strangely entangled

I just finished reading an excellent article over at Wired: “High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace”. It’s about the efforts made to right a nearly-capsized cargo ship off the Alaskan coast. Very well written and very engaging. I highly recommend it.

I really want to use Twitter. I really, really do. But their service seems to have a lot of availability problems. It’s up, it’s down, it’s flakey, and then suddenly it works just fine.

Is it just me, or is this happening to lots of people? A quick Google tells me it’s the latter. In which case, why do people continue to use it? Why not use alternative services like Jaiku or Pownce?

(note: this was the first time I ran Twitterific in weeks!)

What is it about Twitter that keeps people coming back for more, despite its flakiness?

OK, so somebody took an old 1999 Apple iMac commercial starring Jeff Goldblum and slowed it down by 30%. The result? A hilarious “Drunken Jeff” commercial. Check it out below.

As an aside, I’m pretty sure I spoke with Jeff once when I was working for an Apple retailer in BC. If it was him, he seemed like a really nice guy. I helped him out with an iTunes problem.