Why Blogger Empowers Mindless Nits.
posted by capt.crackpipe at 7:36 PM PST - 40 comments

The CES Hall of Shame. The ten stupidest products these guys saw at CES this week. My favorite: Panasonic's Internet-Capable Microwave Ovens. [shudder]
posted by Steven Den Beste at 6:25 PM PST - 4 comments

Bill O'Reilly raps eminem style. This has got to be the best thing I've seen today, or maybe even this week. heh.
posted by tiaka at 5:57 PM PST - 10 comments

Tom Hanks = the Jimmy Stewart of our day? one of Salon's useful popular media pieces, but nothing you couldn't read on Sunday Arts section of the Times, such pieces being the Holy Ghost of Salon's Trinity (see inside for the Father and the Son)...
posted by MattD at 4:12 PM PST - 12 comments

SELECT 'name' FROM 'slave owners' BY 'gender'. It's an SQL joke. Geddit? Geddit? Oh never mind.
posted by holloway at 3:57 PM PST - 24 comments

Strings And Beads: Why worry about which device has the power to perform which function? Why not tie all your processing power together and use it to drive the functions you want where you want it? Full-motion video on your handheld? Sure!
posted by honkzilla at 1:04 PM PST - 6 comments

where did word go? It always screwed up my computer when it loads, but I love it for giving me Tony Millionairre.
posted by schlomo at 1:02 PM PST - 15 comments

Is LiveJournal taking aim at Blogger? I use both Blogger and LiveJournal myself, one for my weblog and one for more of a web journal I write things in occasionally. I think both web apps have different strengths and purposes, but there are certainly marked similarities, especially in light of the successful server fund raising drives both services have recently completed.
posted by Axodys at 12:41 PM PST - 40 comments

Ang Lee to direct "Hulk" Now that's a "green destiny" I can't wait to see. Sure hope it comes to fruition before the estimated theater date of 2003. And they're going to set it in Berkeley, Calif. -- schweet!
posted by allaboutgeorge at 11:02 AM PST - 8 comments

Invasion of the Usability Experts! It's about time someone said this, and I'm glad it was Dale. [ via kottke, where another conversation is going on ]
posted by fraying at 11:02 AM PST - 11 comments

The difference between intelligence and wisdom. How can someone that smart do something so foolish? (Borland Interbase has a hard-coded backdoor account name politically and password correct in it. Word has gotten out. It's used by such small organizations as Nokia, MCI, Boeing, and the US Army.) Here's the CERT advisory on this blunder.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 9:04 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

These Gore guys, I tell ya... Al Junior didn't invent the Internet... his dad, Al Senior didn't invent the other superhighway; you know, the one you drive on.
posted by baylink at 7:55 AM PST - 9 comments

A wearable car? is this really 'IT'?
posted by tiaka at 7:34 AM PST - 40 comments

The Quadratic Law of Resentment If you combine N people, there are N(N-1)/2 possible ways in which arguments can break out. [via A&LD] This seems rather salient to a site like Metafilter...
posted by rushmc at 7:15 AM PST - 9 comments

Chefs Prepare to Spill Ink in Court Battle Anyone hungry?
posted by Princess Buttercup at 5:47 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Nude, Gay Marines? Isn't that what the web is all about? The right to be different? United States Marine Corps officials are investigating reports its troops are posing nude for gay pornography being sold on the Internet....
posted by murray_kester at 2:36 AM PST - 18 comments