links for 2007-09-04

Anything but boring. “These are not stupid people. And they are not un-greedy. Which means their desire for more money and more control and more freedom will lead them to apply their energy into figuring out how to get out of the plantation the TV networks have created for them. They will break free. Mark my words.”

“Love the passive voice.”

Word 5.1a WAS the best version Microsoft ever shipped.

“You were too beautiful for this digital world.”

“To be honest, most of my pictures suck. The saving grace of that admission is that most of your pictures suck, too.”

Just released. I continue to be on the fence, but I think I may fall to one side or the other now.

I once had a conversation with several Trilogy developers where we all admitted that the first thing we learned how to code was a D&D application. (This is a bit better than our first attempts.)

The comments thread is especially interesting.