http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog My link between the digital and the real world. Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:56:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You've probably heard about the writer's strike by now. It's a big dust-up where writers in Hollywood feel they should be compensated for online revenues, while major networks are saying that we should wait until there's a market. The following clip is a humorous take on just that: However, ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2007/11/15/writers-should-jump-to-youtube/ As reported by Hollywood In Hi-Def (via PS3 Fanboy), Universal president Craig Kornblau apparently wants the format war to continue. From all of this I gather that Universal hates to give consumers what they want. Truly. Let's take a look at the points he specified and why they're problematic ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2007/08/09/universal-continues-to-support-hd-dvd-hates-consumers/ I love the Internet. Did I mention I love the Internet? I do. I especially love shopping on the Internet. You go somewhere, click a few buttons, enter in your credit card and voila -- a couple days later, some new shiny item. However, one of the ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2007/08/02/stupid-coupon-code-boxes/ The old parks are really where it's at. Fenway, Wrigley -- now those are ballparks. http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2007/07/18/the-old-ballparks-are-really-the-best/ Take this quiz to find out what sort of computer user you are! http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2007/07/13/what-sort-of-computer-user-are-you/ Remember Palm? They were a little company that produced this kickass product called the Treo, which combined a phone and PDA in one awesome, convergent device. They just released the Palm Foleo, to the oohs and ahhs of...well...no one. It's a separate add-on, about the size of ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2007/05/30/palm-folly/ Ever wanted to add a quiz to your site? Do you just like taking random quizzes? Quibblo.com is for you. We've all been pretty excited about actually launching this thing, and it's finally live! From a poll on how you'll vote in 2008 to a quiz on ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2007/03/28/new-quiz-site-quibblocom/ I have a prediction: we are in 2007 going to have a news article about some parent upset that their child was looking at porn on the Wii. With the release of the Opera browser on Wii, this is actually trivial, as you can just point the web browser ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-coming-age-of-wii-porn/ Most folks remember that talk during high school driver's ed: drinking and driving is a bad combination. Drinking alcohol, after all, will impair your vision, reactions, and judgment, all a recipe for disaster when flying down the road in a couple tons of steel. However, how many ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2006/09/18/virtual-drunk-driving/ Finally, a social networking site that understands syndicated content. A friend of mine pointed out that you could now import your blog entries right into Facebook, which is something we've been wanting social networking sites to do for about a year now. Now, new blog entries I ... http://www.linkwithreality.com/blog/2006/08/23/facebook-understands-syndicated-content/