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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Anti-Promotion |
| 1:28:36 am mst / 27 February 2001 found by diana / filed in business / source NY Times 54 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| ESPN.com has turned to a rather unorthdox method of promoting their site: a spoofed anti-ESPN site called KathiCam. The site (only a tad brighter pink than Pepto-Bismol) continually laments the effects of ESPN.com. |
| The misspellings are particularly fun! |
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| ReplayTV vs. TiVo vs. commercials |
| 2:56:24 am mst / 27 February 2001 found by paul / filed in culture / source San Francisco Chronicle 164 hits / 1 comment / 1 e-mail |
| Are the Replay and TiVo digital video recorders essentially the same? Yes, except for the feature that lets Replay users skip 30 second commercials. This seemingly small difference has made a huge difference in how advertisers approach the two companies, and may ultimately change the way television advertising is done. |
| My brother has a Replay, and it is one of the coolest machines I've ever seen. |
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| Not so spiffy |
| 6:34:55 am mst / 27 February 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source Fortune 104 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| It's hard to know if the salesmen at a consumer electronics store are really giving you objective advice when they are getting "spiffs" -- money from a secret "sales promotion incentive fund" to plug one particular product over another. |
| Fortunately, there's always Epinions. |
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| Silicon buckyballs created |
| 8:44:06 am mst / 27 February 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source Scientific American 84 hits / 0 comments / 1 e-mail |
| Buckyball molecules made of carbon have been known for nearly 20 years. Japanese scientists have now created silicon buckyballs, including a particularly stable form consisting of 12 silicon atoms surrounding a central metal atom in a "cage". |
| The especially intriguing part is that the scientists believe that "they may serve as excellent qubits, which store single bits of information in quantum computers. The spin state of the metal atom could encode the bit, and the silicon cage would protect it from corruption". |
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| He lets his fingers do all the talking |
| 11:07:35 am mst / 27 February 2001 found by paul / filed in culture / source Philadelphia Inquirer 74 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| On a bet, 19-year old Brett Banfe has agreed not to speak out lout for a whole year, starting September 1, 2000. So far he has succeeded, doing all his communication via computer, pager, and e-mail. His girlfriend says, "it's not that different from dating a guy that did talk. The only real difference is that sometimes it gets quiet..." He also has a website here. (Link via Obscure Store.) |
| I wonder what happens when he stubs his toes. Is he able to suppress the urge to swear out loud? |
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| Webcam Housesitting |
| 4:02:59 pm mst / 27 February 2001 found by diana / filed in internet / source Salon 103 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Author Will Leitch housesits the super-webcammed loft of Josh Harris (of Pseudo.com), briefly experiencing his life under an internet microscope. |
| What a nasty crowd those webcam watchers are! |
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| Netscape Sucks |
| 6:28:21 pm mst / 27 February 2001 found by MysteriousStranger / filed in legal / source The Register 132 hits / 1 comment / 1 e-mail |
| Diana summarizes: Microsoft's contradictory arguments before the Appeals Court were, at least, rather entertaining. Apparently, IE won the browser wars because Netscape sucked, but Netscape needed to be crushed because it was such a grave threat to Windows. |
| Is this supposed to be as funny as it seems? |
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| E-mail bloopers |
| 10:28:42 pm mst / 27 February 2001 found by paul / filed in internet / source San Diego Union Tribune 290 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| An entertaining list of some of the more egregious e-mail bloopers and blunders, such as the San Diego company that sent invitations to clients to attend a seminar with the subject line, "You are a loser". |
| Interesting fact -- complaining about someone (such as one's boss), then inadvertently sending it to him or her is known as a "Freudian send". |
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