It’s @319 and I should go to bed

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071218-swiss-time.pngSwatch Internet Time. Reminds me of the exciting times in the late 90s when it truly started becoming apparent that distance is meaningless. Wikipedia:

Internet Time is a concept introduced in 1998 and marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative, decimal measure of time. … Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided up into 1000 parts called “.beats”[.]

The most distinctive aspect of Swatch Internet Time is its notation; as an example, “@248″ would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight … or 4:57:07.2 UTC.

Despite the ridiculous trailing dot and the fact that there were no units smaller than a .beat, his eminence Nicholas Negroponte endorsed the system: “Internet Time is absolute time for everybody. Internet Time is not geopolitical. It is global. In the future, for many people, real time will be Internet Time.”

A testament to the success of this marketing ploy: “The clock applet in the GNOME desktop can be set to display time in this manner. PHP’s date() function has a format specifier ‘B’ which returns the Swatch Internet Time notation for a given time stamp. It is also used as a time reference on ICQ[.]“

Dec 18, 2007 | 1 Comment | Tags: , , ,

Blockbuster Lets Netflix Customers Rent Movies From Stores for Free

According to the WSJ: “Blockbuster Inc. is letting subscribers of rival Netflix Inc. rent DVDs free from Blockbuster stores as part of a holiday promotion. The Dallas DVD rental chain said Tuesday Netflix members can exchange the tear-off address flaps from the signature red Netflix envelopes for free rentals in its stores. The promotion runs through Dec. 21.”

Dec 5, 2006 | Comments Off | Tags: , , ,

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