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 … Continue reading “Classmates.com still sucks!”
Category: Internet
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 … Continue reading “MySpace CEO resigns”
Astronauts now able to access porn from space
NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space HOUSTON — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection. Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new system Friday, when … Continue reading “Astronauts now able to access porn from space”
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 … Continue reading “Will anyone miss News Corp.?”
The Internet in a nut shell
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 … Continue reading “More Popular than Jesus”
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 … Continue reading “Even when Microsoft tries to do good…”
Flash Intro?
(via email) Should your website have a flash intro?