GOOGLE NEWS

Sep 25, 2002 | Google, news

Google is bringing its remarkable technology to harvesting the news. Here’s a link to Google News, presenting the top news stories of the moment without any human intervention. Google News software continuously crawls more than 4,000 Web news sources, looking for the...

DICTIONARIES

Sep 25, 2002 | news

The Press Democrat just did a feature about the abbreviations invented for text messaging – they’re becoming second nature to many kids, and teachers are seeing them turn up in school assignments. FYI, here’s a dictionary that covers many of the basic text messaging...

FREE AMAZON SHIPPING

Aug 26, 2002 | Amazon, news

Amazon has improved its free shipping offer – starting today, you can get free shipping for any purchase over $25.

LORD OF THE RINGS DVD

Aug 2, 2002 | news

The Fellowship of the Ring will be released on DVD in the next few days. But if you’re considering it, be careful! There’s going to be two versions released on DVD, and they’re staggering the releases hoping to trap the unwary into buying both. This month sees the...

CYBERTERRORISM (NOT)

Jul 10, 2002 | news, Politics

More interesting reading at The Register: a deeply cynical article bashing the press for repeating stories about alleged threats of cyberterrorism. The government is beating the drums about the likelihood that al-Quaeda technology whizzes are about to level cities...

CHINA BELIEVES EVERYTHING IT READS

Jun 8, 2002 | humor, news

In case you missed this in the paper a couple of days ago, here’s a story that’s absolutely priceless. The Beijing Evening News (circulation: 1.25 million) printed a word-for-word translation of an American news item in its June 3 edition. The article concerned the...