“Through the interlocked network of weblogs, information can spread like wildfire. Very few blogs have a large audience – the largest, Instapundit, attracts only some tens of thousands of readers. But the network of weblogs forms a set of interlocking communities, so that on the whole, a new idea or a link to a new…
“The facilitator wasn’t giving up on her blame-the-white-Republicans theme, however. ‘But why should we have to go to prison to get help?’ she asked petulantly. The sex convict stood his ground. ‘I was one of those that got rescued,’ he replied. ‘I was raised twisted: raping women, stealing?that was normal. I had to go to…
“The 3-year-old website offers dozens of love letter templates covering various aspects of relationships, including love at first sight, Internet courtship, apologies, long-distance, drifting apart, breakups and even secret romances. | Subscribers to the site, who pay an annual rate of $40, can download a letter, add their own personal touches and send it to…
“The drill follows a similar exercise three years ago that focused on how well authorities would respond to the release of a deadly disease like smallpox, and whether putting entire cities under quarantine would lead to national panic. | But that drill came a year before the attacks of September 11. This exercise is intended…
“Today, United States district court judge, Florence-Marie Cooper, will hear the latest arguments in one of the most drawn out cases in show business legal history. On the result of the case hang billions of dollars in revenue for Walt Disney Co in what has become the case of the Mouse – Disney’s nickname in…
Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it’s still hard to grasp just how much a “billion” really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer…
“‘Have you ever noticed how much Hillary Clinton looks like [Star Trek’s] Nurse Chapel?!!!’ Beagle, our ironically-named gopher, was dispatched to find photo evidence. When it came back there was sure, incontrovertable proof of the rightness of this designation.” —BILL AND….. HILLARY!Astrea) Rosemary Frezza writes: “I saw a picture of Nurse Chapel from the animated…
“For more than a decade, the consumer electronics and technology industries have awaited the collision of media that would bring television, the computer, the video-game console and the stereo into one tidy convergence box.|Turns out, we’ve been looking in the wrong place. Convergence has already happened — inside the minds of kids who’ve grown up…
“Writing for the Web requires careful planning. Your content needs to fit well within the context of your website. When a reader finds your content, they need to be able to scan it quickly. That’s what metadata is about. In order for your website to be found, you need to write for how people search.”…
“No there is no page here. There is no page within a hundred kilobytes of here. I am not worried. And neither should you be. In fact, as we speak, viruses are committing suicide outside the firewall of this server, and we encourage them to continue doing so.” —Error 404 — File Not FoundBush World…
“One of the first scientists I spoke to, a highly decorated nanochemist, confessed in the most forthright way that he felt he had been duped. It turned out that his candor was typical.|But these physicists were more than helpful. They were downright friendly. They often had to stop to explain concepts that were elementary to…
“To an amazing degree, the Baghdad-based press corps avoids writing about or filming the friendly dealings between U.S. forces here and the local population–most likely because to do so would require them to report the extravagant expressions of gratitude that accompany every such encounter. Instead you read story after story about the supposed fury of…
“The Baltimore Sun essentially accused me of pretending to witness an incident of friendly fire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. When I explained that I had made an honest mistake in the heat of combat confusing that incident with another we videotaped in Tora Bora, the paper countered that there was no friendly fire incident in Tora…
“The decision to make the cafeterias into ‘no pay zones’ spread through the 40-acre complex like wildfire. Soon, the hungry patrons came running. ‘It was chaos, wild, something out of a war scene,’ said one Aramark executive who was present. ‘They took everything, even the silverware,’ she said. Another witness from U.N. security said the…
“What can one say to a writer who thinks he’s arguing for the existence of our very essence? Thanks, but, uh, your timing is bad? That you have the misfortune of living in a time of exponential technological growth, where miniaturization is colliding head-on with genetics, where technologies may so on have the potential to…
“What the heck is Jakob Nielsen doing goofing around with a lightsaber? Or is he conducting a useability [sic] study of it, perhaps?” filmgoerjuan —Star Wars KidMetaFilter) Be sure you watch the original first, and then the remix. Similar:The Siege (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 3) Sisko defends DS9 while Kira tries…Rewatching ST:DS9 Picking…
“Thanks to the forthcoming changes to the law on marriage, you will soon be able to ‘tie the knot’ wherever you wish……….YOU decide, we will provide a church for you !!” —Inflatable ChurchInflatableChurch.com) Words fail me. Similar:The Nightingale (WAOB Audio Theatre)I haven’t done any audio theatre recordi…AestheticsNASA sends humans back to the moon for an…
First, take the survey; then read the results. —Roper Geographic Survey 2002National Geographic) An intersting tidbit: “Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not.” Similar:The boy approved of the WWII historical fiction Dunkirk. CultureLGN Launches Quandary to Develop Ethical Thinking through PlayThe…
“It’s about making sure an employee is doing the job he was hired to do, not getting caught up in some overgrown, overly opinionated diary/hobby that unfairly treads on his association with his employer and has the potential to damage his employer’s reputation.” Eric Meyer —Meyer: Employers have Right to Ban Blogging (CyberJournalist) Similar:Far-Right Twitter Trolls…
“To suggest, then, that a newspaper has the right to force a newsroom staffer to kill his weblog is tantamount to saying the newspaper has the right to prevent newsroom staffers from publishing any personal website, or perhaps even from posting comments to an online-news mailing list. Woe to ye who enters a newsroom —…