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"We probably don't want your business. Go away." That actually seems to be the message here. I don't recall such a hostile advertisement before. (Via HardOCP)
comment posted at 7:45 PM on Oct-15-00

Myst, in an actual 3d environment. Or so they say. Having no 3d card, I can't check it out.
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Honey, I'm home... This is something that could only happen in Ohio.
comment posted at 8:13 AM on Oct-15-00

It's common knowledge that Tetris players often see the game in their dreams. Now scientists are using the game to help understand the very nature of dreams themselves. But it doesn't address the question I've always had: Why Tetris? Why doesn't this happen with Quake or Ultima or even Super Breakout?
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comment posted at 8:40 PM on Oct-14-00

Indianapolis minors can't play violent videogames anymore.
comment posted at 6:46 PM on Oct-13-00

File under: "Duh!" "We agree that smoking is addictive and causes disease in smokers," said David Davies, vice president of corporate affairs of Philip Morris Europe.
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comment posted at 6:32 PM on Oct-13-00

You want fries with that? McDonald's employees are being "strip searched"? I thought you had it "your way" at Burger King.
comment posted at 8:07 AM on Oct-12-00

use my drive space, give me monopoly money! ... i'm not sure at all that i understand this vision of p2p but it gives me a funny feeling reminiscent of the time my roommate tried to get everyone in the house to switch their phones over to excel. then again it's being touted as the killer *nap*
comment posted at 2:08 PM on Oct-10-00

The FBI is pushing for online ethics education in schools, but I wonder if it's even possible to teach good ethics in school anymore? It must be a great time to be a young geek: music is free, porn is plentiful, you can save anything on the web by simply right-clicking and choosing save as, you can easily trade and copy reports online, cracks and warez mean never having to pay for software or games again, hacking tools are freely available to anyone, and you can be male/female/old/young online and no one knows the difference. How could you possibly teach kids that all those are bad things?
comment posted at 1:35 PM on Oct-10-00

Change of scenery. Weblogs.com has had a serious overhaul. What does this group of rag-tag critics think?
comment posted at 1:14 PM on Oct-10-00

Who wants to be a...Grab.com is giving away $1 Billion Grab.com, an email marketing company announced it would give $1 Billion to the player who selects the same series of seven numbers between one and 77 that Grab.com picks at random on Dec. 28.

As the article points out, the odds of any one individual claiming the $1 billion prize are a subatomic 1 in 2,404,808,340. Compared to the chance that Berkshire Hathaway will have to cough up $1 billion this year to cover one of its natural disaster insurance policies which is something like 1 in 100.
comment posted at 6:05 AM on Oct-10-00

Lookee what Microsoft is giving me as a potential update! (Yeah, I know why it's really there.)
comment posted at 1:10 PM on Oct-10-00

Give It Away? Seth Godin's book Idea Virus is available for free on his website, but the book is ranked #973 on the Amazon.com best-seller list (which means more than a few people are buying it anyway). Interesting...
comment posted at 5:59 AM on Oct-10-00

A 38-year-old Slovenian became the first person ever to ski non-stop down the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, on Saturday. "I feel only absolute happiness and absolute fatigue," Davo Karnicar told Reuters by satellite phone after the descent
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comment posted at 5:45 PM on Oct-10-00

Big discount on baby formula, which doesn't seem like a big deal, but what gets me is the widespread belief that its evil drug-dealers doing this and not people living in poverty who are forced to steal to feed their babies.
comment posted at 6:26 PM on Oct-7-00

Flutterby wonders what the difference is between those who have faith in media and those who see them as "an unending stream of barely edited press-releases."
comment posted at 2:48 PM on Oct-6-00

you would think that in researching child-pornography in order to report on it [for esquire?!] one might come across the information that transmitting such images is illegal. not this guy. "The Story That Can't Be Told"
comment posted at 2:38 PM on Oct-6-00

Fight spam with silly human tricks! This service is built around a low rent Turing test. Anyone who is not already on your list of approved correspondents gets their message bounced back to them. If the poor sod can't pass a "fast and simple" challenge, their mail won't be passed on to you as they'll be presumed to be a spambot. I use Pine: I guess I'd fail. (Found via Webmonkey).
comment posted at 2:18 PM on Oct-6-00
comment posted at 6:14 PM on Oct-7-00

More engineers who aren't afraid to dream. This is like that humongous telescope I posted about a few weeks ago, only in a different area. Of course, the question is "If you get it working, what do you do with it?" What would you do with a 100 GHz petaflop CPU?
comment posted at 2:10 PM on Oct-6-00

One word: Creepy. (Note that IBM doesn't actually own this patent -- they just run the patent lookup service.) Props to Victor.
comment posted at 2:01 PM on Oct-6-00

I don't recall having heard from anybody that the consumer experience of getting online required redefinition.
comment posted at 7:37 PM on Oct-5-00

Napster for sale -- potential buyers include "a Western telecommunications giant and a brand-name 'pure' Internet service provider."
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comment posted at 1:56 PM on Oct-6-00

"Microsoft Bails Out Rival Corel" ...but the "L-word" is never mentioned. Still, looks like MS-branded Linux and/or a port of Office to Linux just became a lot more possible.
comment posted at 11:36 AM on Oct-3-00

So how much money is Stephen King throwing away? G. Beato's take on the world's most famous e-publishing experiment makes a great point: King has the clout to drive traffic, and that can worth a hell of a lot more than what he's getting directly from his readers. King's got brand identity and endless content -- why is he bothering with a subscription fee?
comment posted at 9:01 AM on Oct-3-00

Have fun laughing your ass off.
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Don't just sit there, go buy some un-used 3 Letter Acronym domain names for the heck of it.
comment posted at 1:48 PM on Oct-2-00

In general, if you want to use drugs and keep your job then become a programmer.
comment posted at 8:51 AM on Oct-3-00

It's a slow Sunday and so I thought I would share with you the best public radio station out there.
comment posted at 6:07 PM on Oct-1-00

It's all over... And I can honestly say that watching this Olympics has shaken all the pre-Games cynicism out of my system. It's been wonderful to watch, looked wonderfully organised, and suffused with a sense of good spirit by its hosts... good on you, mates.
comment posted at 12:43 PM on Oct-1-00

The Dutch demonstrate yet again that they have the most open-minded and progressive culture on the planet. They've also legalized cannibis.
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comment posted at 4:41 AM on Oct-4-00

Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic Jakob Nielsen says "to take the Internet to the next level, users must begin posting their own material ... the vast wasteland of Geocities confirms this. Giving users a home-page editing program does not turn them into good writers." Meg takes Nielsen to task: "his recommended approach is crazy ...Why bog kids down with HTML?" Blogs, of course, are her solution. But for some folks this simply doesn't add up. Saying kids shouldn't learn HTML because Blogger exists is like saying they shouldn't learn to add because calculators exist.
comment posted at 4:12 PM on Oct-3-00