October 14, 2007
Kara Swisher being tricky and funny again
09:55 UTC » Games - Heckling - Humor
Kara Swisher is one of the smartest, funniest and sometimes cruelest journalists I know. She is a co-host of the Wall Street Journal All Things Digital conference with Walt Mossberg.
For a variety of reasons she’s having a hard time getting an interview with Jerry Yang. She discovered that “Lunch with Jerry Yang” is the prize from DonorsChoose.org Bloggers Challenge for the bloggers who inspire the most readers to give. To participate/give, just go to the AllThingsD page on the DonorsChoose site.
So… in addition to loving Kara, I also owe her for introducing me to cool people and letting me stay at her house and stuff. When she says, “i need you to flack this…it is for a good cause. also funny” I guess it means I should blog about it. ;-)
Good luck Kara. Sorry Jerry!
But it is a good cause. Really. I’m going to give right now.
For a more complete description of this whole thing, which is admittedly slightly difficult to understand, see Kara’s blog post about it.
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April 17, 2007
"Joi" denied by Nike
I was messing around on the Nike store trying out the "made to order" Nike+ shoe section. There is an option to label your shoe with your "iD". When I tried "Joi" it said iD declined. It accepted "Jo", "Joichi", "JoiIto" but not "Joi".
According to their policy:
A Personal iD may be declined for any one of the following reasonsSo what does "Joi" mean that I don't know about? :-\* It might violate another party's trademark or other intellectual property rights. These may include words, phrases, celebrity's names, and even certain color combinations when used in connection with particular words or geographic designations.
* It contains profanity, inappropriate slang, might be considered insulting or discriminatory, might be construed to incite violence, or may simply contain material that we do not wish to place on our products.
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November 1, 2006
Sitting in my room
I seem to be doing this more and more, but I'm sitting in my hotel room watching the webcast and chatting in the chatroom for the IGF meeting. Until they make it easier for people to use their computers on site, I'm going to continue doing this.
I realize it is slightly rude to have your computer open during conferences, but the ability to look things up, take notes and chat are much more important than appearing slightly rude IMHO.
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May 6, 2006
A derivative work
12:52 UTC » Heckling - Humor - Video - World of Warcraft
I KNEW people would make creative use of the CC licensed video I uploaded.
The WoW section subtitled. By Kazpah our friendly neighborhood Warlock.
And NO. That's NOT what I said. ;-P
The video requires some quicktime stuff and won't run in many players. If anyone knows how to convert it to other formats, let us know. FWIW, it seems to work in Safari on my Mac, but not in Firefox... and it will take awhile to download.
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September 21, 2005
Plague on World of Warcraft
10:23 UTC » Games - Health and Medicine - Heckling
Heres the skinny: Blizzard adds in a new instance, Zul'Gurub. Inside is the god of blood, Hakkar. Well, when you fight him he has a debuff called Corrputed Blood. It does like 250-350 damage to palyers and affects nearby players. The amazing thing is SOME PLAYERS have brought this disease (and it is a disease) back to the towns, outside of the instance. It starts spreading amongst the genral population including npcs, who can out generate the damage. Some servers have gotten so bad that you can't go into the major cities without getting the plague (and anyone less than like level 50 nearly immediately die). GM's even tried quarantining players in certain areas, but the players kept escaping the quarantine and infecting other players.via Boris Via Wonderland
Then, I ask Jonas about this and:
It was a sight to behold. Some tell me, IF was finally usable and that the lag was gone for once, but Orgrimmar was fun nevertheless. Red blobs splashing everywhere, healing and renew/regrowth was being mass-spammed, and there were more bodies and skeletons around than I've ever seen, and I've raided IF before.Not much to add. Just hilarious.My biggest fun was screwing with those incompetent GMs. Some used their own chars to herd us, which made the plague transfer even faster, others messaged and threatened consequences if we did certain things. The idea was, to move all infected players into instances, where we could be by ourselves, so we hooked up into large raid groups, rezzed instead of corpse walked, and re-infected ourselves before hearthstoning back into Org. Bog Troopers, a huge horde guild in Org, raided Stormwind, which was almost empty, and killed the child king (no HK, there, you have to kill the Guardian) before walking into the Stockades, farming gold. The GMs congregated up on Honor's Stand, so we had a handful of players up there, stealthed, and infecting them. It was more fun than any other world event EVAR!.
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July 20, 2005
Poor Harry Potter...
The new Harry Potter books has been pirated and posted online in 24 hours and there is a video of man spoiling the ending for people standing in line to buy the book.
via Boing Boing and MetaFilter
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June 2, 2005
Anil GOATSE's the NYT
17:22 UTC » Heckling - Humor - Six Apart
This is excellent... Wait, does this guy work for Six Apart?Cory Doctorow @ Boing Boing BlogGOATSE t-shirt in the NYT
Anil Dash wore a subtle and arcane GOATSE t-shirt for a recent New York Times photoshoot, and they ran a pic of him wearing it. GOATSE is an Internet legend -- a repulsive photo that used to live at www.goatse.cx that Internet pranksters went to great lengths to trick others into seeing.
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May 7, 2005
BSOD upgrades to RSOD in Longhorn
23:07 UTC » Heckling - Software
Microsoft Longhorn has upgraded from the "Blue Screen of Death" to the "Red Screen of Death". Nice new look.
Via Michael Kaplan via Willl
UPDATE: Willl's friend noticed that "execution" is spelled "exectuion". Either this is a hoax, or they haven't spellchecked Longhorn. Can anyone out there confirm this RSOD?
UPDATE 2: It appears that Michael is an employee of Microsoft. He also informs us that the RSOD is not an "upgrade". Longhorn still has BSOD. RSOD is for really bad errors.
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February 22, 2005
Letter from Kevin B. Jones of sms.ac
I received the following email and this attached Word document from the lawyer at sms.ac. It looks like a form letter to me. I have no idea what activity they think is illegal and I'm waiting to hear back from them. Has anyone else received this letter from them? See the word document for the slightly different letter in its full color all caps glory.
For more information on sms.ac see Google. I wonder if they got the letter too. ;-)Kevin B. Jones, Esq.NOTICE OF INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTSUNLESS YOU IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DESIST YOUR ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED
TO: Registrant: Neoteny Co., Ltd. Plazamikado 3F 2-14-5, Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 JP
RE: Domain name: ITO.COMAdministrative Contact: Ito, Joichi hostinfo2@ito.com Plazamikado 3F 2-14-5, Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 JP +81 3-5549-2270 Fax: +81 3-5549-2271
Technical Contact: Ito, Joichi hostinfo2@ito.com 2-14-5, Akasaka Plazamikado 3F Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 JP
+81 3-5549-2270 Fax: +81 3-5549-2271
Kevin B. Jones, Esq.
Deputy General Counsel
www.sms.acTHIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT IS THE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF SMS.ac AND MAY NOT BE COPIED, PUBLISHED, OR DISCLOSED TO OTHERS, OR USED FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN REVIEW BY AUTHORIZED INDIVIDUALS, WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION OF AN AUTHORIZED OFFICER OF SMS.ac.
If received by mistake, please inform SMS.ac of the erroneous transmission by immediately replying to the email and then delete the mail and its possible attachments without opening, copying, distributing or retaining any copies thereof.
UPDATE: See Chilling Effects for a great site about how to understand and deal with these sorts of letters.
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October 23, 2004
Ann Coulter attacked by Al Pieda
05:34 UTC » Heckling - Humor - US Policy and Politics
MSNBC: Columnist Coulter hit with custard pies
The Smoking Gun: "Al Pieda" Targets Ann Coulter
According to a copy of the police report from the University of Arizona Police Department on The Smoking Gun, the "Al Pieda" were involved.
UAPD reportSearch incident to arrest I located on both Wolff and Smith pieces of paper (propaganda) involving Coulter's name and the explanation of "Al Pieda".
via Markoff
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October 18, 2004
Feeback on Operation Clark County
20:16 UTC » Heckling - Humor - US Policy and Politics
The Guardian had an interesting project to try to get readers to send email to people in Clark County and influence the US vote.
They got some feedback from Americans.The Guardian[...]
It works like this. By typing your email address into the box on this page, you will receive the name and address of a voter in Clark County, Ohio. You may not have heard of it, but it's one of the most marginal areas in one of the most marginal states: at the last election, just 324 votes separated Democrats from Republicans. It's a place where a change of mind among just a few voters could make a real difference.
Writing to a Clark County voter is a chance to explain how US policies effect you personally, and the rest of the world more generally, and who you hope they will send to the White House. It may even persuade someone to use their vote at all.
KEEP YOUR FUCKIN' LIMEY HANDS OFF OUR ELECTION. HEY, SHITHEADS, REMEMBER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR? REMEMBER THE WAR OF 1812? WE DIDN'T WANT YOU, OR YOUR POLITICS HERE, THAT'S WHY WE KICKED YOUR ASSES OUT. FOR THE 47% OF YOU WHO DON'T WANT PRESIDENT BUSH, I SAY THIS ... TOUGH SHIT!
PROUD AMERICAN VOTING FOR BUSH!
UPDATE: They actually got the idea from a blogger. See here and here.
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October 13, 2004
Giggling translators
22:17 UTC » Heckling - Humor - Joi's Diary
I'm on a panel right now in Milan. I learned the name of the conference when I finally got my pass. Lucky for me that they have simultaneous translation. On the other hand, I'm the ONLY one in the room who is using it right now since the speaker is speaking in Italian. There are two translators as usual who switch back and forth so the other can take a break. The thing is, the resting translator seems to be trying to make the speaking translator laugh. She keeps shutting off the translation and cracking up laughing. You can still catch the laugh when switches the mic back on and here the giggle under her breath. You can also hear the antagonistic translator scribbling jokes onto paper and putting it in front of the other translator. This reminds me of when the IRC back channel tries to make people giggle during serious talks.
It's a bit surreal. I'm the only participating in their performance and everyone is listening to this serious talk oblivious to whatever tremendously funny thing is going in the translation booth. I wish I could signal them so they would let me in on the joke...
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October 5, 2004
The Lantern: LaRouche founded Wikipedia
According to The Lantern, LaRouche founded Wikipedia.
LaRouche, an outspoken political activist, set the record for consecutive attempts at the presidency by running eight times. He started Wikipedia.com, a Web site functioning as both a free encyclopedia and a wiki community, which allows users to add information to posted articles. He is known to be a promoter of conspiracy theories and has frequently been accused of being a fascist and an anti-Semite - claims he has denied. In 1988 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax code violations but served only five.I DID NOT KNOW THAT. So who was that Jimbo guy I met in Linz. Hmmm...
UPDATE:
On October 4, 2004, an article titled “LaRouche PAC group sings, shouts, argues with Bush supporters” was published in The Lantern, the student newspaper at the Ohio State University. The published form of the article contained a terrible inaccuracy – Lyndon LaRouche was mistakenly credited as the founder of Wikipedia.com, the popular free online encyclopedia. Its founder is actually Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, an Internet entrepreneur based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Newspaper articles pass through the hands of various editors before publishing, a fact that the public often is not aware of. The original copy of the article submitted to The Lantern contained information about LaRouche obtained from and attributed to Wikipedia.com. Without the knowledge of other editors, a copy editor changed the article and inserted the erroneous information. The mistake was subsequently printed and published online.
The author of the article and a frequent Wikipedia user, Joktan Kwiatkowski, took up the issue with The Lantern immediately after discovering the mistake and also arranged for corrections to be made in print and online form following correspondence with Wales. However, the article was referenced in many weblogs and message boards, and Kwiatkowski was unfairly ridiculed and characterized as inaccurate.
The article was the first submitted by Kwiatkowski to The Lantern, and he received an apology from the paper over the incident. He has contacted bloggers that circulated the article, and some have already extended their support in an effort to help clear his name.
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September 19, 2004
Trucks
09:42 UTC » Gadgets - Heckling - Japanese Culture
Seth and Xeni write about this new American monster pickup truck, the CXT. According to Xeni it is "about 2 feet taller x 4 feet longer than the honkin' Hummer H2. Which, btw, it could tow along with that yacht, if need be." (MSNBC article and debut site)
I just bought a 10 year old Daihatsu HiJet pickup truck. I got it because it's small enough to drive on the narrow paths between the rice fields. It can carry as much gravel or dirt as I would be willing to move on any given day. Just about every single neighbor has one of these little pickup trucks. And no, I didn't buy it just to fit in... although I think it helps. I think my HiJet is about 130" long and about 45 horsepower. (approximately 1/2 the length and 1/5 the horsepower of the CXT)
That CXT would be completely useless in my village. So you can keep your gas guzzling monstrosity and whatever weird culture that created it. I'm happy with the spartan aesthetics of my little HiJet. (Web page about Kei class Japanese trucks)
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September 4, 2004
Britney Spears used gum on eBay - $14,000
Britney Spears's fans don't think the pop star's chewed gum is "Toxic" - they're buying wads of it on eBay. There are more than two dozen auctions of used gum on eBay, each claiming their product has been spit out by the 22-year-old singer. Prices go as high as $14,000, but most are for significantly less. Though there is no way to verify the authenticity of the various wads, many postings include photos of a small piece of chewed gum, a copy of a ticket stub from the "place of finding" and a personal story of procurement.eeeww... I wonder what people do with this used gum when they buy it. Or maybe I shouldn't ask...
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September 2, 2004
audiomashupblogging
07:13 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Heckling - Music
Inspired by Maciej's anti-audioblogging manifesto, I started working on an audioblogger mashup. I'm not very good at this yet, but here's what I've got so far. (1.8 MB mp3).
I'm going to keep working on this, but if anyone wants to pitch in and give me a hand... hint hint...
UPDATE: I'm taking this down because Maciej says it's freaking him out. ;-)
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August 5, 2004
IM from Markoff re We The Media review
09:49 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Books - Heckling - Humor
"The New York Times is my blog" Markoff just IMed me with this funny comment from Slashdot about Dan Gillmor's We the Media. I would have gotten more defensive if it weren't so funny.
Anyway, keep laughing Markoff. Just you wait and see. ;-)
Yes... I did photoshop out the end of his AIM nickname.
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August 3, 2004
Team America - World Police
01:46 UTC » Heckling - Movies - US Policy and Politics
Team America - World Police, from the creators of South Park. "Putting the 'F' back in freedom". Coming October 2004
via Juche
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July 16, 2004
What was Eisner doing?
Defamer imagines what Michael Eisner was doing in my moblog picture of him at Brainstorm 2004. ;-)
via Glenn
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June 25, 2004
The US constitution with DRM
10:23 UTC » Heckling - Intellectual Property - Technology Controversy
Now who in their right mind would buy a copy of the US constitution in a form that they couldn't freely print? Or maybe they're going to try to get the government to stop distributing for free. ;-pLessigthis is the constitution on DRMSo jump over here to Amazon.com where you can purchase an electronic version of the Constitution, fitted very nicely to a Microsoft Reader (not Mac compatible), and protected quite completely with DRM. The description says you're not permitted to print it. The reader reviews report you're permitted to print it twice a year. And don't try to hack the code to print it more than twice -- until Boucher's H.R. 107 passes at least. (Though the ranking is higher than for my book. Maybe free fails after all?) (Thanks Paul!)
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June 16, 2004
Photoshop as communication
22:17 UTC » Art - Blogging about Blogging - Heckling - Humor
I had fun with some photoshopping last night, but this morning someone showed me a site of a photoshop-a-rama on the new MEP from Finland, Alexander Stubb. Too bad most blogs don't allow images in comments anymore. It's such a ... "creative" form of communication. ;-)
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June 6, 2004
Nigritude Ultramarine
15:10 UTC » Heckling - Marketing - Search
Nigritude Ultramarine. Here you go Anil.
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June 1, 2004
Will airtexting BlackBerry become the mobile hecklebot?
02:14 UTC » Gadgets - Heckling - Wireless and Mobile
If they made an airtexting enabled BlackBerry, I wonder if they would allow them in Congress. With the massive penetration of BlackBerries (NYT - A BlackBerry Throbs, and a Wonk Has a Date), it would be like a chorus of Hecklebots. Anyway, I want one. Forget night clubs, imaging having one in the audience during talks.Smart MobsWave MessagingFrom the company that pioneered text messaging, picture messaging and multimedia messaging, comes new innovation - Wave Messaging, or Light Messaging, according to a Nokia press release
By waving the Nokia 3220 camera phone from side to side, the LED lights of the Nokia Xpress-on FunShell light up to "write" a message that appears to float in mid-air.
Related articles on airtexting-type technologies:
-- In March 2003, the WSJ reported from CeBIT about a phone called Kurv, made by Kyocera Wireless Corp which featured airtexting: "The company believes airtexting will be one of it's most popular features, especialy in night clubs. To airtext, you type in a text like 'call me' then wave it back and forth in the air. As the phone moves, a row of blinking red lights along the top of the phone leaves the phrase trailing behind it."
-- A company called Wildseed actually tested airtexting with teenagers.
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May 15, 2004
p-p-p-powerbook!
16:07 UTC » Cool Web Sites - Heckling - Humor
Another funny example of scamming a scammer. This time on eBay. (PDF file of the scam | Web Site)
via user0
UPDATE: The links above seem to be blocked now. Maybe they got too much traffic. I'm uploading the PDF here.
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May 9, 2004
Louisiana to ban saggy, butt-crack-exposing pants
Louisiana to ban saggy, butt-crack-exposing pants via Boing Boing.
This is really funny because many years ago I had the honor of being with the mayor of New Orleans during Mardi Gras. I distinctly remember the mayor talking about his new "moon pants". They were pants that you could easily zip down the back of and moon people from the balcony. I guess he can't wear them anymore...
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May 2, 2004
Working hard, light blogging
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April 10, 2004
Japgrish
10:58 UTC » Heckling - Humor - Japanese Culture
Everyone makes fun of the Japanese use of English. (See Engrish) The Chicago Tribune has a story featuring Chicagoans with tattoos Japanese characters and a comparison of what the bearers think they mean and what they really mean in Japanese. Very funny.
via MetaFilter and Boing Boing
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March 29, 2004
The irony of Orkut and Wallop's platforms
14:48 UTC » Heckling - Social Software
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March 21, 2004
Cartoon of our echo chamber
via danah
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March 16, 2004
Angle-Grinder Man is back
23:06 UTC » Activism - Heckling - Humor
His web page is here.
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February 21, 2004
Charging for vanity
12:33 UTC » Heckling - Social Software
I was excited when I got my entry in the Internet Movie Database. I was thinking about how vain it was to be excited by this. It felt like being in some sort of elite Orkut. Just like Orkut, there was a "click here to add photo".
*click*
$35 - Submit a Person's Headshot or a Film's Poster*click*
Replace the "no headshot" or "no poster" icon on their main page with a headshot/poster or change the current headshot/poster to a new one.$10 - Submit a Gallery Photo for a Film or Person
Add an image to your film's "studio stills" gallery or your personal "publicity photos" portfolio.
Why Do I Have To Pay?Ahh, the business model. ;-)When you use this service you get to make sure the image you want is on the first page people see when they look you up or look up your film, and/or that there are images you have chosen in the photo gallery.
Without this service, you leave all the decisions of what is used, when it is used, and if it is used, entirely up to fate and our editors.
There are many factors that make it just too expensive for us to provide this service for free, so we have to charge you for it or not provide it at all.
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February 17, 2004
kickme
19:35 UTC » Emergent Democracy - Heckling - Humor
;-)
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February 3, 2004
Dvorak on Sir William of Redmond
22:24 UTC » Heckling - Joi's Diary
I've been hanging out with knights lately and had been thinking about British knights vs honorary knights and how strange the idea of American knights was. Just when I was pondering the weirdness of Bill Gates becoming a knight, Dvorak rants.
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January 22, 2004
Where are you my Sun?
08:42 UTC » Heckling - Joi's Diary
Sun always has a huge presence at Davos. They always rent a special house right across from the Congress Center and are a big sponsor. They add that special irreverence to the meeting and John Gage is always the life of the party. This year, there is no sign of them. I wonder what happened.
And guess who rented the Sun House... Microsoft. I wonder if Bill Gates is trying to make a point. :-p
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January 16, 2004
Global crackdown on profanity
06:09 UTC » Global Politics - Heckling - US Policy and Politics
Michael Powell wants to crack down on profanity in the US and the Brazilians arrest this pilot (via antti) for flipping them the finger. "He made an internationally known obscene gesture when he was being photographed by the Federal Police," according to the article. With all of the increased reason for profanity directed against establishment, I can see how a global war on profanity is essential for the security interests of the civilized world. :-p
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January 8, 2004
JeannieAndJibot session at ETech
17:38 UTC » Heckling - IRC - Joi's Diary - Python Fun
If you hang out on #joiito or are interested in learning more and plan to be at ETech, please vote for, sign up for and contribute ideas to the session we are planning. We're going to try to play with RFID's and the Jeannie's cafe idea and we need a head-count so please sign up early if you're interested. Hopefully Hecklebot will be there as well.
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Google whois quicklink
Ev writes about Google's new quicklink for whois. If you search for "whois [domain]" on Google you will get a link to a search on www.ratite.com's Global Whois service for the domain name. I guess this is useful for people who won't touch a command line, but I don't think I'd ever use it. I will continue to open a terminal window and type "whois google.com". That way I can continue to see whois spam too. ;-)
$ whois google.comWhois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM
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It's like Microsoft Office... except it's not...
13:39 UTC » Heckling - Marketing - Software
Eeewwww... What ARE YOU THINKING Apple Computer?
I just ordered it anyway, but this is crazy. Microsoft Office is the last thing in the world I'd want to compare iLife with.
via Zeitgeist
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January 2, 2004
Joi Ito Reloaded
07:05 UTC » Health and Medicine - Heckling - Joi's Diary
I just woke up from sleeping for 18 hours. I know some people who sleep 18 hours+ regularly, but for someone who averages 4-6 hours a day, 18 hours of sober sleep is quite a psychosomatic journey. I had had a full night's sleep the night before, but sitting in the sun cuddling Bo after a big huge brunch with Mizuka's family, their chatter turning into a comfortable drone in the background sent me into a deeeeeep sleep.
I just woke up and my brain is in a interesting state. I've had two espressos but I still can't type properly. I am quite disoriented, but I feel deeply happy and deeply thankful for a bunch of things. A lot of the "issues" I had been pondering now seem trivial and for some reason I seem to be taking a much longer term view on things. It literally feels like I've done a fresh install on my brain and it is now rebooting.
What a wonderful day. If I weren't feeling so merciful today, I would taunt those of you who have hang-overs today. ;-)
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December 30, 2003
Dvorak explains why Americans are behind on cell phone culture
18:37 UTC » Consumer Electronics - Heckling - Joi's Diary - Wireless and Mobile
So here's someone who has "social norm tensions" around gadgets and cell phones.
Since this dinner was officially "off the record" I didn't blog much about it, but you can imagine it how it could have been a rather awkward dinner. It was part of my "round up the journalists" dinner that we occasionally organize. It's amazing how gadget talk seems to bond most geeks (except for Dvorak) regardless of what they think of blogs or techno-utopias. We kicked off the evening with cell phone talk and had a great time.John C. DvorakCell Phone Hegemony - PC MagazineLet me walk you through my tale of woe. First, picture this gathering: New York Times reporter John Markoff, San Jose Mercury News columnist Dan Gilmore (sic), Andrew Orlowsi from The Register, author Gregg Pascal Zachary, blogger/investor Joi Ito, lyricist/pundit John Perry Barlow, and me. Everyone there had some relationship to the computer scene, and we were about to have dinner at a pseudo-swanky San Francisco eatery. Each reveler was political, opinionated, and outspoken. What transpired made my flesh crawl. Everyone, with the exception of me, like beings possessed, pulled out one, two, or maybe three cell phones, and while collectively drooling, began the macho 21st century showdown game of "who has the coolest cell phone?" It was horrible. I left, nauseated and shaken after witnessing this cult-like phone-features feeding frenzy. When I was a kid, we talked about football.
I do agree that different countries seem to have different manners, the Finns seem to have some of the best manners. Maybe it's because American learn to talk on their cell phones when they are in cars... but you're right. Many Americans tend to shout into their phones.John C. DvorakI've complained previously about idiots on cell phones in public, but I've given up.
[...]
Cell phones now rule the world's collective unconscious in untold ways. What astonishes me about all this is the sociology that has crept up on us. Why do we have this incessant need to chat on cell phones all day long all of a sudden?
But Dvorak... Why are you freaking out about cell phones man? Why don't you freak out instead about why American's can't seem to figure out how to use them or make them. ;-p
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December 8, 2003
Bloggers google bomb George Bush
21:56 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Heckling - Search - US Policy and Politics
If you go to google and search for "miserable failure" you get bio of George W Bush. This is a bloggers' google bomb.
Thanks Kev for the clarification
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November 29, 2003
Larry Page and Sergey Brin parody blog
06:30 UTC » Blogging about Blogging - Heckling - Humor
Larry Page and Sergey Brin Parody Blog
I've wanted to do a blog for ages but Sergey couldn't manage to set up MovableType. Apparently it's "Just too difficult".Via Aaron Swartz on the Google WeblogAnyway, the other day he suggested that it would be a thousand times easier to just buy Blogger.com.
So we did.