Keep dreaming, Gates

Let’s face it, no matter how awesome Windows Phone 7 is, there’s no way that it’s immediately going to make the iPhone and Blackberry obsolete. Why then did the eggheads at Microsoft throw a funeral for these phones? Not a mock funeral with engineers high-fiving each other and saying things like, “You’re going down, dude!” but an actual black-wearing, hearse-having parade. I have seen delusion, and it is not pretty.

Not even for irony’s sake would I knit these

Vogue Knitting Magazine is having a sale on all of their patterns, which is kind of awesome. There are lots of pretty things that I’d love to knit if I had unlimited time and an endless yarn budget. Here are some patterns that I like:

Then there are things that I would have to be already dead to be seen in.

Why????

World’s most expensive parking lots

Do you know what happens when a city or state isn’t finished paying for its current sports arena, but decides to build a new one anyway? If you guessed, the people keep paying for it anyway, you’re absolutely right. Of course, my home state of New Jersey would have to be on the hook for the biggest bill at $110 million, but there are several other areas that are still paying big bucks for stadiums that are either gone or just languishing. Good job, politicians!

Overthinking zombies is kind of fun

I enjoy well-told  zombie stories, regardless of their format. Recent zombie stories that I have enjoyed were Zombieland and the book Feed, by Mira Grant. I like the idea behind zombie plots, namely that dead is not always dead, and that lingering in some not-human form isn’t necessarily better than being truly dead. These two works took totally different views of zombiedom, both in terms of how zombies are made and their capabilities, but I enjoyed each of them a lot. Feed, in particular, struck me as one of the standout books for 2010. No, I’m not exaggerating, but then again, I have strange taste in books.

Anyway, although it probably sounds like I do, I do not in fact spend much time thinking about zombies. This guy does, though, and his multi-part post that considers the implications behind the SPEED of zombie movement in different movies puts my zombie-pondering to shame.