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January 31
Flyswat is a crazy new app that adds metadata to any page you're viewing on the web. When you click on the newly hyperlinked words, it shows a popup with extra info about the word.
Here's this site,
Slashdot, and
prolific.org screenshots (notice it actually recognized "0sil8" as a word). I also thought it was kind of funny it uses the same link colors as this site for it's hyperlinks. If you thought weblogs were a huge time sink, just imagine when every page you see has all sorts of offsite related links...
posted by mathowie at 7:58 PM PST - 3 comments
iCrave TV gets busted. And what a shame it is. People want to watch TV over their DSL and cable lines, too bad broadcasters aren't hip enough to realize that. So this small company sees the demand, builds something to fill it, and they're stopped, too bad they couldn't reach a compromise (if you've never heard of iCrave,
it was mentioned here before).
posted by mathowie at 8:55 AM PST - 2 comments
January 30
Ouch! The sad reality of the web is that most servers are built to handle thousands of people (not millions, or 100s of thousands, and sometimes not even tens of thousands), as long as they are spread out over a day. It's sad to see a company pay millions for a superbowl ad, but their server is down when you go to visit them. I guess it's not all bad, I hear this
epidemic.com company was going to pay people to spam others anyway...
posted by mathowie at 10:11 PM PST - 4 comments
Well, I tried.... Although upgrading the hard drive on this server was unsuccessful, hopefully it was amusing to some of you. Especially those that don't use NT.
posted by mathowie at 6:11 PM PST - 3 comments
Michael Moore will be directing the new RATM video. I don't care for Rage, but Mr. Moore amuses the hell out of me even since Roger and Me, so it should be interesting.
posted by corpse at 3:40 AM PST - 3 comments
Ad Critic is going to be featuring all the superbowl ads right after the game. So I guess there's no need to tape it anymore, just check out the site afterwards...
posted by mathowie at 12:48 AM PST - 5 comments
January 29
The San Francisco Examiner is up for sale? I didn't even know this. I'm surprised no dotcoms have swooped in to buy the dead trees media. Apparently, they need a buyer very soon, or the paper will merge with the SF Chronicle. Will SF become yet another one-newspaper city? Sad...
posted by mathowie at 8:00 PM PST - 1 comments
January 28
Metababy is back! Greg Knuass' Metababy, everybody's favorite experiment in nobody-owns-it content, is back. In the original incarnation, the homepage displayed whatever anyone sent in via email. Now there's a web form where you can edit a page someone else made, or create your own page by typing in a bogus filename. It's great fun, and an even better experiment in web-based respect systems. Who's page will remain unchanged?
posted by fraying at 8:33 PM PST - 3 comments
Apple is going to have to rename it's AirPort for the Japanese market because of a previous trademark already issued for the name. They're going to call it AirMac instead. Hmmm... Seems to me they could have put a bit more oomph into it, like AirThang or AirConnector. Must have been pressed for time to get the thing launched.
posted by grant at 7:55 PM PST - 1 comments
fast(er) food in so-cal. looks like we'll all be able to get our big macs a whopping 15 seconds faster at orange county drive throughs. why haven't they done this *inside* their stores, where it usually takes the cashier at least a minute to do the math, after the people in front of me spend 3 minutes digging through their pockets/wallets/purses to find their money and change.(disclosure: i was once a mcdonald's cashier)
posted by mmanning at 1:30 PM PST - 10 comments
The game of legal tug-of-war over the Go Network logo once again seems to be shifting
away from Disney.
posted by jjg at 12:39 PM PST - 1 comments
The delay in adding new top level domains drags on, and there seems to be no solution in sight. ICANN can't agree on whether or not to add new TLDs like .biz, .cars, or .corp., but they are discussing it at an upcoming meeting in March. I would hope they add enough domains to make domain squatting difficult, but I bet large corporations will just buy everything with their name it anyway, and fight over others' use of their name with a different TLD. What a mess.
posted by mathowie at 12:26 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Cookies = Stalking? Some wacko attorney is suing Yahoo on behalf of a company that wanted to buy Yahoo users' data. Yahoo stopped giving them data, so they're suing for 4 billion dollars, and part of that is a goofy notion that a website delivering cookies to your computer is "trespassing" on your hard drive and "like a big electronic eyeball in your house." They're trying to use an anti-stalking law in their favor against Yahoo's cookie setting of visitors. Great, as if
the recent double-click thing hasn't scared people enough about cookies...
posted by mathowie at 7:24 AM PST - 1 comments
Bloat!, which has historically been a site with scathing reviews of popular weblogs, has in recent weeks become a source of excellent opinion and well thought out suggestions. For the first time, MetaFilter gets into the top ten, and I have to say some of the comments are right on the money. I hate posting information about this site on the main page, and T. Radhuis picks up on that. I'll be adding a couple links to the navigation, one being "news' with MetaFilter-centric posts and comments (and yeah, I understand that I just turned this post into another one
about MF, I swear this is the last). I don't know about splitting the comments into good and bad, especially since posters would choose which thread to add their comment (which could be abused).
posted by mathowie at 1:36 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Former Spice Girl
Geri Halliwell's site takes an interesting design approach to displaying content. Twelve small windows popup and different content is shown in the center as outside window links are clicked. Programmatically, it's interesting to other web designers and that's about it. The biggest problem with the site? The carpal tunnel you'll get when you have to close 13 windows when it's time to leave.
posted by mathowie at 1:16 AM PST - 12 comments
January 27
Note to MF users: posting a link is down for the rest of the day until I rework some of the scripts. Too many "hey look at me" posts for one day, thankyouverymuch. Read
an earlier set of comments to see what's coming soon.
posted by mathowie at 12:48 PM PST - 9 comments
These aerial photos must have the security services worried.
The Millenium Map company has taken high-quality, detailed photographs of the entire UK, and from Jan 31st anyone can visit
www.getmapping.com and view photos of their house at a scale of 1:1000, or more interestingly, zoom in on GCHQ and US National Security bases, such as the one at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, which supposedly is a key part of the worldwide surveillance network codenamed Echelon.
posted by echelon at 12:23 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
The clubbing section in the personal site of emptyFlower kept me alive for days. My beheaded head gave me a cursory glance and wondered why I stayed there for so long. "Was it the beautiful women," it asked. "No," said I..."it's just that - the things you own end up owning you, and I like it this way"
posted by DeVere at 11:29 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Fun With JavaScript! I am the only person in the world with a web site like this, javascript is more powerful than any other tool.
so...take a look, i promise you will tell others.:P
posted by DigiTaLDemiGoD at 9:50 AM PST - 12 comments
I give and I give and I give... I cleaned up the
preferences tonight. First off, the floating menu is defaulted to off, but can be turned back on (this makes the site more compatible with buggy browsers). You can pick how many days of posts to show on the main page, change your full name, URL, email, and email visibility preferences. If you joined this site early, I lost your URL, full name, and visibility preference, please take a moment to change it. Next up,
karma.
posted by mathowie at 1:01 AM PST - 4 comments
January 26
Moonfruit is a flash site that builds flash sites for you. I'm not sure I really understand its complexity, as it took me about twenty minutes just to figure out how to start building
a site, and even then I couldn't tell you how to do it. If anyone builds anything neat with it, do let me know.
posted by endquote at 11:51 PM PST - 2 comments
Bud Bowl 2000 comes once a year like a Sears catalog, Super Bowl Sunday. Get pumped for the game by playing some high quality flash games, oh and don't forget your I.D....or something.
posted by Mark at 4:52 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Paying for McDonalds drive-thru food without cash is the latest shameless marketing attempt to make things as "convenient " as possible. The sad thing is, what they're really trying to do is separate the notion of real money from "digital money" so you'll buy more stuff, thinking it's all monopoly money (credit card companies have built an industry on doing exactly this).
posted by mathowie at 2:16 PM PST - 1 comments
Log spam, a new trend? Within the last hour I received two requests from loggers to visit their web site.
The first one sent a regular and kind e-mail message, actually addressed to me. No problem with that. But
the second one seemed to be a mass mailing, correct me if I'm wrong. I hope this doesn't become a habit among loggers who claim they have
'trouble breaking into the 'blogger community'.posted by prolific at 1:22 PM PST - 11 comments
Writing from the heart This is not a popular webpage. I made it a week ago, its a personal page i dont know if anyone is interest in reading stuff about me. But if you do go, i would love to hear your feedback and if theres any potential public viewers that will visit this pages or just be a page no one bother to visit. Thanks. by the way, i think this website is really nice !
posted by Happysurfer at 10:07 AM PST - 7 comments
Contrary to what the record industry thinks, mp3s sell CDs. Today I bought "
Irish Drinking Songs" after hearing "Water is Alright in Tay" and "Beer, Beer, Beer" mp3s I downloaded from
Napster. Hearing the beer song brought back a distinct memory. I recall hearing it blaring from a jukebox and singing along with 50 strangers at an Irish pub in San Francisco on New Year's Eve, 1998.
posted by mathowie at 9:58 AM PST - 4 comments
Jason posted some thoughts on the growing popularity of MetaFilter, and how we might be able to handle it. I'd like everyone's opinions on several key points. Read my first comment to see the questions posed to the group.
posted by mathowie at 12:33 AM PST - 13 comments
January 25
Finally! eToys.com drops the suit against ETOY.com and agrees to pay up to $40,000 of their legal fees. Finally! Now, I wonder what the group of people I built
etoys-sucks.com with are going to do with the domain?
posted by mathowie at 6:45 PM PST - 1 comments
Early testing indicates that not only is Windows 2000
slower than NT 4, but the more RAM you have,
the greater NT's advantage. That's not how Microsoft is spinning it, of course.
posted by jjg at 11:24 AM PST - 1 comments
Bush and Gore won their respective Iowa primaries. Excuse while I let out an enormous yawn. I was talking about Bill Bradley to
a friend the other day, and he thought I was a crackpot. So I dug up the old
Select Smart URL, and made him fill out the form. Given his stance on issues, Bill Bradley came up as his first choice too. He went nuts, and said instead of punch cards with names in the voting booth, we should answer questions like the
Select Smart site, and submit a vote for the candidate that most matches our stances on issues. Instead of pointless political advertising, candidates' positions on real issues would determine who would vote for them. Wouldn't that be great?
posted by mathowie at 7:46 AM PST - 1 comments
January 24
Odigo 2.0 is now out, and it
fully integrates with ICQ. I just installed it, and it imported a bit too much. All the ICQ users on my ignore list showed up in Odigo, and my renamed friends showed up as their original ICQ names. The status indicators seem to be broken too, but it's beta so I guess that's alright. Of course, nobody uses it, so I don't see any other people when I'm surfing even the most popular sites, but if everyone starts using this new release, perhaps that will change.
posted by mathowie at 10:56 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Fauxhemian Rhapsody: Rob Walker writes in the
New York Times Magazine "boho trappings that vaguely suggest counterculture taste are everywhere, because the fauxhemian idea is that you don't have to choose anymore. You can be mainstream and alternative, a grown-up and a hipster, all at the same time." [via
canceled] A scene from Washington, DC illustrates:
She, wrap skirt artfully tossed; he, purchased punk rock look, price tags still attached. Both on their way back from an afternoon at the Pentagon City mall Borders. They climb into their carefully battered Golf, with the prominent "Friends Don't Let Friends Drink Starbucks" bumper sticker leering from the rear, and she is carrying a huge paper Starbucks coffee cup, fresh latte steam rising in the chill air.
posted by gac at 12:43 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Last night
Kevin Mitnick was on 60 minutes (the gist of the interview is
quoted here), and I have to say he came off as an utterly harmless geek. He was an information junkie that enjoyed the challenge of cracking firewalls. He never profited from his activities and the affected companies made up their monetary losses. It's a shame he was forced to waste away in prison instead of offer his security expertise to the affected companies.
posted by mathowie at 11:47 AM PST - 1 comments
January 23
Having a monopoly on browsers and operating systems isn't always a bad thing. While using Windows2000 today, I noticed that
my favorites list acts as the menu items do in Office2000. Frequently used bookmarks bubble up to the top, seldom used ones hide below. I have 20 or so bookmark folders and 50-60 links outside of those folders (which are hidden), so this is a very useful feature. I hope the mozilla team can develop something similar.
posted by mathowie at 5:00 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Today, MetaFilter is the CoolSTOP Best of Cool award winner. Joe Jenett says "At first, the large fonts seemed awkward to me - then it dawned on me that when you have a lot to read, the big type is kinda nice!" I just wanted to add that if you register, you can change the body text font size and family, turn off link underlining, and launch hyperlinks in new windows if you want, it's all in the
preferences.
posted by mathowie at 10:59 AM PST - 3 comments
January 22
Radiskull and Devil Doll a hilarious shockwave cartoon that features a song so enchanting you won't realize that you're threatening other people's lives. Now there are two different cartoons, MP3 files of the songs, and .wav files of the characters.
posted by thelotis at 9:51 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
A List Apart announced the winners of their design contest. There were no surprises here, when I first heard about the contest, there was one site that came to mind, and they won the grand prize. I was kind of surprised that I had seen all the award winning sites before in my own travels, but hadn't explored much of them. Especially
Eneri.net, I had found it a couple months ago, but couldn't handle the long intros and preloads, it seemed grossly overdesigned and I left after seeing two pages and haven't been back since.
posted by mathowie at 9:24 PM PST - 4 comments
First off, let me say that I love the Simpsons more than any other TV show I've ever seen. I've been enjoying their new site since they relaunched it last week, taking
the quizzes (best score so far an 8 out of 10), checking out the anniversary stuff, and even coveting
some stuff in the store. I notice they're giving away @simpsons.com email, but it requires you to setup
a free dialup account with
1stup. I'm on a cable line and don't have a modem, so I guess I don't get a free email account, but what disturbs me about the free simpsons ISP account is
the ad interface. It features a "health meter" to make sure you're clicking enough ads to please the ISP, sort of turning annoying web ads into
tamagotchis. Isn't looking at ads enough? Since when should you force users to click on ads just to continue their use of the product? Let's hope this isn't a trend that will spread.
posted by mathowie at 1:32 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
January 21
Glassdog: "A Weblog is a links page masquerading as a home page. They rarely involve much creativity on the part of the Weblogger. (see: Memo) A Weblog owner simply hunts around for cool stuff other people took the time to do and then they link to it. ...And then there's MetaFilter..."
posted by evhead at 3:51 PM PST - 5 comments
Kevin Mittnick is finally being released from prison today, but I wouldn't call what he's getting as being "free". Prohibiting Kevin from touching a computer for 3 years? This isn't like giving a toddler to a ex-con child molester, it's a computer. A person can do a lot of things besides hack into company servers. How does anyone expect Kevin to make the $125 restitution he owes each month, if he can't use a computer or get a job that requires a computer? Now that I think about it, what percentage of decent jobs are completely free of computers?
posted by mathowie at 10:22 AM PST - 5 comments
I'm interested in folks opinions on what they find to be the most thought provokoing album from a lyrical perspective.
For me, it has to be
The
Holy Bible by the Welsh band, the
Manic
Street Preachers. Written from a socialist / communist angle, the
lyrics
are quite explicit (see the first track "Yes"), and used intentionally
to shock people, but the way the album is written is brilliant. The use of samples
is very good, again with "Yes" and used with particularly disturbing
effect (IMHO) on the 12th track "The Intense Humming Evil", where
the sample is a piece about the Nuremburg War Trials where the commentator talks
of Holocaust victims taking revenge on their murderers.
Topics are wide ranging, and all focusing on negative aspects on humanity.
I'd be interesting in seeing what Americans here think of the second track "ifamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart"
All in all, very bleak, quite disturbing, and quite brilliant. An interesting
glimpse into the mind of Richey Edwards, the former lead guitarist and lyricist
( and manic depressive among other things) who disappeared in 1995.
Take a look at their last two albums also - nowhere near as bleak as this one,
they are still excellent.
If you want a listen and can't get the album, I'll do an MP3 of a couple of
tracks for you - as long as you get rid of it soon after :-)
posted by tomcosgrave at 7:14 AM PST - 2 comments
Me + 2 hours of boredom =
possible MetaFilter redesign. I was thumbing through
this book on my shelf and got inspired. I don't know if it will work with the text-heavy posts though. Maybe with some tweaking, I could get it working. After I get the archives working, I'm going to allow for different page designs in the preferences.
posted by mathowie at 12:12 AM PST - 7 comments
January 20
Today, I wandered down the center of
campus and noticed there was a big clothing sale. My favorite find? My new
Mars Polar Lander commemorative t-shirt. There's a voice in the back of my head telling me to buy 50 of them to auction off on eBay. Who wouldn't want a souvenir like that? I know it's kind of morbid to laugh at the $165 million loss, but I bet others would want one.
posted by mathowie at 1:10 PM PST - 1 comments
January 19
Holy crap! Unamerican Activities'
James Squeaky has quit, stemming from an incident where Srini (guy behind unamerican.com)
killed James' cat. Srini just lost what little credibility he had in my mind. Now, I'm going to feel shitty whenever I wear their t-shirts, actually I don't know if I'll ever wear them again. The more I think about it, the more it sickens me. I'm never buying anything from unamerican again.
posted by mathowie at 11:51 PM PST - 11 comments
If you had problems reaching MetaFilter over the weekend,
this is why. Some script kiddies launched some gnarly smurf attacks against the regional ISP that provides bandwidth for this site. Oh well, it gave me time to code. I've added lots of little enhancements (like user pages, a working search engine), but still have to get the archives working and expand the preferences page.
posted by mathowie at 11:06 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
January 18
Ever since MTV stopped playing videos, I find that I rarely even glance at it while channel surfing. But I do miss seeing amusing and creative videos. Luckily, Launch.com runs
musicvideos.com, which offers a couple thousand streaming videos to choose from. The 300k versions are pretty good. The Foo Fighters' "
Learn to Fly" is just great.
posted by mathowie at 9:30 PM PST - 2 comments
If you're in Arizona, you'll be able to vote online for your Democratic Primary candidate this year. Nuts! I can't wait to see how this works out. All I can think is that it will be a security nightmare and hell on server resources to do that many writes to a database in a short period of time. I hope it's a success, and spreads to my state, so I won't have to go through the trouble of finding my polling place, waiting in line, and getting to work on time. You want voter participation to go above 20%? Make it easier.
posted by mathowie at 2:29 PM PST - 4 comments
So I was checking out the Windows 2000 compatibility site, and the first step in determining if your system will be ok with the new OS is identifying your computer. When you go to
the first upgrade page, you have to identify your computer by manufacturer, but the site only lists 10 different PC makers. Ten PC makers!?! I don't know if Microsoft knows this, but there are things called "clones" out there, and there are "millions" of different manufacturers of them. My computer's not in the list, even though it's from
a prominent manufacturer, I guess the compatibility website isn't compatible with my computer.
posted by mathowie at 9:53 AM PST - 3 comments
January 17
This page seems to be over a year old, but it's news to me. Did you know that cookies set on international domains (those ending in generic things like co.uk or co.nz)
can be read by other servers within those top level country domains? Scary stuff if you're using even the latest versions of Netscape on international sites.
posted by mathowie at 11:13 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
GirlRadio is a music news weblog with tons of good info, but I found the
reviews of musicians' sites to be the most useful part of the site. Not only is there a critique of each artist's official site, but an alternate fan site as well. I wish there was a list like this for every subject on earth.
posted by mathowie at 4:49 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
January 16
MovieFone (or 777film.com, or AOL/Moviefone if you want to be official) has long been my favorite place to look up movie showtimes, but lately I've been running into problems. The biggest one is this: if you search for movies by theater, then hit "more" a couple times, it reaches a limit of about 12 theaters. Here in LA, that limit corresponds to a 4-5 mile radius. The theater I want to look up movie times at is maybe 7-8 miles away, but no where in the interface is a real "search." It's all just lists and lists. Eventually, I found a list of local theaters (covering about a 20 mile radius) in the theater codes section, but it's not a real search engine, so looking up times at out of town theaters requires you to know the zip code of the place you're going to. I know they're trying to simplify their site by taking out a search engine, but what about the people that know exactly what they want? I use moviefone on the web because using it on a telephone requires you to navigate convoluted menu systems, but they've transferred the phone experience to the web quite well.
posted by mathowie at 1:50 PM PST - 2 comments
January 15
If you're using a non-windows computer right now, and you
really miss that starfield simulation screensaver, don't fret, because someone has written one in DHTML and
put it on the web. I like to imagine I'm a bored cubicle worker and stare at it for hours.
posted by mathowie at 8:02 PM PST - 3 comments
January 14
Well, it looks like MattD's situation is getting worse. I'll admit he's not a saint, but damn, how is kicking him out going to help anything? If this eliminates his chances at getting into a college, his parents have effectively limited how far he'll go in life. The saddest thing to me is that he seems like a very smart person, and that somehow conflicts with the confining nature of his school and home. Good luck Matt, with whatever happens.
posted by mathowie at 6:10 PM PST - 9 comments
Jon Katz' new book to be made into a movie? Now this just boggles the mind. I've read
Geeks, and it was an interesting story (to fellow geeks), but I just can't imagine this as a movie. It's non-fiction, so there's little, if any drama happening in any single scene. The screenwriters are going to have a field day with this. I predict that the movie may contain the general points as frames of reference, but everything else will be made up.
posted by mathowie at 9:26 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
January 13
ID Magazine released a new issue that highlights 40 designers that are under 30 years of age. Most are doing cutting-edge, cool things, but one person stands out: Krysta Morlan. She won
a nationwide invention award for a air cooling system for body casts. She's also invented
a killer water-bike that lets the physically disabled exercise in a pool. You know what's even more amazing than her innovative designs? She's only 16 years old, still in high school, and builds these things to help her overcome her cerebral palsy.
posted by mathowie at 3:35 PM PST - 1 comments
Devoted.nu just goes to remind me how the web itself spawns its own sub-cultures within sub-cultures, the depth of content that is coming out, the amount of it, the work that goes into it, the skill, still undeveloped, yet showing promise of eclipsing the 'top' talent pool of today. Sure, it may be cheesy high school girl antics, but I haven't seen this much content since
zannah.
posted by rich at 8:32 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
This past summer, I bought a
Microsoft Cordless Phone, which I fell in love with after seeing all its cool features. My friends snickered when I bought it and they made little jokes about my 'proprietary' phone that would 'crash' during calls, but I defended my MS phone. So now the time has come to upgrade my home win98 box to Win2k, but apparently MS has
no intentions of making the phone compatible with Win2k, nor
will they ever support it. This phone is less than a year old, and it's going to be useless soon (all the answering and caller ID is software based). Anyone want to buy this $150 paperweight I have sitting here on my desk?
posted by mathowie at 1:08 AM PST - 1 comments
January 12
Nike this weekend will unveil a new 50-second commercial. The first 30 seconds will appear in a TV commercial before Saturday's Dolphins-Jaguars game. The second 20 seconds will be available at the Web site. The ad was created by Wieden & Kennedy of Portland.
posted by luke at 6:51 PM PST - 4 comments
January 11
January 10
Did you know about FightDIVX.com's coupons? DIVX finally met its death, but the protest site has continued to be updated. One part of it is a great list of coupon deals at various commerce sites. With a $10 off coupon, I just bought a new $15 CD from Barnes&Noble for $8, including Next Day Air shipping. Woo hoo!
posted by mathowie at 5:41 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Salon is running a great article about the AOL/TimeWarner merger that brings up plenty of issues we should all be concerned about. I can't remember the last time a company merger affected so many. This deal touches everyone, from what my grandparents watch on TV at night to what I'll be allowed to see on my RoadRunner cable modem. Just thinking of how they're going to control TV, movies, music, news, and the internet sends chills up and down my spine.
posted by mathowie at 2:08 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
(probably my last post about Magnolia) There were a few 'easter eggs' in Magnolia worth mentioning. What may be the
first non-555 phone number in a movie was mentioned, but I can't remember it, if anyone tracks it down, please post. There was the 1-877-TAME-HER number that was mentioned on every ad done by Tom Cruise's character. You can call it and hear a special message. If you don't feel like leaving your computer, you can use
dialpad.com to make the call. Also, at the end credits of the gameshow, they flash a URL,
wdkk.com, which maps to the Magnolia website. At one point, a audience member of the quiz show has a sign that says 'Exodus 8:2' which
I looked up, and it reads 'And if thou shalt REFUSE to let [them] go, behold I will smite all thy borders with frogs'. Usually when I see a movie, I don't pick up on these things, I guess Magnolia really was
that good.
posted by mathowie at 1:56 AM PST - 3 comments
January 9
I've been doing the weblog and the editorial thing online for nearly four months now, and in that time I've gotten my share of hate mail. I love it. It shows me how much everyday out there in Net land loves me. I had the same warm and fuzzy feeling when I got my hands on a copy of
'The Annoying Jerk', written by a girl in my AP English class. They just love me up at Naugatuck High School. They really do.
posted by tdecius at 4:17 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
January 8
(as seen on /.) A new
wristwatch from Casio that doubles as a MP3 player. Seems goofy at first, but I'd love to have something that small to listen to music while running. It beats a walkman or Rio any day in terms of size, why carry one of those when you can have tunes on your wrist? (
now if I just hook up some speakers in a baseball cap :)
posted by mathowie at 5:40 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Now this is something you don't see everyday. There's this
small Canadian airline that has an
interesting legal disclaimer you see right before you start ordering a ticket. Scroll down to the paragraph that starts 'PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS' which includes some compassionate nuggets like 'The WestJet® Web Site is not designed for use by persons with special needs.' What a warm, caring bunch of folks, eh?
posted by mathowie at 10:12 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
January 7
Greetings from Macworld. Or should I say iMacworld. Apple is really going overboard with this iWord thing. They unveiled a bunch of new things like the
iTools, iDisk,
iCards,
iReview, and iMovie. Can they stop before iPuke?
posted by mathowie at 12:45 AM PST - 1 comments
January 4
Can someone please tell me why X10.com has such
warm and fuzzy 'family' style pages to describe their wireless camera, but
their ads look like they are promoting cameras for the sole purpose of catching beautiful women on screen? Are they promoting hidden cameras in bathrooms, changing stalls, and other privacy-robbing public places? Why the descrepency between their advertising and their site?
posted by mathowie at 2:41 PM PST - 3 comments
January 3
What's more refreshing than the blue screen of death? The Professor Solonin Vodka Company recently launched a new beer using a variation of the infamous Microsoft trademark -
Windows 99. Russian trademark law allows registration of similar, if not identical trademarks as long as they are in different product categories. If Microsoft decides to litigate, it's basically a whack of free advertizing for these jokers.
posted by grant at 1:50 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
January 1
