Thou Craven Beef-Witted Horn-Beast!
Nothing like being insulted by the Bard himself...
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Hollywood Lives and Dies by the IMDB
The Internet Movie Database, started twelve years ago by a film fan to keep track of which movies he's seen, has become an everyday part of doing business in Hollywood.
Headed Toward a Content Free Medium
Time Machine is a new device that allows television networks to imperceptibly shorten the length of their programming. The device can generally make room in a 30 minute program for an extra 30 second commercial.
Dada in Cyberspace?
Serious art? Probably not. Absurdist? Dadaist? Yes. Welcome to Superbad, the anti-Web site Web site.
Major privacy hole in Windows/MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger when used with Internet Explorer allows a site access to your username and all the usernames on you contact list. Careful.
CD or Not CD
It walks like a compact disc and talks like (or almost as well as) a compact disc, but it's not really a compact disc, according to consumer-electronics maker Philips, one of the creators of the compact disc format. And you may have already shelled out your hard-earned cash for one of these inferior almost-CDs without even realizing it.
A Global Suggestion Box
At the Global Ideas Bank, people come up with socially innovative non-technological ideas, and other people rate those ideas. The presentation could use a bit of polish, but a bit of digging can reveal some pretty interesting and
innovative approaches.
The Yikes of March
Anders Henriksson, professor of history at Shepherd College, gave a basic 27-question quiz to ten randomly-chosen college students in New York City. Only one of the ten got a passing grade.
Caesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March, and declared, Me too, Brutus. Who knew?
[free NYT registration required]
Death of Harvard Philosopher Robert Nozick
Eminent Harvard philosopher dies at 63.
Dcs de Pierre Bourdieu
Death of Pierre Bourdieu, leading French intellectual and sociologist, member of the College de France.