Category: internet

Good slashdot thread on the sorry state of the American people.

“We have been told, time and time again in the last year, that in order to protect our freedom we must destroy it.” — Steven Grant

Well, it looks like the problems with Yahoo got better. Let’s see, how’s this one look?

Urk. Yahoo is giving me grief. Will this publish OK?

Warchalking — maybe I should go draw one of these symbols on the tree out front, and see if anyone tries to hook into my Airport base station.

Swaine’s World — often interesting.

Comic Books: A Research Guide — I stumbled over this while I was looking for something else. Who knew the NY Public Library had a page on their web site devoted to comics?

AdSubtract — I usually don’t mind Internet ads, but too many people are putting up blinking ads that make my head hurt when I look at them. I mean, really, who the hell is going to buy something from someone who’s putting up ads that blink so fast that they’re causing headaches???

Einstein’s Intelligence Quiz

It took me about an hour to solve this. I’m not sure why I bothered; puzzles like this usually don’t interest me. I guess it was the “98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz” line that motivated me. That can’t possibly be right, can it? It wasn’t that hard!

The switchover of my domain name to DNS Central is complete. This shouldn’t mean much to anyone but me, but hey, just thought I’d mention it. I’m still sick, too, in case anyone is interested. I’m also still going nuts bidding on old Fantastic Four issues on eBay. I’m keeping my bids low enough that I’m not winning every auction, so don’t worry about me going broke over this.

Yahoo Knows Best, Resets Users’ Marketing Prefs

This kind of thing is very annoying. If they’d sent out a notice saying they were going to do it, it wouldn’t be so bad, but it really sucks that I had to find out about this at slashdot, and not directly from Yahoo.