Category: Interesting

If you’ve looked at digg’s front page tonight, you’ll notice that the users are going nuts and are basically revolting. Why? Because of this stupid series of hex codes: 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0. What is this number? Read up here, here, here, here, here, here, here here, here, here, and here and don’t be surprised if it disappears from here at some point.

As of right now, digg.com is has been taken down and replaced with their “out of service” page.

And by the way: I’ve added links to all the individual archives of this site if you want to digg stories, thanks to this plugin.

How to you keep folks from downloading malware from sites that run Google Ads? Pay for ads that warn them that they’re going to install Malware. Great public service, and ads like this should be at a discount.

…or obviously nobody’s using Who Is Sick, where just a single person in the 97701 zip code has a runny nose. Portland, on the other hand, looks more like a mess with 128 reported sicknesses throughout the metro area, all plopped onto a handy Google Map (and unfortunately, you can’t directly link to specific cities, so you’ll have to search by city when you get there).

But it wouldn’t matter if anybody used this in the grand scheme of things anyway, as folks will still send their sick kids to school, passing on illnesses to all the other kids, which in turn pass it on to the parents, who then pass it on to co-workers. But I’m not bitter. Really.

A fascinating little photo project that shows what a fast-food product looks like in ads, and then the actual product in real life.

Wonder no more.

Not a switch-hitter, but a switch-pitcher. If this guy is as good as they say he is, I can foresee him making big bucks in the Major Leagues.

(And on a totally unrelated note, has anybody else noticed the annoying pop-ups on NYT and WashPost every time you double-click on ANY word in their stories? It opens up an Answers.com-powered definition window. The problem is that if you use a touchpad on a laptop, you might know that double-tapping is also a scroll-lock of sorts, giving you the ability to just move your finger up and down to scroll the page. That stupid little thing causes a pop up and the feature to not work unless I’m very careful to not click on a single word on the page. Annoying? Indeed.)

While this totally screams of anti-trust, Microsoft could easily kill Google if they were to pull this off (be sure to read the follow up).

As an experiment, the Washington Post setup a world-class vionlist to act as a street performer. He played some of the violin’s most difficult arrangements perfectly, but did anybody care any more? Sadly, no (the story has a telling video). Be sure to read the full back story as well.

Update on 4/12: Michelle points us to an interesting take from a NYC subway musician, and why Joshua Bell didn’t get much money. Good points.