flights

My next deathmatch post was going to compare these two music recommendation services. I’ve used both pandora and last.fm for a little while, and I’ve been taking some notes. I love them both, but I have my favorite.

Thing is, someone else already wrote such a good piece on this topic. It’s way better than what I was going to write, so… what he said.

That was easy.

I saw an orthopedic specialist yesterday. He basically confirmed that I have a fractured talus – “a classic snowboarding injury.” In fact, I just read that this injury is sometimes called “snowboarder’s ankle.”

Mine is a small fracture though, and the doctor basically said it’s an injury that takes a relatively long time to heal. He didn’t have my MRI scans – only the report – so he couldn’t make a definitive recommendation, but he suggested a course of… nothing.

He said my best option is just to do the things I want to do and bear the pain as best I can. Surgery is an option, but he recommended I wait 6-8 more weeks. If I don’t feel significant progress in that time, he said, then I should go under the knife.

This is a little discouraging, especially now that spring is coming, and the hiking trails are calling.

Ok, this isn’t exactly a new topic, but some thought-provoking (and entertaining) nuggets have come across the wire recently.

This photo nicely sums up my long series of rants about Apple’s one-button mouse.

Several people sent me this parody of an exercise whereby Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging.

I’m not sure who’s responsible for My Busted Apple at Heavy.com, but it made me laugh.

On a more serious note, someone named Garr Reynolds authored an engaging essay comparing the presentation aesthetics of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.