Some links for my content-starved public:
- David Pogue’s 10 Greatest Gadget Ideas of the Year
- Jason Kottke’s best links of the year. And then, some 20 hours later, he posts his best links of the year, special jury prize edition.
- Typographica’s favorite fonts of 2005. Looking at these fonts is like going to a car show and drooling over all the exotic concept cars, then leaving and getting back in your reliable but entirely boring Honda Civic.
- Every XBox 360 sold loses money for Microsoft. By some reports, they lose $300 on every unit. On the other hand, the manufacturing costs for their games is essentially zero, and given that each game costs some $60…
- How to become an independent programmer in just 1,068 days.
- It’s now been scientifically proven that Internet Explorer sucks.
- Here’s a fantastic article about Einstein and the utterly bizarro world of quantum mechanics. There’s a great bit near the end about the nature of science, which is all too apropos in light of the ho-ha over so-called “Intelligent Design”.
I haven’t read a better description of our list. Thank you.