Tag: The Internets
The Day the Internet Went Black
DD gave us a heads up yesterday that Wikipedia was going black today. If you’ve been spinning around the Internet today, it is pretty dazzling to see the sites that have joined them:
Chris Coons Fumbles in His First Week
Our new Senator, Chris Coons, made his way onto a list today, and it isn’t the list of independent thinkers. Today, in a Judiciary Committee meeting, the committee voted unanimously to approve the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). The act seems, at first blush, to be a good idea. The goal is to […]
Happy 25th, Dot Com
They grow up so fast, don’t they? To some of us, at least, it seems like only yesterday that this whole “internets” thing got started. I remember how excited I got when I first started seeing web addresses referenced in tv commercials back in the mid to late ’90s. Little did I know, really until […]
Bulo Remembers 2009-Best of the Web
At least according to the surfers at URLesque. For example, I had never heard of Ben Huh and The Cheezburger Network before. But after reading the profile, I think the Urlie Lifetime Achievement Award is well-earned. And, who can argue with the winner in the Best Single-Topic Blog: Awkward Family Photos? Oh, and I’m especially […]
Breaking: Big Win For Net Neutrality
The Washington Post reports that FCC Chair Julius Genachowski will announce ‘new so-called net neutrality rules’ on Monday. The rules would “prevent wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to a source at the agency.” In addition, “one principal would clearly state that operators of networks — including wireless firms — cannot discriminate what services and […]
The First Step Is Admitting You Have A Problem
Seattle is opening the country’s first in-patient center for the treatment of internet addicition. The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world center of the computer industry. It opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean themselves from pathological computer […]
‘Bulo Seeks Help from Internet Sophisticates
The Beast who Slumbers has been cruising surfing the nets for some time now. He likes to think that he is able to learn new things. He has long since figured out what ROTFLMAO and YMMV mean. He has even coined one himself, ‘IESHO’, meaning ‘in El Somnambulo’s Humble Opinion’. He has learned all sorts of […]
Obama Newspaper Endorsements — Info Geek Edition
I’m a big fan of folks who know how to layout data graphically and this is simply outstanding. Note how little relationship there is between the red state/blue state thing and the paper’s Presidential endorsements. I wish I could embed it, but really, just go see it. Hover your cursor over the circles or lines […]
John McCain Gets a Computer
Desktop configuration here. I think my favorite is the Ferragamo shoes on ebay.
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