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Monthly Archives: August 2005
GMail Gagged
August 30, 2005 – 7:14 pm
GMail’s been down for hours. I wonder if it’s a combination of opening GMail to anyone who wants it and releasing an IM client that requires a GMail account. Probably more of the latter, as I don’t think anyone who really wanted Gmail was still waiting for it.
And now GMail has a new [...]
Commuters’ Feathers Ruffled
August 30, 2005 – 3:46 pm
Ostrich takes hike on bridgeThe 6-foot-tall bird, who apparently didn’t feel like hiding its head in the sand, escaped from the back of a cargo van on the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, stopping evening commute traffic in both directions and sending dozens of tourists racing for their cameras.
The ostrich, a female, got loose [...]
Toronto Sun’s Glare
August 30, 2005 – 3:25 pm
It’s nice to know what the Toronto Sun thinks about Evangelicals (HT: relapsed catholic). Maybe next week the editors will reveal the secrets of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Robertson’s call to murder cast a spotlight on the growing power of the loopy religious far right, grouped under the banner of the Christian [...]
McAfee and Web Standards
August 30, 2005 – 2:16 pm
As a Comcast broadband subscriber, I’m supposed to get a free copy of the McAfee anti-virus and firewall software for my Windows machine. But McAfee requires ActiveX for its downloads, so I have to use Internet Explorer. Fine, I thought. I use Internet Explorer only to test the look of web [...]
Opera Giveaway
August 30, 2005 – 1:39 pm
I’m a Firefox man myself, but I respect Opera. Usually you have to pay to register your copy or put up with sidebar ads. But today you can get a free registration code from Opera, as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations. (It’s really that old?)
Daniel Dennett and the God of the Gaps
August 30, 2005 – 12:51 am
In an editorial from Sunday’s New York Times, Daniel Dennett takes aim at “Intelligent Design.” He does make a few cheap shots at the notion, such as this:
Since there is no content, there is no “controversy” to teach about in biology class. But here is a good topic for a high school course on [...]