November 06, 2009
In the late
'60's I worked for Bell Labs for a few years managing a data center and
developing an ultra high speed information retrieval system. It was the days of
beehive hair on the women and big mainframe computers. One day I took a camera
to work and shot the pictures below. I had a great staff, mostly women except
for the programmers who were all men. For some reason only one of them was
around for the pictures that day
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October 25, 2009
The photograph,
names “Bliss”, was later used as the default desktop image for the XP Windows
‘Luna’ theme, and became fairly popular.
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March 01, 2009
Your Mother’s Maiden Name
Where were you sitting when your girlfriend told you she was pregnant? What is the name of the hedge-fund manager your ex-wife married? And other Secure Website Authentification Questions, by Joel Gunz
Crude Donkey stainless steel
Gzzglz, i.e. Google liquidated, by French street artist ZEVS
You Should Have Seen This: Clumsy Best Man Ruins Wedding and 98 Other Things You Should Have Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something, by Greg Rutter
Un-related: Pen question: Why is it that when a pen seems like it is running out of ink, you can scribble on another part of the page and get it to work, but you can’t resume writing in the area you were working on when it ran out of ink?
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December 25, 2008
Help wikipedia
Jimmy Wales is asking Wikipedia’s users & readers to support the site with a donation.
This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users?
Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. Only 23 people are on its paid staff. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Its annual expenses are less than six million dollars, and it is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
At its core, Wikipedia is driven by a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers - all dedicated to sharing knowledge freely. Over almost eight years, these volunteers have contributed more than 11 million articles in 265 languages. More than 275 million people visit the website every month to access information, free of charge and free of advertising.
So please help
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Un-related: Rule No. 34 specifies that for any conceivable subject, pornography or sexually-related material exists on the internet. However recondite or just plain opaque to the rest of us it may be
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December 18, 2008
High Value Domain Name Sales
So what are domain names worth? The answer is that it depends. Like a lot of intellectual property, the vast majority of domain name sales bring prices in 3, 4, 5, or 6 figure range. Nevertheless, there have been roughly sixty seven transactions of a million dollars or more.
This year (2008) Fund.com at just under $10 Million tops the list so far. Pizza.com went for $2,605,000 while DataRecovery.com reportedly sold for $1,659,000. Domain Name Journal reports that Invest.com has sold for $1,015,000.
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Pictures of Soviet arcade machines
Top 12 Video Game Toilets
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November 12, 2008
Digital Ghost Towns
Digital Ghost Towns are corporate websites built at great expense, no doubt expecting a large number of visitors, but which don't get any.
Arguably, the internet itself is one giant ghost town. Millions of sites, the vast majority being almost totally empty
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Also: Reddit logos
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October 04, 2008
The parked domain girl
The Most Infamous Girl in the History of the Internet: The parked domain girl. Does anyone know who she is?
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August 30, 2008
Digg Labs
A lot of stuff gets submitted to Digg every day, so good things can sometimes fly right past you. Digg Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities and organizes the submitted items visually
MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com, MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com and other E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone. (From For Your Entertainment)
Sexy people, a celebration of The Perfect Portrait
Worth 1000’s Before and After
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July 07, 2008
Cyber Cafés around the world
Highest Cyber Café in the world, located at Sherathang Trade Mart in Sikkim. (From “Darfur to Darlington”, Internet Cafes of the World set on flickr)
"Looking for a monkey who can bang on my keyboard to try to find the one random sequence of characters that is not yet taken as a domain name. Pay - $100"
"Customers who just got fired also had this happen…." Amazon's Recommendation Algorithm Applied to Life Events
Enter your name…. (Sokumenzu) Side View Generator
Un-related: Maya Angelou Reads Craigslist (NSFW)
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April 12, 2008
Googlegängers
In “Finding Angela Shelton,” a book published this month, a writer named Angela Shelton describes her meetings with 40 other Angela Sheltons. Why do so many feel a connection with utter strangers just because they share the same name? From her blog Angela Shelton's Big Mouth
Screaming really loud on the new flickr video. Screams will be judged on volume, pitch, location, and interestingness
Why is Google so secretive about its data centers? Map of all Google data center locations
The 20th Century as told by Google Image Search
Grumbling about the misuse of hyperlinks on news sites in Slate’s Links That Stink
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March 03, 2008
Naming success
You want a secret to success for your latest Web venture? I can tell you in two syllables: Trochee.
A trochee or choree, choreus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
Can it be that simple? See for yourself. Find the most popular Web sites. Say their names out loud. Ponder the stress pattern -
YouTube
eBay
Reddit
SlashDot
Flickr
Google
Yahoo
MySpace
FaceBook
PayPal
Craigslist
Orkut
Wordpress
Blogspot
Netflix....
(Original insight by Mike Pope)
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Leg tat at the 11ª Convenção Internacional de Tattoo. (From No touch monkey)
Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
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February 28, 2008
Introduction to Gmail in Russian
(From Gmail blog)
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February 24, 2008
Internet Museum
Location: Carthage, Tennessee
Ground-breaking Ceremony Date: May of 1996
Projected Completion Date: August of 1999
Sponsors: Prodigy, AOL, Netscape Navigator, Hotbot.com, Microsoft's Windows '95
Current Status: Under Construction
Yes, there is a better search engine, a Salon article by Scott Rosenberg from December 1998
The 100 most visited websites worldwide, according to Alexa (which is owned by Amazon, No. 32 on that list)
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February 07, 2008
Do you remember a time…
Don’t mess with admins - The admins are drunk
Do you remember a time before every movie trailer and TV commercial ended with a WWW address??
Internet Pornography Statistics. (Not sure how accurate these are)
Porn For Girls By Girls (SFW)
Re-post: An old blog displaying only Riot Porn
Draw 1 to get 1, with Sketch swap
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January 16, 2008
No Porn Pledge
“Playful and deceptively simple”: A Chat with the Designer of the Google Logo
Take the No Porn Pledge if you so choose
This is about how I spend 24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days during Holidays to build the online service Wigitize.com. It is part of my ongoing learning process on how to run a successful web startup. Building a .com in 24 hours
Never heard of it: An imageboard is an internet forum that revolves around the posting of images. Popular imageboards can be hit with bandwidth consumption reaching up to eighteen terabytes per month and beyond. Apparently, one of the popular ones is 4chan which is based on the Japanese imageboard Futaba Channel
The list of the official Wikipedias, all 256 of them, including the one in Volapük which is a constructed language, created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer in Germany, and which contains over 1,230,000 articles
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