“Yahoo! Inc. has been taking a beating in the blogosphere lately. On Sept. 6 came the revelation that it provided information that helped Beijing jail a journalist. Days earlier, a report said Yahoo was actively supporting the companies that spawn pop-up ads. Around the same time, bloggers started griping about new Yahoo software downloads that change the preferences on users’ PCs.”
Businessweek via /.
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Read About It: Yahoo Is Crap
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Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins
“Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa.”
news@nature.com via Waxy.org
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Count to 31 on One Hand
“Forget your abacus? Lose your calculator? Every geek should know how to use binary to count to 31 on one hand. It won’t replace your slide rule, but it’s an attention-getter. If you’re familiar with binary you’ll pick it up quickly.”
I categorized this as being a ‘hack’, considering this is an innovative application of using fingers as an aid to counting.
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Hacking's a snap in Legoland
“When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company’s new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: They cheered. […]
All it took was being open-minded enough to see that their biggest fans weren’t trying to rip them off; they were trying to improve Lego’s products in a way that, just maybe, the company’s own designers hadn’t thought of.”
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My brush with the FBI
“Perhaps, [colleagues and friends] suggested, the AHA was monitoring internet traffic at the conference, or maybe the FBI was keeping a watchful eye on Arabic cardiologists. One colleague even suggested that the FBI had mistaken “PLoS” for the PLO. “But in any case,” said one colleague, “when did it ever become a crime to look at a Palestinian website?””
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Google Earth threatens "democracy"
“The recent news that South Korea is to take the US to task over Google Earth images which expose its military installations to close Commie scrutiny has provoked a mini stampede of other peace-loving nations eager to protect their assets from prying eyes. Enter stage right Thailand, which says it may ask Google to “block images of important state buildings vulnerable to attack”.”
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Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000
“I was served notice yesterday that Watch Tower has launched a suit against me due to my web site: http://quotes.watchtower.ca/ […] Oh, be sure to not miss paragraph 31 for an interesting, and bizarre claim: the Watch Tower’s books and materials “embarrass[es]” the Watch Tower!””
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100% More Bitchin' Than Dell.
“Top business publications refused to run our bold ad concepts because the headlines were thought too controversial. At Sun, we’re the radical engineers that build “ass-whoopin” technology – we’re not Miss Manners and we never want to be.”
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“We would like to kindly inform you that we are in progress of switching data centers and upgrading the free hosting cluster with better and faster servers. Please note that the switch should be completed within 72h time frame starting from 13.09.2005 11:00h AM GMT. During the switch we are expecting downtimes of the user web sites and the main web site.”
Tämä vaikuttaa siis underground-sivun ja webkamerakuvan näkymiseen.
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"Worker error kills power to half of L.A."
“About 700,000 electric customers in Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon after a worker mistakenly cut a wrong line, triggering a cascade of problems in the city’s power grid, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said.”
CNN via Juha