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Friday, 2nd February 2007

Linux Genuine Advantage. As with all the best parodies, this one ships with source code.

# 5:29 pm / funny, linux, vista

Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.

Bill Gates

# 6:01 pm / bill-gates, osx, windows

Digg to drop their global “top users” list. It’s fascinating how big an effect a simple feature like a top users list can have on the social behaviour of a site.

# 6:03 pm / digg, socialsoftware