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I wonder if this is some bizarre variation on the Nigerian email scam. Received this just now via my feedback form: Sir we are one of the bigest family entertainment company in kuwait. We have 8 different branches all over the kuwait. We are interested to buy cotton candy vending machine. so could you please [...]

Yesterday I mentioned that while there exists a few “blog glossaries,” none really seem to take the subject seriously enough to be of use. (What’s the use of defining opaque terms with even more opaque terms?) Tonight I came across an example of the kind of glossary I think we need: Phil Gyford’s “An introduction [...]

I received my first search engine referrals from Ask Jeeves today, and it took me back to 1999, when I tried to use this “natural question”-based search engine for a month before giving up in frustration. (And point of fact, someone showed me Google and it was love at first site, and I never turned [...]

Via the Psycho Studio created by Brendan Dawes, you can try your hand at editing the famous shower scene that was drawn up by Saul Bass. (Found at Exploding Fist.) I did it, and must admit my version looked pretty swift. But I think this has nothing to do with my film editing experience and [...]

I seem to be reading a lot of Mozilla-related blog posts lately, extolling the virtues of this open-source web browser, so I thought I would throw one of my own into the ring. I had resisted the urge to even delve into what is Mozilla, like I resist looking into many things that have a [...]

I see that Yahoo! is contemplating a new design. The most striking thing to me about the new design is the realization that I never look at Yahoo’s front door anymore. I still do use Yahoo, all my email is read via Yahoo Mail, I belong to some groups over at Yahoo Groups, and I [...]