2006

Why video pre-rolls are a bad idea.

Dylan / 12/29/2006

Pre-rolls — the short 10-15 second commercials that some video sites often make you watch before you get to the […]

Dylan / 12/29/2006

Are you a child of the stars? Apparently I’ve got some ancestral roots in the Pleiades. The Starseed Quiz

Dylan / 12/28/2006

Banjo!

Dylan / 12/21/2006

Banker “doesn’t quite get the concept of serving customers first, and worrying about revenues later” — and for this Craigslist

Dylan / 12/21/2006

Networking vendors are lusting after the lucrative consumer electronics market, and at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,

Dylan / 12/20/2006

Last week EBay’s Skype announced a new “unlimited calling” plan. Starting in January, the company will charge $30 for a

Dylan / 12/20/2006

In which I make a fool out of myself by pretending to be a headbanger. PCMagCast Tech Tips Video: Sync

Dylan / 12/20/2006

“I was a teenage angle trisector.” Mathematical memoir and a surprisingly readable discussion of what it means to prove something:

Dylan / 12/20/2006

I’m amused by this author “bio” on Harpers.org, which was clearly created by a computer geek in love with taxonomic

Dylan / 12/20/2006

Ah, sweet, sweet schadenfreude. My only regret is that Ken Lay died before he got what was coming to him: