Rather than shark attacks this time around, apparently the new sensational media story of the summer is going to be alligator attacks (they’re apparently sexier than deer, which apparently actually kill more human beings every year than alligators — of course the deer aren’t trying to eat the people). Anyway, should you find yourself the…
May, 2006
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A long time ago in a galaxy far away I used to do a lot of newspaper writing but got burned out by that and figured I could reach just as many, if not more, people on the web. So 10 years ago I registered a domain (and then a dozen or so more) and…
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Lurker films sells an awesome Cthulhu fish for $8,
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Parents of a 13-year-old Chinese boy are suing the distributor of “Warcraft: Orcs and Humans” in that country after their son committed suicide after playing the real-time strategy game for 36 hours straight. The Associated Press quotes a Xinhua News Agency report that the boy left behind a suicide note saying he wanted “to join…
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Chessops is an online, interactive introduction to all major chess openings and defenses.
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Kent Boklan has a lengthy, fascinating account of purchasing a coded Confederate Army document at auction and then proceeding to decipher the message contained therein.
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In early May, Reuters ran a story about a hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence where a Defense Department official claimed that terrorist groups were using video games as part of their recruitment efforts. According to the Reuters story, Tech-savvy militants from al Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games…
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TinFoil.Com is an excellent source of information about early wax cylinder recordings. The site has a monthly cylinder recording posted in MP3 and Real format, and also sells CDs of cylinder recordings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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As I mentioned the other day, Creative Labs’ $100 marketing effort to overtake Apple has led to Apple controlling 75 to 80 percent of the portable MP3 player market, while Creative posted a $114 million loss in its recent 3rd quarter financial results. So what do you do if you’re in Creative Labs’ shoes? Of…
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Warning: gratuitous ad hominems ahead. I love the title of this article by CNN’s resident nativist commentator, Lou Dobbs. The headline, “Do you takes us for fools?” echoes a question in the text of the article where Dobbs asks, “How dumb do you think all think we are?” Frankly, every time I watch Dobbs I…