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Re: Wacom drawing: green alien thing | Letter Never Sent

fred flintstone — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:31:18 -0000

Stop drawing and get back to work!

Re: Initiative to Reduce Prostitution-Off the Streets Program. This initiative would connect individuals involved in prostitution with resources to leave a life of prostitution. Beginning with emergen...

fred flintstone — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:44:44 -0000

Where will Clayton Luckie go for his kicks ?

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

fred flintstone — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:58:02 -0000

Please. NO!

Microsoft's 'branding' becomes "Damn! that &*^^ machine just woke the baby again and it took all night to get him/her to sleep."

One man's pretty sound (I adore Fripp's work, BTW) becomes another's noise pollution.

We shouldn't be exacerbating the already over-polluted world.

Fred

Re: Microsoft’s top designers leave to give away lovely flowers

fred flintstone — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:04:39 -0000

Robert, hotornot.com doesn't sell virtual flowers, they sell an invite to meet someone wrapped in virtual flowers. there's a big difference between that and this stupid flowers thing.

it's bad design the other way: prettiness is all that matters, functionality is irrelevant. put on your calendar to post about jacksonfish a year from now, i bet at least one of them has gone back to the mothership by then.

Re: Evangelising Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs)

fred flintstone — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:31:23 -0000

Only oldest dimmers shunt the power to resistance, so the claim that they don't save power is bogus. Any of the more recent ones do since they effectively turn the power on and off very rapidly to achieve dimming. Hence, they save a LOT of power. Get educated.

Re: Yahoo Messed Up Not Buying Facebook: Analyst

fred flintstone — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:36:19 -0000

they have tons of kids. kids have no money. kids have no loyalty. kids are dumb. facebook is rich with monopoly money. yahoo was smart to not buy it and let the fools at google buy it.