I’m in the midst of exploring redesigns to all my personal sites for a number of reasons, chiefly that it’s been quite a while since…
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I must admit I’m a little bit jealous of all my friends being suddenly pregnant. I know at least four lady womens who have buns…
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My boyfriend, Robert, is very smart and very creative (and, you know, sexy) and makes very beautiful stuff out of pixels and sound. He uses…
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There’s no easy way to say goodbye to a cherished pet, and if you follow the fasion advice of Tinkebell, you never have to. This…
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Google is such a great search engine that it’s turning up information that probably no one wants to be found. Stuff like leads to unsecured…
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What’s a poor Nigerian scam artist to do when everyone’s hip to his Spam scam? Start online dating, instead. You sort of have to hand…
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Mozilla’s open source Web browser, Firefox, has logged 75 million downloads, its small devices browser, Minimo, saw pre-release 007 debut Monday, it’s quadrupled it’s staff…
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Here’s a fun little lawsuit to think about, even if it is ultimately doomed (unless there’s a really dumb judge out there who doesn’t understand…
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If you think you’ve seen everything, think again, and also take comfort in your ideas about that stupid hobby of yours that someone said might…
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Flickr founder Fake says that the next big online challenge will be engendering trust, or Reputation Management in AJAX-speak. Speaking at Supernova this week, Caterina…
Posted on June 22, 2005 at 10:08AM 2 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Oh, sure, Evan Williams kept Blogger going before the Google gobble by running the servers out of his own place and getting by without a…
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Just 10 months after making its Wall Street debut, Google has surpassed every other media company in value, with a market capitalization of more than…
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Hey, you know all those cool online virtual real estate tours where you can check out the house you may want to buy in Boca…
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It was only a matter of time before we started seeing Web sites behaving more like TV networks, and starting next Tuesday the biggest entrant…
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Here’s a scary little scheme for you to fear, because all it takes is for you to give a check to the wrong person and,…
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Has it not occurred to anyone else that if the point is to cause a meme, which by definition spring from nothing and swell to…
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What do you get when you cross Ellen DeGeneres, Mike Nichols, John Cusack, David Mamet, Harry Shearer and assorted other famous voices and political powderkegs…
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What do you call it if you put a URL into your browser, but the site that comes up isn’t the one you were aiming…
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“Whatcha doin’ tonight?” “DUDE!! Installin’ TIGER, natch.” “Oh, that is totally hot.” “Yeah, operating systems are hot!” “TIGER!!!!” “Tigrrrrrrrrr!” “High five!”…
Posted on April 29, 2005 at 10:15AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
There are few truly scary things you can do with a computer. I mean, sure, sending out hoards of Spam, sticking pop-up ads on someone…
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Me no beeleeve constant email chekking make me stoopider. Me sure stouppiddity be caught from Prezident and Gubernor, like a cold or anthrax. Me smrt!…
Posted on April 25, 2005 at 09:29AM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Sen. Rick Santorum — you know, the Republican from Pennsylvania who probably hates you for something you’ve done that he doesn’t agree with, like breathing…
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The web is abuzz with good feeling about web personality and ironic eyewear owner Rogers Cadenhead (not his real name). Rogers, you see, had the…
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I’ll just quote from the product description on this: Protect our troops - from the womb to the war. What if the fetus you were…
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Own a Mac? Play with GarageBand? Like Nine Inch Nails? Want to remix the first single off their new album? NIN front man Trent Reznor…
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Heard of ZabaSearch.com? You will. David Lazarus in the SF Chronicle takes a look at a new search service that dives through personal records and…
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Jeremy Jaynes was pumping out 10 million spam messages a day using 16 high-speed lines. He was grossing up to $750,000 per month. He was…
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Did you know that many online advertisers are now bypassing browser cookies and planting Flash-based trackers to follow you around and see what you’re doing…
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First, they upped your GMail account inbox from 1 piddling gigabyte to 2 piddling gigabytes. Soon, they’re going to start storing up your vidblog entries…
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Sugar Bush Squirrel is boosting the morale of our military troops everywhere by posing for humorous photos in military clothing with guns, tanks, planes…
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Amazon.com was awarded a patent for its method of gathering information about every click, review, purchase, browse and other thing you do at their site…
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Crank up your BitTorrents and warm up the DVD burner, an episode of the not-yet-released new Dr. Who series from the BBC has been leaked…
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Because I don’t have enough to do in my spare time, and because what good is one weblog when you can have two or three…
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I gave up my Netflix subscription long ago because I would just hold onto the DVDs “for as long as I wanted” and never watch…
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Blogger co-founder and Google stock millionaire Evan Williams is starting up a new company aiming to take all your personal audio podcasts and stick ads…
Posted on February 25, 2005 at 09:44AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Now it appears, from their blog, that they’re doing an iPodder, a directory, and something like audio.weblogs.com. If Odeo somehow comes to dominate podcasting, this…
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Paris Hilton, over-exposed skank idiot facial-surgery victim, wants to apologize to all her friends and relatives for the recent unpleasantness involving her Sidekick and the…
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Today both Wired News and Red Herring had articles about internet housewife Jason Kottke’s plunge into full-time blogging, which I found about by reading Mr….
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Mr. Westberg, a convicted sex offender who will rightfully go to hell someday, was lonely. So he did what any number of other people do…
Posted on February 1, 2005 at 05:32PM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
When Google bought out Squaw Valley Resort, it wasn’t the fabulous adventure that pre-bubble-burst dot-bomb employees remember. Sure, the company paid for travel and lodging,…
Posted on January 25, 2005 at 11:28AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Forlorn because Sony wasn’t able to make the PlayStation Portable available in time for Christmas gifting? Amazon.com has the answer: A $750 one-page PDF from…
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Internet security firm Secunia says that based on three new critical holes in Microsoft’s browser, you should immediately and forever after stop using Internet Explorer…
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The Gentle Voyeur tracks down the internet’s finest oddballs so you don’t have to. …
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Hey! State or municipal website owner! How much would you pay to get a web site that’s less than 700 pixels wide, affixed to the…
Posted on December 29, 2004 at 02:57PM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
If you were wondering how busy Amazon was over the holiday shopping period, the answer is “very.” The company set a new one-day sales record…
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If you wanted to have a web page with the biggest hit count in 2004, you would have needed the following according to the Google…
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So, um, okay, uh, so, well, where to begin? Okay. So, this guy? Right? Okay, so he really likes playing online games. Like, you know,…
Posted on December 17, 2004 at 09:22AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Firefox is one month old, and it’s been downloaded over 10 million times, and, according to OneStat.com, it’s gained 5% on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer since…
Posted on December 13, 2004 at 09:20AM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
The recent law here in the U.S. allowing allof us to finally look at our own credit records for free goes a little further than…
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Knowing a good thing when it sees it—or, rather, recognizing that 8,000,000 downloads is a hell of a lot more than the number of its…
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Microsoft unveiled the beta of its new search engine and it’s… a search engine. What does MS add into the mix to try to separate…
Posted on November 12, 2004 at 09:21AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
It’s not some spammer-owned network of cheap computers sending out those fake messages wanting you to give up your Citibank password, it’s your own PC….
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Hopefully you’re not reading this at work, because more and more often, your boss is watching what you read, too. Cyberslacking is increasing in the…
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Several years ago, I started a web project called The Dead Letter Office based on a simple premise: You just died. Now write a letter…
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Search engine tracker John Battelle thinks Amazon’s A9 search engine, fresh out of beta testing this week, is the Web’s next great app. Built by…
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Think you’re all cool and fruity because your web page is printed in English, French, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Chinese, Pig Latin and Canadian, eh? The…
Posted on September 15, 2004 at 10:27AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Quick, there’s something new so you can totally change everything again. It’s how you get your RSS feeds on your IPOD. Keep those RSS feeds…
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We here at Glassdog International Megacorp are not immune to the more memetic and humorous attractions on the Global Interweb. Plus it’s hump day and…
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You didn’t hear it from us, but here’s Microsoft’s answer to iTunes which doesn’t officially open until tomorrow. They’re supporting “over 70 devices” including Creative’s…
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Remember when we told you about the new personalized postage stamps you design and use to mail all your snail mail to your friends, relations…
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An “electronic jihad” may hit the Internet today as terrorists launch a coordinated attack against Internet servers. A Russian security researcher claims the e-jihad will…
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The RIAA filed lawsuits against 744 Internet file sharers today, most of whom it can’t identify but why should that stop them? Some of the…
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You’d think there would be HTML and CSS tutorials for designers that run a little light in their loafers at GayWebMonkey, but there aren’t any….
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Clay Shirky has a saying that’s something like “the network finds its own uses,” meaning that when you setup a system to share bookmarks and…
Posted on August 23, 2004 at 03:58PM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Google made its Wall Street debut today, and started trading 18% above its initial price, earning its two founders around US$41 million each—and that’s before…
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Netscape 7.2 has been released! Oh my God, I have been soooo waiting for this one! Rumor has it they now support those cool animated…
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Email filter firm Clearswift says sex psam is up 350% since June, taking advantage of the northern hemisphere’s current trend of stripping off clothes to…
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Google lowerd its IPO price and slashed the amount of cash it expects to see from its initial stock offer to US$1.9 billion from US$3.5…
Posted on August 18, 2004 at 08:28AM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Open Media is a pie-in-the-sky vision of a future where high quality, free, plentiful public domain and Creative Commons licensed music, images, videos, and stories…
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Wondering if your credit card number has been stolen? Google it! The search engine that can do anything can also provide lists of stolen credit…
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Re: Bloggers at the DNC—under the heading, “I couldn’t have said it better myself,” comes this editorial at C|Net, from which I cannot help but…
Posted on July 30, 2004 at 09:17AM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
True.com is a dating site with a slight difference. They use Rapsheets.com to review public records to verify that your potential date is single and…
Posted on July 28, 2004 at 09:19AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Google has set its share price, selling off 24.6 million at $108 to $135 a piece, valuing the company at around US$3.3billion before the real…
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A web site developer from Britain is showing how to insert script from one site that shows up on another within a single browser session,…
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Coincidentally timed to coincide with Microsoft’s announcement of its business communications server product, the big three instant messaging players will now communicate with each other,…
Posted on July 16, 2004 at 10:51AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
This is the best and perhaps only source for completely fake facts and history of London. It’s nice to see there’s still a little creativity…
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Amember how we recommended that you think about ditching MSIE in favor of Mozilla Firefox because IE is all buggy and Firefox isn’t? Guess what?…
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A U.S. appeals court says now that any email laying around on your ISP’s servers can be read by your ISP. The decision stems from…
Posted on July 2, 2004 at 12:02PM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
A 25-year-old hacker in Britain compromised the servers at Playboy and managed to download confidential customer data, including names and passwords. He then contacted the…
Posted on July 1, 2004 at 09:21AM 2 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Yes, it’s yet another Microsoft IE flaw and yet another warning to be careful about using the browser and yet another reason to stop doing…
Posted on June 30, 2004 at 11:41AM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Reporters Without Borders issued a report detailing the ways in which nations are attempting to filter the information on and limit access to the Internet….
Posted on June 25, 2004 at 01:48PM 2 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
A pretty bad flaw in Microsoft’s browser, along with one in some versions of their server software, allows hackers to open up your computer and…
Posted on June 25, 2004 at 10:39AM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Every year I vow that “next year I’m going to organize my own float for the Pride Parade,” namely the Straight-Acting Gay Man float, wherein…
Posted on June 24, 2004 at 03:50PM 1 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Microsoft’s HotMail online email service finally let the cat out of the inbox, revealing that they’ll increase the size of their subscriber’s boxes to 250Mb…
Posted on June 23, 2004 at 04:46PM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
An AOL engineer stole a list of 92 million AOL screen names—including associated Zip codes and credit card types, though apparently not numbers—and sold them…
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In a move that will surprise absolutely no one, following Yahoo’s recent email inbox inflation, Microsoft’s HotMail online email service announced that it will be…
Posted on June 18, 2004 at 12:03PM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Don’t Panic! Remain calm, nothing to worry about… yet. But the Zafi.B virus, which is spread via email as an attachment, can disable firewalls and…
Posted on June 15, 2004 at 03:54PM 7 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Countering Google’s GMail service, which will offer its customers 1GB of storage once it comes out of Beta and is more widely available (though, as…
Posted on June 15, 2004 at 09:52AM 2 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
How much of your in-box is filled with greasy, foul-smelling, inert cubes of processed pork-like meat product? If you’re the “average email user,” around 76%…
Posted on June 14, 2004 at 10:02AM 2 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
After the last two weeks of almost non stop headline grabbing events, America sighed with exhaustion this week, barely mustering the energy to obsess over…
Posted on June 13, 2004 at 10:35PM 0 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Seems that scumsite I-Lookup is using two Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to install an adware toolbar on unsuspecting user’s computers. And, sure, one could blame Microsoft…
Posted on June 9, 2004 at 03:06PM 3 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
When one goes to Google, one expects that they will “do no evil.” Google search advertisers have discovered that as far as the company is…
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So, is Microsoft’s double-click patent something to get upset about, like Amazon’s one-click purchase patent, or are we not supposed to get in an uproar…
Posted on June 4, 2004 at 11:12AM 2 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
The New York Times has discovered that people are posting their pictures online and asking other people to tell them how ugly and/or fat they…
Posted on June 3, 2004 at 09:29AM 5 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
Google released an upgrade to its “Google in a box” all-in-one enterprise search tool, pumping up the stats on the US$175,000 system to index 1.5million…
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When I find collaborative rating projects, I ask myself, “What are the practical implications of the collected datasets?” Unlike Am I Hot and its many…
Posted on June 1, 2004 at 02:47PM 5 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
The man is unstoppable! And an asshole! An unstoppable asshole! It’s like integrity diarrhea!…
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The man is unstoppable! And an asshole! An unstoppable asshole! It’s like integrity diarrhea!…
Posted on May 31, 2004 at 03:54PM 3 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
That Mark Pilgrim guy is some kind of asshole. The best kind. While cooler heads like Sam Ruby and Rogers Cadenhead are trying to bring…
Posted on May 31, 2004 at 01:46PM 20 Comments Permalink Read more in The Wonderful WWW
That Mark Pilgrim guy is some kind of asshole. The best kind. While cooler heads like Sam Ruby and Rogers Cadenhead are trying to bring…
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