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1.30.2001 Fight .Net bullshit, use LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL+Perl/Python/PHP) to open source web services. This new site from O'Reilly can help y'all who'll grit your teeth as you're forced to use Visual Studio .Net to tell your clients/boss/baby's mama there's a better way.
posted by creon
1.29.2001 Open Letters: We Just Have a Plethora of Drugs to Try Zak: "Any drug I've taken, I've smoked also." Including laxatives, embalming fluid, and this gem ...
Cheryl: Vicks Vapo-Rub? posted by creon
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It's the end of an amazing era, kids. Word.com is officially, completely, dead, after bringing us some of the best art, design, writing, innovations and (above all) trends that shaped the people that shape the Web. Remember the anti-Yahoo design missive by Yoshi? Remember Sissyfight? Pixel art? WordTV? The first time they went down, I almost killed someone, and they were back. This time, I offer my condolences with no regrets. Onward to bigger and better things? posted by creon
I can't stop browsing VOYEURWEB! It's demonic! Tons of voyeured/peeping/upskirt/etc. photos from user-contributions, and a Bangable.com-type rating system to boot. Bring on anonymous boobs!!
posted by creon
1.27.2001 ok, so sue me, i'm reposting a slashdot story, but i would just like to point out that in the article, the inventor equates '[being] the next Bill Gates" with "going cheap and dumb."
posted by rhino
1.26.2001 posted by rhino
"Many people wonder what exactly it is that systems administrators do late at night, after everyone has gone home and only the flicker of the screen savers lights up the cube walls. Well, we're here to tell you:
WE FUCKIN WORSHIP SATAN!" posted by rhino
1.24.2001 Hey, I don't know if anyone noticed, but I re-wrote code of this site so it's all-CSS, all the time. Makes it easier to create the Sidebar tab [install yours by clicking on the button at the bottom of the page], but now I've gotta write some Perl to automate it.
And, oh yes, Rhino's back. posted by creon
1.23.2001 Did you use the Web in 1994? I did. Do you remember when Yahoo - A Guide to WWW was still a Stanford site? Ah, let me fire up my Netscape 0.93b and check it out ...
via Plastic posted by creon
Letter 'W' Goes Missing From White House Keyboards
We didn't do it, but we wish we had. posted by creon
1.22.2001 SatireWire | Microsoft will admit to Lewinsky Affair
On the heels of Clinton's phat-ass deal to escape litigation after his presidency, Microsoft wants a piece of that action Jesus, Clinton's amazing. If he were Nixon, he could've stormed the Watergate, smoked a joint, gotten Woodward and Bernstein fired and still gotten home for a late-night blowjob. posted by creon
Coming up in GNOME is a bunch of great stuff, including Nautilus replacing gmc as the default file manager, my biggest pet peeve (and KDE's, apparently; though I'd bitch too if Konqueror crashed every cpu cycle and I wrote it). They say GNOME 1.4 will be out as early as the end of the month! Yeay!
I've been playing more with BeOS lately, and damn I lust for a desktop that pretty for Linux ... posted by creon
1.20.2001 Top Ten Innovative Ways to Cure California's Power Crisis
This has actually affected me, as companies in Silicon Valley and surrounding NoCal areas are getting fucked by deregulation, so tech-heads in Cali are just throwing fits. posted by creon
1.18.2001 No, really, there is only XUL
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1.17.2001 Hole found in Windows Media Player "skins" Oh my fucking God. Only the M$ Gestapo could inject security holes into skins! I mean, they're SKINS for Christ's sake!!!
For some reason, you can access a Java program through a skin in WMP7 that can have full access to everything. What, no macro viruses? No "I love you?" No buffer overflow? Oh, we're not done yet. I foresee an internet worm bouncing off java servlets to hit every dumb sunnovabitch that's using Gates' latest abomination. There is no MS, only XUL. posted by creon
Dark Like America's Future Thanks be to the Georgy Bush Project for this; it reminds me of when the web went black for the CDA. All of you remember that, don't you? Am I alone in this?
posted by creon
1.15.2001 Two NY Jets football players have created a website, with such brilliant "Thoughts of the Day" from denizens Curtis Martin and Vinny Testaverde as:
via Plastic's humor section posted by creon
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1.12.2001 DAVE BARRY'S YEAR IN REVIEW I've read his YIR for the last few years, and they're always hysterical. Indulge in a last bit of New Year's relief as the year 2000 finally ends, and read this article.
posted by creon
1.11.2001 If you're using Mozilla or Netscape 6, Click Here
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We've gotten thousands ... well, hundreds ... ok, two guys in Montana ... of requests for a new show. Here's the deal - before the holidays, I was really busy with Real Lifetm, and Rhino with the same + final exams. He's now on vacation in some unspecified east-coast state, and we'll record a show when he's back and (maybe) settled in.
As far as archives of shows 2-8, well ... we've gotta find 'em. But keep checkin' into the blog, and we'll be back with LOTS of material. posted by creon
1.10.2001 Alright, I've just really discovered kuro5hin.org || technology and culture, from the trenches lately, but I'm hooked. It's like Slashdot with more varied and intelligent stories, and you get to moderate submissions (damn fun for wasting an afternoon).
posted by creon
XIMIAN?!? Helix Code has renamed, and I'm baffled. I guess it is closer to their monkey/bonobo/oaf trend of naming, but ... whatever.
I notice they didn't change their logo, or anything else. OK. I'll follow that logic. We're now called "The Bong Xong", but don't worry because the my name is still ... Inigo Montoya. posted by creon
MS Napster (sadly, not a joke)
It seems M$ is developing a Gnutella-like program codenamed "Farsite". Try Far Side, assholes. Sheesh ... you know, the world's really crazy when M$ is battling Nullsoft (all three of them) on TWO fronts. Go Winamp! posted by creon
1.9.2001 An e-mail from Stephen Hawking to M.C. Hawking.com, where disabled Oxford physicists get their groove on.
posted by creon
1.8.2001 Metafilter Sidebar Tab
Following my favorite meta-weblog's lead (sorry, memepool!), I've decided to make a Mozilla/Netscape 6 My Sidebar tab for us, too. Turns out a tab can be anything that Mozilla can render and that fits. Hehehehehehehe ... look for double-anal realvideo porn streaming into your browser at work, Real Soon Now tm. posted by creon
1.5.2001 "Has there ever been a more insipid sci-fi action film than Soldier? Probably, although it's hard to imagine."
It's the weekend coming, I'm looking to see if Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is playing somewhere nearby, when I see that Battlefield Earth is coming out on video Jan. 16th. So, however, this made me wonder, "Is there a worse movie I could rent than this? Something no reviewer could recommend?" Besides Soldier, starring Michael Douglas, there's at least a few films WORSE than Battlefield Earth, according to Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles this sort of thing: "[Screwed] Doesn't even have the decency to be horrifyingly funny." "I would rather suffer whiplash in a VW bug than sit through [Down to You] again." "A dimwitted, fill - in - the - blanks horror opus that slanders a fine and useful mammal [Bats]." posted by creon
1.3.2001 Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained
I dunno what it is, or what it will be, but if it brings us closer to a rerelease of 2001, I'm for it. I've got this movie on DVD, and I'd buy it again if only for 5 more minutes of footage. And I STILL don't get that freaky-ass fetus! I hope when this thing launches on Jan. 20th it "explains" shit as it says, so we can rip it apart. (you see kids, semiotically, it doesn't matter what the hell Kubrick thought the fetus meant; if I see my next one-night stand's abortion, or a horrible death-metal band, then that's what it means, dammit!) posted by creon
1.2.2001 Penny Arcade Cartoons: The first one's always free :)
I finally clicked on the link on Slashdot, and read this really stylized half-CGI comic strip. It's pretty funny, though you've gotta like computer games a little too much to get some of the jokes. posted by creon
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