March 2007
Why Google Search is #1
It simply crawls faster and smarter. Post compares how the other ones do (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Google Using Pre-Katrina Imagery on Google Maps
Thirdsin writes “CNN reports that images of lands devastated by Hurricane Katrina have been replaced on Google’s map service with pre-Hurricane Katrina imagery. Now a subcommittee from The House Committee on Science and Technology has asked CEO Eric Schmidt for Google’s motivation behind the imagery switch. ‘[Congressional subcommittee chair Brad] Miller asked Google to...
Rick Fu: Working on Saturdays = Teh suck
Jason's Walking-Around License Gets Revoked
Burly man who pulled frat boy out of tracks: Dude, are you drunk? Frat boy: Ah… Ah… I don’t know. I guess I had something to drink. Burly man: Dude, next time you get on a train make sure it’s there first! —1-2-3 platform, 96th St
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Actual Easter Bunny: That Hits a Little Too Close...
Teen #1: So this kid, Jason — every time we go to a party, he takes a bunch of beers and hides them around whoever’s house we’re at. Teen #2: You mean, where nobody could find them? Teen #1: Yeah — in a potted plant, an underwear drawer, the mailbox — anywhere that will ensure him a beer later on. Teen #2: Christ, he’s like an alcoholic Easter Bunny....
Steven Tyler Was in a Stall, and the Rest Is...
Attendant lady: Excuse me, this is the ladies’ room. Primping man: Oh! I’m just such a lady, sometimes I forget. —Joe’s Pub
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That's Some Sandwich
Mom to five-year-old son eating sandwich at a wake: Put that sandwich down! Your grandfather is dead and you’re eating a sandwich! Boy: [Spits out food and drops sandwich to floor] Is he alive now? —Bronx Overheard by: Culturally Confuzzled Human
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PC Makers to Microsoft: Vista Is Not a Seller. You...
According to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hot cake that they were hoping for. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Net neutrality and the FCC: what's being done to...
In an era defined by free information exchange via the wide open, largely unregulated internet, the concept of federal bodies in the United States stepping in on behalf of monied interests and redefining the way users, businesses, and information all interact is a grim and severe issue for the new world economy. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
MOG 2.0's YouTube Mash-up: What MTV Should Have...
The online music/social networking site MOG just launched a new 2.0 version with a killer YouTube mash-up feature for creating your own automatically-customized video channel from over 150,000 music videos on YouTube. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Good Thing You're Pretty
Little girl #1 looking at Manhattan Mini Storage poster: Do you know what ‘suburb’ means? Little girl #2: Sunburns? Little girl #1: Suburbs. ‘Stuck in the suburbs.’ They’re boring. See that guy in his underwear? His house is in the suburbs. Little girl #2: Sunburns? —N train Overheard by: LSB
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Military Industrial Complex — Warped Priorities
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Why the RIAA doesn't want defendants exonerated
The RIAA’s legal strategy in its war against file sharing has been nothing if not consistent. Recent events show that the music industry’s consistent refusal to exonerate defendants may end up working against it. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
South Park - The Snuke Season 11 Episode 4 -...
If you missed last night’s South Park, here it is. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
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Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service
jazzbazzfazz writes “It seems that some students in Virginia are not happy with the anti-plagiarism service Turnitin. The company checks prose submitted by its customers for signs that it has been copied in whole or part by comparing it to a large database of works that it maintains. Trouble is, it also adds the submitted prose to its files and stores it for use by the company in future...
Musicians Demand the Internet Stay Neutral
eldavojohn writes “124 bands — including R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan, and Pearl Jam — and 24 music labels are sending a clear message to keep Net traffic neutral. The Rock the Net campaign wants all traffic to be equal instead of allowing providers to charge a fee for certain pages to load faster than others. These musicians are the latest to join the Save the Internet campaign, which has the...
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PENN & TELLER'S Bullshit: Gun Control
Gun Control (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
RIAA VP Laughs At Consumerist's "Worst Company In...
are also aware that nobody likes them, but they don’t care about that. Someone also brought up the fact that the RIAA was recently voted as being the “worst company in America”, to which David responded with some laughs and a quip about how they’ve been “beating Exxon-Mobil for years” in that arena. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
RIAA Backs Down After Receiving Stern Letter from...
In SONY BMG v. Merchant, in California, the defendant’s lawyer wrote the RIAA a rather stern letter recounting how weak the RIAA’s evidence is, referring to the deposition of the RIAA’s expert witness, and threatening a malicious prosecution lawsuit. The very same day the RIAA put its tail between its legs and dropped the case. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Which, According to Our Bylaws, I Must Now Give to...
White office guy: When somebody says ‘nigga,’ how do you know if they’re saying ‘nigga’ or ‘nigger’? Black office guy: That’s easy — ‘nigger’ is followed by an ass-whoopin’. —Restaurant, Park Ave South Overheard by: Big Larry
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Rick Fu: Is disappointed that the Diggnation screening @ the Pioneer Theater next Wed and not this Wed. I was so excited.
Rick Fu: I’ll take a shot of Kaluha with my iced coffee, thanks.
UMaine refuses to hand student info to RIAA
“The only way the RIAA can get that information is if the RIAA takes us to court to get those names,” John Diamond, spokesman for the university system said. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
So you think the PATRIOT Act isn't being used...
So you think the PATRIOT Act isn’t being used against American citizens? (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Rick Fu: I <3 the curry chicken @ Pam’s Real Thai.
What One Person Can Do
What One Person Can Do (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Rick Fu: is Sitting in the office wishing I could be outside on this beautiful day.
NYU Approves Gay Fraternity Delta Lambda Phi
After a three-semester trial period, New York University has been approved as an official chapter by the Inter-Greek Council, reports the New York Post:
“Matthew Maggiacomo, 21, an NYU senior who is the chapter’s founder and president, called the development a ‘huge accomplishment.’…’The NYU community has welcomed my group of 11 gay, bisexual and progressive...
Another Anti-Terror List Impacting Businesses,...
HangingChad writes “MSNBC is running a story about yet another government database designed to thwart terrorists and drug dealers that is having impact on people with similar names. Like a no-fly list for businesses, the Office of Foreign Asset Control’s list of ‘specially designated nationals’ has been used in the past by banks and other financial institutions to block...
Viacom Hates Open Source (and Small Children in...
In its disputes with YouTube, Viacom has pulled the video of two developers from the Open Source Lab playing NES on the OLPC. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
John Bolton Completely Pwned by Iraqi Woman.
An Iraqi woman in the audience of a recent BBC program absolutely rips into John Bolton — and his flimsy talking point arguments on Iraq — telling him that she’s lost more relatives during the 4 year American invasion than during the 30 years of Saddam’s rule. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Students largely ignore RIAA instant settlement...
While the RIAA is touting a settlement percentage north of 25 percent with its recent campaign against file sharing at US colleges and universities, the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of students are shunning the insta-settlement approach. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Porn Popup Teacher faces lying yellow journalism...
Norwich Bulletin Oozes Intellectual Dishonesty in Amero Case. Quote: “Children were exposed to six hours of Internet pornography under Amero’s watch.” The gist of their editorial states that Julie Amero alone should bear criminal responsibility for porn on school computer. The Bulletin twists the facts & ignores reality of the trial. (via Rick’s shared items in Google...
AppleTV hacked to bits! by ninjas! →
After over 20 hours of fast and furious action, the AppleTV has yielded to the ninja’s weapons. A great writeup by a dedicated d00d puts togetherall the working “safe” hacks,so far. And for all those a little wary of a Torx screwdriver…Breaking Newsa new development suggesting a usb pendrive softhack is coming. and yes Linux runs
Rick Fu: Tomorrow it’ll be 75 degrees here in the city as well as payday. Huzzahs are in order!
Rick Fu: Channeling Garfield: hating Mondays
John Bolton gets owned
BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman interviews neocon former US ambassador to the UN and Bush-buddy John Bolton, and crushes Bolton’s false notions about Iraq, the war Bolton pushed for (watch Bolton turn red). Bolton hates the UN and any non-militant diplomacy, as echoed by his rhetoric. If only American TV news was this good… (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
"Things may change" for Porn Pop-up teacher
After weeks of e-mails and bad press discrediting the District Attorney’s prosecution of the case, the tide may be turning for So-called porn pop-up teacher Julie Amero. District Attorney Smith is quoted as saying that things “could very well change” between now and Thursday’s sentencing. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
"You Misters Bush and Cheney; you Ms. Rice are...
“You Misters Bush and Cheney; you Ms. Rice are villainously and criminally obscene people, obscene human beings, incompetent even to fulfill your own self-serving agenda, while tragically neglectful and destructive of ours and our country’s. And I got a question for your daughters Mr. Bush. They’re not children anymore. Do they support your policy in Iraq? If they do, how dare they not...
Terror Database spiraling out of control,...
The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), from which U.S Watch Lists are drawn from, has grown to the point that it threatens to overwhelm the people who manage it. The bloated Database has become a vacuum cleaner for both proven and unproven information and has created serious concerns about secrecy, errors and privacy. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Marijuana is safer than aspirin
Marijuana is safer than aspirin (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)
Wii Animation: Hold on Tight, The Sequel
Remember that video that came out a few weeks ago that featured a cute, CGI Wii-mote and a cute, CGI Nunchuk duking it out over Wii Sports? Well, here’s the sequel dubbed “The Wrath of Nunchuk”:
There’s not much to say, except that it’s funny, charming and well-done; the animation was actually created by Wii fanboys and design team, Super 78 Studios. To refresh...
SCO caught trying to change Wikipedia article and...
From this post on Yahoo message boards, someone from within SCO has been caught trying to cover up info they don’t like in Wikipedia’s article on SCO, “sanitize” the Darl McBride article, and post on the Yahoo message boards that SCO stock really is a good buy. The cat’s out of the bag now guys, and public knowledge doesn’t disappear that easily (via...
Apple TV OS available for download, install on any... →
This is a link to a page where you can download the OS. It turns out it is just a stripped down OS X, unleashing such potential for the Apple TV.
RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “The latest target of the RIAA’s ire is a 10-year-old girl in Oregon, who was 7 when the alleged infringement occurred, and whose disabled mother lives on Social Security. In Atlantic v. Andersen, an Oregon case that was widely reported in 2005 when the defendant counterclaimed against the RIAA under Oregon’s RICO statute and other laws, the...
A little under one-third of U.S. households have...
A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives Just by coincidence, that’s the same as the percentage of Bush supporters. (via Rick’s shared items in Google Reader)