Now this is my kind of poster (click on the image for a PDF version): But there are a couple things I would change. The poster drastically underestimates the number of people murdered by governments in the 20th century, which is closer to 170 million than the paltry 58 million claimed here (the Soviet Union…
July, 2001
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TechTV producer David Roos was recently complaining that it was my fault that CNET had to lay off many of its staff members. See, I’m one of the people Roos complained about who don’t click on any of CNET’s ads. Frankly, like Jim Roepcke, I simply don’t visit CNET much anymore because, to put it…
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Broken Saints is an awesome example of using Flash to create a compelling hybrid between a graphic novel and a full-blown movie. This is one of those things you come across and think, “Damn! Why didn’t I think of that?” This is the kind of multimedia content I would pay for.
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This weekend I happened to run across ABC News doing a brief bit about Lance Armstrong winning his third straight Tour de France. Of course they couldn’t leave the topic without mentioning long-standing suspicions that Armstrong uses performance enhancing drugs. ABC falsely reported that Armstrong had flat-out said he doesn’t use such drugs. But they…
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For months now, California Gray Davis has been moaning about the evils of private power companies charging that state outrageous prices for electricity, and California Attorney General Bill Lockyer even went so far as to say that, “I would love to personally escort [Enron CEO Kenneth] Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share…
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I was ROTFLMAO after reading Userland’s cost comparisons between how much it costs to build a website with Manila vs. “another content management system.” Did the folks at WinerLog secretly hijack the site and put up this piece of puffery? Self-promotion is one thing, but this is ludicrous.
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For months now, California Gray Davis has been moaning about the evils of private power companies charging that state outrageous prices for electricity, and California Attorney General Bill Lockyer even went so far as to say that, “I would love to personally escort [Enron CEO Kenneth] Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share…
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On July 25, 2001 the U.S. House of Representatives approved the $670 million ‘Plan Colombia’ spending package designed to fight the drug war in Colombia. Democrats in the House of Representatives wanted to divert some of the money to drug treatment programs in the United States, but that proposal failed to garner enough votes. Meanwhile,…
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CamWorld posted a link to a very helpful page on How to keep bad robots, spiders and web crawlers away. Conversant has really helped me cut down on the bad robot traffic by making it relatively easy to serve up “Please go away” pages to known bad robots. For example, I can wrap the template…
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For something a little different, check out Scott Shawl’s Oddball Comics column. Updated every weekday, Shawl managed to dig up some truly bizarre comics (he could probably do several year’s worth just on some 1960s DC comics, especially some of the bizarre Batman and Superman books). (Via Boing Boing)