The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
-- Bertrand Russell
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Classmate.com still sucks!
As if there is any doubt classmates.com sucks… Classmates to pay up to $9.5m to settle suit over phantom friends Seattle-based Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending emails that made people believe their old friends from high school [...]
MySpace CEO resigns
MySpace CEO resigns after less than a year He resigned when it finally dawned on him that he was CEO of Myspace. I was just over at Myspace. What a shitty, filthy neighborhood that has become. Street performers, hookers and runaways everywhere. — Marc Maron Someday, I want to go to a site that proclaims [...]
Yet another sign of the times
Someone recently can across this web site by searching for the string, “Jesus, please give me some numbers that will win me lotteries tonight“. I’m not exactly sure what to make of this…
Will anyone miss News Corp.?
Will News Corp. Pubs Be Pulled From Google News? News Corp. will likely pull all of its newspaper content from Google News once its switches from an ad-supported to a subscription-based model, according to Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch on Friday sat down with Sky News, of which News Corp. is a partial owner, to discuss [...]
More Popular than Jesus
(from an email discussion) Results 1 – 10 of about 194,000,000 for jesus Results 1 – 10 of about 76,000,000 for beatles So Jesus is more popular than the Beatles. But wait.. Results 1 – 10 of about 43,600,000 for “jesus christ” According to Google, the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ. Maybe John [...]
MySpace
“I was just over at Myspace. What a shitty, filthy neighborhood that has become. Street performers, hookers and runaways everywhere.” — Marc Maron (via Twitter)
Even when Microsoft tries to do good…
…they somehow manage to be at least a little bit evil. For example: Microsoft has put the Richard Feynman Messenger Series of lectures online. Which is definitely a good thing. Unfortunately, Silverlight is required to access the content of this page. Which wouldn’t be so bad, but this page doesn’t work with Moonlight. Apparently, we [...]
Flash Intro?
(via email) Should your website have a flash intro?
