Dave Caolo

Creative Room is holding a modern gingerbread house design contest. Local architects have been asked to do their best. Proceeds will benefit Architecture for Humanity. My vote goes for the one above.

I’m sure mine’s in the mail.

[Via SlashFilm]

Joshua Topolsky makes a great point regarding “bot journalism.”

“…you may be discerning, but most people aren’t, and most people will take a story like this — poorly sourced, poorly written — and digest it as fact. Now, there’s nothing particularly inaccurate about this piece of news — except that it’s written like garbage and essentially cites no sources. Plus, most media outlets reported on this last week, so why is it front page news now? And why does the article refer to “reviewers” when no one has actually used or reviewed the device? And who the fuck is Bruce Emmerling?”

The article he’s referring to is rife with spelling and grammatical errors and inaccuracies like:

“The [Nook] was recently released by Barnes & Noble with their on line store to much acclaim.”

Wrong. It was announced, not released. Huge difference.

“Reviewers are give the ebook high praise for its features including a a color touch screen, zoom-able text sizes, WiFi access, and 2GB memory storage.”

A 3-minute hands-on at a press event is hardly a review. As of this writing, the Nook has not been reviewed. Dec. 6th: Technologizer has posted a review.

“…the Nook is a newcomer to the field. It was released in November along with an ebook store on the Barnes & Noble website.”

Wrong again. The problem here isn’t that Mr. Emmerling needs a copy editor. It’s that his post topped Google News for a time. Mr. Emmerling isn’t entirely at fault here, though. There’s tremendous pressure to be the first to post technology news. In the rush, thoughtful analysis often takes a back seat. I’d rather post a well-researched, well written (and properly edited) post 24 hours after the fact than have Google distribute my up-to-the-second embarrassment.

Watched this 3 times in a row. The tears are still rolling down my cheeks.

Sr. Dolores often told us kids to “… put your thinking caps on.” This is very close to what I always imagined.

[Via Swiss Miss]

Google has re-designed their home page so that all elements other than the search box, logo and buttons are hidden until you mouse over the page. Most of the time you’ll simply enter your search term(s), hit return and browse the results while the unnecessary elements remained hidden. Nicely done, Google.

Pre-rollover

Post-rollover

[Via Minimal Mac]

Nice, but it will be even better on a tablet.

[Via freshome]

A good reminder from Jared Earle boils down to this: Someday the legions of readers you’re after will arrive. All at once. If you’re running WordPress, you’ll want WP Super Cache installed, or they’ll only find a crippled server.

[Via Daring Fireball]

You’ll remember the television special that Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane made with Microsoft to promote Windows 7, which Microsoft killed before it aired. Here are several clips from the show that could have been. Three more follow.

[Via Your Tech Weblog]

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Lovely.