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I'm going to break one of the cardinal rules of MF here and post a link to my own Web site. The horror. But! But! But! These links from the ID 2000 Interactive Media Design Review (and elsewhere) are just too damn good not to share with you folks. I got all tingly and fired up just looking at them...damn the rules, full steam ahead!
posted by jkottke at 10:20 PM PST - 7 comments

These guys think they're gonna transmit 50 gigabytes from LA to Atlanta over the internet in four hours. During the day.

Boy, have they got a lot to learn. (You'd think Cisco would know better.)
posted by Steven Den Beste at 5:18 PM PST - 10 comments

And it couldn't happen to a nicer guy... heh heh heh HO HO HO HAH HAH HAH!
posted by Steven Den Beste at 4:30 PM PST - 8 comments

Children are funny.. as sad as it is for me, most of the time, to have 15yr old kids be the majority of the crowd there, it's entertaining none the less. i wish it was that easy to start your own "business".
posted by sikk at 4:04 PM PST - 1 comments

Entitled “Are the 10 Commandments Sexually Biased?: How women lost power as the church evolved” today debuts “the Religious Write” on ThePosition.com, a column written by the retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong, one of the few bishops with a fan club.
posted by hoser at 3:38 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Life imitates television! Helicopter escapes -- just like a Quinn-Martin Production! Where is Barnaby Jones when you need him?
posted by elgoose at 2:25 PM PST - 2 comments

Too funny... Napster has hit The Offspring with a cease-and-desist order after the band started selling merchanidise emblazened with the Napster logo. Boo Napster.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 12:58 PM PST - 13 comments

finally! now you too can own a pets.com sock puppet
posted by palegirl at 12:50 PM PST - 2 comments

Can the speed of light be broken? It's not 1 April, so this actually might be true. It'll be interesting to see the paper in Nature, if and when.
posted by aurelian at 12:35 PM PST - 5 comments

So called Gnutella-worm.... So, I'm sure one or two of you have seen press coverage of the supposed spread of a set of vbs-worms, through the Gnutella community (Napster without a centralized server for those who don't know what it is). I have to agree with the Gnutella-folks statement, that this is more an exploit of windows and user-foolishness, than anything technically skilled. What's interesting to note is that it seems to be having a chilling effect...usually there's somewhere around 5,000 hosts, and 10 Terabytes of data online...today, there's barely 1100 hosts. I would have thought the average gnut-er was smarter than to fall for a vbs-worm.
posted by nomisxid at 11:48 AM PST - 1 comments

With all the big companies slapping down anybody who comes close to infringing on their big beautiful trademarks, how come these guys have never gone after this guy? It's not like he hasn't done plenty to denigrate the spirit of those who melt in your mouth but not in your hand?
(And shouldn't Mars Candy be more protective of their mascots?)
posted by wendell at 11:21 AM PST - 3 comments

The end of the dot-com gravy train may have doomed one website that deserves a whole lot better: APB News, the independent news site that covers crime without hysteria, knows the judicial system a LOT better than CourtTV, and beats The Smoking Gun in use of the Freedom of Information Act, is flat broke.
posted by wendell at 10:51 AM PST - 2 comments

"What say you just drop them britches!?" - Well the actual insemination was allegedly done in a slightly more scientific manner, but this guy says he's knocked up. Good Lord! First that candy wrapper thing and now this. Have all the scientist gone mad? (Link via usr/bin/girl)
posted by Nyarlathotep at 9:28 AM PST - 15 comments

Here come de' spam. Here come de' spam...
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:03 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

A spin-off of a previous thread: "The folks at firms like Kioken, who are known to fire their clients if they do not follow them down their ego led path...".

Uh, not to put down Kioken...but does the phrase "The customer is *always* right!" still apply to web design... Or did I miss the revolution...(again)?

posted by EricBrooksDotCom at 7:57 AM PST - 25 comments

You have GOT to be kidding . . . With everything that COULD be achieved by modern science, THIS is what's getting attention?
posted by Zosia Blue at 7:20 AM PST - 16 comments

Patently Absurd. James Gleick, chaos researcher and all-around smart guy, has written a very nice piece for the New York Times Magazine about the current spate of stupidity at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Most important, in my view, is that unlike the John Perry Barlow piece we discussed earlier, the Gleick piece got national press... which is far more important than we geeks think...
posted by baylink at 6:34 AM PST - 5 comments

peterme's bathroom There's a story... About a man name Haughey... Who attended a party... (sing this to the brady bunch theme song)
posted by efader at 6:31 AM PST - 19 comments

Horse-Cow? Definitely a Navy bar.
posted by plinth at 6:00 AM PST - 4 comments