Archive for March, 2008

Rolling Internet Blackouts

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Coming soon?

If so youll never seen this post.

Baltimore Ghetto Birds: Voices In The Sky

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I’ve heard it on two separate occasions now with my own ears, here in the fine city of Baltimore, MD.

People call them “ghetto birds”: police helicopters which zip around - especially at night - shining high-intensity spot-lights down on unwitting residents below.

Somehow the whole endeavor is supposed to fight crime. And I’m sure […]

Your Guide To Green Products

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I think one of the biggest things that the new “green” wave of marketing means is that companies will be able to spend less money on things like packaging - and in some cases quality (in the name of using less of our precious natural resources) - while simultaneously charging more money for it, because […]

Trying Out Embedded ClipMarks

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The code that site generates is hella stupid, I think:

clipped from theoblogical.org
The most important initial evolutionary leap of the convergence
stage is the formation of what Chardin termed “the Noosphere.”
It’s formation, as Michael Murray explains, begins with “a global
network of trade, communications, accumulation, and exchange of knowledge,
cooperative research …all go into the weaving of the material […]

NutraLoaf-Watchers!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Soon to be re-packaged into a diet food for concentration, I mean, work-camps for millions of unemployed Americans:

Nutraloaf definition: low-grade food mash-ups currently given to prison inmates who throw feces at prison guards.

[Collaboration] Futuristic Data Visualization

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I have been having these - I don’t know what to call them - intuitive flashes lately of how data will be perceived experientially on whatever becomes the successor to the internet. (I personally believe “The Internet Is Just A Fad”™[All Rights Reserved.])
And I am interested in developing these flashes into concrete visualizations with other […]

Quick Guide To Content Scraping

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I get my content scraped all the time, yo.
Content-scraping might be described as the online intellectual property law equivalent of bootlegging. Somebody else copies your product - pretty much exactly - and benefits financially from your work and initial investment.
Getting your content scraped online, I guess, gives you some kind of weird convoluted street-cred. […]

What If Aliens Are Just Costumes?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I don’t remember why I thought of this earlier today and I wonder why it never occurred to me before, but how do we know that all these so-called “alien encounters” with UFO-entities, etc aren’t simply just people dressing up in costumes and playing crazy malevolent tricks on people who have been heavily-drugged?
Almost […]

TLA Adds New Payout Option

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Overall, I have been pleased with the terms, technology and service of one of my two main advertisers on this site, Text-Link-Ads. It’s not perfect, and it may have potentially cost me and many other independent media outlets ranking and traffic, thanks to Google’s privately-controlled data-definition algorithms, but it has still been worth it.
Recently, […]

Google Hiding Most Relevant Results in Site-Specific Index

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

I recently wrote a post entitled “Best PayPal Alternatives” in which I asked for advice on choosing a competitor to PayPal. Not only was I bummed to not get any suggestions from my readers, but I also just discovered that Google is “gaming” search results in my own site {see also: this happening on Cryptogon}. […]