Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act (washingtonpost.com)
In other news, the universe is imploding
posted at 11:51 pm
on Apr. 30, 2004
300 Small Common Icons From 1800 Sites
300 from 1800 = 1,000,000 hits!
posted at 11:49 pm
on Apr. 30, 2004
ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel
I'm linking to "Nightline" because it's simply not right for one media conglomorate to start deciding whether another media conglamorate's programming is legitimate news -- that should be up to the cable companies and the government!
posted at 11:46 pm
on Apr. 30, 2004
Folio Magazine quotes me talking about Variety’s blogs
It gets most things mostly right.
posted at 9:03 pm
on Apr. 30, 2004
AtomicLife - An Online Magazine
Instead of fitting everything above the fold, this site puts every single item on the extremely long home page. Counterintuitive, yes -- but in this case, it works.
posted at 5:15 pm
on Apr. 30, 2004
The political jockeying over the position of National Archivist
I can't think of a less likely gov't role to become politicized, but the Bush White House really wants to keep the lid on its records, even after it's out of power.
posted at 3:09 am
on Apr. 30, 2004
Man Bites Dog—AreYouGame.com
Dunno, but this board game seems like it has potential
posted at 12:28 am
on Apr. 30, 2004
If you waste 12 minutes in each of thes games…
...you'll have wasted as much time as both Matrix sequels together, plus The Phantom Menace.
posted at 12:20 am
on Apr. 30, 2004
Be a donut maker
Some would argue that this article urges you to achieve the wrong goal, though
posted at 11:46 pm
on Apr. 29, 2004
Photo Exhibit: What Ceilings See
This was showing in North Vancouver.
posted at 11:08 pm
on Apr. 29, 2004
GPS Drawing Gallery
It's like etch-a-sketch art via satellite, tracing where these people actually walk.
posted at 3:03 pm
on Apr. 29, 2004
Bloggers in New York to Meet up at the Apple Store in Soho
I'm guessing it will attract slightly fewer viewers than the Victoria's Secret Webcast
posted at 12:34 pm
on Apr. 29, 2004
Randompixel is a photo art experiment six years in the making
From The Dead Parrot Society: Pictures from cameras released into the wild
posted at 2:43 am
on Apr. 29, 2004
A used wedding dress on eBay
Nothing special, but it has been viewed 1.7 million times. (Update: That was yesterday. Today it's 6.9 million times.)
posted at 11:41 pm
on Apr. 27, 2004
A Curious lack—A9.com has 0 search results for penthouse
There are no search results for this query. (But there are many "Letters to Penthouse" books...)
posted at 3:24 am
on Apr. 15, 2004
Amazon’s snoopy search engine: A9’s Privacy Policy
If you were concerned about Google's GMail privacy invasion, you better read this line: "IF YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON AMAZON.COM AND AN AMAZON.COM COOKIE, INFORMATION GATHERED BY A9.COM, AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY NOTICE, MAY BE CORRELATED WITH ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT AMAZON.COM HAS AND USED BY A9.COM AND AMAZON.COM TO IMPROVE THE SERVICES WE OFFER." On the other hand -- WOW, I'm impressed by the features they offer...
posted at 3:02 am
on Apr. 15, 2004
WPVI.com: When Water Isn’t Wet
Water that isn't wet?! Unnatural! I blame gay marriage.
posted at 11:19 pm
on Apr. 14, 2004
Prints the Chaff plans an unofficial Bloggers Day baseball outing
Or as I like to call it, Slowest ... Moving ... Flashmob ... Ever!
posted at 10:15 am
on Apr. 14, 2004
This is the latest example of poor Google ad juxtaposition
If I had to guess what happened, I'd predict that the automatic filter here saw "man pleads guilty" and "2nd charge" and used that for one ad with the headline "Accused of Rape" and the other ad for "Microsoft License Experts." While it's bad that a piracy case gets an ad for rape, I think it's twice as bad that rape and Microsoft licensing are somehow associated.
posted at 2:06 am
on Apr. 13, 2004
Random Personal Picture Finder (tm)
Look at a total cross-section of photos via Google Image search
posted at 2:00 pm
on Apr. 12, 2004
Font makers House Industries made a book of fonts
The plot is something about a lazy dog and a quick fox who does a lot of jumping.
posted at 1:22 pm
on Apr. 12, 2004
Choose Web Page Colors from Nature
I choose mine from clown makeup
posted at 5:12 am
on Apr. 12, 2004
Gallery of Random Art
Truly random, not just "half a cow in plexiglass" random
posted at 2:28 am
on Apr. 12, 2004
Norman Borlaug has saved move lives than any other living human
Do you know who this American Nobel Prize winner is?
posted at 2:23 pm
on Apr. 10, 2004
My old job is posted on Monster (Editor, Variety.com)
Can you spot 15 errors in this job posting? Then maybe you're right for the job!
posted at 11:58 pm
on Apr. 8, 2004
low culture‘s dog blogs the Oscars?!
I'm late, but this made me laugh real quiet inside
posted at 6:31 pm
on Apr. 8, 2004
From GeorgeWBush.com: Compassion == Photos Taken with Black People
No, I'm not kidding.
posted at 5:09 pm
on Apr. 8, 2004
George W. Bush, the War President: A photo mosiac
Via Eclectism, Michael Moore and ultimately from American Leftist.
posted at 5:02 pm
on Apr. 8, 2004
XML.com: Normalizing Syndicated Feed Content [Apr. 07, 2004]
If you read this, you'll go insane. And you wonder why RSS hasn't taken off in a big way yet...
posted at 3:39 am
on Apr. 8, 2004
Kathryn Cramer’s good analysis of the use of mercenary workers in Iraq
It's true that most of what she wrote here is summarized from newspapers, news Web sites and books as opposed to in-the-field interviews and reporting -- but it's broadly constructed, well summarized, cogent and interspursed with Socratic questions (not bully pulpit opinions). And the fact that these posts are intermingled with posts about breast feeding and salad dressing recipes just reinforces why I think blogs are so damn fascinating: here's a woman who is actually helping to develop a civil (meaning citizen, not polite) debate over the use of private military personnel by security firms in Iraq, simply because she decided to put her mind to this issue. Amazing.
posted at 1:26 am
on Apr. 8, 2004
Can you figure out what song these visual lyrics go with?
Hint: Wayne's World
posted at 12:03 pm
on Apr. 7, 2004
See Paris By Segway? Oui, Oui
Ah, to be young and geeky in the City of Lights.
posted at 10:44 am
on Apr. 7, 2004
This headline was NOT a good idea
Then again, perhaps in this case it's appropriate to have a headline that blows.
posted at 11:44 pm
on Apr. 6, 2004
bIPlog: ONA Last Panel: Back to the future
I was wondering if anyone recorded the question I asked about Google at this "superpanel" session
posted at 3:08 pm
on Apr. 6, 2004
The Onion | The Onion | Yahoo Launches Soul-Search Engine
The screen shot is hilarious: Search (What is my destiny?) Sponsored ad: (Destiny on eBay -- Find Destiny at low prices)
posted at 2:38 pm
on Apr. 6, 2004
Belated thanks: Prints the Chaffmentioned this blog
Tom and I go way back to early Web days. You whippersnappers ... ah, nevermind.
posted at 2:17 pm
on Apr. 6, 2004
TheStar.com quotes me for this article
"Rabbit-crazed ladies make fine bloggers" and who am I to argue that premise?
posted at 2:14 pm
on Apr. 6, 2004
Lost Remote gve me some electronic ink
"Variety.com editor steps down," they say; I see it as more of a step up.
posted at 2:13 pm
on Apr. 6, 2004
Reason magazine customizes 40,000 covers with pictures of each subscribers’ home
Interesting that a print magazine did this, while many media Web sites still don't know who the heck is coming to their home page. (Thanks, L.A. Observed)
posted at 1:26 pm
on Apr. 6, 2004
These Pulitzer Prize-winning pictures are worth $10,000
Carolyn Cole made Liberia's civil war a story about real people: scared, angry, aguished.
posted at 9:45 am
on Apr. 6, 2004
Gibson’s ‘The Passion’ a Hit Among Arabs
Article quotes Middle Eastern Muslims who have seen the movie as saying the film reveals the "crimes committed by Jews against Christ"
posted at 2:38 am
on Apr. 5, 2004
Why home prices are about to plummet—and take the recovery with them
Reading things like this makes my chest hurt: In California, the price of a home stands at 8.3 times the annual family income of its occupants
posted at 2:34 am
on Apr. 5, 2004
Boredom is a lost art form.
I read this article as I was listening to iTunes and updating my Palm Pilot with tomorrow's to-do list
posted at 1:58 am
on Apr. 5, 2004
Europeans have an innate ability to open triangular spread cheese packages
On the other hand, so this funny article says, root beer makes them spit
posted at 11:47 pm
on Apr. 4, 2004
Electronic Altering of Worker Time Cards Spurs Growing Number of Suits
And this doesn't even begin to talk about the practice of simply pressuring employees to work off the clock.
posted at 11:43 pm
on Apr. 4, 2004
Wonderful photos
I think you need to move really slow to see beauty the way this unknown photographer does. It's hard not to move too fast.
posted at 6:43 pm
on Apr. 4, 2004
I am a grammar god; are you?
On the down side, I'm really irritating when you ask me to "quickly look over this memo I'm writing, would you?"
posted at 5:14 pm
on Apr. 4, 2004
How to rate a guru
You know, in case you're in the market for a new one.
posted at 2:55 pm
on Apr. 4, 2004
There are 3,419 songs with “love” in the title, according to Lyrics Planet
There are 124 songs with "work" in the title. Just something to ponder.
posted at 1:49 am
on Apr. 4, 2004
Beautiful cemetary photographs come to life
Taken over two years, this grave yard is amazingly shot and given a flash sound and animation treatment that makes it even more striking.
posted at 5:45 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
M?trorama - Panoramic photos of the Paris m?tro
Quite amazing, showing the variety of stations built.
posted at 5:31 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
ze frank savages the social networks
He raises a bunch of good points and made me laugh.
posted at 4:13 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
why content management fails
Because you can have the best system in the word, and still not hire someone who can manage content well
posted at 2:21 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
San Francisco’s paper hires a sex reporter
Makes it even more sad Variety cancelled its sex blog
posted at 1:47 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
Jackson County’s government-run porn emporium
This can't be true -- not the porn part, but the "efficiently run by county government" part.
posted at 1:40 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
‘Passion’ prompts confession from neo-Nazi bomber
However, he said he was surprised to be arrested: "I was expecting eight Hail Marys and a 'Go forth and sin no more.' "
posted at 12:43 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
University wants to hypnotise students
Failing that, to drug them and stack them like cord wood.
posted at 12:40 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
Peeps Doing Research
Quickest way to one million hits on the Internet -- make a site with photos of Peeps.
posted at 12:39 pm
on Apr. 2, 2004
Google’s E-Mail Strategy Criticized
Google's AdWords "computer" is going to (*gasp*) read all your email? How is that different from when you do a "search" at Hotmail and Microsoft's computers "look through" all your mail?
posted at 11:22 am
on Apr. 2, 2004
visual analysis of data changes in group information sites
Sounds boring, but it's really a great way to see how sites produced by groups change over time, and recover from cybervandalism
posted at 6:10 pm
on Apr. 1, 2004
even in your own publically posted Word documents
Dear Microsoft, your Word software often leaves old edits in documents; . Just FYI.
posted at 5:31 pm
on Apr. 1, 2004
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