On Monday Facebook banned all polls by developer Jesse Farmer, after an anonymous user created a controversial and some say illegal poll asking "should obama be killed?"
Unfortunately the only thing getting killed here is freedom of speech, which as I always like to point out: doesn't only cover popular speech.
Of course ... [Read More]
You know Google is getting pervasive when it starts ranking plant & animal life.
Ecologist Dr. Stefano Allesina realized he could determine the keystones in coextinction, or the loss of one species upon the extinction of another, by reversing Google's algorithm.
"In PageRank, a web page is important if important ... [Read More]
If you use firefox to check your Yahoo Mail there's a good chance you've seen the following error message:
Warning: Unresponsive script
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: ... [Read More]
In what can only be described as the ultimate irony of ironies, G4 Media Inc. sent Youtube a DMCA notice claiming copyright infringement for my "CLIP" from Attack of the Show's Around the Net segment, in which they talk about & show other people's "CLIPS" from around the net!
I feel like Bruce Lee in that mirror ... [Read More]
Organizing for America (OFA) is hoping to rush health care reform through by pressuring senators with a new twitter campaign.
Tweet Your Senator generates a pre-written messages based on your zip code such as:
"To Sen. Frank Lautenberg: Please support meaningful health insurance reform now http://bit.ly/3133JC #hc09 #NJ ... [Read More]
No it's not the highly anticipated sequel unveiled at Comic-Con this weekend. It's a hilarious new web series by Ben Hansford about an older but not necessarily wiser Tron.
The episodes, which average about a minute in length, reveal what life's really like inside of a computer: boring! It's exponentially better than the ... [Read More]
Whenever I need to find old/rare anime (unlicensed of course) I head over to Boxtorrents.com, but last weekend I was shocked to find the website was gone! Not just down for maintenance but completely vanished with only a placeholder declaring the domain was for sale by owner.
Even if you weren't a member, this affects ... [Read More]
