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Don't normally do this but it's too funny. From the Onion: WASHINGTON, DC—Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. "The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of...

Yahoo! SiteExplorer Michal: there's no escape. bopuc: .htaccess [1] robots.txt [2] Michal: sudo apachectl stop [3] bopuc: hehehe ACL [4] i don't want to stop talking, I want Them to stop listening ;) Michal: ha, yeah The popular misconception is...

What a bunch of total hyper-obsessive morons. 1- Cotton does not scratch hard polycarbonate. Besides which do you really think for one second after 3+ years experience producing iPods, Apple would suddenly use "softer" plastic? Which, contrary to reports from...

I thought of doing this recently. I can't imagine that no one has suggested it earlier. The amount of times I have heard web developers curse Internet Explorer, only to then sigh, shrug and say "but it's the client's site...

Karl has been scouring the web for the last few days looking for all public reports of people hired by Google and Yahoo... and has added them in the comments of my previous post on the subject. It's a loooong...

Sony PSP advertising campaign in Malaysia. Clear bubble-wrap over the PSP's controlpad button icons (X, O, triangle, square). Diabolical for the following reasons:As everyone else is saying, who's never had fun popping bubble wrap? It is addictive. A marketers wetdream.Tactile...

Ok, first of all, it IS a Hollywood movie, which means it is replete and chock full of everything a Hollywood movie needs: clichés, one liners, understated deadpan melodrama; the works. Second, Nicholas Cage gives a great rendition of...

It seems only fitting that along with drugs, gambling and porn, I am seeing lots and lots of Harry Potter hawking email and weblog comment/trackback spam. More detritus of today's society and culture... :p...

I've been meaning to send some link love (daaah, cannot believe I used that phrase) to Mark Federman's new weblog. Mark's the Chief Strategist at the McLuhan Center at the University of Toronto. He used to write at their official...

First, it was about "indexing" all of the web. Then, it bought a small chunk of that web (Blogger). Then Google said "hey, there's more than the web out there!" and Google Mail was pushed out. Quickly followed by Google...

"Advancing the Effectiveness & Sustainability of Open Education" ($250.00 USD) o "Web 2.0" ($2,795.00 USD) Gee. I wonder which would be far far far more interesting, stimulating and worthwhile... $600cnd flight to Salt Lake City... hrmmm......

"Apple supports video podcasting" Seems they "turned it on" without telling anyone. Told. you. so. :D...

Well, here it is. My new blog, complete with Atom & RSS feeds, language [fr] switches [de] and "references"... I think I will call it... "Xanadu"... yes... that sounds right. A centralized master document of all the web, tailored to...

"Lead Camino developer Mike Pinkerton has announced that he has accepted a position at Google." Public (and there are more such announcements coming) Micah Dubinko -> YahooXForms Specification Editor TV Raman IBM -> GoogleParticipant of many W3C working groups...

Slowly, they are learning. See, look! TagHop: Taghop allows you to relate categories on the web. If your "Technology" category is related to someone elses "Software" category, then link the two. Someone else may relate their category to the same...

As mentioned, I spent a "good" amount of time on the phone with various customer support lines over the last 2-3 weeks. This means alot of time on hold. In the evolution of phone-based services, "hold" was of course an...

A good artist is conscious of his environment. A great artist is unconscious of himself....

Cynicism is, IMHO, the worst *ism there is, for it is the only *ism that cannot be cured with more education. That said, here is a nice set of guidelines for civil discourse....

Still alive. This server is toasted. Migrating tonight or tomorrow. For those who would know what to make of this: "Stay away from Plesk-based VPS services." Update: Moved, upgraded. Phew. Thanks Joi and Jason. ;) So, in a nutshell, my...