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“January 1 TCP/IP” scam

When you visit google.com today, there is a new doodle:

When you click the link, it queries “January 1 tcp/ip“, which links to a Digg story about today being the 25th birthday of TCP/IP.
The funny thing is, under this story is a flurry of Adsense scams.

As soon as the doodle went up, people created content [...]

Super Mario Villian Auditions

I promise this video is better than the one I posted yesterday.

A day to remember for baseball and computers

Early this morning, Apple released it’s new iMac. I don’t need to explain the specs, but I see it as the absolute best personal computer on the market right now.

When I heard about Apple’s blitzkrieg press conference this morning, I got really excited. For once, Apple hadn’t intentionally hyped up a product release. From watching [...]

Highlights from WordCamp 2007

Unconferencing is one of the reasons I moved to San Francisco. They are free, geek-infested, and very enlightening. The open source software community is probably my favorite group of folks to hang out with here.
I spent my whole day at WordCamp 2007, hosted at the Swedish American Hall in downtown SF.

The event was [...]

And then there were eight

25 years of media mergers, from GE-NBC to Google-YouTube.
This image shows how only a few big corporations control the media.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, Free Press

Va. Tech’s Weaver dedicates British Amateur win to shooting victims

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Virginia Tech student Drew Weaver became the first American to win the British Amateur golf tournament since 1979, dedicating his victory Saturday to the victims of the campus massacre.

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Drew Weaver became the first American to win the British Amateur tournament since 1979.
The 20-year-old junior defeated Australia’s Tim [...]