I was following a Popfly breadcrumb trail this evening and found this gem among the comments of an Arstechnica review (annotations added by me):
Web 2.0 stylizations, whether its the design visualizations or the weak catchphrase tokenism, have truly “Jumped the Shark.”
The arrival of MS fresh on the scene with Web Apps like Popfly indicates [...]
After some very loud complaining, I’m happy to announce that it appears the release of the Flash 9 file format specification / license is imminent. Emmy Huang, Adobe Flash Player Product Manager, posted the following comment on my blog:
Hi,
Sorry about the SWF9 spec — it is partly my fault that I didn’t push it [...]
I get a daily report from my SPAM filtering tool indicating all of the messages that have been flagged and deleted. I rarely take a second look at what its filtering out, but today the first comment flagged for deletion caught my attention and made me smile.
Thankfully even the SPAMMERs have a sense of humor. [...]
I am impatiently chomping at the bit for the Flash 9 file format to become available to the general public. The big problem with this is that I’ve been waiting for this for over a year - since Flash Player 8.5 officially became Flash Player 9 and was released in the wild.
IMHO its almost criminal [...]