Archive for July, 2006



Digg This Bookmarklet

After looking on Digg’s FAQs about submitting to the site, I noticed they don’t have any really quick and easy way to integrate submission into the browser. Well, if you’re interested in this functionality, here’s a simple solution, the Digg This bookmarklet. Simply drag the “Digg This” link below onto your bookmarks toolbar to create [...]

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Sound like Microsoft to you? Well, this time it’s not Microsoft that’s using this strategy, it’s News Corp, with their social networking site MySpace. After the recent addition of MySpace Video, now MySpace has added new functionality to their site that is broken in Flash 8, which requires the beta version of Flash [...]

Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 claims that Netscape would be able to beat Digg by focusing on average people. His major point is that Digg has a lot of weird stories on it, rather than the traditional news that the average person wants to read about. Personally, I think that the eccentric content on Digg [...]

Death by Caffeine

Have you ever wondered how much caffeine it would actually take to kill you? Apparently 114 brewed cups of coffee is what it would take to kill me.
Energy Fiend » Death by Caffeine

Jon Stewart on Net Neutrality

This is a hilarious Jon Stewart skit covering Net Neutraility, including the infamous Ted Stevens speech about the Internet and why he does not support Net Neutrality.
Throw away your TV - Jon Stewart on Net Neutrality

It appears as though sending those error reports after your applications crash might be a good thing to do after all. Watch this video.
ETTF.NET » Blog Archive » Punish your Microsoft developer

Next time you’re on Facebook, you better think twice about putting those incriminating photos of yourself in those inebriated states. You might also want to keep your wall clean of all the jokes and discussion about those parties you’ve been to.
“I’ve set my profile to ‘friends only’, nobody I don’t specifically invite can access that.”, [...]

In America, the government had given over $200,000,000,000 in taxpayer and customer money to the telecoms in order to upgrade the existing network of the country. If this money had been spent as was originally promised, Americans would have 40Mbps+ to the home. Instead, they have terrible connection speed compared to the world (they aren’t [...]