The Daily Loper – July 8, 2008

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps Edition

Todays links of interest:

• Windows Vista Compatibility Center
  Whoops. Looks like the all new Windows Vista Story is off to a slow start. That exciting new compatibility center isn’t online yet. Worse yet, there’s no RSS feed. Instead, we’re told t "check back". Sort of makes you wonder what year the folks at Microsoft think this is.
• Microsoft on Vista: “The time of worry is over.”
  “Today we are drawing a line and are going to start telling the real story”. The story starts with the all new Windows Vista Compatibility Center. I just love stories that start with a compatibility center.
• Reality Check: Internet Poses No Threat To TV
  This from the blog that claims Twitter could be worth 1 billion zops.
• Mossad agent is latest dupe of Baron-Cohen
  Makes you feel good about security, doesn’t it?
• Ancient site of Pompeii declared a disaster zone
  And you thought your government took a long time to process applications…
• Clowns Sue Seattle Rep
  Clown versus clown litigation. We’re sending the ML cub reporter to cover this one.
• ‘The Dumbest Generation’ by Mark Bauerlein
  So tired of Mark Bauerlein and his theories on how we’re going to hell in a handbasket. Is it really such a shock that 15 to 24 year olds aren’t doing a lot of pleasure reading in their free time?
• Writers Set Slate for Strike.tv
  One of the coolest things to come out of the writers’ strike: an online network that falls outside the traditional studio/producer structure. Bonus — some top notch talent is behind the project.
• G-Park iPhone App Lets the Forgetful Bookmark Their Car
  If this app also finds keys it may solve one Loper’s age-old problem.