Category: Interesting

While some pervs might think doing this job for a living would be great, downloading the worst of the worst, intentionally, would be no fun at all, and very stressful. Full Story.

Just as an experiment to see how much Google juice this site has (as it seems to have a bunch lately, without me trying), I’m putting “Free Porn” as the headline of this story, as well as a couple other terms from the Lycos 50 and the Google Zeilgeist. If John C. Dvorak’s experiences are any indication, the traffic to this listing should go up quite a bit, even though there is no Free Porn or any of the above crap any where on this site (Gregg’s entry is about as close as you’ll find).

One of my company’s university newspaper sites ran an interesting article today about a student who’s photo slide project was ‘shut down’ in a student union gallery.

May not be suitable for viewing at work, since the slide in question contains partial nudity (which is why I’m posting this article in the first place).

I guess I should, because those wacky e-mail addresses could cost you a big job (and no, that’s not actually on my resume, but I’m sure that spam spiders will start sending crap to it now).

If it is OK to drug test student athletes, band members and even after school club members, why is it such a problem to test teachers? Oregon teachers hate the idea, but why would they? I think it’s only fair that they get tested, too, considering the students are getting drilled with drug tests. They claim that they test further when there is a “reasonable suspicion” that an employee may be using illegal drugs, but is that enough? Random drug testing is common in many professions, and I feel that teachers are one of the most important groups of people in the world, and should be setting the right example for their students. Instead, they practice the “Do as I say, don’t do as I do” attitude.

Quite an interesting read, especially since he’s debunking John C Dvorak’s Prediction that I posted about before. From B&B.

One thing that always happens during times of a major news event (like the war) is that there is always stuff that isn’t getting covered (but would otherwise). This column illustrates what we would be reading had the war not been taking all the front pages.

AOL is trying everything they can to get more customers so they don’t look like the black sheep of the AOL Time Warner mega empire. They’re planning on limiting online access to several popular magazines exclusively to AOL customers. They plan on releasing a VoiceMail service. And AOL plans on ditching RealNetworks in favor of Dolby AAC, an apparent cost-cutting move. And they’re finally joining the 21st century and offering AOL for broadband.

Listen, AOL: To quote the article where I got these links, “Maybe the biggest problem isn’t that you’re not offering enough content and services, but that your core customer base is 35 million dialup subscribers, most of whom are sick of chronic access and connection problems (not to mention bloatware). You waited a little too long to take broadband seriously, and you may not recover from that mistake.”

I concur. There is nothing — read again: NOTHING — that AOLers have that I either a) can’t find better versions of elsewhere cheaper, or b) couldn’t live without anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if AOL completely brings down the AOL-TW empire.

Toshiba has unveiled a prototype fuel cell it hopes will become the power source for laptops in the future, using alcohol fuel. I can see this being really popular on college campuses.

A interesting bit from Al’s Morning Meeting:

Drivers whose cars are equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) may be the first to know when the largest attacks break out against Iraq, a German automobile club said Tuesday.