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March 31
Yikes! Seems like
Pimp War is a rip-off of
Whore House, which has been around awhile, and is in its 9th season. The only problem?
Whore House requires an invitation to play, whereas
Pimp War is pretty much open to all, at least until the Beta is over.
However,
Whore House has a lot more options, (Infect, Arson, Pimp Unions, discpline whores, gambling, the ability to sell stuff, crack houses, paying off cops, and the ability to earn free turns.) I can see
Pimp War getting to that level, but it isn't just that intricate yet.
posted by da5id at 9:05 PM PST - 1 comments
News of the
Wonka remake. I think Nick Cage would suck as Wonka, but Dustin Hoffman...that's interesting.
posted by veruca at 9:08 AM PST - 6 comments
March 30
The web is not a publication.
Web sites are not paper. Yet the current thinking of web design is that of the magazine, newspaper, book, or catalog. Visually, aesthetically, legally, the web is treated as a physical page upon which text and images are written.
The Shredder presents this global structure as a
chaotic, irrational, raucous collage. By altering the HTML code before the
browser reads it, the Shredder appropriates the data of the web,
transforming it into a parallel web. Content become abstraction. Text
becomes graphics. Information becomes art.
posted by tranquileye at 7:55 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Laying the smack down on some hoe
has never been funner. Playing this turn-based game is even more enjoyable by the "real-time" aspect. You can be notified via ICQ when you are being attacked, and likewise for your victims. If you are bored at work, this game can ease your pain.
posted by da5id at 12:02 PM PST - 19 comments
Bored at work?
Or maybe just tired of playing the game on your snazzy Nokia Cell.. needless to say I find time to play this every day. All praise "
The Snake Game". The only downside which makes Nokia's cellphone far superior, is unless you have a laptop and perhaps a wireless NIC at work, it is probably impossible to play the game while you sit in the bathroom.
posted by sikk at 10:55 AM PST - 5 comments
Parker Posey - Pussycat
She's going to be Alexandra in the live action Josey and the Pussycats with Rachel Leigh Cook. I'm not sure how I feel about a live action JatP, but Parker Posey is a fun choice.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 10:00 AM PST - 2 comments
Tornado Pictures
On Tuesday March 28th at 6:11 P.M. a tornado pummeled downtown Ft. Worth
leaving glass, office furniture, insulation, paperwork, and various other
materials littering a 12 block area of the city. The downtown streets were covered in
shattered glass from the many High-Rise building that were struck by the violent winds
and flying debris. I took some pictures from a 26th floor office window 1 block away
from the epicenter of the storms wrath. At the top of picture 3
you can see the Cash America building that they keep showing on the news - I don't have a
Telephoto lens or it would be a better pic, DOH! You can also see clean up crews
on the roofs of the buildings picking up debris.One of the windows I took the pictures
through was cracked by flying debris, you can see it in picture 2,3, and 6.
PICTURES: 1 2
3 4 5 6
posted by Jeremy at 8:55 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
March 29
Yay! The flag burning amendment is dead
, at least for another year. What offends me most is: why did 63 Senators vote for this? Second most: do these people actually believe themselves when they preach that people have fought and died for the flag? I *hope* that no soldiers have fought for the flag, per se; I would hope that our military fights for the ideals of which the flag is a nice, abstract representation.
I've put up
a short page with links to the official Congressional Record transcripts of the debate, for those who are interested. (It gives me reading for my plane ride tomorrow, if I can avoid the calling of my Sims family.)
posted by delfuego at 5:47 PM PST - 5 comments
Observe a startup.
Some
startups use a combination of openness and secrecy and while they're getting their act together.
REMO (a quirky independent retailer who used to run a popular shop font in my hometown of Sydney) is letting the whole world see
everything while they make the transformation to a web-only up-market general store for the whole world.
posted by grestall at 4:56 PM PST - 5 comments
jon kats on "geek profiling":
"W.A.V.E joins new sofware "security" programs ... being tested in public schools in America to compile and computerize information on students believed to be dangerous or potentially violent. This new rat-on-kids industry is an offshoot of the Geek Profiling anti-Net hysteria that broke out all across the United States after the Columbine High School killings, whose first anniversary is fast approaching. Despite the fact that horrific incidents like Columbine are extremely rare, and that the FBI and Justice Department have both reported that youth violence has dropped to its lowest levels in more than half a century, the belief persists in much of America that technologies like the Internet (and activities like computer gaming) are turning otherwise healthy school children into mass murderers."
posted by palegirl at 12:44 PM PST - 7 comments
Everyone screams for ice cream!
I found out that
Edy's owns the icrecream.com domain. It's actually quite a nice site, and if anything, it has the certain level of childood simplicity one associates with ice cream. I especially like the
taster and was honestly disappointed that his tour schedule isn't posted.
Maybe not as dynamic as
Ben And Jerry's, but appropriately sweet.
posted by plinth at 5:42 AM PST - 160 comments
March 28
Now this is something I just don't get.
Getting worked up because some people are posting longer entries? Can someone explain this to me? So
Ben Brown mentioned that he prefers longer posts, and a few people responded to the idea favorably. But then there's
backlash to this idea? Can someone please explain to me how someone writing long posts is somehow wrong? Is anyone holding a gun to your head making you read anything on the web? If
Ben Brown's posts are too long, don't read them. If
Jack's or
Brig's are too long, don't read them. If I'm wrong here, please set me straight. I must not have read the weblog rulebook that states posts should be short and snarky, if anyone has a hyperlink to said rule book, please post that too.
posted by mathowie at 8:45 PM PST - 1614 comments
Cyber Patrol hacker sells out for one dollar
< I made
my political point and just don't want further annoyance... ...Mattel initiated legal action in e-mail subpoenas in mid-March and Skala and Jansson removed cphack from their sites, but not before urging computer activists to copy and distribute it.... ...Nevertheless, some mirror site operators think open source software protections make the issue moot. The court cannot impose an Internet ban because cphack was released under the
GNU General Public License... > perhaps you've seen this--the final decision will be interesting with repect to free speech and the
GNU GPL. something to watch anyhow.
posted by greyscale at 8:12 PM PST - 3 comments
Harry Knowles takes on the Oscars
in a surreal chat session with himself. Some great lines: "Angelina has a freaky boyfriend." "Dude, that guy was spazzing out." "DEAR GOD, DON'T TORTURE US WITH A BAD STREISAND MEMORY." But my favorite is Harry letting out his inner queen: "NOBODY SINGS THAT SONG BUT DOROTHY!!!"
posted by bjennings at 10:41 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
March 27
Not that I'm into that sort of thing, but
PillReports - apparently a spinoff of
BlueLight (wonder how much KMart offered for that one) - offers moderated discussion about
Ecstacy, so you might be able to get some idea of what that pill you just paid $20 for is likely to do to you. Things there aren't verified by actual lab tests like they are at
DanceSafe, but it's better than being
completely uninformed.
posted by endquote at 11:44 PM PST - 3 comments
POW!
I found this while looking for something to illustrate the wrong way to pronounce Derek's name. I can't decide if Adam West is lampooning himself (in current Shatner style), or if he is still hanging onto his Glory Days with Julie Newmar... but I'm not sure it matters.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 11:30 PM PST - 3 comments
Dear Lord, please forgive me for my shameless promotion of my friends' project, but I do hope all the metausers will enjoy the glory that is
Georgy Bush. I know I did, but I am biased. ;)
posted by veruca at 12:21 PM PST - 4 comments
NBC
isn't to happy with
2600 Magazine registering the domain
www.fucknbc.com. They have
threatened legal action against 2600.
Is this fair, or is it another example of Big Business wanting to control other people's opinions and expressions?
posted by da5id at 12:13 PM PST - 3 comments
BARF
- Yes this is completely useless, but it is just too much fun. My favorite topics? "New To Barf" and "kitty stomach problems and BARF".
posted by y6y6y6 at 11:29 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
March 26
Blame Phil Collins?
We knew Blame Canada wouldn't win, and to be fair, Phil probably deserved it - my real question is "what did you think of the 'Blame Canada' production number?" It was the only reason I watched tonight (not being a big awards show guy), and I'm just curious to hear what other people thought of it. Did Robin Williams wreck it? What about the mounties chorus-line? Did anyone else think he was going to do the entire song with the tape over his mouth?
My only other Oscar observation: Angelina Jolie seemed thrilled and suprised to get Best Supporting Actress. Do you think that she would have gone with the Elvira look if she expected to win?
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 7:17 PM PST - 13 comments
Watch the Kingdome Fall.....must hurry
I know some have posted it here before, but watching a stadium crumble starting at 11 a.m Eastern time would be something to tune into. This is the ESPN link that requires Real Player
posted by brent at 12:10 AM PST - 5 comments
I'm sure many of you have already seen this or are already familliar with it, but
this article talks about bandwidth that
really puts the pedal to the metal!
Amazing.
posted by lizardboy at 12:03 AM PST - 2 comments
March 25
I read this and felt like crying.
That good little girl -- only two years old, yet she cared for the baby until help came. She even changed its diapers.
And her reward is to find out that her daddy is dead and won't ever be coming home again. Life's a
bitch sometimes.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:31 AM PST - 2 comments
Another Penatagon report
indicates that there is no forseeable relief for gays in the military? When 85% of respondents (of the 71,500 U.S. military service personnel polled worldwide) state that they believe that anti-gay words and behavior is tolerated and 80% claim that they've heard an offensive remark (in the ranks) about homosexuals in the past year, is another onslaught of talking heads and pointless summits the answer? will it take another barry winchell to shake this administration into real action?
posted by jburr at 3:23 AM PST - 6 comments
Pike is an outliner
that's been custom-fitted to plug into Manila sites. You can create and edit stories. You can use it to edit your home page. And you can also use it to edit the myriad of templates that define how a Manila site is rendered. It's both a writing and design tool. Free public beta.
posted by davewiner at 2:54 AM PST - 2 comments
March 24
So I just got a bizarre e-mail from a "Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb." Has anyone ever got one? I'll post the entire text as a comment. It appears to be an atrocious, perhaps Mad Lib-generated essay on an imaginary painting. Based on an AltaVista search for "Jaisini," I've concluded that this person posts the essay (and others) on random guestbooks and e-mails it to random people (like me).
This is the closest I can find to a cogent explanation, but I'm still bumfuzzled as to the point. Fake essays as performance art? It's like
McSweeney's, as guest-edited by Kafka.
posted by luke at 4:00 PM PST - 2 comments
Maybe I should learn VB or whatever's required to make a browser widget that blinks whenever I'm at a site owned by
AOL/
TimeWarner. There are tons of them, and I bet the thing would be blinking all the time, what with all the wholly owned subsidiaries of this and that. Of course, it would be built on an open architecture, so we could add Microsoft (where's their list?), and anyone else that needs watching.
posted by endquote at 3:09 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Metafilter is going down at 12 noon, PST (about 3 hours from now), and should be back up around 8pm. I just signed up this machine at
TZO.com, so this site should be reachable at
http://metafilter.tzo.com/ once I get it back up. TZO is actually a cool service, I've been running it for almost a year on my home cable modem, which changes IP addresses once a month or so (but thanks to TZO, I can always find it).
posted by mathowie at 8:57 AM PST - 1 comments
I make this hompage as business card he said...
The more I look at it, the more I'm puzzled...
Is this er... site...
a) a very clumsy but very sincere homepage, made by someone whos has a lot to learn or...
b) a very well-done, veru tongue in cheek fake website made by someone who clearly had a lot of fun polishing this extreme pastiche...
Anyway, expect a lot of pop-up windows and have one of these airline vomit bag handy in case of a sudden sea sickness
posted by Baud at 3:20 AM PST - 6 comments
March 23
IMDB follows Microsoft's lead: every
new version makes it harder and harder to see the actual content you're looking for. I figure two more times around and they'll be down to three words per page that
aren't navigation.
posted by mrmorgan at 7:07 PM PST - 1 comments
Man there's a lotta links today. I'd like to add one, and continue the profanity thing. Everyone say "fuck" one more time. And now, "ass." That's also a good word. Both are used liberally at
BlowTheDotOutYourAss.com, which appears to be some kind of guerrilla advertising group, similar to that whole
Andre thing. They provide templates for printing out
stickers that say things like ButIdon'tNeedMyToothpastDelivered.com, and IJustHadARectalExamOnline.com. Good fun for the whole family.
posted by endquote at 3:14 PM PST - 3 comments
The latest TV craze
to hit Europe is coming to the UK. After the ratings success of Shipwrecked (18 volunteers living on an island) we have a kind of Truman Show but with volunteers.
posted by Markb at 12:28 AM PST - 6 comments
March 22
Warner-Lambert Withdraws Diabetes Pill Rezulin
Imagine how it feels hearing this news about six hours after my doctor told me "After looking at your latest liver test, you'd better stop taking the Rezulin, and come in for more tests."
For the record, I was aware of the potential risks before I & my doc started it, and have been doing regular liver tests all along; before my last test, I had noted to doc that I was getting more symptoms of out-of-control diabetes, even though frequent monitoring showed the blood sugar numbers were always IN control, and I was ready to ask for a change to one of the newer drugs... when my latest refill runs out. I'd always assumed that by the time the FDA acts on it it'll be too late, and I am very interested in the official FDA non-position on the safety of the newer drugs...
posted by wendell at 10:53 PM PST - 2 comments
Capitol Idea:
Matt believes "all government capitols look phallic to somehow signify that the most important 'man'
lives here." Having lived in the shadow of Florida's capitol for a few years, I have a better theory. These buildings are phallic because government's primary function is to screw people.
posted by mikewas at 4:15 PM PST - 3 comments
I don't know why, but I can't get enough of Brazillian music
(realvideo stream). Not that I can understand a word of it, but damn that's smooth. Note to self: buy more
Gilberto Gil records.
This person thinks
this disc is one of his best, and you can even download digital versions of it from cdnow, although I wonder why each cut is $2.49. Why on earth should digital music cost
more? There's no shipping, no customer service hassles, no media to stock in a warehouse. Make the entire disc $5 in digital format, and I'll buy his entire collection (and save from adding to my already loaded down cd rack at home).
posted by mathowie at 12:23 PM PST - 2 comments
Dubya is all talk, yes indeed. Did I mention that I hate my governor?
posted by veruca at 10:57 AM PST - 12 comments
And in other news, Indiana University
announced today that they're developing jointly with
Napster a solution to the congestion problem the MP3-sharing program can cause (which has led to Napster being blocked by campuses nationwide). Access to Napster will be reinstated on campus for a two-week period starting March 25 to test this new method. This new method will soon be made available for web developers at
http://bestpath.iu.edu. Yippee. I get to download
*NSync tunes again.
posted by hit-or-miss at 10:34 AM PST - 1 comments
The Supreme Court ruled today that
university student fees may go to controversial groups in order to create a "marketplace of ideas". As a member of a university student funding board (and as a member of "controversial" student groups, i.e. GLBT groups), I've been eagerly awaiting this ruling all semester. The case began in 1996 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where three students challenged the use of mandatory student fees to fund campus organizations that they had politically and idealogically objections to. For the full text of the Supremem Court decision, visit
campusspeech.org.
posted by hit-or-miss at 10:32 AM PST - 1 comments
eHolster!
I don't need the whole harness action (although there's a "lets play geek-spy" little kid inside me that wants it), but the cross draw
eBeltSnap would totally work for me.
[props to Laurel from
windowseat for the link]
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 9:23 AM PST - 4 comments
Speaking of Prozac...
Did Prozac and Ritalin cause the Columbine disaster? Are these drugs causing kids to kill? The people of "A White Rose" seem to think so. You be the judge.
posted by SuperGoat at 9:20 AM PST - 3 comments
can states have a foreign policy?
the Supreme Court today will review whether state and local governments can protest human rights in other nations by restricting purchases from companies that operate in those countries. the court will decide whether states, by restricting purchases, are making foreign trade policy, which, under the Constitution, is the duty of the federal government.
posted by palegirl at 8:46 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Medicate 'em!
No time to bond with your children. Work leave you drained and the kids just will not listen? Let Prozac help. The kids, not you.
posted by Mick at 8:16 AM PST - 3 comments
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
is the cover story in this month's 'Wired'. It was written by Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun. In it he makes a very convincing case for strict regulation of genetics, nanotech, and robotics, given that any of these could cause the extinction of the human species in the next 30 years. What do you think?
posted by Sean Meade at 7:43 AM PST - 8 comments
March 21
I have seen the future of advertising, and it is
PP * blog. My ultra-top-secret advertising scheme is finally let out of the box. Okay, so it might not be the future of advertising, but it IS a sleezy scheme on my part to help get both me AND you more visibility in the weblog dept.
posted by premiumpolar at 3:54 PM PST - 8 comments
Offshore pharmacy sites
selling prescription drugs to US customers were shut down this week. I wonder if the cat is already out of the bag on this one, will there ever be a way to regulate prescription drug traffic on the web? There's no worldwide organization to watch over things like this, nor are there laws that every country can agree on. Something tells me that getting steroids and "date rape" pills online is going to be a problem that's never going away.
posted by mathowie at 1:44 PM PST - 1 comments
a newly released u.n. population study
suggests that because the birth rates in wealthy countries is low and declining, the worker-retired ratio will not be able to support current social programs. "The report found that Japan would need 10 million immigrants every year for the next 50 years to maintain the current working-age to retirement-age ratio. Without migration, figures show it would be necessary to raise the retirement age to 77 to maintain the ratio."
posted by palegirl at 7:45 AM PST - 8 comments
Napster
Is this the best thing ever? What's the future of this software?
posted by chaz at 3:29 AM PST - 8 comments
March 20
Remember Gabocorp?
Hailed as the king of flash, one-man company Gabocorp's site carried a 'back early 2000' message for most of 1999.
But what's happening now? ('There is no entry in Apache for the Account you are looking for...' @ 4.50 GMT +1)
posted by prolific at 7:56 AM PST - 4 comments
Get the petition. They need one million signatures before April 20 to get it back on the November ballot. If you're in California, print out the petition and start drumming up support today. It's not so often you get a second chance like this. Show the country that California does indeed, rock.
posted by veruca at 3:31 AM PST - 9 comments
March 19
March 18
Smithereens?
On whose blog did I find a link last week about Pat DiNizio, late of the
Smithereens, (a) running for New York senate and (b) whoring himself out to anyone who wants him to perform in their living room, assuming you find 100 people paying $25 each and hand over 80% of that cash to Pat?
As I now know all too well, browsers, including (in this case) MSIE 4 for Windows, do a lousy job of remembering all the pages you've visited, forcing us to resort to the hackneyed "Did anybody read that article, and if so where?" technique straight out of a Howard Hawks film. Any help appreciated.
posted by joeclark at 7:39 PM PST - 3 comments
One of the worst economic miscalculations of all time ends
not with a bang, but with a whimper. Over
5 BILLION dollars was poured into Iridium (and $2 billion of that came from Motorola), and most of it is going to burn up in the atmosphere over the next two years as they deorbit their 60 satellites. (They have to bring them down so that they aren't a traffic hazard.)
Next time someone tries to tell you that capitalism can do no wrong, ask them about Iridium.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 2:32 PM PST - 7 comments
The United Killers of Benetton
It seems that the italian clothing company
Benetton recently used death row inmates in a rather distasteful
ad campaign that featured death row inmates and thier clothing. Check it out. Quite a groundswell of protest is mounting against this. The matter seems to be equally offending to both pro and anti death sentence folks.
posted by Dean_Paxton at 9:44 AM PST - 20 comments
Everyone's favorite search engine
Google has opened their
GoogleStore. They've got shirts, mugs, and bags, some with the "I'm feeling lucky" slogan, but the strangest thing for sale? That'd have to be the
Exercise Ball, which I suspect secretly carries
Happy Fun Ball-style disclaimers.
When not in use, Google Exercise Ball should be returned to its special container
and kept under refrigeration. Do not taunt Google Exercise Ball. [thanks
RasterWeb]
posted by mathowie at 9:18 AM PST - 4 comments
March 17
Soulbath.com
. I'm glad I came across this, I needed a good scrubing. The ambient soundtrack helps sooth the anger over being sober at 3pm on St. Paddy's Day.
posted by Mick at 12:09 PM PST - 1 comments
Wired News Redesign:
What do you think to the WiredNews new-look? They've returned to using more black and a chunkier navigation bar. I thought there really was nothing wrong with the old version (and the improvements are indeed a step backwards) ?
posted by williamtry at 12:02 PM PST - 6 comments
Hey, throw the high school honor students out on the streets. Then they can join there peers in
public mayhem (via
obscurestore)
Is it just me, or does zero tolerance in the schools make less and less sense
every waking moment?
posted by mrmorgan at 9:36 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Excelsior True Believers!
I have to hand it to that old bastard. Marvel's been a bit late in the game and they're still rather overboard design-wise, but Stan Lee's little hole in the wall on the 'Net ain't none too shabby. 7th Portal is just as cheesy as Stan Lee's always been, and just as heartwarming for an old comic bum like me. Anyone else like 7th Portal? Or am I the only one who has a copy of "Contest of Champions" 1-3?
posted by ZachsMind at 7:57 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
March 16
Google
reminds me of elementary school in a way. Every time there was a holiday, Ms. Capp would put up colorful decorations on the walls, windows, and doors of our classroom. Perhaps my 3rd grade teacher took a job as a designer at Google, because they're continuing the tradition just as she would have.
posted by mathowie at 10:36 PM PST - 9 comments
March 15
Swanky
finally relaunches after months of teaser homepages and t-shirt offers. Don't expect the old Swanky though: they admit "we might as well be selling vacuum cleaners, it is that different. "
posted by geoff at 12:22 PM PST - 5 comments
Freeserve relaunched today:
Considering that the vast majority of UK internet users have this set as their homepage, what's your opinion on the new-look Freeserve homepage. (it's like MSN - no?)
posted by williamtry at 11:42 AM PST - 1 comments
March 14
First it was safety scissors. Now we can all sleep safer knowing we are safe from
dangerous words.
Weren't schools rewarding honor students at some point, or is my memory bad? (via
obscurestore)
posted by mrmorgan at 7:41 PM PST - 4 comments
Here in Seattle, we have a thing for
big, ugly buildings. Sports fans, in particular, have a thing for building expensive, retractable roofed
stadiums. So in order to make room for another one, the city is
imploding the Kingdome.
Bad news for
Martini Design, seeing as how they're located across the street. Or good news, maybe, since they're probably getting a lot of trafic from their
implosion site, with the
streaming webcam, and the Flash game, "
The Imploder." I still haven't been able to tear the thing down without taking a few innocent buildings down with it.
posted by endquote at 6:12 PM PST - 1 comments
Worth has
a great story on how easy it would be for Goto.com to exploit its paying customers. (There may be some registration issues with this link; if it fails, go to the
Worth home page and click on "The Easy Way to Get Rich Click.")
posted by luke at 5:53 PM PST - 1 comments
A
poll on same-sex marriage at
ivillage.com. I'm always shocked by how many people
oppose it! What's wrong with this country?
posted by veruca at 2:06 PM PST - 43 comments
Got Beer?
Well, this is the most offensively stupid article I've seen in quite some time. [stolen from
Ars]
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (
PETA) is promoting the benefits of drinking beer instead of milk. Of course, there isn't one word about impairment of motor functions, alcoholism, or liver damage.
posted by harmful at 6:58 AM PST - 9 comments
March 13
RIDING THE BULLET by Stephen King
E-books are here to stay or lastest of the internet crazes?
Stephen King is letting his lastest book all 1600 word or 66 pages of it out for a small $2.50 from
Simonsay.com
Paperless world, mmm...
How without a laptop or you going to be able to read this in the bath tub or "reading room"?
Try also the
Stephenking.com For more information on the great writer's life and future.
posted by Max's Daddy at 11:28 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Napigator
-Your Navigator to internet audio- Napigator lets you see real-time server statistics and ping times. Allowing you to make the decision of which server you connect to based upon the number of users, files, gigabytes, and network lag.
posted by TuxHeDoh at 10:48 AM PST - 1 comments
March 12
Blogger: The relaunch verdict?
Blogger.com relauched their site with a funky new look and still more kewl features, do they still rock?
I had teething troubles in getting the remote editing to work. But after all that, it now works and in my opinion
of course Blogger still rocks!
posted by williamtry at 5:29 AM PST - 20 comments
March 11
Here's
a worthy way to spend your time: wait around on this site and see if it's true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards would produce Shakespeare's complete works. But don't get too excited if you start seeing "To," "Be," "or," "Not," "to," and "Be" in suspiciously close proximity: it's rigged.
posted by Annabel.Gill at 10:17 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
almost.org
, featuring "tales of near-sex experiences", is now live (after much thematically-appropriate hinting and teasing from
Don). I have a suspicion this is a site that won't
ever be wanting for content.
posted by Sapphireblue at 10:01 PM PST - 2 comments
Can you help a brother out with a little money laundering?
So, I was thinking about this otherwise unremarkable spam while cleaning out my inbox when it dawned on me how familiar it was. I have seen this letter (with slight modifications to suit the contemporary political news from Nigeria) three times in my life. The first one I remember was over
10 years ago (on oniony paper, soft brown fibery envelope, red mock-official stamp). And I was wondering: how many of you have seen a postal version of this letter? Did I just fluke out, or is this letter so common that it is some obscure junk mail counterpart to
Coca-cola, Princess Diana & Baywatch? I kind of like to think of it as the fraudspam equivalent of the nervous
Don Knotts.
posted by sylloge at 2:59 AM PST - 1 comments
March 10
Internet decency commission has no money.
Seems Congress neglected to include any funding when it was set up. How serious
were they about this, anyway?
Not very, it seems. The commission is operating on an extension. It was supposed to report last October, but they never bothered nominating any members for it until two days before the previous deadline.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 3:49 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
It's been pointed out a lot lately (especially after Prop 22) that gays are the one minority that it is still safe to discriminate against. I agree, except that
they are not the only ones.And yes, I must admit, I resemble that remark.
posted by wendell at 10:48 AM PST - 8 comments
Epinions looks like they are ready to start kicking ass and taking names. They've got themselves a new logo (which I dig) and some
television commercials that they will soon be airing nationally. If you do nothing else today, look at the
Breast Pump one. (thanks to
ariana for finding this)
posted by jkottke at 10:36 AM PST - 4 comments
March 9
This really hurt me,
but it's all worth it for the Panda joke (#316). In fact, you really only need to read the first two sentences for it to be funny. Well, it made
me laugh, anyway.
posted by Annabel.Gill at 4:28 PM PST - 4 comments
I have to say, the smurfalizer
is the smurfiest site I've smurfed all day. I wonder if I can find the
Taxi Driver script online, just to see "Did you smurf my wife? What? How can you ask me something like that? You heard me! Did you smurf my wife!?!"
posted by mathowie at 12:56 PM PST - 2 comments
A Webring for WebLoggers
by Jish for all of us. Lets face it, we all like having traffic to our sites, makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I joined and got plenty more hits on my site than I was getting before, its worth the time.
posted by Mr_Muffin at 3:25 AM PST - 6 comments
March 8
