On a more light hearted note than my last post (I really, really hope I’m not wasting my time with college…), I’d like to share a great service with those of you who don’t know about it: BookMooch. Here’s a snippet from their about page:
Give & receive: Every time you give someone a book, you [...]
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Content thieves. Grrr.
I noticed in my stats area yesterday that one of the incoming links was from a site called ourcathouse.com. When I clicked on the link, I discovered that the incoming link was from… me. Sort of. Check it out.
I’m not too happy about this. They did include my name, and a link to the original [...]
Google April Fools pranks for 2007
As always, Google has some pretty nifty April Fools pranks this year. Previous pranks included the Google Gulp, Google hiring folks to go to the moon, the Google Mentalplex, and the hilarious PigeonRank.
For this year, I’ve seen two so far:
On the Gmail login page, they’ve announced a new feature: Gmail Paper. The concept is fairly [...]
Threats of violence in the blogosphere
Earlier today as I was going through my feeds, I came across this post by Nils. While it’s certainly not his fault, having read the post has darkened my day quite a bit.
What’s it about, then? It’s about threats of violence in the blogosphere. Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users has, for the past four [...]
What’s up with online tracking?
A little under a week ago, I ordered three books from amazon.com. Because it was available, I selected their free shipping option. They ended up sending my order in two packages, two books in one, and the other book in a package by itself. The package with two books was carried by the USPS. The [...]
