Unlimited account editing for all new users.
The ultimate Web 2.0 service: You give them a bunch of personal details when you sign up, and in return you can edit your account info all you want. Uselessaccount.com
How to get poetry editors to accept your work.
Ignore their advice. Lie to them, saying that you took the advice. Kiss their asses. And then, years later, brag about how you put one over on them. Choriamb: What to do when an editor asks one to revise (NB: if a writer did this to me, and I found out, they’d be blacklisted for […]
How to strike back at Wikipedia’s silly nofollow policy.
So Wikipedia is adding nofollow tags to all its links? Fine, then. We’ll all just add nofollow tags to all of our links that point to Wikipedia. (And yes, there’s a WordPress plugin.)
Former gadget blogger blasts gadget blogs.
Quick: what’s the difference between the average gadget blog and PR Newswire? There’s more hype on the gadget blog. Ex-Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson is tired of it.
NYT publisher unconcerned about future of print.
“I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either.” NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger on the Times’ Internet plans. (via Nicholas Carr)
How Google is digitizing books.
Interesting article by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker on Google’s massive book-scanning project: Google’s Moon Shot
Braaaaiins!
Clara came home from the library yesterday with a copy of The Brain, by Seymour Simon. Last night she and I sat on the couch as she flipped through the book, showing me what the brain looks like dissected, in MRI, in models. I pointed out different parts of the brain. Karen quizzed her on […]
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363 tons of $100 bills.
363 tons of $100 bills were flown to Iraq under Paul Bremer’s watch. That’s $12 billion in cash. And he has no idea where it went: When Will Media Deeply Probe U.S. Corruption in Iraq? – Yahoo! News
GOP strategist gives advice to enviros.
Frank Luntz has some excellent advice for the environmental movement – seriously: GOP strategist Frank Luntz argues enviros are failing — and they’re mean to boot
The Earth Prize.
Richard Branson has set up a $25 million prize for the first person who can come up with a workable way of removing a billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year. It’s a clever idea, offering a big prize as an incentive to spur innovative research. Big purses like this (or the X-Prize, […]
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Made in China.
Doing some research into the global PC industry, I discovered that 82.6% of notebooks are made by Taiwanese companies. By 2010, it will be 92.5%, according to a mid-2006 press release from iSuppli. These Taiwanese companies, known as original design manufacturers, don’t just build notebooks–they des
Free Julie Amero!
Julie Amero is the Connecticut teacher facing a possible 40 year prison sentence because the PC in her classroom got hit by a porn popup storm. This appears to be her site: Julie Amero