January 2008
19 posts
Star Trek Dimension: The Archival Edition →
Awesome resource on the cartography of Star Trek
Internet outages hit India, Middle East →
India’s lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country’s bandwidth in half.
NCC-1701 →
A viral site for the new Star Trek film due out this Christmas.
Slate Magazine - Who Is Grady Harp? →
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the... →
Hodgkinson hates Facebook. He more or less attacks all the members in this long diatribe.
Dozier Internet Law: Federal Court Recognizes... →
Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist... →
A blog post announcing a ruling against those who want to post c&d letters online. Those who oppose this ruling claim it will allow companies to bully people who don’t have the resources to fight back.
Most text messages are saved only briefly →
Google Translate bug mixes up Heath Ledger, Tom... →
Wal-Mart Gives The New Yorker (And Forbes,... →
Wal-Mart will drop several big name magazines from its in-store shelves.
Murdoch says won't make all of online WSJ free →
By Ben Hirschler DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday he would not make all online Wall Street Journal content free. Dow Jones & Co has begun opening access to some previously paid-for items…
Obama: I'm Not a Muslim! Forward This to Everyone... →
Obama attempts to debunk various urban legends connecting him with radical Islam.
Top Digg users revolt against algorithm change on... →
Four steps to better writing (PDF File) →
A handout prepared by writing tutor Paul Dudenhefer at the EcoTeach Center, Duke University. It’s a handful of useful tips based on the excellent book “Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace” by Joseph Williams.
APStylebook.com →
The FAQ section of the Associated Press’s Stylebook page has a wealth of tidbits for properly writing different phrases. It’s hit-or-miss as to whether you’ll find what you need here, but its entertaining reading (and you just might learn something).
Steve Running on the Perils of Pseudo Science |... →
Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? →
A summary of a new theory of the origin of the university, written by the New York Times.
Keys to the Kingdom: Entertainment & Culture:... →
Vanity Fair’s look at the upcoming Indiana Jones film.
Readable Laws - A Lab Project to Turn Legalese... →