlepages.com/.

I think there’s more going on here than a simple website-creation tool. To me, this looks like the first iteration of a web-based word processor. Add a spell-checker and a few other bits of functionality and you start to get someting akin to Apple’s Pages. It’s certainly no Word-killer. But Word is overkill for most people, anyway.

I expect that Steve Gillmor will have something to say about this on Thursday.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been twenty years (via Slashdot) since The Legend of Zelda was released. The first time I ever saw it was over at Matt Walker’s house. He was the kid with all the cool toys. I don’t remember much about that particular moment. But I do know that for many weeks afterward, we were totally enthralled by the world held inside that gold cartridge.

This little online version of Katamari Damacy is a complete waste of time. And a lot of fun, too. (via Digg)

Jenn and Nicole might be interested in Whip Up’s list of knitting podcasts (via MAKE).

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