June 2001 Archives
Monster.com continues to absorb other
Monster.com continues to absorb other job sites. FlipDog and HotJobs are the two latest acquisitions....
1997 VW for sale
We’re selling Christina’s 1997 VW Cabrio. Our asking price is below Kelly Blue Book’s wholesale...
Batty
Now that New York has banned cell phones, they are turning their attention to that...
Kmart is bowing to pressure
Kmart is bowing to pressure from protesters and will stop selling handgun ammo. And yet...
You can ask banks not
You can ask banks not to share your personal information....
Brian Aldiss' Super-Toys Last All
Brian Aldiss' Super-Toys Last All Summer Long is the story that Kubrick based the story...
Jack Lemmon has died from
Jack Lemmon has died from cancer at 76....
Also coming soon are some
Also coming soon are some 80s pop re-releases. Best of Roxy Music and Duran Duran’s...
Two new Thelonius Monk CDs
Two new Thelonius Monk CDs will be out soon. Monk in Tokyo and Live at...
The Sacramento Kings have traded
The Sacramento Kings have traded Jason Williams....
Microsoft has decided to drop
Microsoft has decided to drop Smart Tags from Windows XP and IE6. They will remain...
Sacramento has one of the
Sacramento has one of the most dangerous intersections in the US....
Update: 18 more states are
Update: 18 more states are considering laws to make it illegal to talk on your...
I found a great Windows
I found a great Windows Media Player skin today. When I’m listening to Groove Radio,...
North Dakota is contemplating changing
North Dakota is contemplating changing the state’s name. The logical choice, Hell, is already taken....
A man walks into a
A man walks into a German brothel looking to hire a prostitute. He found his...
Starbucks is adding wireless LAN
Starbucks is adding wireless LAN access to all of their stores this summer. Anyone with...
This is absurd. New York
This is absurd. New York state has made it illegal to drive a car while...
Score one for freelance writers.
Score one for freelance writers. Before the Web and other electronic publishing were common, no...
More bad news for Napster.
More bad news for Napster. Does anyone still use Napster or have they all switched...
Google now searches images. Amazing.
Google now searches images. Amazing. (via Joel On Software)...
Heh. Windbag and self-proclaimed guru
Heh. Windbag and self-proclaimed guru Jakob Nielsen’s usability evaluation criteria has been used to evaluate...
Another stupid idea is dead.
Another stupid idea is dead. (Via Camworld)...
Midway is getting out of
Midway is getting out of the arcade machine business. Soon arcades will go the way...
30 Million members. Proof that
30 Million members. Proof that advertising can sell anything....
As the market continues to
As the market continues to hammer Internet consulting companies, they are starting to revamp their...
Microsoft is shutting down ListBot,
Microsoft is shutting down ListBot, a service that lets anyone send email newsletters for free....
Anyone can add a spell
Anyone can add a spell checker to their web site for free using SpellChecker.net. That’s...
Visit Ghost Sites - The
Visit Ghost Sites - The Museum of E-Failure to view an archive of Web sites...
Classic Atari games coming soon
Classic Atari games coming soon to a cell phone near you....
I host with these guys.
I host with these guys. I wonder if the acquisition will make things better or...
Man turns flat into Star
Man turns flat into Star Trek spaceship. "Tony, who is separated, shares the flat with...
Check out Salon's interview with
Check out Salon’s interview with Google’s Director of Research in "Google à go-go." It’s an...
I'm so glad this site
I’m so glad this site provided a way for people to get an explanation on...
'Serial guest' sneaks into hundreds
'Serial guest' sneaks into hundreds of wedding photos. Kinda makes "rabbit ears" look sorta lame....
What a bunch of Bozos
What a bunch of Bozos...
Where would you fence a
Where would you fence a hamster?...
WebReference has an excellent introduction
WebReference has an excellent introduction to VoiceXML....
"As a tech lawyer, the
"As a tech lawyer, the thing that I do more than anything else is negotiate....
Now your computer hardware contains
Now your computer hardware contains spyware...
Hurry up and buy your
Hurry up and buy your copy of 10 Minute Guide to 1-2-3 Release 4.0 for...
Looks like the DVD for
Looks like the DVD for Star Wars Episode I will be released on Oct 16th...
What if...
Abe Lincoln had Powerpoint? (via mrpaTTo.com)...
HBO to Test Video on
HBO to Test Video on Demand Service. Cool....
Kyocera PalmOS Phone Review.
"How does the QCP-6035 smart phone from Kyocera, or "Son of pdQ" as we like...
Black(out)Mail
You can receive email and pager notifications of impending blackouts. Now you can leave your...
Sticking to Your Principals
"Yet despite the GUI’s popularity, surprisingly few programs exhibit good interface design. Moreover, finding information...
Looking Backwards
Random thought: in my experience, backward compatibility means that the way it used to be...
Go Where The Road Takes You
YellowBrix, a maker of news software is buying bankrupt content syndicator iSyndicate....
Manage Web site production
Macromedia has a new tool called Sitespring that is designed to help manage the process...
The Golden Age of Wireless
Tech Review has a discussion of public access wireless LANs. What I’d like to find...
Anatomy of a DoS attack
Steve Gibson details the attacks on GRC.COM. While you are at the site, beef up...
Man bites dog
The saying goes that "Dog bites man" isn’t news, but "Man Bites Dog" is. How...
Paper millionaire bums
Slashdot links to an article that describes homeless who until recently were dot-commers riding the...
Fire bad clients
"Until we can tell IKE to take a hike, we’ll continue to suffer at the...
Merlino's Returns To Sacramento Yum.
Merlino’s Returns To Sacramento Yum. If you don’t live in Sacramento, you are missing out....
Oracle 9i
Oracle 9i has been released. The big feature is that instead of running your applications...
MP3 at half the size
The companies that invented MP3 have created a new format called MP3Pro that is more...
WebHancer is back
Somehow that blight upon Internet users known as webHancer has found it’s way onto my...