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I hate making titles

I hate making titles 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
"They won't kill ya if you miss a day" -- Ben Dude, what do you know? He just made me...

An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand

An attempt to evaluate the actual power
of brands by making Austrian people draw
a total of twelve logos (nine
international, three typically European)
from memory, 25 people per brand 01/03/2004 07:05 AM
monochrom Brandmarker

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TV Execs Hate People Meters Too

TV Execs Hate People Meters Too 04/16/2004 06:15 AM
Two stories just became a lot clearer. Last year, we first wrote about Nielsen's attempt to use so-call ed "people meter" devices to more accurate track media consumption. Historically, they've used a "diary method" where they ask people to record what they watch - which is obviously open to quite a bit of user error (on purpose or by accident). Then, a recent study by Nielsen saying that men were watching a lot less TV drew a lot of angry complaints from the TV industry who said the study wasn't accurate at all. What wasn't mentioned at the time was that this new study was based on these new people meters. Of course, what this suggests is that the drop in TV watching actually started to occur a while back, but Nielsen's old methods didn't pick up on it - though, of course, that's not what TV execs want to hear.

Why People Hate Lawyers, Part MMMCCXVIII

Why People Hate Lawyers, Part MMMCCXVIII 02/10/2004 02:41 AM
The lawyer responsible for filing this case (Smoking Gun)-- suing CBS because Janet Jackson almost bared a breast on national TV -- should be disbarred, or at least sanctioned for abuse of the legal process. Sheesh.

People Hate Others Using Mobile Phones,
But Happy They Can Do So Themselves

People Hate Others Using Mobile Phones,
But Happy They Can Do So Themselves 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
This probably isn't all that surprising, but a majority of people surveyed complain that they're annoyed by people who use mobile phones in public places, but at the same time go on to talk about how wonderful phones are for making it more convenient for them to communicate. It sounds like the typical study about drivers where the vast majority think they're above average drivers. It seems like the vast majority of mobile phone users think they are better than average at keeping their public mobile phone conversations private. About 40% of those surveyed think that there should be a law (which already does exist in NYC, though, it's rarely, if ever, enforced) saying you can't use a mobile phone in places like restaurants, museums or theaters.

Adware Company Accused Of Making
Thiefware As Well

Adware Company Accused Of Making
Thiefware As Well 07/12/2004 05:39 AM
We wrote about 180Solutions back in March when the company stunned most people by raising $40 million. The issue wasn't so much that the company had raised so much money, but that their investors seemed positively clueless about what they had invested in. The company is almost universally hated (by those not investing in it), for its spyware/adware offerings. A quick search online will tell anyone who does the slightest amount of due diligence will realize that the company is trouble. Unfortunately, it appears the VCs in question couldn't even go so far as to do a Google search. Now, anti-spyware researcher Ben Edelman has come out with a new report detailing how 180Solutions, beyond just being typical adware that is installed without clear and understandable notice to the computer user, was also ste aling commissions from online affiliate programs, sneakily inserting their own affiliate codes into websites when a user with their software installed visited certain retailer sites. The company denies they did this, but Edelman's report is pretty damning. This isn't a new idea, of course. We wrote about spyware products doing exactly this almost two years ago, when it was referred to as "diversionware." As Edelman points out, however, it's a bit surprising that a VC-backed company would stoop so low.

Teen Accused of Making Intenet Threats

Teen Accused of Making Intenet Threats 09/17/2004 10:19 AM
AP via Daily Press Sep 17 2004 2:10PM GMT

Woman Accused of Making Antifreeze Drink
(AP)

Woman Accused of Making Antifreeze Drink
(AP) 04/21/2004 05:05 PM
AP - A bench trial is under way for an Omaha woman accused of spiking a margarita with antifreeze, then serving it to her former sister-in-law.

"Frist Gets Ready To Go Along With
People Who Suggest Those Who Oppose GOP
On Judicial Nominees Hate God"

"Frist Gets Ready To Go Along With
People Who Suggest Those Who Oppose GOP
On Judicial Nominees Hate God" 04/17/2005 03:16 PM

The Moderate Voice - Frist Gets Ready To
Go Along With People Who Suggest Those
Who Oppose GOP On Judicial Nominees Hate
God

The Moderate Voice - Frist Gets Ready To
Go Along With People Who Suggest Those
Who Oppose GOP On Judicial Nominees Hate
God 04/16/2005 06:50 PM
the moderate voice .. BILL FRIST

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Making people look bad

Making people look bad 05/12/2004 11:27 AM
Wired News has a great story by Mark Baard about the skilled make-up artists who create moulage, incredibly realistic injuries on people for emergency response training and exercises.

"The wounds' realism (deep, bleeding gashes and amputations, oozing blisters and burns) help get the rescuers' adrenaline going, by fostering empathy with the actors who portray disaster victims."

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Personal Most Wanted Website Helps Find
Accused Killer

Personal Most Wanted Website Helps Find
Accused Killer 05/11/2004 12:17 PM
A man who felt angry and helpless when the suspect accused of a hit-and-run accident that killed his brother didn't show up at the trial, set up a website with descriptions of the accused man. He never expected it to actually help find the guy, but at least it was an outlet. Last week, however, he received an email telling him where the man was. He forwarded it to the police who captured the guy a few hours later. Of course, despite the article's headline, this isn't entirely a "the web found my brother-in-law's killer" story. It sounds like the only reason the informant knew about the website was because the local news did a story on TV about the website. So, really, the website was only useful in getting television publicity.

Making CRM Work

Making CRM Work 01/02/2004 03:43 PM
Technology For Finance Jan 2 2004 2:36PM ET

making a website better than a human

making a website better than a human 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
david's done some smart research into how the ad world sees usability

Making the numbers work at the new CA

Making the numbers work at the new CA 06/18/2004 08:00 AM
vnunet.com Jun 18 2004 11:56AM GMT

Making Web Communities Work

Making Web Communities Work 01/09/2004 09:58 PM

12 Variables for Understanding Online Communites: Whether or not a Web community thrives or sputters had always been kind of a hit-or-miss affair. This article identifies the 12 most important variables.

The twelve variables we've selected are most likely not all that exist, just the ones we find most important in our thinking right now. These variables struck us as important ways in which communities are differentiated despite the type of software chosen to carry a given community.

Via eLearnSpace.

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Making Wikipedia Work

Making Wikipedia Work 04/27/2004 03:19 AM
Most people, when they first hear about the fact that anyone can edit a wiki immediately come up with all the reasons why it can't work. However, there are a number of large scale implementations that prove that assertion is false. The biggest, of course, is Wikipedia, and Salon has an article discussing how they deal with the occasional vandals. They treat the wiki process a bit different, and will block and ban certain users if they fail a "three strike" policy. Still, it's yet another example of a successful large scale bottom-up project, which established companies keep telling us are impossible.

People at Work Who Get It

People at Work Who Get It 06/23/2004 03:05 AM
Nothing gets me more jazzed up about work than meeting with someone who really gets it--either right off the bat or during the course of our meeting. Nothing. I had one of those meetings today. You know the kind. The meeting request comes in and you scratch your head for a minute. Then it dawns on you: this is either going to be a lot of work trying to make someone understand what all this stuff is about, or... it'll...

Where all the best people work...

Where all the best people work... 01/22/2004 02:14 AM

From an entertaining post on an interesting Metafilter thread:

The BBC is best when it's at its least domestic and condescending: its radio and web output is better than its TV news (BBC World excepted) and the World Service is best of all. There's a reason why people who work at Bush House feel superior: they are superior.

For the record, I work at Broadcasting House, which is kind of like the BBC's version of the Lost City of Atlantis.

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Your Website Should Encourage People To
Act

Your Website Should Encourage People To
Act 06/17/2002 06:56 AM
"Developing an action-oriented website begins with your homepage."

PHPBuilder: Making Your Database Do The
Work

PHPBuilder: Making Your Database Do The
Work 01/03/2003 08:54 AM

Making Yahoo! Search Work for You

Making Yahoo! Search Work for You 08/30/2004 03:50 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - Yahoo! has long featured a variety of shortcuts meant to make finding information easier, but many don't take the time to learn what those shortcuts are. Find out what you're missing....

Fedora Core 2: Making it work

Fedora Core 2: Making it work 07/06/2004 03:41 AM
Recently I concluded my review of Fedora Core 2 (FC2) on Linux.com with the words, "It's an important step in the evolution of Linux ... but I won't be using it for production work anytime soon." What a difference a month makes -- I am now using FC2 for production work. Here's how I got around the distro's deficiencies.

Making Open Webmail work

Making Open Webmail work 01/06/2004 03:18 AM
Recently I was asked to provide Internet e-mail to a large segment of our hospital community. The mail had to be standards-based to provide the widest compatibility base possible for the 3,000 people who might have need of it. It had to be Web-based, but not overly complicated, and it had to employ open source (read "free") tools to help keep the budget down. Finally, it had to be secure, to comply with HIPAA regulations. To meet those requirements, I deployed Open Webmail, Sendmail, and Red Hat Linux 9 on a 1U IBM Linux machine.

Making Web Services Work at Amazon

Making Web Services Work at Amazon 12/09/2003 05:01 PM
Jeff Barr, Amazon's web services evangelist, presented Tuesday at XML 2003, explaining the decisions involved in making Amazon's puiblic web services strategy a success.

Fedora Core 2: Making it Work

Fedora Core 2: Making it Work 07/06/2004 10:06 AM

Making multiple session IDs work in ASP

Making multiple session IDs work in ASP 06/26/2002 01:00 PM
CNET Jun 23 2002 10:22PM ET

ProNet: Making AJAX work for everyone

ProNet: Making AJAX work for everyone 03/14/2005 06:05 PM
With all the growing excitement around AJAX web development and the new toolkits becoming available, it's important to make sure this new breed of web applications is available for everyone who uses the web. Some useful new references that can...

Making Politics Work Better Via
Traditional+New Media

Making Politics Work Better Via
Traditional+New Media 07/17/2004 09:01 PM
Susan Mernit has some good ideas on how it might work. Example: Combine the NY Times or Washington Post with Technorati and Feedster. She asks:

"Why don't we see a major media outlet that will file lots of stories during the election find a way to work with Technorati or Feedster so they can have almost real-time links reflecting people's comments on--and links to--the stories--right on their web site?"

How people describe their relationship
to their own work

How people describe their relationship
to their own work 03/14/2005 06:29 PM
How we work. "The habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done." Includes Damien Hirst, J.G. Ballard, Pierre Omidyar, Mohamed al-Fayed, Scott McNealy, and Gibson vs Doctorow on the effect of blogging on work.

Underweight People Work to Put on Pounds
(AP)

Underweight People Work to Put on Pounds
(AP) 09/19/2004 01:14 PM
AP - With Americans' obesity driving the focus on weight loss, scant attention is paid to the other side of the scale — underweight people who are trying to put on pounds.

I enjoy making fire, because it makes
people feel warm

I enjoy making fire, because it makes
people feel warm 04/13/2005 10:48 PM
Lauris< /i> is the spirit of the office, irrespective weather those are the numerous jokes for any occasion he has in his luggage or a basket of autumn apples, which he has picked in the morning to remind the colleges about the beauty of the autumn.

Zane has chosen to live in a beautiful world of internal and external beauty, where fragrances and aromas are of importance, however the uppermost value are harmonious relations with the closest people.

We are all fans of mangled English translations from Asia, but there is a certain added beauty in this site for a Latvian law firm, which boasts "professional, fast and qualitative translations" while "int roducing a spirit of poetics in the daily routine of the office".

The Virtues of Chitchat - Making I.T.
Work - CIO Magazine May 15,2004

The Virtues of Chitchat - Making I.T.
Work - CIO Magazine May 15,2004 05/18/2004 05:50 AM
this article about the plogging phenomenon .. Michael Schrage's CIO Magazine column .. CIO magazine on blogs for projects .. plog is short for 'project log' .. The Virtues of Chitchat .. plog

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Making MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0 work
together, Part 2

Making MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0 work
together, Part 2 02/17/2003 07:34 PM
After killing the running processes, I did an su mysql before restarting.0 I had found a note in a Google search from a MySQL developer who suggested not ...

Making a PHP Site on Linux Work with a
Microsoft SQL Server ...

Making a PHP Site on Linux Work with a
Microsoft SQL Server ... 02/14/2003 08:26 AM
It's a LAMP site, but the M isn't MySQL. Can PHP on the Linux box make the connection to Microsoft SQL Server? A recent project ...

Making USB storage devices work
seamlessly under Linux

Making USB storage devices work
seamlessly under Linux 12/09/2003 03:51 AM
What do you do when your ISP tells you the reason your Windows box can't connect to the network is because its network drivers got corrupted? You download new drivers using your Linux client and use Sneakernet to move them to Windows. USB storage devices like M-Systems' DiskOnKey are extremely useful for ad hoc chores like this, and I was lucky to have one on hand. But how to make Linux mount the device as seamlessly as Windows does?

Changing rooms Making homes more
welcoming for people with poor eyesight

Changing rooms Making homes more
welcoming for people with poor eyesight 05/22/2004 05:28 AM
BBC May 22 2004 8:50AM GMT

Apple Work With Microsoft? Let The
People Decide

Apple Work With Microsoft? Let The
People Decide 04/08/2005 04:59 AM

It's down to the public, not the government, to decide whether Microsoft and Apple interoperate. By Silicon.com

LinuxWorld: Making MySQL, ODBC &
OpenOffice 1.0 Work Together, Part 2

LinuxWorld: Making MySQL, ODBC &
OpenOffice 1.0 Work Together, Part 2 02/19/2003 03:35 AM
"OpenOffice.org is more sophisticated and powerful than I realized. It can be made to work with various database-management systems, and it can do the mailmerge functions required by many SOHO types. Ease-of-use issues need attention..."
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Johnny Ryan interview

Johnny Ryan interview 02/01/2005 08:37 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I've written about Johnny Ryan's excellent comics before. His work is juvenille, hostile, violent, and funny. I don't really know why I like it. I hate South Park, which is also juvenille, hostile, and violent. But I don't think South Park is funny. Here's an interview with Ryan on G4techTV.

Do you ever worry about how people are construing your work – that they may think you’re a homophobe, or a racist, or anti-religion?

These are sort of elements that are part of us in some ways. Everybody has that fear of the other or whatever. But it sort of goes back into my whole sense of humor: making fun of people is funny. I don’t have any sort of agenda against minorities, or gays, or religion. I think my comic is self-deprecating in the same way that it is insulting to everyone. I try to insult everybody, that’s just my sense of humor. As far as people thinking I’m those things… I don’t know, I guess it doesn’t really have too much effect on me since I’m still doing it. It’s all for the sake of making fun of people and humor – it’s not some sort of political soapbox I’m standing on.

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Johnny Ryan in Mad

Johnny Ryan in Mad 06/17/2005 03:34 PM
David Pescovitz: From Flog: Add JOHNNY RYAN to the list of genuinely funny cartoonists who are suddenly working for MAD MAGAZINE; PETER BAGGE is doing so as well. Johnny's first story should be in #456, a FANTASTIC 4 parody called "The FF Have A Bad Couple Of Weeks." Link

Macs At Work -- Interview With Kathy
Lies

Macs At Work -- Interview With Kathy
Lies 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
By Russ Walkowich (MyMac.com via MyAppleMenu)

Michael Jackson's people claim he was
paid for the 60 Minutes interview [nyt]

Michael Jackson's people claim he was
paid for the 60 Minutes interview [nyt] 01/01/2004 06:48 AM

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Robot Invasion Puts People Out of Work
(Reuters)

Robot Invasion Puts People Out of Work
(Reuters) 02/12/2004 07:27 PM
Reuters - They do the jobs no one else wants to do, with an attention to detail that boggles the mind. Even so, no government or political party is putting up immigration barriers to keep them out -- at least not yet.

Leader: Apple work with Microsoft? Let
the people decide

Leader: Apple work with Microsoft? Let
the people decide 04/07/2005 03:00 PM
To interoperate or not to interoperate? That is the question to which Apple said 'no' and which the US Congress is now debating. A mandate is under discussion across the pond which would oblige Apple to ensure iTunes and its other digtal music products worked with offerings from archrivals including Microsoft and Real.

The Paris Review puts Writers at Work
interview series online

The Paris Review puts Writers at Work
interview series online 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
In its fifty-first year of publication, The Paris Review continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers. To that end, next month we’ll launch the DNA of Literature project: a complete online archive of the Writers at Work interview series. Available, it should be noted, for free. Years ago, when we first started discussing the archive, George liked to imagine a far-flung subscriber, who, for some reason, he placed in Bangladesh,…

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people with the talent to do the work
but lacking the body type to pull it off

people with the talent to do the work
but lacking the body type to pull it off 04/19/2004 09:43 AM
Jay Maynard's TRON costume .. Ehm... Fat TRON guy, ew! .. Tyylikäs TRON-puku .. You have been warned .. amusing link

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Robot Invasion Puts People Out of Work,
Thankfully (Reuters)

Robot Invasion Puts People Out of Work,
Thankfully (Reuters) 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Reuters - They do the jobs no one else wants to do, with an attention to detail that boggles the mind. Even so, no government or political party is putting up immigration barriers to keep them out -- at least not yet.

Last Day of Work Inhabits your Palm OS
with Village Sim Game - "Little People
Colonize your Handheld Device and Live
in Real-time.."

Last Day of Work Inhabits your Palm OS
with Village Sim Game - "Little People
Colonize your Handheld Device and Live
in Real-time.." 04/11/2005 04:02 AM
Last Day of Work, a top producer of real-time games and simulations for handheld devices, has released its new "Village Sim" game to the Palm OS platform. Village Sim, the company’s first product in almost five months, continues the long tradition of life-simulators and true real-time games that continue to play even when the device is turned off. [PRWEB Apr 11, 2005]

Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work

Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools
Don't Always Mesh With How People Work 12/18/2003 06:55 AM
Keeping Found Things Found: Web Tools Don't Always Mesh With How People Work
http://www.nsf .gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr03146

Of all the personal computers to be unwrapped during the holiday season, more than 80 percent will be used to go online and search the Web's more than 92 million gigabytes of data (comparable to a 2 billion-volume encyclopedia). Getting online is the easy part, finding a useful Web page is a bit harder—keeping track of a useful Web page is another issue altogether.

People have devised many tricks—such as sending e-mails to themselves or jotting on sticky notes—for keeping track of Web pages, but William Jones and Harry Bruce at the University of Washington's Information School and Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research have found that often people don't use any of them when it comes time to revisit a Web page. Instead, they rely on their ability to find the Web page all over again.

"If people continue to work at it,
the amount of forgetting grows with
repetition and time,"

"If people continue to work at it,
the amount of forgetting grows with
repetition and time," 12/10/2003 05:47 AM
how easy it is to implant false memories .. incredibly malleable .. Read article .. memory research .. more»

guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1098943,00.html
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The vast majority of drugs - more than
90 per cent - only work in 30 or 50 per
cent of the people

The vast majority of drugs - more than
90 per cent - only work in 30 or 50 per
cent of the people 12/10/2003 08:02 AM
Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on mostpatients .. I wouldn't say that most drugs don't work

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Some lesbians hate "She Hate Me"

Some lesbians hate "She Hate Me" 08/16/2004 10:06 AM
Spike Lee's film is criticized for pandering to male fantasies rather than revealing the real complexities of gay women's lives.

Johnny Ramone (RIP)

Johnny Ramone (RIP) 09/16/2004 11:32 AM
David Pescovitz:
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Can Johnny still program?

Can Johnny still program? 04/19/2005 06:22 AM
In wake of the worst performance by U.S. students in a global coding contest, ACM President David Patterson has a few suggestions for President Bush.

Ryan

Ryan 06/04/2004 12:12 PM
Ryan is a documentary about Oscar nominee/animator Ryan Larkin, who now panhandles on the streets of Montreal. A preview clip is at the far right of the photo gallery.

Johnny Cash Monkey

Johnny Cash Monkey 05/02/2004 12:15 AM
Johnny Cash Monkey

Johnny Fox's Freakatorium

Johnny Fox's Freakatorium 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
David Pescovitz: Today's New York Times profiles swordswallower/prestidigitator Johnny Fox, proprietor of the recently-closed Freakatorium, a cabinet of curiosities in New York City's Lower East Side. From the New York Times (photo by Douglas Healey):

In January, Mr. Fox's rent went up and he had to close. Now he has moved his wonders to a farmhouse in Connecticut where the only thing they collect these days is dust.

His narwhal tusks stand in the attic near a loose pile of taxidermic heads. His elephant's-foot liquor chest sits in the living room, seen by no one but himself.

His two-headed turtle lives downstairs in the basement with a sleepy boa constrictor. Out in the garage - forgotten - are Tom Thumb's vest and Sammy Davis Jr.'s glass eye.

"I'd love for this stuff to be in New York," said Mr. Fox, a sinewy and black-haired man of 52. "New York needs this kind of stuff, but who supports it anymore?"

It is a hard question to answer. Mr. Fox discovered that his Freakatorium was not the tourist destination he had hoped it would be. Even with its relatively modest $5 admission fee, it drew only 5 to 15 visitors a day....

He has even thought of changing the roguish name of his establishment to cater to a different clientele.

"I figured we could call it the Chamber of Wonders, not the Freak-atorium," he said. "Freak sometimes has a stigma to it. We could do something family-inviting."

Even at its height, the Freakatorium was never meant to be a profit center. It was rather Mr. Fox's chance to earn a living while sharing his obsessions with the world.

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IHateWork Website Accused Of Making People Hate Work