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Here’s some interesting stuff I’ve been hearing and reading lately, mostly heard on the Daily Source Code, tech5 and No Agenda podcasts which I really like.

First thing that [doesn’t] surprises me is that Microsoft won, again, a first place. This time because of Windows Vista being the Most Disappointing Product of 2007, I must say… Well deserved guys!
Did you notice how many Microsoft and Apple products are on the list?

Looks like HP paid Staples $100 million dollars to not sell inexpensive third-party ink cartridges. As John C Dvorak said, how many they’re doing from just ink? (FYI: a considerable portion of the company’s profits come from ink.) Ink definitely is overpriced. This makes me think about another company that pays to make its bad operating system be installed instead of Linux, although it isn’t working too well, right?

Another interesting tidbit is that the Intel Viiv initiative is officially dead. Hmm, I never heard about it before, could that be the cause?

And a non techy thing is that the U.S. actually “outsources” (sort of) the army (Blackwater) and jails (for example, this one) where by the way, people are put in prison even when they shouldn’t be there, but since these private companies may charge the government per “capita” then you know what that means, right? Go check the interesting commentary of it on the No Agenda podcast episodes 3 and 4.
Weird use of taxes.