December 2004

  • Opera Sings…Well, Talks

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    Mark Evans: “Internet users must either be lazy, ignorant or strangely satisfied with IE. If more people explored the alternatives out there -which would likely encourage developers to come up with new browsers – I believe surfing the Web will become a better experience. With IE dominating – and some would say controlling – the…

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  • Shizzy vs. Starbuck Peon

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    This is great. I’m sure you’ve seen the scam baiters and are aware of the fun that can be had with Nigerians … well, Shizzy takes it to a new, hysterical level in his baiting of a low-level Starbucks Corporate employee. Rock on, Shizzy.

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  • More on the (non)demise of BT

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    Mark Pesce: “Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers? Do you understand how badly you’ve screwed up? You took a perfectly serviceable situation – a nice, centralized system for the distribution of media, and, through your own greed and shortsightedness, are giving birth to a system of digital distribution that you’ll…

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  • BitTorrent non-crisis

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    So the MPAA has succeeded in having popular torrent tracker site SuprNova shut down. So? As Douglas Rushkoff noted recently, this latest turn will simply be the impetus the hackers need to find a way of tracking torrents in a more distributed fashion. The harder the studios push, the faster the technology evolves. And once…

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  • Lumpy Thai

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    My good friend Noel (Lumpy) is over in Thailand for a cycling holiday and he’s been posting some great pics to his blog. I know this isn’t exactly news, but I love the power of blogs (and photoblogs and moblogs and uh… vacatio-blogs?) for stuff like this – being able to keep in touch with…

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  • More SPAM Poetry

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    This appeared in my inbox along with an add for cheap viagra: The course was taken towards the north-west, and the next day the screw of the frigate was at last beating the waters of the Pacific: The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor…

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