More links for July 11, 2006

Dell has a new blog

But no mention of flaming lap tops.

An official GMail Drive?

There’s gDisk for Mac OS X and GMail Drive for Windows. But word is that Google may be launching its own Gmail-as-web-based-backup service. More from CyberNet.

Filthy Confessions Offers Place to Reveal Your Dirt

A clever brand tie-in with Greased Lightining cleaner lets users reveal their filthy secrets.

Bye, Bye <embed>

Elizabeth Castro crafts an elegant, standards-compliant solution to using the <embed> tag for Flash, QuickTime and Windows Media. Related: Flash, validation and the latest versions of IE.

Fifa investigates Zidane red card

What was really behind the Zidane headbutt? (Also from the NY Times and Alternet) I guess “Don’t talk ‘bout my mama” is universal.

Video from TED

In an effort to burnish its brand with intellectuals and designer types, BMW has partnered with the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference to bring insights from folks such as Al Gore and David Pogue. (Pogue’s presentation is friggin’ hysterical, by the way.)

Collaborative text editing with Gobby

And what’s Gobby? It’s an open-source collaborative text editor for Mac, Linux and Windows. Similar to SubEthaEdit.