* Dilbert Mission Statement Generator: “Our mission is to competently customize economically sound meta-services and efficiently foster inexpensive content”
* For those of you that are still ignoring Podcasts, I’m sorry be the one to tell you, but you are woefully behind. My evidence: even the Minnesota State DNR has a podcast. Recent shows are on Jay Cooke, on hunting, and there is a rich archive of fishing-related shows.
* Bundle up for winter with the Bearded Cap. Designed by Vik Prjónsdóttir from Iceland (where else would something like this be designed? – thanks Dan!)
* The TIOBE Index now rates Ruby as the 9th most popular programming language, passing JavaScript (ie passing the buzz that is AJAX). The index “can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.” It is calculated once a month.
* Mac OS X Lepord: A Perfect 10 So states Tom Yager (InfoWorld). “People buy Macs,” Yager reports, “because the platform as a whole is perfect, full stop. Leopard is a rung above perfection. It’s taken as rote that the Mac blows away PC users’ expectations. Leopard blows away Mac users’ expectations, and that’s saying a great deal.” Leopard, Yager says “is remarkable; it’s more and better software than anyone should sell for $129.” [via Apple Hot News]
* Live chat: your new online salesperson – “Erik Asarian, a real estate broker in Park City, Utah, installed a live chat box a year ago and credits it with adding $12 million in sales. “It’s become an amazing new profit center,” he says.”
* Quote: “PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.” — The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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