(Warning: slightly NSFW.) Ah, so that’s what they’re for! I’ve wondered since I first heard about them, as they’re too big for the normally understood use of such things, unless you were planning to use them on a horse. And if you know otherwise, I do not want to know about it. 😉 I have …
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Before the Internet became widespread, AOL made money by charging ridiculously high rates to access the content on their network. Afterwards, their content was worth less every day as web sites sprang up everywhere, so they reinvented themselves as an Internet Service Provider (a pretty slick move, in my opinion, not that they had a …
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robots.txt is a file used by convention to tell web spiders (systems like those at Google or Microsoft that “crawl the web,” indexing files for their search engines) to ignore certain files. It seems that someone at Last.fm has a geeky sense of humor… User-Agent: * Disallow: /music? Disallow: /widgets/radio? Disallow: /show_ads.php Disallow: /affiliate/ Disallow: …
Here’s a bit of Friday-the-13th fun for you. I have to admit, they had me smiling pretty widely.
So you mean that there’s even less reason to consider humans intelligent? 😉 (Actually, I’d argue that the human brain works somewhat the same way, the cells “deciding by committee” what path to pursue based on how strong its good and bad points are.) (Via BoingBoing)
Sometimes I think Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) is just throwing outrageous stuff out there on his blog, to provoke reactions. I can’t tell if this article, on getting rid of cash and making all financial transactions digital, is one of those though, or if he truly believes that it’s possible. It would offer …
I love this… an advertising gimmick gone wrong, and a company that made good on it… after a fashion. 🙂
The sturdy mini-trash-cans that I talked about last time seem to have done the trick, but they needed some extra help. As I mentioned, Ralph and his relatives didn’t give up easily. It took them several days, but they figured out how to open those cans too. After examining (and cleaning up) the evidence from …
I’ve finally discovered my true species classification: Homo Logicus. Or technically, Homo Sapiens Logicus, a subspecies of humanity. (As opposed to the more common subspecies, Homo Sapiens Idioticus, or the overlapping Homo Sapiens Dipshiticus, several representatives of which I’ve had the misfortune to have to deal with recently. But that’s a completely different subject.)
I’ve often wondered just how Microsoft could be so incompetent. This quote might just shed some light on it: […] Notwithstanding Kin’s shortcomings as a product, the most entertaining aspect of the cock-up is that it appears to be the result of ego battles in Redmond: rumor has it that Kin was throttled in its …
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