John Cleese Talks iPhones, Beer, Groupies, Texting And The World's Worst Airlines 
The Onion's Digital Guru Explains How To Use Tech (And Why Chaos Is Great) 
How To Discover What To Do About Everything 
Opera's Evangelist On HTML5 And The Future Of Browsing 
Doug Winnie On Productivity And Writing 
Google Talks About The Future Of Android 
Why would anyone pass up the opportunity to talk to the man who has Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Clockwise, A Fish Called Wanda, Will & Grace, two Bond flicks and countless other classics on his resume? Lifehacker chats to John Cleese about why 95% of the world’s airlines are rubbish (and the three he will use), what technology he favours, tactics for picking up women, Australia’s worst cities and when beer is the wrong choice.
Baratunde Thurston is the director of digital for everyone’s favourite satirical news source The Onion, but being funny is easier when you’re organised, technically proficient and open to inspiration. Lifehacker chatted to Baratunde about the work that goes on behind the scenes at The Onion to produce multimedia news satire on a daily basis, how to build your own video environment, the role of Twitter in digital media and more.
As founder and CEO of security software developer Kaspersky Lab and a frequent traveller, Eugene Kasperksy could also find himself drowning in email and stuck on antisocial phone calls. How does he avoid that fate?
Writer Barbara Toner has just released a book entitled What To Do About Everything, which offers tips on how to organise every aspect of your domestic life, from managing your budget to getting a divorce and even making a citizen’s arrest. That sounds like prime Lifehacker material, so we had a chat with Barbara Toner, starting with the obvious question: if you’re writing about everything, how on earth do you plan for that?
Bruce Lawson, software evangelist for browser developer Opera and HTML5 expert, recently visited Australia for a series of workshops on HTML5. Lifehacker chatted with him about the move towards HTML5 and what’s happening in the world of browser standards.
How can you combine working as a software product manager, university lecturer and author and not go completely insane? Lifehacker sat down with Doug Winnie, Adobe’s product manager for Adobe Flash Catalyst, Flash Platform Workflow and WorkflowLab, at the recent MAX conference in Los Angeles to find out how he organises his life and how he manages the process of writing a book.
Google’s Chrome browser is proving increasingly popular, while work continues on the Chrome OS project to build a minimal, browser-based interface for netbooks. Lifehacker spoke with Chrome user interface design team developer Glen Murphy — an Aussie now working at Google HQ in California — to discuss the future directions Chrome and Chrome OS will take, why the Chrome Web Store is so important, and the relative important of touch screens and keyboard shortcuts.
