ISSN 1496-3221
July 6, 2000
Six months after the initial purchase on eBay, Mike just took possession of his yummy-looking 1965 Toyota Stout pickup truck. An impressive online purchase if for no other reason than the fact that the truck had to immigrate to Canada from Washington state. The largest thing I’ve ever purchased online was my BeBox, or perhaps … More
July 6, 2000
Something has got me thinking that maybe this is one is just too good give away. Grant Neufeld sent me a suggestion for my domain name of the week page: \r\* andalligotwasthisstupid.com Smartass vanity placeholder domain, or an irreverant, acid-tongued blog loaded to the gills with offhanded observational commentary on the current cash-out crop of … More
July 5, 2000
AltaVista now has a streamlined Raging Search version of its Babelfish translator available. Anytime you can avoid the clutter of banner ads and other UI fluff and access pure functionality on a site is alright with me. Thank you AltaVista for giving us the choice. Spread the word.
July 4, 2000
Open source cheerleader, Eric S. Raymond shares a few brief observations regarding the Mac culture and its purported interface obsession. At least the Mac has an interface that you can actually get obsessive about.
July 3, 2000
Lying With Pixels talks about near realtime video-manipulation that can be performed on live or taped video content. I find it both incredibly fascinating from a technical perspective and ethically frightening that it’s now possible to add or remove anything (or anyone) from supposedly authentic footage. “So what’s the big deal, you ask. After all, … More
July 3, 2000
After a brief family-oriented respite, I am back with a topped up fuel cell and a backlog of blogs to cruise and peruse. Maybe it’s time to coin a phrase here. How about calling it backblogging? Anyone care to comment on the jargon-worthiness of this potential verb of the future?