Archive for December, 2004
After reading a post at boingboing, I looked around at some tech-oriented companies’ websites (or at least their front pages) to see if they said anything about the tsunami disaster and various relief efforts. As of right now, the following companies are devoting significant space to this: Apple has removed all marketing materials, and displays only tsunami [ READ MORE ]
I just can’t stop posting about the crazy crap I find in my referrer logs. It appears that someone — about 9 years old, I’m inclined to guess — went to ask.com and searched for “What’s the real word for poop”. The current result (view by clicking the link above) has a post of Holly’s in second [ READ MORE ]
Happy belated holidays, and all that. I had planned to write earlier, but was distracted by the festive holiday stomach bug that we all fell prey to. Actually, there has been something going around. At least 4 people were out of my office sick yesterday and today. Anyway, now I’m feeling much better and can [ READ MORE ]
Looking through my referer logs today leads me to note the following: the majority of the accesses to pinette.org are referred by “baby” searches on images.google.* (various countries). the flowerhat picture is showing up on more and more pages (found a new one with a .nl TLD today) Daphne is also on the front page of search results [ READ MORE ]
I mentioned recently that a picture of Daphne shows up on the first page of results when you search Google Images for the word “baby” (first noticed by Aprille). Well, one consequence of that is that people have started using that picture for other things. That is, they’ve searched Google for the word “baby” or [ READ MORE ]
I recently read an interesting article on “Intelligent Design”, the latest incarnation of “creation science”. In case you are lucky enough not to be familiar with this, it is an attempt to dress up creationism in scientific clothes — an effort supported by some people with PhD after their names, so you know it’s [ READ MORE ]
So in contrast to favorite apps of mine such as del.icio.us or Flickr, which hope to help you locate items of interest through the subterfuge of keeping track of other peoples’ efforts to manage their own stuff, iTunes takes a decidedly lo-tech approach: they hire people to sit down and listen to stuff, then write [ READ MORE ]