A Day in Paradise

… of getting bought up by google?
If 100% of your revenue is through google adsense, and google is making 100% (or more) on your 100%, then wouldn’t your worth to google be cut by 50%?
This is disregarding my “community in a box” article.

Russian former spy dies
I love the hypocricy which surrounds the glorification/demonization of spies.

This disturbs me on many levels.
Police brutality is nothing new, but what was most shocking about this video was how little the 100 or more students standing around did to stop it.
The question that needs to be answered is “if not you, then who?” what is the point in having a free country with the […]

This is an extension to my latest comment on this blog entry.
If you search for just about any term in google, you will find that if a wikipedia entry exists it will be ranked among the top few entries.
This exposes a flaw in the concept of Google search algorithms, as despite the quality of […]

I’ve been waiting to reveal my conspiracy theory about the Google acquisition of YouTube, but then I saw this post about Sun’s Project Blackbox, and decided it was time to let the cat out of the bag.
Project Blackbox, is a mobile datacenter from Sun. About this time last year Cringley reported that Google was working […]

Democracy Now
The guy from loose change sounded like a jerk and called everyone a liar, the guy from popular mechanics violated Godwin’s law.
Facts can be made to say anything when tortured sufficiently. “Experts” will do the same just to get their face on TV. Who are you going to believe?

(putting on his best Jack Bauer voice) I need you to cross check the records for these two men. Call devision and get the names of everyone they met in the weeks preceeding their deaths, cross check those results against our database and see if anything comes up. I also need to coroners reports, cross […]

Alton man throws children off 15th floor of Miami Beach hotel
A cancer doctor from Godfrey celebrating his wedding anniversary threw his two young sons off the 15th-story balcony of a South Beach hotel Saturday before jumping to his death, police say.
Dr. Edward Van Dyk, a radiation oncologist at Alton Memorial Hospital, and his two sons […]

I always knew there was something weird about wired!

A couple days ago I blogged about the Loose Change documentary on the events surrounding September 11th. I finally got around to watching it last night.
Now, even though I’m a bit of a conspiracist I do understand a couple basic points about these kinds of events.

You are not an expert! Even though something may sound […]

Are you an Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiac?
It says it in wikipedia… it must be true!

Cory Doctorow’s Literary Works
Anyone who is interested in DRM and Copy Protection either in Europe and/or around the world needs to listen to this speech which Cory Doctorow gave in a media event in Antwerp, Belguim.
In the first 20 minutes he gives a rundown of what DRM means to regular people, using real world examples […]

php | architect - The PHP Magazine for PHP Professionals
Over the last year or so I’ve been downloading selected PDF versions of the PHP|Arch magazine, printing articles that interest me out and filing them in my categorized folder.
Thanks to today’s $0.99 cent/mag promotion I’ve just about completed my set of PDFs, giving me an impressive […]

witz.org: Natalie Portman is bald, smoking cigarettes
Pictures probably taken during the filming of V for Vendetta, in which she is shorn. I can’t wait for Vendetta to come out, they’ve pushed back the release date (rumored because of the London bomings), but hope they don’t buckle in and change the storyline as well. Would be […]

Stock News Direct: Did Pat Robertson Profit From His Assasination Comment?
Did Pat Robertson make money by publicly calling for the murder of Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela?
Political-economic analyst Al Martin says, “Pat’s comments created a so-called ‘flight to quality’ bid in both the September long bonds and the Sep. dollar cntracts…What’s interesting to note,” Martin […]