Links for 2004-12-19

Posted December 19, 2004 12:11 AM.

• I have a new favourite episode of Futurama: "Less Than Hero" Includes the classic, awesome, beautiful line: "a badger with a troubled past and nothing left to lose"...
• Flickr Sucks! Highly entertaining riposte to Canadian photo-sharing site
• Wikipedia's guide to Podcasting "The term podcasting plays upon the terms broadcasting and webcasting and is derived from the name of the iPod portable music player, the playback device of choice of many early podcast listeners."
• What was in the Apple Store's "Lucky Bags"? The Lucky Bags may contain a selection of the following items in any combination: Airport Express, Wireless Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, D-Link, Keynote, .Mac, iLife, iSight Camera, 20GB iPod, Silver iPod Mini, JBL on Tour...
• Steven Berlin Johnson moots two types of writers - those who own a space and those that traverse multiple spaces - which seems to have resonance to those of us whose work tends to wander across discipline For a while in 2000/2001 it felt like I could have become a pundit or consultant around weblogs of all things, but I went in another direction and then another after that. I wonder if that was the right thing to do...
• And lo they asked Metafilter "What's the most head-scratch inducing present you've ever gotten?" I've already posted mine - a couple of years ago my uncle gave my brother a packet of crisps and me a can of Thai Chicken Soup. All beautifully wrapped up and everything...
• Matt Jones proses "Smart Muzak" Lovely ideas here - use 'on hold' music to convey through mood and pace and rhythm your place in the queue and how long it'll be before your call is answered...
• OmniOutliner 3 Professional Beta OmniGroup are - as far as I'm concerned - the third part of the holy Apple trinity along with Apple themselves and Adobe. And OmniOutliner is a lovely little app...