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Month: January 2006


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Easter Egg in Foxtrot

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From Stupid Evil Bastard, we get an Easter egg in today’s Foxtrot strip. For the lazy, the binary in the strip is 01011001010011110101010101001110010001010101001001000100. Relavent tool here. I bow to Les’ geekiness on this one. And Bill Amend’s.

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Yahoo Buys Webjay

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I would have posted this regardless of the last post, but, in another move that shows Yahoo “gets it”, they have acquired Webjay, a very cool social music playlist site (and excellent source of free, legal, MP3s). Expect much gnashing of teeth in the indie/emo/overly-committed music fan crowd (ala Flickr), and then, hopefully some cool […]

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I'm a Winner!

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I needed the affirmation today. Apparently, I may have just won a contest, this one to be precise. The author of Yahoo! Hacks, Paul Bausch, asked “In what month/year did Yahoo! publicly launch their Search Web Services?”. Yahoo! dutifully searved up the answer via their Yahoo! Search blog as Feb 28, 2005. The prize is […]

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You Have Got To Be Kidding – IRS Wants to Tax Virtual Barters

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I read this article twice looking for the joke, then realized there isn’t one. …IRS advisers specializing in the arcane field of barter income recently offered the opinion that any trade of one virtual item for another–gold pieces for thick leather, uber drops for plat–could very well constitute a taxable, income-generating exchange according to the […]

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Sellout

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Buried in the announcement about Google Video content being available for sale (see the last sentence in this article) is the fact that Google either created its own DRM scheme to “protect” the videos. And the fanboys are suffering from some serious cognitive dissonance issues right now. This thread at Digg is hilarious as the […]

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LoTR as WoW

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This may be a dangerous fusion of two, too-large, geeky aspects of my personality, but it made me laugh. Note: Large GIF file ahead, requires l33t and previous viewing of LoTR. If you don’t know what any of those acronyms mean, skip the link. Link [via Screenhead]