The Windows 8 interface looks...interesting

Obviously more tablet-inspired than anything else, but I can see it working really well for browsing/apps. And it very-much looks like older applications are still happily running there - but in a contained environment rather than being the primary kind of application for it.

Hard to tell if it will take off - will people really start writing lots of applications for the new APIs? I guess we'll have to wait and see...

To the videodrome!

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Interesting Links for 2-6-2011

• Google Apps drops support for FF3.5, IE7 and Safari 3.
  (tags: google browser web)
• Global war on drugs has failed. (Odd how it's always _ex_ heads of state that tel the truth)
  (tags: politics society drugs)
• Our female ancestors used to travel to new places, while the men stayed at home.
  (tags: history gender anthropology)
• Very nice piece from the creator of Frozen Synapse on how the game came to pass (still addicted, by the way)
  (tags: games computer_games FrozenSynapse)
• 96% of Americans under 50 are on Facebook
  (tags: facebook usa)
• Low-carb, higher-fat diets don't add to risk of artery blockage. Also have faster weight loss.
  (tags: fat diet carbohydrates health heart)
• Mooncakes - an edible black market currency in China. No, really.
  (tags: economics china currency)
• Anti-reform peers shame the Lib Dems.
  (tags: libdem politics reform democracy)
• Why love is the most renewable resource in a relationship, and the least valuable.
  (tags: love relationships)
• Goldman Sachs lost 98% of Gaddafi's $1.3bn investment
  (tags: politics finance banking libya)