Tech: June 2002 Archives
June 19, 2002
I found this post about Googlebots via this post about the Google Dance… which I found by randomly surfing DMOZ's Sci/Tech Weblogs directory. The post about googlebots is very funny.
June 13, 2002
This has me laughing out loud.
Think of it. Every musical experience will be like the first time. Every track will be exciting and new. And you'll never have a song stuck in your head again.
Classic.
Addendum: Just saw (via Instapundit) this article on LawMeme regarding cheaper, downloadable music. I have to agree with Miller: I think it's inevitable that the music will include some sort of nonportability tech, and that using Liquid is a very obvious tip-off of this. The industry seems to have wised up a hair (if they do in fact sell entire CDs for $9.99, and new CDs instead of just old stock), but them getting entirely clueful all at once is a bit hard to swallow. I hope they surprise me, though.
June 6, 2002
I don't know whether this is incredibly funny or incredibly sad, but I read some of pirated-sites.com over lunch today. It's amazing how blatant these ripoffs can be. Someone on the Evolt mailing list today pointed out the following URLS:
http://www.web-designers.co.uk/design.htm and
http://www.ezewebdesign.net/faqs.htm
Check the second heading specifically.
Update: It appears ezewebdesign has found out about being found out. You can still see the page in Google's cache, though I don't think it's the same version I saw earlier today. IIRC, earlier today the web page actually still had "Web Designers Limited" in at least one place.
Update: Even better, this site not only ripped off a website quite well-known among web designers, they did so in such an inept fashion that they left intact the HTML tag that identifies the copyright holder:
<META content="© 1999-2001 evolt.org and its members" name=copyright>
!! Well done, guys. All that and a bouncing marquee, too…
