When Bill Met Steve

1985: The young and the restless. Gates and Jobs, photographed at Tavern on the Green in New York City

Jobs was furious. . . . . "Get Gates down here immediately," he ordered Mike Boich, who was Apple's evangelist to other software companies. Gates came down -- alone and willing to discuss things with Jobs. "He called me down to get pissed off at me," Gates recalled. "I went down to Cupertino. . . . . I told him, 'we're doing Windows.'. . . . . 'we're betting our company on graphics interface'."

Their meeting was in Jobs's conference room, where Gates found himself surrounded by ten Apple employees who were eager to watch their boss assail him. Jobs didn't disappoint his troops. "You're ripping us off!" he shouted. "I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us!" Gates just sat there coolly, looking Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

Excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new book, Steve Jobs, released last month. All taken from and read more here.

Not What You Were Expecting. . .

That was Rick Genest. Read more about the vid here. Not bad for an ad. . .

Update: looks like copyright bullshiitake strikes again and it's no longer on Youtube. Searching under "demablend", "go beyond" and/ or "zombie boy" for videos should get a result. Wank*ers.

Update II: looks like it's back on 'tube again. . . . If it goes down again, use the search terms above to find it. 

Antelope crashes into cyclist during race

Mountain-biker Evan van der Spuy, 17, was hit by a red hartebeest buck during a race at Albert Falls Dam in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The incident was filmed by his South African team mate, Travis Walker, who can be heard warning Van der Spuy to 'watch the buck'. Van der Spuy received hospital treatment but did not suffer serious injury.

More Jeb Corliss. Holy SH!T

Winged-Suit Action. . . .

Friday Tune

Trampled by Turtles - Wait So Long
[HT Infectious Greed]

Friday Media

Two guys climb a crane, high above La Defense, Paris. Nuts:

Cliff jumping in Europe [full screen it]:

MTB downhill 2011 (long but excellent) [full screen it]:

Danny MacAskill. . . . Again

Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye.

Steve Jobs Quote

Steve Jobs quote:

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

Friday Tune

Copyright bullshiitake prevented me from embedding the youtube vid - so here's the link. . .

Red House Painters - Priest Alley Song

Danny Macaskill

James vs. Steve

Article on the above here.

Democracy in Practice

For Everything Else There's Julian Assange. . .