Well there’s a no brainer (i.e. being down on phishing). Phishing for those that don’t know are attempts to make you think you are going to an authoritative site and reveal personal information. It’s a basic form of identity theft. Here’s a good shockwave video on what happens if you click on the email link [...]
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JibJab is my favourite site for funny political animations. I wish they could create them faster. It seems that US elections are their best source of inspiration so I guess I have to be patient. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if they do something on the Supreme Court nomination.
Here’s a list of location-based websites based on combining google maps with a source of locations. Things like showing the location of apartments for rent or gas stations with their price for gas. This is just the beginning and there are going to be an explosion of applications in this space. Thanks to Google for [...]
Reports say that the BBC may have added a fictional character (boy-band singer Jamie Kane) to Wikipedia. BBC officially denied the charge saying it was a fan that made the entry. Either way, I think that this is a good thing: 1) the community caught it very quickly. What reference book is scrutinized and corrected [...]
digg.com is consistently the best site that I check every day. It is a social bookmarking site where people vote for “articles” (websites) and the best float up to the home page. Like a democratic google where people decide popularity instead of an algorithm (pagerank). I’m too lazy to actually register and vote. I subscribe [...]
Another great mashup: cheap gas and google maps. A very good use of google maps. The only negative is that gas prices change so quickly here (in Toronto)–several times a day in some cases–that it is hard to keep up to date. At the moment the prices being shown are from last night (95-99 cents/liter) [...]
The page is here. Top ten items are: 1. Manned space exploration 2. Kozmo.com 3. Napster 4. The Concorde 5. GM’s EV1 6. The original Palm Pilot 7. Good keyboards 8. Wires 9. LPs 10. the Newton The only one I agree with is #1. NASA has dropped the ball, the Russian program is broke [...]
