Sorry John Gruber, but I like the M$ commercial

On his site Daring Fireball John complains:
"What is wrong with this company? Who authorizes this crap?"
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That was a comment on the recent MS commercial:

However, this time I disagree with John. It's very tacky and kitch and the videoclip/song is bad bad bad, but somehow the clip shows that the company takes itself not so serious. Especially if you know those are all actual MS workers (having an absolute blast), according to Long Zheng. I mean c'mon, the "I'm a Mac" ads are getting on my nerves by now. Vista bashing is soo 2006, and well.. to just need 160Gigs to run an OS is hilarious... no?

Human evolution has stopped? My view...

According to an article in the dailymail, some scientists are convinced evolution of mankind has stopped and we're going downhill from now on;

  • no more mutations because there are less children born late (as in from old father/mother)
  • there's less need for adaption to the environments.
  • too many people to really get "random" changes

However.. while all of the above may be true, maybe our real evolution comes from genetic or stem cell manipulation. This is a subject of controversy because of all those ethic (and religious) issues around it (first techniques of human embryo stem cell research meant destroying or cloning the embryo), but maybe, just maybe this is meant to be our evolution. We have the technology to prevent certain diseases by manipulating genes and stem cells, we could almost create super humans right now, if it weren't for these ethical problems. And frankly I am certain the current religion sponsored governments are also a limiting factor in the evolution of these techniques.

Who knows.. maybe we have evolution in our own hands....

another weekend passed

Geez, time flies, just a couple of weeks and it's already Christmas. The Weekend was nice. Bought a nice new LCD TV. Samsung LE37A656 to be precise. 37 inch of digital wide screen full HD 100Hz 24p goodness. Even normal DVDs look amazing now. And, even more fun, my vintage Dreamcast now even looks sexy on this screen. Wait until I get a VGA d-SUB cable for it.. supposedly the video quality is similar to the Wii. Which is good if you consider this console is already 10+ years old. Time to play Resident Evil again on the DC.. creepy.

Anyway, apart from the above the weekend was uneventful. Which was nice, no obligations, just doing things we want to do. Or do nothing at all. The coming weeks will be busy enough already, with study, work and writing. Oh, and I planned a few photoshoots again. After 6 months nothing, I guess it's about time to do some photography again.

And I'm in my Tori Amos phase again.. she's amazing