Praying woman struck by lightning
I'm glad that the woman survived, but as a secular humanist atheist, I found the whole idea highly amusing.
She says she's blessed to be alive – personally I'd be highly pissed off that my god had decided to smite me from on high. Perhaps from now on she should pray to Thor, just to be safe, after all, Pascal's Wager becomes less abstract when you're having thunderbolts thrown at you!
(via BoingBoing)
June 4th, 2006
Via Engadget, very blurry pictures of Microsoft’s alleged iPod killer.
While I’m not personally part of the iPod cult, like most Apple products they’re good to look at whilst still being functional. Unfortunately I don’t see how Microsoft will be able to compete in this sphere against the very entrenched Apple and the myriad other personal media players – given their tendency to give interestingly code-named projects utterly dull ‘real’ names.
For example, there was the recent ‘Origami’ project, there was a fair amount of buzz on the blogs about it, people were speculating, there were viral marketing sites, then… They called it the ‘UMPC’. Frankly they could have called it the ‘Huh?’ and gotten a better name.
Microsoft needs to hire some marketers with a flair for imaginative names. Or just steal some of Apple’s, either works for me.
June 4th, 2006
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