“Back in the day, having a board with more than one phone line was huge. Two lines meant more than one person could be online at the same time. This was heavy. But it was the end of something, too: the end of that amazing solitude you felt when the busies stopped, and the carrier…
“A Taiwan man who used a different identity through the Internet to double-date his girlfriend, has committed suicide after the girl fell for his email-based alter ego, a Taiwan newspaper reported on Wednesday.” —Woman Dumps Man for Online Alter Ego (IOL) Sounds like an urban legend, but then again so does “Escape” (better known as “The…
“We actually asked for a great big red button, but they wouldn’t give us one.” — Royal Navy submarine crewmember, on the method for firing cruise missiles.Notable Quotes (BBC) From an article titlled “10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week“. Similar:Blender Griffin, Part 2After another couple of hours of work, I…AestheticsMom’s Fears About Daughter…
“Goodbye ‘e-mail,’ the French government says, and hello ‘courriel’ — the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer to electronic mail in official documents.” —France Bans ‘E-Mail’! (Wired) What a difference quotation marks can make! And for those of you who are sneering at the silliness of the French, Samantha tells KairosNews…
“Yes, in the world of blogs there are people who specialize in writing for the web. One of those is Dennis Jerz, a good weblog friend of mine. What do I mean by a weblog friend? A weblog is where people are turned into webpages. Dennis has turned himself into webpages in Literacy Weblog. I…
“There’s a reason they call these places ‘bedroom communities’ — you’ll sooner be snoozing before anything exciting ever happens.|But while the news might be snooze-worthy to the world at large, there are people who really do care about what goes on in their community. And as newspapers see a readership in decline, online-only news sources…
“To be named after the number one website for vegetarian information — what could be better?” — GoVeg.com, formerly known as Karin Robertson —Woman Changes Her Name To GoVeg.com (NC Buy) See an earlier entry about the Cool 2B Real Home Page, ( “Sponsored by America’s Beef Producers”). Similar:Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans…
“Yahoo! are integrating their services much more than Google — not only can you move from one service to the next withough inputting the search term again, but also the new dictionary service. In the query box type define egregious and you obtain a result from the American Heritage Dictionary a definition, plus you also…
“I’d stumbled onto solving my first murder case, having found myself the only eyewitness, yet no matter how frantically I pleaded with John Law that the perp was right in front of them and the very dame they’d been grilling – the sultry but devious Miss Kitwinkle, who played the grieving patsy the way a…
“Socializing is always an option, and as with other online RPGs, real life is certainly at its most rewarding when you manage to find and consort with other like-minded companions. At any rate, it’s hard to fault the game for lack of content or viable activities, and even when certain players try to subvert the…
“Arnold N. Nawrocki, 78, who made eating processed cheese more convenient for billions of consumers by developing individually wrapped slices, died June 30 in Sun City, Ariz.” Gayle Ronan Sims —Sliced-cheese Inventor Dies at 78Knight-Ridder) He was paid $1 for his patent, which obviously brought his employer barrels of money. Via Blogosphere Daily News. Similar:Popcorn…
“After reading this, I don’t see how anybody can be concerned about computer game players axing orcs.” Torill Mortensen —Game Violence (Thinking With My Fingers) I’m hoping somebody will jump up and announce that the whole “wimpy guys dress up in camoflage gear and hunt naked women with paintball guns” thing will be exposed as a…
“If you really want to get to know someone, try rummaging through their CD collection. An study has proved that when it comes to judging a person’s character, their favourite music is one of the most valuable clues….Almost anything about a man or a woman – from their looks, intelligence and fitness, to politics, wealth…
“Microsoft’s Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist the browser wars aren’t over.” Amit Asaravala —Mozilla Wants to Rumble with IE (Wired) My weblog developer Will Gayther recently showed me a 1999 Jakob Nielsen article that suggests that by now it is reasonable to expect that most…
“Some claim that games were like this only because that was what the current technology would bear, but I swear that those were still some of the best games ever made, and even today you could make a good one in this genre, which is now old enough to buy alcohol. | Thank heavens someone…
—Journalism Organizations & Related Sites (A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet) An excellent collection of journalism links, compiled by Christopher Callahan. Similar:Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in SearchI didn’t watch the game, but I did catch…Aesthetics10 questions to help you write better headlinesI already have some handouts on writing …DesignFor News Outlets Squeezed From the…
“Tulip is working with Ironstone Partners, which will handle all sales of Commodore 64-related products worldwide and take over the main C64 Web portal. Enthusiasts have made over 10 million game downloads, the site owners have said.|Unauthorized use of the Commodore name by other organizations will be stopped, Tulip said in the statement.” —Commodore 64…
“Of the 25 or so people in Electronics Boutique, six were women. Three of them looked bored — they were accompanying their gamer boyfriends. Two Korean-American girls were in the store on their own, but they were buying a copy of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne for a male relative. And the last woman? She…
“Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that’s it. Don’t use it for online presentation.” Jakob Nielsen —PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption (UseIT) I’m so conditioned to dislike PDF documents that I…
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