• I want Opt-out

    Like me, I’m sure that those pop-up (and under)ads are driving you crazy. This site from Technoerotica.net claims to help you kill pop-up ads on your browser. Let me know if it works by posting a comment. Listen ⇢

  • Greatest Phone Message in History

    the Greatest Phone Message in History. From WBEZ in Chicago | This American Life Listen ⇢

  • Cybergrrrl Jumps Ship

    You have to admire Aliza Sherman, the web pioneer creator of Cybergrrrl. In August 2000, she quit her New York-based Cybergrrl, junked plans for another start-up, bought a 1977 RV with rust-colored shag carpeting, and cruised the country for a year-and-a-half with her two Chihuahuas, Chewie and Ernie. Read the… Listen ⇢

  • Where Have I Been?

    The fact that there haven’t been entries here in many days is not due to lack of interest or time on my part. Over at my hosting site, some boneheaded customer ran some rogue script that made toast of many folks sites. For the past few days I have been… Listen ⇢

  • Chandra Photos of the Milky Way

    For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory yet built and was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia in July of 1999. Yesterday NASA released a 400 by 900 light-year(!) mosaic of several Chandra images of the central… Listen ⇢

  • The New Napster

    Napster has finally released it’s pay service to 20,000 beta testers using only music from a few Indy labels. Despite my inclination to dismiss any aand all subscription services from the majors (Napster is partially owned by Bertlesman), given Napsters place in the music world, I cannot write them off… Listen ⇢

  • The Color of the Universe

    Want to know what color the universe is? Listen ⇢

  • The New Yorker Inane Ad of the Week

    It is true that the New Yorker is my favorite magazine, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love checking out The New Yorker Inane Ad of the Week. Robert Callahan’s site “highlights an especially absurd advertisement from the pages of the militantly bourgeois New Yorker magazine. The selected avertisements evince… Listen ⇢

  • Trammeled

    I am certainly excited to see a defensive wiz like Ozzie Smith make the Hall of fame on the first ballot, but in his Listen ⇢

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