21st Century Digital Boy

You have to be shitting me. $1.25 Billion-with-a-B dollars for Habbo?

Does this valuation take into account the occasional pool closings?

Seriously? A billion?

Yay: after barely managing to fix my ailing Mac mini, I awoke to eleventy-billion spam bounces. Someone used my email address as the from. Hooray.

So if you think I spammed you, I didn’t. Some asshole just put my name in the ‘from’ field.

(Update. It seems that the spammer was running from a Comcast cable modem connection somewhere in Florida (hsdl?). This is just so awesome: Comcast, who routinely accuses us of spam and blocks our shit and totally refuses to talk to us about the issue, is now spamming me from within its own domain. I simply cannot wish enough ill will on Comcast. )

Even your dog has a blog:

It goes without saying that Max, a 3-year-old golden retriever can’t talk. But that doesn’t stop him from chronicling his dog’s life — as told to his owner Aubrey Jones — on the blog Max the Golden Retriever.

This really won’t have come full circle, though, until a Golden calls a Schnauzer a Nazi in a comment thread, while discussing Obama’s plans for pets.

I had no idea Google provided this excellent dynamically generated list of band names.

Visibone makes neat charts for people who do HTML and related things.

I thought it would be neat to ask TEH BOZZ for one. Then I saw this.

IE, Netscape, and Opera. Not to disparage the fine folks at Opera, but come on. Webkit, have you friggin heard of it? Netscape, for fuck’s sake? That they just killed?

Way to lead, Visibone. Way to lead.

Amazon SimpleDB, CouchDB … is this the sign that SQL is for suckers?

Needed:
probably at least 4 players
booze
internet acccess

To Play:
determine who goes first by some method (group decides). The first player then picks another player to challenge. The challenged then states a word or phrase, which is searched in Wikipedia.

If the page is exists and is “clean” - no defacements and generally useful information, is not recommended for deletion/proposed to be merged, then the challenged player must take a drink.

If the page exists and is obviously defaced, the challenger drinks.

If the page exists but is a stub (one or two lines w/ the Wikipedia stub alert), the challenged player drinks.

If the two begin to argue about what determines “generally useful information”, another player may declare “nerd fight!”, and both players drink.

if the page does not exist, the challenger drinks. If the page exists but is a one-line stub/summary, the challenged player drinks. If the challenged player is suspected of deliberately choosing too-obscure search terms another player may declare “googlefight”. If a simple majority of other players agree, challenger drinks twice.

In any event, drinking ends your turn, play passes to the left.

Special Conditions: If a challenge term is in your browser history, you chug.

Count me in on the “Fuck the A-List” club: I’d rather read about someone getting engaged than yet another boring gmail hack, yet another video blog, or yet another feature-as-business-model.

Dare is interesting because he mingles thoughts on social software with, well, “cat pictures”. Jeremy Zawodny is interesting because he talks about technology, then shows pictures of airplanes. And so on, and so on. Scoble is not interesting, he’s a meme abattoir. Go back through Google, get all the entries for this search, and then s/Second Life/Facebook/g.

If we’re all supposed to care about the “long tail” and the whole world having a voice, why are we even debating the existence of an “A-list”? Aren’t they the douchebags, ready to fall at a moment’s notice as soon as Google changes an algorithm?

The most recent self-aggrandizing Digg HD Key story on the front page continues to push the storyline that it’s somehow a “revolt” by Digg users, against The Man or something.

Seriously, explain to me how they’re revolting. (”The peasants are revolting.” “Oh, I know.” bah-dum bum psh)

I’d like to know, as part of your answer, a few actual facts. For example, what percentage of Digg users have HD-aware devices (tvs, etc)? How many without HD gear are planning on a purchase in the next 3-6 months? And finally, what percentage have been egregiously hindered by the lack of access to the key, for purposes of ad-hoc decryption of content?

I’m guessing here, but if you frame the “revolt” in terms of real numbers, you’re going to see the entire thing as a lot of me-too, bandwagon wankery.

I’m no stranger to odd geek habits: I have a convoluted “workflow” around dealing with getting content (that, you know, fell off the back of a truck) onto my Apple TV. I’m sure there’s some percentage of Digg users who really needed access to the key, to support their convoluted workflow.

But c’mon. You’re not a fucking hero for risking a DMCA takedown. You’re not innovative, or part of a movement, or anything else. You’re just some guy. It takes a lot more to rise above.

Some time Monday, something changed on WordPress.com, causing OmniWeb - and for that matter, any WebKit browser based on the version of WebKit OmniWeb is using - to die horribly.

(It has also been noted that blogspot blogs cause the same problem)

I believe that it is something to do with the Snap preview. You can disable it by adding

http://shots\.snap\.com

to your adblock list.

See this thread for more info. In another thread, they claim to have fixed it for 5.6, but as I said in the thread, I hate the Snap shit anyway.