The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
If you take two turds and mash them together, how likely is it that the result won’t end up resembling something turd-like? Not very it seems, but that’s exactly what Yahoo! and Time Warner are discussing in heated, desperate meetings right this hour.
If news reports are to be believed, the search engine and web portal [...]
Someone — or something — seriously doesn’t want the Middle East and parts of Asia to have access to the Internet or any other telecommunications services. An undersea cable connecting UEA and Iran was severed bringing to five the number of telecom connections that have been cut in the past week or so.
My first inclination, [...]
Microsoft has had it up to here. They are sick and tired of people ragging on their operating system, making fun of Windows Live, and laughing at MSN. They are through playing second fiddle to Google. The gauntlet has been dropped.
In a last-ditch attempt to rule the Interwebs, the Borg has offered $44 billion to [...]
We all know the Internet is a wonderful thing, but then add in a little video and some Web 2.0 interactive magic and you’ve got Subservient Chicken.
But how can you make that idea even more awesome than telling a man in a chicken suit to play air guitar? How about applying the same concept to [...]
It used to be that the biggest danger in online chat rooms was being fooled by some overweight nerd in a bathrobe into thinking he was a 20-year old co-ed into kinky sex and baseball. Now it seems that software bots are trolling the forums looking to steal our libidos.
Actually these programs are more [...]
If you happened to tune into the live Webcast of Pearl Jam playing at Lollapalooza in Chicago this past weekend, you may have missed something. Telephone and telecommunications giant AT&T “accidentally” censored the band’s performance, cutting out a portion of the performance that was critical of the President.
According to CNET, the “live” Internet broadcast [...]
Ooh this evil Interweb, don’t you hate it so? What with the Internet predators, online scams and all the rest, at least the government bureaucracy is trying to do something about it. Earlier this week the Copyright Royalty Board, better known as NAMBLA, has decided that fees for online royalties need to double in size [...]
According to a report on CNET, Germany is no longer supporting the Quaero project, which was originally formed as a European project to concoct a multi-media search engine that would eat Google’s lunch. Quaero will now be solely a French project, with the support of companies includling Arvato, Exalead, and France Telecom, with assistance [...]
Well now I have another reason to fear all the PCs in my house. According to an article in today’s New York Times (from a post on Boing Boing), more than 65 million personal computers have been hijacked by spammers and other Interweb scalawags and are being used for denial of service attacks, [...]
Here’s three blogs every Cube Monkey should have bookmarked (or better yet, added to their Sage feeds in Firefox). A good way to get through another boring Friday.
Valleywag: funny, snarky gossip from Silicon Valley. It’s a hoot.
Make: the blog companion to the homebrew tech Bible.
Engadet: all kinds of gizmos to dream about [...]
