So I was reading the Pennies Arcade and they mentioned a site which makes previewing and finding Xbox Live content (downloadables and such) easy, here.

I realize now I’ve been disappointed by pretty much anything Microsoft has attempted to do so I shouldn’t be surprised that this does too.

Does it make it easier to find content? No.
Does it make it easier to find new content? No.
Does it make it have an RSS feed of any kind? No.
Does Microsoft understand the Internet? No.

Ugh. How annoying. Especially as something like that would easily draw sales by highlighting stuff people might be interested.

I’ve jokingly said things are painful to watch before, but this… this actually was. I had to keep pausing it and do other things just so I wouldn’t die.

Interestingly near the end she comes out of the office and gets applauded. I think the second Harry Potter movie paid homage to this scene at the end, when the school inexplicably applauds Hagrid for being released from prison.

Two other points:

1) Apparently Windows, when printing, would YELL “PRINTING!” at you in an ever increasing font while it printed. Microsoft Product Mangers were apparently as bad as they are now back then, as I met a few that would think this quite the revolutionary idea. Perhaps in Office Accounting 2008.

2) Also apparently, Microsoft Word (or whatever it was called then) has not changed what charts look like in, well, however long ago this movie was made. They look exactly the same! And to be honest it looked like the insane woman in this video had an easier time of making charts than I ever do.

For almost a decade, people have wondered how to vastly increase their consumption of porn. Mark Cuban has found the way.

And it is no less than brilliant.

Unfortunately, there are a few steps missing in the equation — I am not quite the seer that this fellow is — but it goes something, like-a-this:

1. Sell your company to yahoo for 5 billion dollars in stock
2. Start a blog to share random but always uninformed opinions
2. ???
3. Post on your blog asking people to send you porn

I think step 3 might be “go bat-shit insane” but I can’t prove that. I am not operating at the porn level of Mark Cuban. I might suggest that none of us are.

Honestly, can we say for sure that the whole business deal — founding and selling broadcast.com — was not working up to this point? Just to gander enough glory to have people email you porn. It’s not unlikely.

Now that’s good advertising.