April 02, 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.

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Métrorama - Panoramic photos of the Paris métro

Quite amazing, showing the variety of stations built.

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ze frank savages the social networks

He raises a bunch of good points and made me laugh.

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why content management fails

Because you can have the best system in the word, and still not hire someone who can manage content well

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San Francisco's paper hires a sex reporter

Makes it even more sad Variety cancelled its sex blog

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Jackson County's government-run porn emporium

This can't be true -- not the porn part, but the "efficiently run by county government" part.

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'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.' "

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University wants to hypnotise students

Failing that, to drug them and stack them like cord wood.

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Peeps Doing Research

Quickest way to one million hits on the Internet -- make a site with photos of Peeps.

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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?

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April 01, 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

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Judge: File sharing legal in Canada

And their beer is better, too.

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Dear Microsoft, your Word software often leaves old edits in documents; even in your own publically posted Word documents. Just FYI.

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March 31, 2004

Wait, spammers drive Porsches? Don't they already have huge ... never mind. AOL puts spammer's Porsche up for grabs

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What is an outstanding magazine Internet site, exactly?

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'I do' waits for 'We can': straight couples make social protests for gay marriage rights

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Is this newsmap a useful way to see what has the attention of the media? Perhaps; after all, it has lots of pretty bright colors

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March 30, 2004

Craig's List posting: I Need a New Fucking Job (I saw it on Boing Boing)

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Side Salad now has a radio station in the right hand nav. How, um, loud. (It's from Radio.blog)

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It's like the opposite of the Mile-High Club: The Volvo Saved My Life Club

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March 29, 2004

It's not all gold: Dave Barry's Blog has an entry with about 100 comments discussing whether cutting in line is rude. (Spoiler: Uh, yeah, it is.)

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Is that a monkey in your trunk or are you just happy to see me? (From Side Salad)

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March 28, 2004

On my computer, Google today has what would be a slightly new look on any other site, but is a huge change for Google. The new "Froogle" link is labelled as such, and there's a "More" in the tab bar that leads to good things. See this screenshot.

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