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On Windows and children…

Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco — in a world where only one company sells tobacco. Like any addictive drug, it inculcates a harmful dependency.

›› Richard Stallman rips into the One Laptop Per Child project

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free, freedom, OLPC, open source, programming, tobacco, windows

How to read a book at work and not get caught.

To promote the New Zealand Book Council’s efforts to encourage reading, Colenso BBDO created the Read At Work site. It’s a mock Windows desktop filled with books packaged as ‘fake’ Powerpoint documents to encourage people to read at their workplace without getting caught. Though it feels a bit scammy*, it’s a nice idea which is executed well.

* Hey, I live in Scam City so I am allowed to be skeptical

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Books, flash, fullscreen, new zealand, parody, reading, windows

Monday, 18th February 2008

Music made only with the system sounds found in Windows 98 and Windows XP.

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mod, sound, wav, windows, windows 98, windows xp

Sunday, 10th February 2008

Quicksilver for Windows: Find and Run Robot.

Like many nerds, I really cannot do without Quicksilver on my Macs. For those not familiar with Quicksilver, it is (at the very basic level) a keyboard application launcher (though it’s capable of many more things). There are a number of Quicksilver pretenders for the Windows and I have tried a number of them. My favourite, though, has always been Find and Run Robot. I have been using it for the last three years and it has never let me down — it is lightning fast, doesn’t slow your computer down and stays out of the way.

Having said that, Quicksilver is a very powerful application, and honestly, Find and Run Robot is not really at that level yet. But it works great as an application launcher and can only get better.