Jason is a genius – he’s done a parody of the growing interest on weblogs about Danza. You’d think people would get that he was kidding, but no – people who should know better – people who are actually interested in what Danza may turn out to be – they’re citing what he’s saying as if it were solid fact. He’s taking the piss guys – he hasn’t got a clue what Danza is…
And now Jish has even more information…
Hmmm. Interesting – a little research via Google and a tip-off by a rather dubious hotmail address has sent me over to boingboing.net, where there is discussion about something called Danza/WHAT. A little more research leads me to see that the images that seem to be attached to the discussion are being hosted (weirdly) at Craphound.com. There’s only a couple of pieces of actually pertinent information that I seemed to be able to drag out of the hyperbolae of the piece – firstly that it’s relatively cheap and secondly that everyone’s going to have one in five years time…
So I was talking to a friend who’s involved in those weird industries that predict trends and developments and we start talking about the mid-future. Mid-future is, apparently, ten-to-twenty years from now. And we were talking about Bill Gates’ claim that we always overestimate technological developments that will happen within ten years, and always underestimate those that will happen within twenty. Gates’ theory being an interesting analogue of Chaos theory in a sense, in that the tiny developments that happen now may prove to be the most significant and transformative. And about half an hour into the conversation, said friend gets kind of mysterious and smug-looking and I don’t know why. Apparently it’s got something to do with something called Danza. But he wouldn’t tell me any more…
A new TCN celebrity quiz for you all to play with last thing on a Tuesday afternoon…
Can anyone explain to me what this actually means, so I don’t have to read it myself?
If you fancy a laugh, and are prepared to hear me mumble my way through a radio interview, then click here and skip about ten or twelve minutes in to hear me interviewed about Secret Santa and about my, Cal’s and Denise’s efforts to help Santa this Secret Holiday Gift-Giving Robot Day.
Just to clarify – I’m completely not grumpy about people referencing seeing links via Jason rather than me. He’s a much more reliable source of industry-relevant and fun links than I am – plus he doesn’t get all morbid about his career stalling twice a week. Very cool discussion of the KPMG controversy over at Metafilter.
You know what’s slightly annoying? Having your inadequacies as a meme-spreader brought vigorously into perspective through comparison. Jason and I both link to the KPMG link e-mail. I do not know who does it first – it’s certainly a close-run thing. Anyway – that’s irrelevant. But almost everyone who subsequently linked to it cited Jason as their source. What’s that about? I think it’s because I write really boring crap every so often for months at a time. That’s got to be the reason…
Created by the immortal Denise Wilton – graphic designer on Secret Santa – I hereby present B3ta’s cut-out-and-keep finger crab. And when you’ve made your own crab model, you can send pictures of yourself playing with it to The Crab Challenge.