March 31, 2004
AOL gives away spammer’s Porsche
AOL gives away spammer’s Porsche:
AOL is raffling off a top of the range sports car to one of its members in the US after it was seized from a spammer targeting email users…
Read full story.
newsmap
Paul sent me this link for newsmap. Here’s the description from the site:
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that […]
March 29, 2004
Fire File-sharing is not killing the music industry
Boing Boing points us to this study [pdf] which suggests that filesharing isn’t hurting album sales as much as the music industry might lead you to believe. An excerpt:
We analyze a large file sharing dataset which includes 0.01% of the world’s downloads from the last third of 2002. We focus on users located in the […]
The terrorists have won
These days it seems the government blames everything on “the terrorists.” So…
Fill in the blanks:
When ___________, it means the terrorists have won.
Here’s some starter examples:
When your bus is late, it means the terrorists have won.
When a child cries, it means the terrorists have won.
When you get drunk, stumble home and puke all over the place, […]
Congress seeking to pass the “Pirate Act”
Congress is attempting to pass legislation making peer-to-peer filesharing a criminal offense and easier to prosecute, as reported by Wired News. Here’s an excerpt:
The bills come at a time when the music and movie industries are exerting enormous pressure on all branches of government at the federal and state levels to crack down on P2P […]
CSS usage in emails
A List Apart has an educational article on how to integrate CSS and emails. Find it here.
dismissive quotes about technology
I found the following quotes about technology here.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” –Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” –Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
” I have traveled the length and breadth of this country […]
March 28, 2004
TV Carnage
Last night Alissa came over, and for no good reason we ended up watching a TV Carnage DVD I bought a while back after reading an article in Vice Magazine
TV Carnage, for those who are unfamiliar, is a spliced-together collection of some of the most bizarre television ever broadcasted. Highlights include insane local cable access […]
Future Me
FutureMe allows you to write an email to your future self. Write an email today and have it delivered as late as 2029.
Favicons
Here’s a nice comparison of favicons from some well-known sites on the net, with supplemental commentary on what makes them work/fail.
