Oct

31

That’ll learn ‘em

October 31, 2005 | 1 Comment

Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the latest cabinet meeting in the Iranian capital that “if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever”, according to a Tehran-based newspaper.
Ahmadinejad was addressing a cabinet meeting held to discuss the rapidly deteriorating situation at the […]

Oct

27

Of Splogs and Content

October 27, 2005 | 2 Comments

Much noise has been made these last few days about splogs. A splog being a blog which is artificially generated by aggregating rss feeds and then putting them up in seratim. It is the dark side of Web 2.0 - the light side being memeorandum and the broken side being The Canadian Bullet.
Apparently the distinguishing […]

Oct

26

Galloway Lied…Surely Not!

October 26, 2005 | 4 Comments

I wonder if any of those who furnished him a platform will now have the grace to admit that they were hosting a man who is not just a pimp for fascism but one of its prostitutes as well.christopher hitchens, slate
In their moral vacuity the anti-war crowd embraced George Galloway whose middle name seems to […]

Oct

25

Google Cash

October 25, 2005 | 1 Comment

As Google heads for the market cap stratosphere the fact is that it has pretty much intorduced all the products which make much sense except one.
There is huge speculation in the webmaster forums about Google Wallet.
There is very little question that Google is going to introduce something which looks very much like PayPal. It […]

Oct

25

First Piglet, Now Banks

October 25, 2005 | 3 Comments

British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.
Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.
Muslims do not eat pork, as Islamic culture deems the pig to be […]

Oct

24

Out of the Way…On Mallorca

October 24, 2005 | 1 Comment

I have been doing a little research on blogs which cover out of the way topics and, believe me, there are plenty. Lots are splogs with next to zero information designed for the adsense market. But once in a while you run across a blog which understands its niche.
The Best of Mallorca uses the convienience […]

Oct

24

Python makes this headline impossible

October 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Dead parrot had H5N1 bird flu: Britain (CTV)
Horrible as the prospects of bird flu are, the possibility of no longer thinking dead parrots are merely sleeping would leave me pining for the fjords.

Oct

24

Do no Evil 2.0

October 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Not even the website for this conference can be accessed without a userid and password.
Later this week Google will have their invite-only Zeitgeist conference. It’s as closed as a conference can be. And this is the company we lifted on our shoulders and held up as a shining example of the web at its best. […]

Oct

21

Pork - the meta analysis

October 21, 2005 | 2 Comments

The Coburn amendment(s) designed to cut pork from the budget and reassign the funds to pay for Katerina recovery went down to defeat in the Senate today. 86-13. It was not even close.
No one who pays attention to American politics should be surprised. Larding spending bills with bridges to no where and sculpture gardens in […]

Oct

18

Overhyping the flu

October 18, 2005 | 4 Comments

Over at Instapundit Glenn posts a doctor’s comment,
The main way that flu kills is by predisposing its victims to “superinfection” by bacterial illnesses - in 1918, we had no antibiotics for these superimposed infections, but now we have plenty. Such superinfections, and the transmittal of flu itself, were aided tremendously by the crowded conditions and […]

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