First of all, today is my 30th birthday. I was born on Wednesday, September 2nd, 1981. As far as I can tell, nothing else that was that interesting happened. However, interesting stuff happened this week. And I’m here with another edition of NetWeekly to kill your productivity with stupid links:

 

  • This week I discovered that conversations between AI can be interesting. For instance, watch two Talking Carls flip out on each other or, watch two Cleverbots get less-than-clever with one another.
  • I also discovered Concrete5. I’m not sure how I missed this before but….wow. This is the best PHP CMS I’ve seen. It has features. It has flexibility. It has speed. It has a thriving marketplace. And, most importantly, it has a really solid code base. I salute you, Concrete5 team. I am very impressed.
  • Rebecca Black…her “Friday” video (that’s not the original, official video but I can’t find it now) made waves on youtube (because it’s so asinine) and was my new favorite “RickRoll” video for awhile. But I always felt bad for her because she was just a young girl that wanted to make a song. Someone I don’t feel bad for? Courtney Stodden. Ten seconds of her “music” will ruin your life. There’s so much I could say about this but suffice it to say that this…creature makes me puke in my mouth a little lot.
  • I got a Dreamhost VPS. I love it so far and will be migrating this blog to it sometime soon. Also, it’s running a Minecraft server. Which rocks.
  • Epic wingsuit flight is epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k