I didn’t really follow the Jesica Santillan case very closely, and missed an interesting fact about Santillan — she was apparently in the United States illegally. According to a number of reports, her mother smuggled her into the country hoping that she would receive better care in the United States than in Mexico. Doing a…
February, 2003
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Back in December, Seth Dillingham posted about his experiences with SnapFish.Com on his web site. I’d never really looked seriously at businesses such as this which develop film, produce prints, and post scans on the web, but Seth’s post piqued my interest. I finally settled on giving ClubPhoto.Com a try for a number of reasons…
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One of the many projects I’ve been working on is converting all of the pieces of paper I have hanging around into digital versions (and then safely hiding the paper versions away). A couple years ago I tried using a cheap film scanner to take care of the thousands of pictures I’ve accumulated, but ran…
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One of the things that fascinates me — largely because I don’t understand the process at all — is how some hoaxes and memes spread like wildfire throughout the Internet, while others just crash and burn. I cannot understand, for example, why BonsaiKitten.Com still attracts such outrage among people almost three years after it first…
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While doing a little research on Eric Alterman’s wish in Esquire that Rush Limbaugh had gone deaf, I came across this post on a blog that makes an erroneous statement about one of Limbaugh’s more reprehensible statements. During his television show’s run, Limbaugh told a story about a mythical White House dog and at the…
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Dave Winer is apparently impressed by Daniel Brandt’s anti-Google rantings. But as this Salon.Com article documents, Brandt is a nutty conspiracy theorist (just go a few links deep at his NameBase.Org who is pissed off because *his* page about Donald Rumsfeld, and a whole host of other people, doesn’t show up very high in Google…
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Every time I see someone online talking about the accuracy of traditional media vs. weblogs — and usually extolling the virtue of the latter — I think of Slashdot. A few errors could be forgiven, but often it seems like they actively try to avoid reading the actual articles that they post about and link…
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This Salon.Com article attempts to draw all sorts of lessons over what is, to my mind, an obvious push poll. In January, Princeton Survey Research Associates asked 1,200 Americans this question, To the best of your knowledge, how many of the September 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens? Only 17 percent of respondents answered correctly that…
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Henry Hanks links to this story noting that CNN beat Fox for a change during the coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. The weird part is that the story itself dwells on the location of the anchors. For people who haven’t heard this extreme inside baseball story, CNN anchor Aaron Brown was at a…