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Ethiopia plans to expand Internet access: Ambitious. Ethiopia, one of the poorest nations on earth, will expand Internet coverage from a handful of users to the entire country in three years, the prime minister said Tuesday. Is Internet access really that big of a change for a country like Ethopia? ...

Pay no mind that you are currently on the internet, but, the internet has crashed. I hope you have backups, because the government doesn t. Which leads to the next question, what would you do without the internet? via The Onion

Internet Homebuyers Save Time, Spend More Money: That's a lot of money for Net geeks to spend on a house. It may surprise some that the average priced home bought by an Internet homebuyer is $462,000. It may surprise most Realtors that the Internet homebuyer typically does more research than ...

The President of the Internet | CEO Blues: Finally, a goal worthy of my time. Recently there has been some debate as to who the President of the Internet is and how they came to power. The concerned parties mutually agreed that because Google is unbiased and somewhat democratic it ...

Gore to get lifetime award for Internet: Maybe he did invent the Internet after all... In part to "set the record straight," they will give Gore a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet, said Tiffany Shlain, the awards' founder and chairwoman. "It's just one of ...

Internet 96: A fascinating look at the Internet back in 1996. It wasn t a greatest of places, actually. Many screencaps. McDonalds wow. I decided to peruse the Wayback Machine s earliest archives to see what the internet looked like in 1996, when I was 14 and evidently had much less free time ...

Plan for UN to run internet 'will be shelved': I'm not paranoid about the U.N. like some people, but this just strikes me as a bad idea, mixing business and politics to this extent. "An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is ...

Wired News: Clark's Run: Net Made Him Do It: They're talking about DraftWesleyClark.com, an example of something that would probably never have happened without the Internet. "Gen. Wesley Clark's decision to enter the Democratic presidential race is another sign of the Internet's growing influence on American politics, political experts and ...

Is it modern art? No, it's a map of the Internet completed in one day on one computer using an automated version of traceroute.

Internet 'discovered' kid soccer star ... could you be next?: An interesting look at the how the Internet can change everything. I've seen this video, and the kid is truly amazing. Without the Internet, the odds of what is about to happen to him would be nil. [Jean Carlos] Chera, ...

Nine Year Old Aims to Print the Internet: While this is a heartwarming story of a town rallying around a youngster with a goal, it's also a stunning waste of resources. Dorothy and Dwight Darnell, were surprised last week when they discovered reams of pages printed from the Internet in ...

A good rant by Russ McGuire on WorldNetDaily about the recent worm problems and how MS makes it possible for hackers (aka: internet terrorists) to make life miserable on the net. "Bottom line, thanks to the powerful tools (or should I say weapons) that Microsoft has built into their products, ...

Top Ten Internet Fads: A great little article. I never knew what a sig virus was. And their comments on WAP are great. WAP is the sound a clunky Internet-enabled cellphone makes when you throw it at a brick wall in frustration. I agree 100% with the winner. I had ...

Internet meltdown predicted for tomorrow: I give odds at 100-to-1 that this will actually happen. A Russian computer security expert has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down by terrorists tomorrow. Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs was speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information ...

Submitting TrackBack as an Internet Standard: Six Apart is forming a "Trackback Working Group" to try and make trackbacks an Internet standard. Six Apart has engaged many companies wishing to extend the TrackBack protocol in some way, a proposition that Six Apart is excited about and encourages. However, no one ...

Nigeria to tackle internet fraud: I'm pretty pessimistic about this, since in the same article they say that the 419 scams are a major generator of foreign currency. I worry that there may be too many people in high position that benefit from it for there to be an effective ...

Something to look out for when you travel: hotels advertising "Free High-Speed Internet" may be fudging the terms just a little bit. I stayed in a hotel in New Jersey once that advertised this. I was all excited to get my laptop hooked up and check my email when I ...

The internet is s**t: Worth reading: " ...look what we've done with [the Internet]. Food wrappers and soap operas now tell us to visit their websites. Money is pumped online by people who can't even spell HTML. All manner of pointless and irritating content is continually poured down the infinite ...

Here come the Net taxes: Apparently 19 states are adding a line to their tax returns asking people how much stuff they bought on the Internet this year, and asking them to pay sales tax on it. And, according to this article, that's only the beginning. Don't snicker at the ...

Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta: Hadn't seen this before, but I'm game for anything that makes developing for IE suck less. Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page. [...] Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques. ...

Thirty five years ago today, the first ever RFC was filed with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). RFC 1 describes software and protocols for transferring data on the planned ARPA Network. During the summer of 1968, representatives from the initial four sites met several times to discuss the HOST ...

Webcast royalty rate decision announced: Is this the death kneel for Internet radio? The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music ...

Test bed helps the Internet evolve: The Internet has a dev environment, it turns out. "The project sponsored by Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., as well as many universities, is currently running on more than 160 machines at 65 sites worldwide. 'PlanetLab is a wonderful resource. Because it is in ...

Security risks swell for Microsoft's Explorer: From the Gee, That's Obvious Department. Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to surf the Internet has become a marked risk even with the latest security patches installed. That's the upshot of the discovery of yet another Internet Explorer security hole being exploited ...

Internet Bookmobile: This could be the greatest idea in the history of the world. So what is the Bookmobile? It is a mobile digital library capable of downloading public domain books from the Internet via satellite and printing them anytime, anywhere, for anyone. It will be traveling across the country ...

101 Ways to Save the Internet: Some great ideas here. Create the all-in-one inbox Email, phone calls, instant messages they should all go into a single app. [...] Simplify Web publishing Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move? [...] Release ...

Web Access a Central Utility of Daily American Life: I'd get rid of cable TV before I'd get rid of my connection. The Internet has become such an integral part of American consumers' daily lives that families now routinely treat their home computer monitors as they once treated their TV ...

Hit TV show to become interactive game: I wonder if they're going to tie into all the fake Web sites they have out there. ABC will launch a global interactive game based on the hit TV show "Lost," the network announced Monday. Details, however, are about as mysterious and convoluted ...

New Internet Speed Record Set by Euro: A year ago or so, a guy tried to prove that the movie industry was paranoid about copyrights by trying to transmit an entire movie across the Internet 43GB worth, if I remember. He tried to FTP it, then email it, etc. ...

What’s Your Meme IQ?: I didn t go through the whole list (it s long), but I can say through the first 30 or so, there were only two I hadn t heard of. We here at memelabs spend quite a bit of time on the internet and one of our favorite things ...

Killer taunts victim's family over the Internet: With the good, comes the bad. ...[Jack] Trawick's twisted writings about how he beat, strangled and stabbed Stephanie Gach and killed other women are available to anyone who wants to read them on the Internet. .... The killer even taunts [the victim's mother] ...

Tim Berners-Lee s original NeXT machine first Web server: I love this. That s Tim s handwriting on the first computer on the Web (this is the computer that Tim used to invent the WWW).

Since arriving in Iraq, people have been amazed at the ease of which I am able to communicate with my friends and family. I have to admit, I have been amazed, too. I never thought I would have this much access to home. Internet and phone technology is in the ...

The Great Library of Amazonia: Here's a fantastic article about multiple efforts to catalog all of humankind's published knowledge, from Amazon's Search Inside the Book to Project Gutenberg to the Internet Archive. This stuff gives me goosebumps. The more specific the search, the more rewarding the experience. For instance, I've ...

Last year, Verisign unleashed upon the world the universally despised 'Site Finder' service, which changed the way DNS works so that any time you typed a domain name that didn't exist, the DNS system would send your browser to a web page where Verisign would (mostly) try to sell you ...

I got quoted the other day in an article about the SQL Slammer virus in the local newspaper. (Note: I don't think the above link is going to stay valid, so I've blatantly disregarded copyright laws and reprinted the article here as well.) Web worm slows area businesses Jay Kirschenmann ...

World wants more say in control of World Wide Web: Here's a good summary of the whole "who controls the Internet" issue that's making noise. Did you know it started with porn? More specifically, with the approval of the proposed ".xxx" TLD: It wasn't a moral judgment. ICANN's job ...

It must be true, cuz the e-mail I got today said so. At least the subject line did. Warning:  Too Many Websites! Guess how many websites there are on the Internet? I wish I knew the answer, but I guarantee you it is in the tens of millions. Yep, millions ...

Internet Business For Sale: Some big money is being asked on this page. This site is on the block for $20 million. One of the few remaining leading photo sharing portals is exploring acquisition opportunities. Currently in its seventh year of operations, this online photo service enables its members to ...

Internet 'Geek' Image Shattered by New Study: I just knew I wasn't a dork. Awesome. ...the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the non-user, it says. And, television viewing is down among some Internet users by as much ...

This seems a little oppressive... An antiterror law makes Internet cafe managers check their clients' IDs and track the websites they visit. ...Maurizio Savoni says he's closing his Internet cafe because he doesn't want to be a "cop" anymore. [...] ...Savoni had to obtain a new public communications business license, ...

Internet Toilet Roll Browser: Nothing here besides a picture and this text, but still enough proof that the word is ending. Please, someone, tell me this is a hoax. "Fancy catching up with your emails? The Internet Loo Roll Browser is a novel and unique product designed to make best ...

Alexa Web Search Data Services: You can get the entire contents of the Alexa index on disk. Probably several. "The world's largest crawl and massive archive is available. Imagine the entire contents of the world wide web... on disk." Dare you to run a SQL query on this baby, ...

Business Must Be Cautious With Firefox: Why ComputerWorld thinks you should not use Firefox. In the near term, many business users will be better served by keeping Internet Explorer and installing security updates as they're released. If they aren't dependent on Internet Explorer technology, however, some end users could use ...

FBI targets Net phoning: The government wants to start tapping Internet phone calls. "The new rules are necessary, because terrorists could otherwise frustrate legitimate wiretaps by placing phone calls over the Internet, warns a summary of a July 10 meeting with the FCC that the FBI prepared. 'Broadband networks may ...

Mamma Mia! Papa John s raking in the dough online: An entire article on CNN about the apparent explosion of ordering pizza on the Net. Dominos Pizza Inc., put its own twist on online ordering early this year by introducing a Pizza Tracker, which lets customers keep tabs on the progress ...

911 calls made over Internet often get lower priority: Here's an unintended consequence of VoIP calls. Emergency calls made using new Internet telephone services ring in through a nonemergency line and often aren't answered immediately, according to an official who runs Ramsey County's largest 911 emergency call center. Fred Fischer, ...

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (832894): Tell me, why is this a good idea? Hasn't this been a standard for a lo-o-o-ong time now? The update removes support for handling user names and passwords in HTTP and HTTP with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or HTTPS URLs in Microsoft Internet ...

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer: This is a good article from Slate that rings true Mozilla and Firefox are surging in the market right now. More and more, people are switching. You've probably been told to dump Internet Explorer for a Mozilla ...

Gloves come off as Wal-Mart, critics slam each other on Web: A Web war is on between Wal-Mart and their critics, with new Web sites popping up all over the place. The brawl between Wal-Mart and its union critics is escalating as groups on both sides, fighting over whether the ...

I'm in a hotel in Boston right now -- the Airport Holiday Inn, no less. It has high-speed Internet, but wireless only. The ethernet cables no longer work. No wireless card, no Internet.

The odd trip of a mysterious recor: Here's an interesting story about how 11 MP3s of unreleased Fiona Apple tracks somehow got on the Internet and subsequently resurrected her career. Last year, Apple and the multitalented producer Jon Brion came up with a wonderfully complex construction of Brion's vision and ...

Internet Explorer Takes Another Market-Share Hit: It's small, sure, but it's perceptible. Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer lost nearly a percentage point in market share in the past seven weeks and is nearing a loss of 3 percentage points since its decline first began in early June, [...] Internet Explorer dropped ...

OK, so I've been off the grid for three days now, soaking my feet in the ocean, and having a great vacation. But I've started to realize how much I take net access for granted. So far I've realized that I can't: Send pictures Check ferry schedules Check flight information ...

Matt Webb has postulated a fascinating theory about the dot-com bubble, and why so much money got thrown after so many crazy ideas. A great article and a must-read for web folks. The huge influx of cash at the turn of the millennium led to the whole Web being built ...

NBC - Saturday Night Live - Special Treat in a Box: If you watch Saturday Night Live, you probably noticed that they finally matched Lazy Sunday this weekend with another Digital Short that -- I'm embarrassed to admit -- had me rolling on the floor laughing. The short had a ...

Rehab for Web addicts includes shock treatments: It was announced recently that China has the second largest number of people online, after the United States. Apparently some of them are online too much. While China promotes Internet use for business and education, government officials also say Internet cafes are eroding ...

Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine.: This is an interesting article on Second Life, which I think is the next YouTube in terms of its effect on the Internet. Really, really big things are going to happen with this. By early January more than 3,000 ...

Looks like IPv6 is going from being that funny option in the network stack that nobody uses to being a real live protocol. Reuters has the story. Vinton Cerf of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the next-generation protocol, IPv6, had been added to its root ...

Is Opera in Microsoft's future?: Dvorak says Microsoft should dump IE altogether and buy Opera lock, stock, and barrel. This week Microsoft announced that it wouldn't upgrade the Internet Explorer for the Macintosh, leaving that market segment to apparently languish and gravitate towards the Safari browser and Firefox. Microsoft does ...

MetroPipe Products: I knew it was just a matter of time before someone did this with a keychain drive. Carry your entire Internet communication system on a tiny USB drive. Contains a complete virtual Linux machine with privacy-enabled Open Source Internet applications.

do bloggers dream of electrifying text?: This is an interesting little story about how someone wanted to become a Writer!, but found the Internet and became a writer instead. And then came the Internet. All of a sudden, writing is infinitely reproducible. Anyone who wants to write can self-publish. There ...

Play, Learn, and Surf...with Kids.us!: Good for them. Just wait for the wave of IE plug-ins that will lock the browser down to this domain only. "Finally, there's an Internet domain that parents and children can trust for educational and appropriate online fun: kids.us! All content on affiliated sites is ...

About anonymity . . .: Think you're safe if you register your domain name "anonymously"? Apparently not: Despite paying Domains by Proxy an additional fee to register foetry.com anonymously, they responded to a letter from a personal injury lawyer, and canceled my registration without notifying me of a complaint. Let ...

Judge: Libel limit applies to Web: Interesting. Godbey ruled Monday that the one-year clock begins ticking when an article first appears on the Internet and ends a year later, even if the article in question remains available for reading on the Internet.

There's a new version out of Dave's Quick Search Deskbar, which is a terrific addon toolbar for your Windows taskbar. Dave's Quick Search Deskbar is a tiny textbox that Dave Bau designed for search hounds with weary mouse-fingers. Unlike the Google Toolbar, this little deskbar lets you launch searches without ...

Search engine Google plans own WiFi service: Can someone explain why on Earth Google feels the need to do this? Internet search leader Google is preparing to launch its own wireless Internet service, Google WiFi, according to several pages found on the company's Web site on Tuesday.

New on MSDN: IEBlog. The official blog of the Internet Explorer product team. As it turns out, there is an Internet Explorer product team. And they're working on IE 7. Go figure. Their take on IE? I Love This Browser! I hopefully got your attention with the title of my ...

Windows XP Service Pack 2: Use the Internet Explorer Information Bar: Microsoft did a good job with the latest addition to IE: the Information Bar. Internet Explorer now displays an Information Bar (just below the address bar) where you can see information about downloads, blocked pop-up windows, potential security risks, ...

I was driving through rural South Dakota with my son the other day and a radio ad for a local Internet provider came on. In the background, under the voiceover, was the screeching sound of a modem handshake, meant to invoke the idea of logging onto the Internet. I have ...

Wireless Internet access about to go extra 5 miles: We had WiMax-like service here in Sioux Falls as a test market for Monet Mobile. You could surf the Web from a laptop in the back seat of your car driving down the interstate. Sadly, it looks like Monet was a ...

Internet Calling Pressures Bells to Lower Rates: Interesting article about how Internet phone service -- the Skypes and Vonages of the world -- are affecting traditional phone companies. [...] Verizon recently sent letters to customers offering a calling plan that includes unlimited phone service for $35 a month, instead of ...

Tivo, Netflix Close to Internet Movie Deal - Report: This is a great partnership idea. We're getting closer to the "I wanna watch this movie right now" utopia. Netflix Inc. and [...] TiVo Inc. are close to a deal to allow Netflix subscribers to download movies over the Internet to ...

Study finds 260 million porn pages on Internet: I want to meet the guy that counted these. I bet he counted some twice. "The number of pornography pages on the Internet has exploded to 260 million, or some 1,800 percent more than five years ago, according to a study by ...

Is this the end of an era? The site that chronicled Internet IPOs has finally closed its doors. "It was a few days and 6 years ago that IPO.com was founded. In that time we have tracked the equity markets during the glory days of the Internet and through the ...

U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications: Okay, this is crappy enough: A patent has been granted to a relatively unknown California Web-design firm for an invention its creator says covers the design and creation of most rich-media applications used over the Internet. The patent holder, Balthaser ...

Music industry raids offices of Kazaa: Australian authorities went after Kazaa today, looking for evidence of copyright infringement. The raided sites included the office of Kazaa owner Sharman Networks, the homes of two of the company's executives, three Australian universities and Internet service providers. Fark had the best headline for ...

Wired 11.07: Slammed!: Here's the story that Wired took some heat about. The first page is a harrowing look at the spead of the SQL Slammer virus written in a style that would make Michael Crichton proud. The second page tells you how it works. "By 12:45 am, huge sections ...

Internet infection spreads rapidly: "A virus-like infection that was the subject of urgent U.S. government and industry warnings spread rapidly Monday across the Internet, causing computers to mysteriously restart and coordinating an electronic attack against Microsoft Corp." So a virus that exploits a flaw in Windows is coordinating computers to ...

ieSpell - Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer: This is asked for so often by end users. How long before we get a Mozilla or Firebird extension for this? ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in ...

ieSpell - Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer: "ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. ... The program installs as a new button in the IE toolbar (as well as a new menu item under 'Tools') after filling in ...

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008: This is so necessary. Someone had to step up and kick the snowball off the hill. On August 15th, 2008 we will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 across all 37signals products. In order ...

Melding of cell phones and Wi-Fi will be cosmic, man: New buzzword alert. Over the next few years, companies will start selling dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi phones. The phones will be able to make voice calls either on a cellular network, or by connecting via Wi-Fi wireless Internet to make calls using ...

St. Louis to offer free wireless Internet network to lure business and residents downtown "The city of St. Louis is setting up what could be the nation's largest, free, wireless Internet network in hopes of drawing techno-savvy businesses, tourists and residents to the downtown business district. The city has teamed ...

Internet language runs real, virtual Mars rover: Spirit runs on Java. I wonder if Beagle was running .Net? Java, the software developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s as a universal platform for Internet applications, gave NASA a low-cost and easy-to-use option for running Spirit, the robotic rover that ...

RIAA site disabled for five days: Five days and running. As the Recording Industry Association of America continues its push to shut down digital pirates, the industry group suffered its own defeat online. According to data from Internet watcher Netcraft, the trade group's site has not been reachable for nearly ...

U.S. Interior Dept. unplugged from Internet for a third time: Wide swaths of the Interior Department were taken off the Internet again Tuesday after a federal judge concluded that the agency still has not fixed security holes that threaten payments owed to American Indians. It was the third such shutdown ...

Coke Enters the Music Business: Wal-Mart, iTunes, Microsoft, and now Coke? Coca-Cola is launching an Internet music download service in Britain next month, the first consumer brand to jump into Europe's crowded Internet music market, the company said on Monday. The soft drinks maker said that in January it will ...

Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet: A European council has decided that if you flame someone, you have to allow them to respond in the same space. The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or 'blogs'), must ...

The BIG Blog Show! - The Internet's First Reality Blog!: Start the apocalypse countdown, we're hitting bottom in 5, 4, 3... What happens when you take a bunch of web bloggers from various genres, styles, and locations around the wolrd...and make them share one blog together for the world to ...

Updated: Longhorn PDC Build 4051 Leaked: New Longhorn screenshots are in the wild. "The moment nearly every Windows enthusiast has been waiting for has all but nearly arrived. Windows Code-Named Longhorn 4051 has leaked onto the internet. As Paul Thurrott correctly confirmed late last evening. The select few who have ...

Here's something interesting. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools > Internet Tools... On the General tab (the default tab), click the Accessibility button in the lower right. Check all the boxes in the top section (see picture at right). There, now you're surfing naked with no page formatting no ...

Australia's Internet Industry Association is launching a new campaign to educate consumers on the best way to eliminate spam: "Don't try - Don't buy - Don't reply". "'Spam is the unwelcome by-product of a largely free and open email system', says IIA chief executive, Peter Coroneos. 'Spammers are freeriding on ...

Afghan entrepreneurs find profit in technology: In 2002, there were 1,000 people in the entire country that had been on the Internet. Today, this country of 29 million has more than 662,500 people using mobile phones, reports the GSM Association, a cellular trade group. Afghanistan's Internet domain, .af, was awarded ...

Interesting exchange between Paris Hilton and an Associated Press journalist: Q: Do you read blogs? HILTON: What's that? Q: Um, they're these things on the Internet where people write about news and stuff. HILTON: No, I don't really read anything on the Internet except my AOL mail. I don't like ...

Song swappers flock to invitation-only Internet: "Just as Prohibition drove drinkers underground in the roaring '20s, the music industry's crackdown is pushing many song swappers away from the open Internet and into what amount to cyberspace speakeasies. These high-tech Cotton Clubs usually require users to be trusted or at least ...

The Killer List of Videogames: This could be the greatest Web site ever made. Some of the games here take me back. The KLOV--(Killer List of Videogames), the video-game department of The International Arcade Museum, has provided the Internet's largest database of coin-operated video-games since the earliest days of the ...

Clinton's gift to Internet age: only 2 e-mails: You'd think he'd be more prolific, given that his vice-president invented the Internet and all. The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998 e-mails by the former president's staff and two by the man himself. "The only two he ...

Wi-Fi Sails the High Seas "....Wheat Wireless Services of Reston, Virginia, has begun selling a tweaked version of Wi-Fi Internet access that can broadcast signals 30 miles out to sea. The service piggybacks off T1 lines in data centers along the coast and requires radio towers up to 300 feet ...

Mark recently reinstalled Windows XP on his laptop. He was kind enough to keep a running diary. My Apple bias not withstanding, I find this rather funny. "34. Update driver. 35. 'This driver is not digitally signed.' OK. 36. 'This driver may cause your computer to become unstable.' OK. 37. ...

Yahoo! Sets Up Christmas Tree With Internet Receiver: This is what happens when you let a dot com sponsor your Christmas tree. Yahoo.com has set up a Christmas tree in Herald Square with a wireless Internet receiver on top. New Yorkers walking by with a laptop can set it down ...

House votes for permanent Net tax ban: Good news for everyone. "The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to make a ban on Internet use taxes permanent and require nine states to repeal existing taxes on access fees. Lawmakers passed a bill by voice vote that would cement a ...

Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups: Once again, Microsoft is on the cutting edge of software improvements. "Microsoft plans to add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer next year as part of its Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP, a move that would go far toward stamping out the Web ...

The Internet License Plate Gallery: I like "IMG SRC". "LNXCWBY" is good too.

Hotels' High-Speed Internet Often Has a Catch: Problems with high-speed Internet at hotels that advertise it. "Among the issues he and other business travelers report are hotels that advertise broadband in most or all of their rooms but only have enough capacity for a limited number of guests to log ...

::: PlusDeck 2 :::: While I realize this has some practical use, there's no denying that it would just look wicked cool in your machine. Plusdeck2 is a fully functional cassette deck for your computer. It is multi-functional and adds a whole new use to your computer. Now you can ...

Time Warner sues apt. complex over Wi-Fi: I knew one of these suits would pop up sooner or later. "Time Warner Cable filed a lawsuit charging a New York apartment complex and its wireless Internet provider with illegally reselling its high-speed Road Runner service over a wireless network. The suit, ...

Godwin's Law: There's so much about the Internet that I don't know yet. Godwin's Law (also Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) is, in Internet culture, an adage originated in 1990 by Mike Godwin that states: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler ...

PluggedInns.com: A directory of hotels with high-speed Internet access. Great name.

If we install everything proposed by Internet Explorer : I m surprised it even ran.

Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system: Microsoft helped the Philadelphia school system modernize in a pilot program. Students -- who are called "learners" -- use smart cards to register attendance, open their digital lockers and track calories they consume. They carry laptops, not books, and the entire campus has ...

Libraries Use Internet to Entice Readers: Interesing use of email to get more people into the library. Patrons of the Dougherty County Library open their e-mail every day to find a chapter or so of a book. The hope is that these "five-minute reads" will get them to check ...

Crossing Out, for Emphasis: I swear, I m not nearly as witty as I think I am. [ ] in Internet culture, the strike-through has already taken on an ironic function, as a ham-fisted way of having it both ways in type a witty way of simultaneously commenting on your prose as ...

Internet infection holds files 'hostage': This is inventive. Computer users already anxious about viruses and identity theft have new reason to worry: Hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your computer and then demand $200 over the Internet to get them back. Security researchers at ...

Google bows to Chinese censorship: I guess it's inevtiable that company this visible would get embroiled in so many disputes. Sometimes it seems like they can't win. Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for ...

Nearly half of all farmers have Internet access: I've done a fair amount of Web development for companies whose target market has been farmers or those in rural communities. This is a good trend to see. "This year, 48% of farms have Internet access, a leap from the 13% that ...

Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet: I ve always had two universal truths about music swapping: It s illegal. The music industry better figure out a way to live with it, because there s no way to stop it. You can t stick toothpaste back in the tube. Close one music ...

USATODAY.com - As wireless hot spots proliferate, commercial windfall in doubt: Turns out there are too many free Wi-Fi spots for anyone to make any money off it. "Then there are colleges, geeks and city officials who are making Wi-Fi as free as the foliage in public plazas. And now ...

Kill Internet Ads with HOSTS and PAC Files: Using publicly available lists of ad servers, you can block ads by redirecting those domain names to an invalid IP via your HOSTS file. Compiling a list of ad servers for an ad-blocking HOSTS file would take a lot of time, but ...

Internet Explorer rivals celebrate gains: That's a 1% decline in market share in one month. Security flaws in Microsoft's (MSFT) ubiquitous Web browser are breathing life into Internet Explorer's rivals. Since early June, Explorer's share of the market has dropped from 95.48% to 94.42%, according to San Diego Web analytics ...

Natural Process : Process Flow: An art exhibition (I couldn't figure out where) called "Natural Process" has Google's home page printed at a gigantic size, hung on the wall, then projected on the Web. The NP system is constructed so that a webcam captures the painting in the museum and ...

Why I don't recommend Firefox: Adam doesn't think that Firefox is ready to be unleashed on all users just yet. He makes some good points. Firefox right now is very good for an experienced net user, but is not at all ready for the average person. If you plan on ...

PHP Sucks, But It Doesn t Matter: Jeff Atwood essentially closes the PHP sucks argument by agreeing with it, then explaining why it doesn t matter. The TIOBE community index I linked above? It s written in PHP. Wikipedia, which is likely to be on the first page of anything you search for ...

Start-up finds talk is cheap with Vonage: I've heard a lot about Vonage and seen their ads, but I was never able to pin down exactly what they did. Turns out its commercial Skype with hardware. Its service is simple. Vonage sends customers an Internet phone box, which looks like ...

Need a job? Don't use a Mac: Couldn't resist this one. When it comes to some big-name companies, Macintosh users may have a tough time landing a job. It's not just that the business world is dominated by Windows-based computers. It's because, at a number of large companies, Mac users ...

Math's holy grail could bring disaster for internet: Another nice "the sky is falling" prediction for your Wednesday morning. Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right still a big if and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann ...

Yahoo proposes new Internet anti-spam structure: Good thing this is Yahoo!, because it's going to take a big company to pull this off. They're apparently going to open-source it. Under Yahoo's new architecture, a system sending an e-mail message would embed a secure, private key in a message header. The ...

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark: I think Cisco has a pretty strong claim here. The iPhone name was first trademarked in 1996 by InfoGear, a maker of Internet appliances. Cisco acquired InfoGear, and the trademark, in 2000. Cisco sells iPhones designed to place calls over an Internet connection, not ...

Salon CEO resigns: This isn't a terrifically geeky thing, except that I've always been interested in Salon as a bell-weather for the pure-play Internet content business model. "O'Donnell had been with Salon since 1996, first as publisher and then as CEO in 1999, when the company went public. Salon stock ...

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction: Now that Microsoft has abandoned Internet Explorer, it looks like that browser's bugs are here to stay. "Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a ...

Is weather news and forecasting a commodity? Since the Internet has given us all easy access to the National Weather Service information, do we really need anything else? My wife simply has to watch the local news report for the weather. Everything around our house stops about about 10:10 p.m. ...

Tech sleuth tracked down Net flaw just for the `thrill': A good article about Paul Watson, the guy who identified the TCP vulnerability. He's a peach of a guy, it turns out. After he discovered the problem, he didn't try to make a buck or cash in on some instant ...

Will Mozilla Fly?: Very positive article on Firefox from a U.K. IT magazine. It took me a whole five minutes to decide to ditch Internet Explorer and switch to Firefox. Why? The learning curve is about 5 minutes at most. FireFox is simpler to use. Configuring it is easy ...

So Rob sends me this Onion Article. Many web users were trapped without service Monday, when a large section of the Internet collapsed under the weight of the millions of baby pictures posted online. "Some personal web pages contain literally hundreds of adorable infant photos," MCI senior vice-president Vinton Cerffe ...

YouPorn Vivid Entertainment Profile: Fascinating article about how the Internet has annihilated the traditional pornography market. In particular, pornographic DVD sales are in free fall. [ ] lately, success hasn’t come easily for Vivid and its upmarket rivals. Three years ago, 80 percent of Vivid’s income came from DVD sales. Today, ...

Lindows WebStation: Lindows is taking another stab at the Web appliance market: $169. The lowest priced Internet-enabled computer ever! The Lindows WebStation is the first ultra-affordable, unbreakable computer designed specifically for Web work. You may think unbreakable is a pretty strong word, but it runs Linux off a CD, which ...

Dial D for Disruption: A good article about Asterisk, the open-source phone system. Spencer is the inventor of Asterisk, a free software program that establishes phone calls over the Internet and handles voicemail, caller ID, teleconferencing and a host of novel features for the phone. With Asterisk loaded onto a ...

Do-it-yourself book publishing takes off on the Web: Good article about the phenomenon of on-demand book printing, which is the Next Big Thing in book publishing. We've talked this before, both with the Internet Bookmobile, and with Packt Publishing, who prints all their books on-demand. Instead, the Seattle residents ...

Server Break-in Challenge: First one to break in, leave a file in the root, and take the machine offline wins the contest. Are you an Internet security expert at heart or by profession? Ever thought of trying your skill at a professionally set up server? If you are ready, enter. ...

Welcome to Google TiSP: Google's on a roll this morning. Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. TiSP ...

Internet helps recreate swampland scams that swindle buyers: Fascinating how the Internet makes the old new again. This scam will be introduced to a whole new generation of people who are too young to remember when it was huge. They're selling these things on eBay. Padamjeet Singh wouldn't be able ...

The Raw Feed is one of my favorite blogs. Mark Elgan has a great rant on email hoaxes over there that's pure genius. He doesn't just whine about the problem, though. He provides a great solution to your relatives that forward you hoax emails: The Anti-Email-Hoax Email Hoax Please be ...

Wisconsin enters VoIP fray: Maybe I'm just sensitive to this because I started using Skype, but I worry that yet another cool thing will be ruined by regulation. "Wisconsin regulators have informed Santa Clara, Calif.-based 8x8 that its Packet8 Internet voice-calling service is subject to the same rules as traditional ...

Kozoru searching for better answers: Yet another search engine is coming. This one aims to put the Web in its place. "And we're putting the encyclopedia on top of [the dictionary]. And on top of that we're putting news. And on top of that, you've got the Web, which is ...

The Web On Film: Here's a great collection of movie clips showing depictions of the Internet on film from 1983 to 2005. Some notes: Wargames Great movie, and probably the most realistic clip of them all, except for the bit when the computer talks. Sneakers Another good one from a ...

LitePC: IEradicator - the Internet Explorer Hitman!: This is perhaps a little extreme. And given the dynamic loading that Windows apps generally do, I wonder if you're going to wipe out some DLL that something else needs at some point? IEradicator is a tiny, script that uses the Windows setup ...

Friend Buys Computer Just Like That: The Onion brings us this heartwarming story about a guy who knows what he wants. Cheng (the guy's friend) is just flabbergasted. Cheng said that, once he realized what was happening, he followed Trask to the counter and demanded to know if his friend ...

Celebrities let their Web sites do the talking: This has been kind of an interesting trend. The Internet can remove a lot of the layers between star and fan. Britney Spears confided that she was taking a break after years of being pushed by "advisers." Melissa Etheridge spoke candidly about ...

My business mail server got blacklisted the other day. We started getting consistent bounces from a couple of clients that referenced some odd site. A little poking around revealed that our mail server had been inexplicably identified as an open relay and was on a spam blacklist that the clients ...

Internet Explorer: Customize the Image Toolbar: You know that little toolbar that appears in Internet Explorer when you hover over an image it lets you save the image or email it or whatever. Did you know you can turn this off in HTML? Or ...

Internet opens elite college materials to all: Good article about OpenCourseWare from MIT, which we ve discussed before. It s truly an amazing thing, and something that makes me wish I had more time. An MIT initiative called OpenCourseWare makes virtually all the school s courses available online for free lecture notes, ...

Internet Movie Database - Wikipedia: An interesting few paragraphs on the history of the IMDb. The database started out in 1990 as a collection of shell scripts created by Col Needham which could be used to search the FAQs posted to the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies. In 1993, a centralized e-mail ...

Online Competition Hurts Adult Magazines: Horrors! Can the world survive without Screw magazine? Well, yeah, probably. "After 35 years in the business of titillating and offending, pornographer Al Goldstein says his magazine can't compete anymore. The audience is just as large, he says, but the Internet has transformed the product ...

With friends like these Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook: This is a very long rant against Facebook, and social-networking in general. It gets deep into the politics of the founders and over-capitalism, and all that, but I was struck by this bit towards the ...

They can't stop playing video games: South Korea apparently has a serious problem with gaming addiction. At the 1,000 won-per-hour ($1) Internet cafes popular among young South Koreans, they'll sit eyes glued to monitors for hours on end. Sometimes play will extend for days. "I've seen people who play games ...

I was reading today about how Wikipedia is going to release a CD or DVD of all its content. Very cool idea. This got me reminicising about "The Golden Age of CD-ROMs." Remember when CD-ROMs were the big thing? From, say, 1996 to 1999 or 2000. Remember when Encarta and ...

Wikipedia:Bounty board: You can post bounties at Wikipedia -- money you put up in exchange for someone to do...something. Would you like to improve articles without having to write them? Or have you ever wanted to make money for Wikimedia without paying it yourself? Now you can do both! The ...