Services like BugMeNot.com are helping people get around the registration required of various news sites. Many sites like the New York Times require readers to complete a free registration before accessing much of their content in order to enable them to gather statistics necessary for selling advertising. For some reason, a lot of people feel...
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It's time to go grocery shopping. You know the drill: fill your cart; walk by all the checkout lines, looking for the shortest one; perhaps pay attention to how fast the cachier looks; get in line; and then it always happens! The person in front of you has a fifteen minute conversation about how th...
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When terrorists threaten to kill a hostage if a country doesn't pull their troops out of Iraq, why not respond that if they kill the hostage, you'll increase the number of troops and come after them. And then if they kill the hostage, follow through. Make the consequences exactly the opposite of what they're trying...
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I don't suppose I need to rant about this for long. Daylight savings time is a nuisance. Changing clocks, adjusting to a new sleeping schedule, and figuring out time zone differences based on the time of year, are a pain. Would it be so difficult for the (probably rare) business or school that feels the...
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If a politician speaks in the forest, and no one is there to hear him, is he still a liar?

Having a great idea is a lot of fun. The initial rush of setting up a blog on a new topic that has inspired you will carry you through the first few days or weeks of entries. The problem isn't so much that the rush wears off and the blog dies as that nobody's around...
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A while back, I read somebody's blog entry proposing the idea of "AdFeeds" as an alternative to putting ads into existing newsfeeds. The idea is to generate feeds with nothing in them but ads on some focused topic, and use those to generate revenue to support free feeds. If people want to try that, more...
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I read that Steve Jobs made mention of RSS in his WWDC keynote and it sparked a thought. When you get mentioned by important people, you know you're on to something important. When you get mentioned by self-important people, you know you're convincing people that you're on to something important.

Before I get completely misinterpreted...
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Ah, the good ol' days, before I learned how complex the internet is. I remember the peaceful days of my youth last year when I started designing Info Bite List. RSS had a few problems. Atom had a few problems. I had some answers. Designing an alternate format was easy. The internet was my virtual...
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The other day, as I pulled into a tech company parking lot, I saw one of those Hummers that the ostentatious are buying as status symbols these days. It looked ridiculous. A few weeks ago I saw one at a stoplight. It looked ridiculous too.

The Hummers like these that one sees around town have...
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