February 24, 2004
Craig's List: will trade web design for massage
— he's a great designer, and a handsome guy to boot #
There.com simulating Earth for the Department of Defense
— so military personnel can chat and ride hoverboards #
EMI/Capitol e-mailing preemptive cease and desist e-mails to all Grey Tuesday sites
— expect an e-mail, whether you're hosting the album or not #
Staten Island reporter writes about her appearance on The Apprentice
— reality TV never ends up being very real #
Terrible celebrity impersonators from Amsterdam
— the worst are Sarah Jessica Parker and Tom Hanks #
Virus distributors selling lists of infected machines to spammers
— this is very bad, virus writing is a career for some #
Indie filmmaker Sarah Jacobson dies of cancer at 32
— she was a Gettingit contributor and friend of the staff #
Cute, but mildly disturbing, baby costumes
— babies dressed as animals, dragons, fruit, and adults #
Deaddrop and Moogle, two great ideas from Boogah
— Google should start indexing all public discussion lists #
EMI lawyer sends pre-emptive Grey Tuesday e-mail to George
— being listed first on the official site didn't help him any #
Eddie Clontz, editor of Weekly World News, dead at 56
— all of the obits are great, but this one stands out #
Usenet kook, "FBI is torturing me for 2.5 Years"
— the guy badly needs meds, his replies are depressing #
Rollup.org, free and public multi-feed aggregator
— might be fun to publicly aggregate your feedroll #
Teen hacker triggered nuclear terrorism alert
— by setting up an FTP site for music and movies, no less #
Personal e-mail networks to filter out spam
— compile a list of From/Cc/Bcc addresses from good e-mail to build a whitelist #
Napster 2.0 is losing money, executives, and will to live
— I can't believe they even pull in $1 million a month #
Zeldman on the current drop shadow and bevel revival
— I'm waiting for page curls and Kai fractal backgrounds to make a comeback #
John Hargrave orders Viagra online and reports the effects
— Zug.com has been makng me laugh for almost ten years #
Verizon drops several binary newsgroups, blocks new binary groups
— yet another reason to pay for a premium feed #