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Garfield the cat doesn’t actually speak, so what would Garfield the comic look like if he just wasn’t there? Apparently it would look like Jon is a mental patient.
The ROFLCon preliminary guest list is up. They’re trying to get every famous internet meme or celebrity to go to Harvard in April for a conference. Must attend!
Monday Oct 30 2006 - 8:10am
They Came Two by Two
by Brendan
under business, games, movies
with 7 comments
Every so often unique things worm their way out of the woodwork. These are acts of genius, punctuating our existence. All the other times, it seems like works of art, culture, or any media are really just what the demographic target marketing ordered. In fact, oftentimes there will be two of something that appear […]
I’m sure most of you heard about AOL’s little mishap with user-identifiable data, but for those of you who missed it, here’s the twenty second version. AOL, in response to a DOJ request released a 3 month log of searches by 650,000 users. And they did it with unique identifiers attached. […]
Friday Jul 7 2006 - 2:39pm
Do You … Uhhh … Wufoo?
by Sean
under business, design, usability, web
with 5 comments
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re a president / secretary / researcher for a club / organization / project and you need to run a survey on your members / constituents / subjects. How do you do it? Well, you could go online and use some of the various alternatives out there or […]
Tuesday May 9 2006 - 8:00am
Patents and Peer Review: A Match Made in Heaven
by Sean
under business, news, technology
with 1 comment
It seems like patents would stimulate research, new products, and the economy, right? After all, that’s what they’re supposed to do. If researchers and businesses can’t have their new and innovative technologies protected for a certain amount of time, then what motivation do they have for pursing that research in the first place? Some […]
Wednesday Apr 26 2006 - 6:20pm
Advertising, DRM, A-Holes, and Science Fiction
by Sean
under business, culture, politics, technology, web
with 4 comments
The future of our current society is starting to resemble a sci-fi novel. And not in the good way of floating cities, free power, and cancer cures. I mean in the bad way of Orwellian control and loss of rights. I’m in a sci fi class this semester, and I began to think about […]
