A couple of Hunter S. Thompson links featuring Johnny Depp and Ralph Steadman.
Several well-known technologists and software developers were invited to an internal conference for the development staff at amazon.com headquarters this week. Most corporations would close an event like this to outsiders, which is what Amazon has done also. The major difference being that they’ve been blogging highlights of the talks to the rest of the world via the Amazon Web Services Blog.
Bill Gates probably cringes significantly when he remembers this photo spread [archive link] where he nonchalantly flips his floppies at the camera for a 1983 edition of Teen Beat magazine.
update: Snopes identifies these photos as publicity shots from 1985. That makes it even worse.
I just watched this fly-on-the-wall documentary about Shaun Ryder. I didn’t realise he’d fallen that low. As this article puts it, by all rights he should be dead now.