Unbelievable, Newsweek magazine said on Sunday it erred in a May 9 report that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article. Editor Mark Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility…
May, 2005
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Boing! Boing! points out that the BBC is offering free downloads of several Dr. Who e-books. Unfortunately, they’re offering them in odd page/chapter file combinations, but if you use Firefox and an extension like Down Them All, you can grab all of the ebooks fairly quickly and completely.
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And while I’m praising Conversant, I should mention that Yanisar Enterprises also did an excellent job of taking my web sites to that sports cliche “next level.” I hired them to do a redesign of AnimalRights.Net and they also did some basic re-architecturing — the two in combination have sent pages views at the site…
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A couple years ago I received what I think was the strangest e-mail anyone’s ever sent me. The author of the e-mail was an individual who set up a web site devoted to the same topic as one of my web sites. I liked and respected his site, but the e-mail was to the point…
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Via Boing! Boing! comes this awesome announcement, May 18-20, All Day – Namco Hometek – We LOVE Katamari Ball – Help the Prince please the King of All Cosmos at this E3Expo with the We LOVE Katamari ball. The King of All Cosmos has requested all attendees to provide items throughout the three days. Items…
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According to Seth Dillingham, Weblogs.Com has started ignoring pings from many Conversant sites, including this one. Seth writes, I’ve debugged the pings we’re sending, repeatedly. The server always returns the “thanks for the ping” response that indicates the ping was received successfully. Yet, our sites are never listed. The same is true for pings I’ve…
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Don’t tell Dave Winer, but Mark Pilgrim has launched a Dive Into Greasemonkey online book, featuring a nice tour and how-to guide to Greasemonkey, the fantabulous Firefox extension that lets users radically alter web pages as they surf. Learn how to slice-and-dice the web in your own spare time!
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Katamari Damacy was sort of like Getting Things Done — it seemed like everywhere I turned someone was raving about it and at only $20 for a PS2 game, I figured why not. Now I can’t get the damn wireless controller out of my wife’s hands. Aaargh — everytime I bring a cool game into…
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The funny thing about the fallout over this blogger conference in Nashville this past weekend is who in their right mind would ask Dave Winer to moderate a panel on “Respectful Disagreement”. That’d be a bit like asking Don Rumsfeld to host a panel on alternatives to force in achieving diplomatic goals. Anyway, apparently it…
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Seth Dillingham has a funny post here about users who ask him to configure Conversant in weird ways, A Conversant user recently asked me to custom-configure one of his sites, because he wants to do something that isn’t available via the web-based configuration. Why not? Because we never saw anybody wanting to do this. We’ve…