Readers Digest Centerfolds

yew figger it out

So yes, the Jesus Tablet will appear.

via Five Ways Apple’s Tablet May Change the World – BusinessWeek.

Today, search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s new Bing have become the Internet’s gatekeepers, and the crucial role they play in directing users to Web sites means they are now as essential a component of its infrastructure as the physical network itself. The F.C.C. needs to look beyond network neutrality and include “search neutrality”: the principle that search engines should have no editorial policies other than that their results be comprehensive, impartial and based solely on relevance.

via Op-Ed Contributor – Search, but You May Not Find – NYTimes.com.

Who is John Galt? Didn’t he rail against legislating to favor one company over another in a competitive market? Hmmm.

Took me a few paragraphs before I realized the editorial was coming from a “wronged” competitor.

via I can haz the #31?:

Here’s the result: the first volume of a two-tape collection called “Internet Power!” from 1995. I’ve included some select quotes and screenshots below.

via Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web – Waxy.org.

I really do have to learn how to harness this thing, but I think my modem speed is too fast. Will it work at 28.8?

I hope I can find some more of these videos. Might be a really good thing to become an expert at this highway thing.

S.H.Y.N.E.S.S.
G.R.I.P.E.S.
F.O.M.S.
O.M.G.I.G.P. – do not watch if you aren’t 16 and male unless you find South Park uproarious.

If you have Silverlight you can wander over to Microsoft’s History of the Internet

otherwise YouTube has most of the clips, just have to look around. Sort of like looking for discreet hair removal products.

YouTube – New Ford Focus “Beautifully Arranged”.

Full-length version

The comments suggest that the instruments are “real” and the music is actually played on it.

Entertaining. Not all commercials are obnoxious.

I wonder how Artzybasheff would illustrate TV “news” commentators?


radiopropaganda.jpg

For more like this wander off to see more of Artzybasheff’s work.

Nine years ago, Mr. Ellison sued Internet service providers for failing to stop a user from posting four of his stories to an online newsgroup. Since settling that suit, he has pursued more than 240 people who have posted his work to the Internet without permission. “If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump,” he said.

via With E-Readers Comes Wider Piracy of Books – NYTimes.com:

Whenever I hear Harlan Ellison’s name I see Hunter Thompson’s image.
What’s up with that?

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And here we are!:

This is more than a little hypocritical of me, because I’m lousy about checking other people’s blogs. I’m told there’s a way to have blogs you like emailed directly to your Inbox so that you don’t have to go look every day to see if something new has been posted. Perhaps one of you know how to do that and could share the trick with the rest of us in a reply comment to this post?

(Via Musings.)

I’ll be helping Monique figure out how to cope in the land of feeds.

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days.

Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.

The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla – Dick Cavett Blog – NYTimes.com.

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