Tag Archives: internets

I have this seeking suspicion that no one on this fucking internet knows how to use Wikipedia. So let me explain this to you people in few easy to understand points: Wikipedia is not a “source” – it is a … Continue reading →

I just realized that not everyone has an online presence. For example, if you google me by either by my full name, or one of my online handles you will get bunch of hits. First of them are usually this … Continue reading →

This cracked me up: found @ veronicabelmont.com What is it about cats that it makes people chronicle their every move? And this is by no means an internet phenomenon! Look at ancient Egyptians – they were nuts for these critters. … Continue reading →

Everyone seems to be really loving Tumblr these days. It is yet another Web 2.0 service that lost a vowel to gain the cool factor. So I decided to make my own Tumblr blog. Feel free to check it out … Continue reading →

I just found Freetalk – a tiny console based Jabber client. I love it! It has almost no memory footprint, it doesn’t steal focus like some of the GUI apps and (which is possibly the bast part) it doesn’t look … Continue reading →

Anyone out there using Twitter? Do we have any twitterati (is that the correct term?) in the house? Come on, let me know. I just signed up, and I like it. My only complaint is that I can’t get up-to-date … Continue reading →

Alex Papadimoulis from The Daily WTF just decided to rename his website to Worse than Failure. If you are not familiar with his site, you should definitely check it out. He posts a daily WTF stories from the IT industry … Continue reading →

It appears that the website of the Dolphin Stadium (home of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI) has been compromised, and a malicious trojan downloader was embedded into the website code: img © websense From the source: A link to a malicious … Continue reading →

Anyone knows what in the hell is going on? Do I still get revenue for clicks and page views while their site is down? Because Google adds are still showing up on my site… Was this scheduled, or did one … Continue reading →

The Robert Davis vs SFX case might just be the dumbest, court case of the year. Here is the skinny on the case. Apparently SFX has an inept, incompetent, and most likely retarded webmaster who can’t figure out how to … Continue reading →

There are things on the [tag]internets[/tag] that piss me off these days: [tag]Online Comic Strips[/tag] without a functional [tag]RSS feed[/tag] (and no, the feed for your Live Journal does not count, unless it notifies me when you update your comic) … Continue reading →

You might have noticed that the widely hyped $100 Xbox sale at Amazon did not go as planned. Under the combined effect of digg, slashdot and many simillar sites, their servers buckled, caught on fire and died. It’s a shame. … Continue reading →

These two short sentences summarize the great potential as well as massive legal confusion surrounding online media: The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their … Continue reading →

Anyone knows what is going on with flicker? It’s precisely Sat, October 21 2006, 03:09 AM and it seems to be down… I wonder if this is planned maintenance or if they fried a switch or something. When I tried … Continue reading →

How long would it take you to brute force the md5 hash? Given a fast hardware able to conduct around a million of tests per second, it would take you somewhere close to 1022 years to crack it. Of course … Continue reading →

Warren Ellis has some interesting comments about the YouTube purchase: [W]hat happened to all those threats to sue YouTube? There’s a fair chance back channels were opened via which YouTube could whisper, “don’t do that, something huge is gonna happen … Continue reading →

Dear Belgian News People and Lawmonsters, You might be surprised to know that it is extremely easy to prevent Google from indexing and caching your website. All you need to do is to add a tiny text file robots.txt containing … Continue reading →

If you know anything about the internets, you probably know what is an [tag]IP address[/tag], and what it is used for. If you don’t, I’m not gonna tell you – you will need to google it for yourself. But, not … Continue reading →

Here is another Net Neutrality video from John Stewart. This time he pairs up with John “I’m a PC” Hodgman: alternate link [tags]john stewart, net neutrality, john hodgman, daily show, humor[/tags]

Ed Felten decided that he is not going to make jokes about Senator “Tubes” Stevens. In his blog, he tries to go against the grain and defend the poor guy from the ridicule. Ed, we get it. No one is … Continue reading →

The Online Gambling Ban is the stupidest internet regulation initiative since “War on Pr0n”. I haven’t done any statistical research about this, but I think that next to pr0n and email, gambling is one of the major uses of internet … Continue reading →

This might be the best summary of the Net Neutrality madness out there. It has everything including excerpts of Ted Stevens’ speech, animated illustrations of tubes, and witty commentary from John Stewart. Watch it: I think that Ted Stevens single … Continue reading →

Dear readers, I give to you the musical stylings of DJ Ted Stevens and his hit single “Internet is a series of Tubes“. This is just too funny! Steven’s speech sounds even less coherent than I imagined. Wired magazine did … Continue reading →

I made this sign to support Net Neutrality. If you don’t get it, please go and read about the speech given by Senator Ted Stevens. Remember kids, save the internet! Update Sun, July 09 2006, 02:51 AM Heh, check out … Continue reading →

This is very sad, but the people who make very important decisions about technology (ie. net neutrality) often don’t even have a faintest idea about how that technology works. Senator Ted Stevens has such a hazy idea what exactly is … Continue reading →