Whistling in the dark

I belong to a flickr group called paleo-future devoted to images of outdated visions of the future. Enjoy this comic of the present as it might be viewed by the future with one of my favorite authors as the punchline. He is a contributer to the awesome boingboing. His novels are below. His law and silly pics here.

Update: Check out Scott Beale / Laughing Squid‘s photo from flickr.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Book) Authors:Cory Doctorow Manufacturer:Tor Books Released:05 December, 2003

A Place So Foreign and Eight More (Book) Authors:Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling Manufacturer:Four Walls Eight Windows Released:18 August, 2003

Eastern Standard Tribe (Book) Authors:Cory Doctorow Manufacturer:Tor Books Released:10 March, 2005

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (Book) Authors:Cory Doctorow Manufacturer:Tor Books Released:16 June, 2005

Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (Book) Authors:Cory Doctorow Manufacturer:Thunder’s Mouth Press Released:11 January, 2007

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Consumerist has posted a solution to flying wii controllers. Comment on waiting for an official solution from Nintendo: “It ain’t carved from Zelda’s hyperpolygnal ass and handed down by the hands of many small Japanese gods, but it’ll do the trick.”

Nintendo Wii is a new gaming system where you move the controllers through the air to control the action on the screen. Some people have been doing so a bit overzealously. [See Wii Have a Problem; also the twisted take by Penny Arcade; Originally noticed the Wii on boingboing with a funny post by Mark Frauenfelder]

Official Solution: Nintendo is replacing straps. Information Here.

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From a Drivl post on how code is really different from the way it is portrayed in Hollywood.

“If real life were like film I’d be able to port wordpress to my toaster using a cat5 cable and a bag of glitter.”

Found via boingboing

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eBoy - FooBar

Saw this poster on boingboing and couldn’t resist it. You can get one from here.

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