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Friday 23 May


Tuesday 11 December


Thursday 29 November

  • Cherry Chocolate Rain (09:02) - I don't even know what to say to this. I am speechless. ... | 6 Comments

Monday 26 November


Thursday 22 November


Monday 19 November


Thursday 8 November

  • 24 - circa 1994 (22:03) - Hilarious, even if you don't watch the show. What 24 would be like in 1994... ... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 31 October

  • Trent Reznor was a member of OiNK (17:00) - Trent Reznor was a member of the now defunct private bittorrent tracker OiNK. The driving force behind the Nine Inch Nails isn’t frightened of talking about file-sharing. Back in May 2007 he admitted to sharing himself: “I steal music too,... | 1 Comments

Sunday 8 July

  • Telekinesis - OS X Remote Desktop for iPhone (21:53) - By far the best iPhone application I have seen yet. Telekinesis (iPhone Remote) is a web application/service you run on OS X 10.4 to provide access to your desktop from your iPhone. While it is still in a very early... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 22 May

  • That's My Girl, Asshole. (12:07) - Someone has been having a bit of fun with craigslist's "missed connections". If you are unfamiliar with missed connections (or craigslist if you live under a rock) it is a per-city message board where people try to connect with a... | 0 Comments

Saturday 19 May

  • Phone Losers of America (16:54) - I don't know what made me think of Phone Losers of America today, but I was surprised to find that the PLA is still around and active. When I was a youngin' I lived off this stuff. Wikipedia has some... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 8 May

  • Woman denied teaching degree over MySpace photo (08:52) - When will people learn that MySpace and Facebook are increasingly becoming the place for employers and future employers to dig up dirt on you. That being said, this case is a little overboard in my opinion... although she was teaching... | 2 Comments

Monday 16 April

  • What ever happened to the Million Dollar Homepage? (13:27) - Remember the Million Dollar Homepage that was so popular back in late 05, early 06? No? Not many other people seem to remember it either. Makes you wonder if the $1M spent on the revolutionary idea of pixel advertising ever... | 3 Comments

Monday 29 January

  • Stephen Colbert Alters Reality (23:58) - Tonight on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert challenged the integrity of Wikipedia in response to recent claims that Microsoft attempted to pay bloggers to edit and spin Wikipedia articles pertaining to Microsoft. Colbert's challenge was that the reality presented by... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 28 November

  • Second Life's first Millionaire (09:46) - And I thought making a couple hundred bucks off Adsense was cool... Anshe Chung, a real-estate tycoon in the digitally simulated world known as Second Life, has apparently become the first virtual millionaire--i.e., someone whose holdings in a make-believe world... | 0 Comments

Monday 9 October

  • Ghostride The YouTube (16:44) - One can only speculate that this video, and many others like it are what made Google decide to buy YouTube for $1.65B in stock. Yeah, that's a B. ... | 0 Comments

Monday 2 October

  • Do Craigslist Casual Encounters Work? (10:57) - I was surfing through the job listings at Craigslist, and inevitably wandered my way into the personals section, and became instantly fascinated with all the posts. I eventually made my way into the “Sex with no strings attached” section, and... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 7 June

  • the monkey chow diaries (20:23) - Some guy, who is apparently tired of obtaining meals, decides to give monkey food a try for a week. At day 5, he really wants a warm meal.... | 4 Comments

Monday 29 May

  • x-ray of alien head inside of a duck for sale on eBay (20:50) - On Sunday, May 21st, an adult male mallard was brought to the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC), with what appeared to be a broken wing. Since 1971, the IBRRC has been rescuing birds from the devastating effects of oil... | 0 Comments

Thursday 5 January


Friday 4 November

  • Google Founders Purchase a Boeing 767 (18:35) - According to today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have purchased a used 767. Plans for remodeled interior of the 767 call for two staterooms, restrooms equipped with showers, a dining area and a... | 0 Comments

Monday 31 October

  • Star Wars Episode IV : Telnet Edition (18:10) - I believe the ascii version of Star Wars has been around for a while, but this takes it to a whole new level of nerd. For you non-nerds here are the instructions: Click on your Windows Start button, go to... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 5 October

  • The Million Dollar Homepage (22:48) - This is one of those things that: 1) could only happen on the Internet, 2) is so simple you wish you thought of it. A student named Alex Tew decided to create a website where he would sell each of... | 21 Comments

Tuesday 9 August

  • How far do you walk? (18:02) - The Gmap Pedometer is an excellent new tool created with the Google Maps API that allows you to calculate the walking distance of a course you define by dropping points along the map.... | 4 Comments

Thursday 30 June

  • Google Earth vs. Real Life (14:41) - Google Earth was released this week. The technology, originally bought from Keyhole, allows you to view the globe via satellite imagery blended with 3D city models, street maps, points of interest, crime statistics.. the list goes on. When I... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 10 May

  • Scouts can earn anti-piracy merit badge (13:01) - HONG KONG (AP) -- Boy scouts typically prove their mettle with fishing and camping skills, but now they can win laurels by showing their awareness of copyright laws. The Hong Kong government has launched the "IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Scout... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 4 May

  • Browser Archive (23:27) - Speaking of the early WWW days, I found a web browser archive with everything from NCSA Mosaic to Lynx for DOS to current releases of IE and Firefox. Netscape Navigator Gold 3.01 baby. That was when the Internet hit its... | 0 Comments
  • Blink is Back (21:06) - Have any of you Firefox users noticed that <blink></blink> tags are back?! I'm surfin' like its 1995 baby! Funny thing is, I realized this when I was on a webpage that had not been updated since 1997. The site was... | 8 Comments

Tuesday 3 May

  • Someone keeps stealing my letters (10:40) - This is pretty fun, a flash site that mimics refrigerator magnets. What makes it interesting is it is multiuser. When I was playing with it so were about 40 other people. I like going around and wrecking everyones words. Makes... | 3 Comments

Thursday 28 April


Wednesday 6 April

  • What is even being sold to me...? (20:46) - I've been getting spam recently that makes absolutely no sense. Could someone decipher what is being sold to me here... From: Semicircular M. Waiver To: Ryan Date: Apr 6, 2005 8:33 PM Subject: Elloelloello :) Hi there! doodler Cayacaman ... | 6 Comments

Friday 1 April


Wednesday 9 March

  • The Dangers of Internet Romance (10:55) - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported -- minus all his fingers and some of his toes, the Winnipeg Sun newspaper reported Tuesday. Charles...
  • Arizona teen first to be convicted under state laws for illegal downloading (10:42) - An Arizona university student is believed to be the first person in the country to be convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally downloading music and movies from the Internet, prosecutors and activists say.University of Arizona student...

Thursday 24 February

  • gDrive 0.6 (23:27) - A set of PHP files to store files of any size in yor gMail account. Other gmail drives are limited by gMail's max 10Mb/attachment. features - upload / download files of any size - delete files - keep regular...

Thursday 10 February

  • Seamful Game (11:34) - Seamful Game, by Matthew Chalmers from the University of Glasgow (Scotland), is a GPS and WiFi based game played in the streets using PDAs. To be successfull, two teams of runners must develop an understanding of the network coverage...

Tuesday 8 February


Monday 7 February

  • Court Docs Reveal Kazaa Logging User Downloads (11:53) - Dan Warne writes "The most explosive documents in the ongoing Kazaa court case have emerged today, including logs of discussions between parent company Sharman and the Estonian developer of the Kazaa Media Desktop. They include extraordinary admissions like: "Reporting...

Friday 28 January

  • The Dot Com Super Bowl (15:04) - An anonymous reader writes "Remember Epidemic.com and Lifeminders.com? Me neither. But Forbes has a funny story looking back on these dot-bombs and a bunch of other internet startups which advertised during the 2000 Super Bowl. They call the game...

Monday 17 January

  • Computer Viruses looking for Love (15:06) - Artist -> Luca BertiniYazna and ++ are two viruses in love. They are looking for each other on the net, running through connected computers. They are different from other virii in that they will cause you neither damages to...
  • Turning New York into a webpage (10:39) - Grafedia , created by John Geraci, is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to images, video, sound files, etc. It can be written on walls, in the streets, or in postcards, on the body as...

Saturday 8 January

  • the world is going to hell because of us (15:15) - The pikaholic has taken her photos down and has chastised us all for our insensitive remarks about super fans. You know I think it is utterly disturbing how none of you know me or anything and like to judge people...

Thursday 18 November

  • Remote Control Hunting (00:23) - Only in Texas... HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) -- Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.The Web...

Wednesday 27 October

  • Bush Campaign Site blocked for all non US residents (13:23) - The BBC News are reporting that George W Bush's re-election website (don't bother if you aren't in the USA) is blocked to people accessing it from outside the USA. Netcraft spotted the change on Monday, and have a report on...

Wednesday 20 October

  • Would you let your kids on the Internet? (21:19) - I think many of the regulars here spent a lot of time during their impressional youth years on the the Internet. My question is, if you had a 13 year old of your own, what restrictions (if any) would you...
  • Wedding invitations on Ebay (10:31) - I've been invited to the wedding of a mate of mine who I used to know really well until he started going out with the girl he's going to marry. She's a dog. No really. I haven't seen them since...
  • Jon Stewart vs Crossfire (00:43) - Just in case someone has not yet seen last week's infamous Crossfire with Jon Stewart, which has got to be the most viewed Crossfire ever due to the internet.. wmv wmv bittorrent transcript transcript And the follow-up on The Daily...

Monday 27 September

  • What's Better? (00:22) - At whatsbetter.com you are asked to vote on what is better between two different things that have absolutely nothing to do with eachother. After voting you get some statistics on how others feel about the particular objects you were voting...

Friday 24 September

  • Internet Addicts (00:11) - If you've ever seen a smack-head handcuffed to a bed gibbering uncontrollably because he can't get a fix, then be afraid, because that's what you'll look like after two weeks of internet-free cold turkey. Who would submit themselves to this...

Friday 3 September

  • What happened to Gopher? (10:43) - I found myself reminiscing about the days of gopher last night when I decided to find out if there are any gopher sites still alive these days. For non IE users:Gopher is alive! For IE users:Gopher is alive!... kinda No...

Wednesday 1 September

  • Philadelphia to be totally wire(d)less (16:17) - CNN Reports: PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot.The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds,...

Friday 27 August

  • who wants a gmail account? (09:50) - I have 6 gmail invitations ...if anyone would like a gmail account, let me know Update: I've got a bunch too, let me know if anyone wants one. -Ryan...

Thursday 19 August

  • The big day is finally here. (11:25) - GOOG is due to hit the market in the next hour or so. The initial price has been set at $85. Any estimates as to where it will close for the day?...

Friday 13 August

  • Ebay buys a 25% stake in craigslist.org (16:54) - Craigslist has been a wonderfully untainted resource of online classifieds for nearly 10 years now. I am afraid those days may be coming to a close as eBay has bought a 25% stake in the site. The two companies said...

Thursday 12 August

  • jenny18 (15:09) - Jenny18 is an IRC bot that likes to talk dirty. For you non tech folk, it is a computer program that automatically responds to "instant messages", sending canned responses based on keywords that it is sent. Some of the conversations...

Tuesday 10 August

  • freeipods, worth the spam? (14:41) - Over the past month I started getting emails from friends and family to sign up at freeipods.com. The deal is, you sign up at the site and sign up for one of their "offers" (AOL trial, teeth whitening trial, etc...

Wednesday 28 July


Tuesday 27 July

  • Selling domain names on eBay (01:21) - I was poking around eBay tonight when I found a time portal back to 1999. Looking at these idiots try to sell domain names for over $1,000,000 is pretty hilarious all by itself, but it gets much more funny when...

Wednesday 21 July

  • bugmenot (11:19) - Bugmenot is a handy little site for bypassing websites that require registration (Times, Post, etc). You can visit the website to find logins for a particular site, or you can install the bugmenot extension for your browser. Good tool for...

Thursday 15 July

  • Humor for Nerds (23:45) - Nerd check. Gallery of funny Unix/networking-related pictures. Start from page 4 and work backwards. Also, check out the collection of war and propaganda galleries on the same site. ...

Tuesday 1 June

  • Craigslist Columbus (14:03) - Columbus is moving into the big time! Without further adue I present to you http://columbus.craigslist.org/. Maybe some of you Columbus ladies could use a benefactor... can you keep your mouth shut?...

Tuesday 11 May

  • Using the Ohio sniper as a marketing tool (14:29) - Why fix that bullet hole in your truck when you can use it as a marketing gimmick for selling your truck on ebay. Description: 2 DOOR 4X4 LOADED!! OHIO SERIAL SHOOTING VICTIM ...

Monday 10 May

  • NYTimes Article about IRC and piracy (01:31) - Thanks go out to Colin for finding this gem. The New York Times ran an article about the "Wild West" of the Internet, IRC (Internet Relay Chat). According to the Times, IRC is where the criminals of the Internet go...

Friday 7 May

  • The Google IPO (10:32) - Unless you live under a rock, you should know the Google IPO is just around the corner. Reminds me of the good ol' days.. RedHat, VA Linux.. It will be interesting to see what the public does with this IPO....

Wednesday 28 April

  • Building the Metaverse (16:40) - After reading an article about it, I recently signed up for a trial account on there.com, an online community. There.com is not a an online game like the Sims Online, but it is bit more than a glorified chat room....

Wednesday 7 April

  • Dogster (22:12) - Dogster.com... not exactly friendster for dogs, but almost. In a cunning move, the dogster folk have also aquired catster.com and forward it to dogster.com....

Thursday 18 March

  • Warez (02:39) - [This may be more interesting to those who'd been involved in the warez scene as kids.] From The Smoking Gun: Fox was apparently hosting a "warez" server run by a Fox employee that has Fox films "valued by the copyright...

Saturday 13 March

  • Presidential Election .. of Alphaville (20:43) - Primary season is nearly over in the Sims Online. If she survives Saturday's primary, the candidate could be Ashley Richardson -- the avatar name of a 16-year-old girl named Laura. At issue are philosophical differences on how to stop financial...

Tuesday 2 March

  • mobog (13:55) - Mobog enables anyone with a mobile phone-camera to instantly display their photos on the Internet. Email a photo directly from your phone to pics@mobog.com. Within 1 minute, your photo will appear on Mobog. Mobog only accepts photos emailed directly from...

Thursday 19 February


Tuesday 3 February

  • Update (02:24) - Some of the later SB ads were better. If there was any doubt before, IBM is seriously trying to mainstream Linux. Even Kurt Vonnegut is getting in the mix. Also, regarding the new Pepsi free music download campaign: Pepsi drinkers...

Saturday 10 January

  • blogging (20:18) - The New York times has a seven page article about the blogging craze. It mainly follows the blogging scene for highschool aged kids -- the social groups that form from this, etc etc. Its kind of interesting....

Tuesday 30 December

  • Aircraft Carrier for sale on Ebay (11:38) - If you have a spare $6M USD laying around you can bid on this aircraft carrier auction on Ebay. Is it for real?.. I have no idea. ... this vessel is DECOMMISSIONED and therefore not Ordanance. We are shipbroker and...

Friday 12 December

  • ladies of the pen (18:53) - Ladies of the Pen is an online dating/penpal service for meeting women who are currently incarcerated. The website provides you with key information about the women, including a personal statement, height, weight, earliest possible release date and what kind of...

Thursday 11 December

  • Ratemygasmask (03:06) - The ultimate mixing of fashion and function as well as the perfect defense against the cedar spore invasion: RateMyGasMask.com. The gasmask scenes in Yana's Friends were spicy business. ...

Friday 5 December


Monday 24 November

  • CBS story about the Star Wars (ninja) kid (13:36) - CBS ran a story on everyones favorite Jedi. The kid had to leave his school and his parents are suing his schoolmates that put the tape online. Its amazing what can make you a celebrity online....

Saturday 22 November

  • more "ster" sites (09:30) - Darester is an auction site where you can pay someone to do a dare, or get payed to do a dare. Its pretty weak at the moment, but seems like it could be funny....

Tuesday 7 October

  • Muffin Films (14:39) - Muffin Films. "Muffin Films?" you ask.. Yes. Films about muffins. Kristen sent me this link too.. maybe she should post her own articles. ; )...