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1,001 uses and counting….
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Category Archives: Internet
It was on the good ship Venus…
But the buggers won’t let you see us,
You won’t see me much on Google+ anymore….
Don’t be evil
US anti-piracy body targets foreign website owners for extradition | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-piracy-extradition-prosecution
The ‘monopoly capitalists’ and their aggression are sowing a whirlwind with their unequal treaties, Mao’s words today have a newer meaning.
Apocalypse cancelled…
http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/may22011/index.html
Ralph Lauren photoshop fail
http://www.ralphlauren.com/frontdoor/index.jsp?videoflash=false&flashversion=0
Thumbs down for Ralph Lauren crimes against free expression and for photoshop fail.
“Dude, her head’s bigger than her pelvis” – Boing Boing
“First they came for the supermodels,
but I didn’t care because I wasn’t a supermodel…’
Ralph Lauren didn’t like people mocking their poor photoshop skills and ordered their lawyers to suppress it by drawing upon that shining example of American ‘liberty’ the DMCA.
Boing Boing replied:
So, to Ralph Lauren, GreenbergTraurig, and PRL Holdings, Inc: sue and be damned. Copyright law doesn’t give you the right to threaten your critics for pointing out the problems with your offerings. You should know better. And every time you threaten to sue us over stuff like this, we will:
a) Reproduce the original criticism, making damned sure that all our readers get a good, long look at it, and;
b) Publish your spurious legal threat along with copious mockery, so that it becomes highly ranked in search engines where other people you threaten can find it and take heart; and
c) Offer nourishing soup and sandwiches to your models
See:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/09/xeni-on-rachel-maddo.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/08/ralph_lauren_photoshop/
Pandorabots – chat bots
“Pandorabots is an experimental software robot hosting service based… “
I love the concept and admire the hard work, but these bots have a long way to go before they can pass the Turing test.
The news section is regularly updated (monthly), with news about commercial chatbots for major players such as AOL as well as providing tools for the open source community
Update 2022: well the chatbots have evolved and nice to see that the company is still operational. They have added voice recognition which is a nice touch but I’m still waiting for one to pass that elusive Turing Test. Perhaps if they name one Wintermute?
Check out their latest offering here:
Electric Sheep (video)
Baaaaaaa!
More Electric Sheep, this time from Flock 191.
iCab – Internet Taxi for the Mac
Update 2022 – I used this browser for a while but to be honest it hasn’t kept up with the main Mac browsers like safari and Chrome.
Also as shareware it doesn’t make sense to pay for something that you can get free elsewhere.
The additional features such as kiosk mode, malware alerts, download manager, source code viewer etc. are also available elsewhere at no cost.
Datalude Internet Security Hong kong
http://www.datalude.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=27
Passwords can be either too easily cracked or too difficult to remember. This page from my friends at Datalude, an Information Security Company based in Hong Kong, gives some tips and suggestions that you may find useful including a ‘sensible password generator’
Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/
No longer works use this instead:
http://www.chinafirewalltest.com
If you like to roam the web bear in mind that if you were in the People’s Republic of China you couldn’t go where you liked. Find out if your favourite site is blocked in China – if you like news or ‘Adult’ content then it probably is.