Forget eBay, Just Give Your Crap Away

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Stephen King: forget piracy, boomers are
just tired of buying crap

Stephen King: forget piracy, boomers are
just tired of buying crap 12/04/2003 07:17 PM
Stephen King's editorial in the new Entertainment Weekly (not online, but the best part is below) opines that the real crisis in the entertainment industry isn't piracy, it's mental fatigue among moneyed baby boomers.

So what happened in the '90s? I think we're seeing an entire generation -- my generation, the baby-boom generation -- turning off the lights upstairs and putting a sign on the door: SORRY, BUT I'M TAKING A NAP. MIND CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Pretty much the same deal is going on with music sales. Piracy and illegal downloads, although covered to a fare-thee-well in the press, account for only a fraction of the drop in $$. I think what's happening is all too clear: We baby boomers are just too pooped to party. Oh, we do buy some records -- you may have heard that we love the Beatles, Rod Stewart, and those funksters the Rolling Stones. Just don't try to get us to listen to anyone who isn't registered with AARP! Bob Seger was probably correct when he told us rock & roll never forgets, but it sure gets tired.

Movie-ticket sales have remained strong, but only because the studios are selling a product aimed almost solely at Gen-X and Gen-Y. Most R-rated movies go in the tank. PG-13 rules. A film like ''The Fast and the Furious'' strikes box office gold, while Clint Eastwood's ''Mystic River'' muddles along at the box office. I'd argue that 20 years ago, ''Mystic River'' would have done ''Chinatown'' box office numbers. Now the baby boomers look at the previews on TV and think, Nah, that looks too serious. Too hard. Guess I'll stay home and watch ''Jeopardy!'' And the ''Jeopardy!'' answer is ''Just about the saddest thing Steve King can think of.'' The question is ''What do you call a whole generation going to sleep?''

(Thanks, Jason!)

Cheney - Don't forget about eBay

Cheney - Don't forget about eBay 09/11/2004 05:53 AM
This is weird: .. Link:

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Crap Service for Crap Hound

Crap Service for Crap Hound 08/12/2004 09:14 AM
Dotster has its wicked way with Cory Doctorow. Any more horror stories involving them, or is he just unlucky?

EBay, Yahoo auction sites give unwanted
gifts a 2nd chance

EBay, Yahoo auction sites give unwanted
gifts a 2nd chance 01/02/2004 12:11 AM
eTaiwanNews.com Jan 1 2004 11:13PM ET

RE: eBay Account Phishing with eBay
Redirect - Ebay fixed this + related XSS
hole

RE: eBay Account Phishing with eBay
Redirect - Ebay fixed this + related XSS
hole 03/31/2005 07:14 PM
Rager, Anton (Anton) (Mar 31 2005)

Webl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g)

Webl0ggers: Give to tsunami victims and
I'll give too! (Anders Jacobsen's bl0g) 01/03/2005 08:22 AM
Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too! .. dans cet article de son blog .. Ander’s list

jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2005/01/02/webloggers_give_to_ tsunami_victims_and_ill_give_too.html
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New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to.

New Louisiana hosting company to give to
major charities. St. Jude, Habitat, and
March of Dimes named as a few they will
give to. 07/22/2004 03:01 AM
[PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty
(19-Jan-2004; 0.8K)

Give Me Death and Give Me Liberty
(19-Jan-2004; 0.8K) 01/22/2004 02:38 AM

With crap like this

With crap like this 04/02/2005 02:14 AM
Google Ride Finder .. RideFinder

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IE is crap

IE is crap 06/24/2005 10:03 PM
KatjaW pointed out that my blog looks like crap on IE these days (both side bars are missing). Well, it does work pretty well on every other browser I've tried (don't use Windows at all at home, so I can't be bothered to check on IE whenever I change the template, and Mac IE is braindead when it comes to CSS most of the time anyway), so frankly, I'm tempted to leave it as-is for IE users. Or maybe just disable the difficult bits, and leave a very plain experience for IE users. According to my statistics, less than half (41% to be exact) of my readers use IE anyway...

Maybe I can be bothered to do something about it someday. Tips appreciated.

Update 24.06: Tweaked the CSS a bit and added some explicit "display:block;" -commands to some places, which seemed to required on IE (boo hiss). It still looks a bit crappy (and the window is too wide), but now at least you can see all the content.

Like crap, falling from the sky

Like crap, falling from the sky 01/11/2004 07:04 PM
Well, it's officially happened. Someone wrote an automated comment spammer for Movable Type. As I type this, I'm watching repeated netstat show port 80 connections, and seeing the "MT-Blacklist comment denial" messages show up in the log. (36 so far) After 37 of the damn things actually made it through (some while I was in the midst of de-spamming things). Whups, make that 40 of the damn things. A few more just slipped through. And even more on the logs, and I'm not going to bother counting. (Okay, I did. 70 were blocked, 38 made it through (I mis-counted) in...

ReMove CRAP

ReMove CRAP 07/11/2004 08:06 PM
Initial file release

Why IRC is crap, yet useless

Why IRC is crap, yet useless 06/07/2004 05:57 AM
After several (well, since 1989 anyway) years of experience on IRC, I still probably can count the useful hours I've spent there using one hand only. (Then again, I can count in binary.)

But the reason why IRC is interesting is that it functions as a collective subconscious. On some channels certain things pop up constantly, even though nobody really cares about them. For example, on #go.fi people talk about EGF rating points. These have no significance for any player whatsoever, unless you are a very strong. But they are a slightly-better-than-randomized way of evaluating performance. So everybody has some interest. On #joiito, most of the discussion is completely incomprehensible, yet those people feel a strange connection, and gather together at conventions.

IRC is like a common subconscious, where thoughts come and go, tucking in different directions, yet never converging. Most of the discussion on any channel is bullshit. Pure and honest crap. Nothing but the equivalent of waving your lips in the wind in the faint hope a meaningful sentence will appear, if you keep producing syllables just long enough.

But it's common crap. That crap which binds us together, and builds communities. Some people have this odd notion that "social activity" is the same as sitting in a pub, drinking beer and talking horseshit. Fine. The important thing is "crap".

All of social software is mostly about crap. This is what the CSCW folks never realized - they thought it was important to increase productivity and get more achieved through computer-assisted work. The social software phenomenon (weblogs, Orkut, LinkedIn, IRC, chats, bulletin boards, ...) is built on the notion that people wish to talk crap. They enable you to use your time idly, do nothing, because conscious thoughts (and the inevitable good ideas) rise from the subconscious soup of crap. I think that's why Wikis haven't really flown is that they are not that good places for crap: the community deletes anything that is not considered to be in line of the other contents of the wiki. They don't allow the subconscious simmer of thought in the same way as IRC. It remains to be seen how much crap will surface on Orkut or Friendster, and whether that amount is enough to allow them to survive. (I've noticed I don't use Orkut anymore, even though I am listed. There's just so little point.)

The Finnish IRC service IRC-galleria, is really a place for IRC regulars to post their picture and have comments appended to it. However, there are now many young people, who put their pictures on the IRC gallery, and then "go ircing" on it - meaning posting comments on other peoples pages on the IRC gallery, creating large amounts of anger among those who know what IRC really is. I think this is a wonderful example of "crap in action" - if you build a way for people to discuss, they will come.

The societies are built on crap. The internet is built on crap.

Crap is good. Keep talking bullshit, and while the world may not be better, at least it will be a far more interesting place. :-D

Tomcat Crap

Tomcat Crap 06/24/2004 05:51 PM

Urgh.  I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why JNDI JavaMail session stopped working.  Previously, I had Tomcat 5.0.26 beta installed and it was working just fine.  In an attempt to debug another problem, I peddled back to 5.0.25, which is the latest version without any beta tag, and found that I couldn't send e-mail out from an webapp.  Error message was rather bland so it took me a while to find the relevant bug report.  Guess what?  5.0.25 build left out some key classes related to JNDI JavaMail session support.  Heck, I think I'll go back to the beta version and keep my fingers crossed.

Because if its not Scottish, its CRAP!

Because if its not Scottish, its CRAP! 09/22/2004 02:56 PM
Utilikilts: Comfort, Style and Utility for Today's Modern Man - committed to pioneering a comfortable alternative to trousers by producing "Men's Unbifurcated Garments".
I can't decide if its a joke or not. I think it began as a joke and then people started ordering them. Note the trendy Surviv al Kilt (currently on backorder) or the stranger looking than the others and that's saying something Denim Kilt. And don't worry about the beer gut, fellas, they've got an option for a special cut just for you ($25 upcharge but comfort knows no price!).

Oh holy crap...

Oh holy crap... 03/12/2003 10:16 PM
MacFixIt - Camino nightly builds may not be as stable “We’re seeing lots of feedback from people that are surprised the current Camino nightly builds aren’t as stable as the ones leading up to the 0.7 milestone. This is to...

Free Crap

Free Crap 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
I'm honored to be included in The Silicon Valley 100, a group of influentials formed by Auren Hoffman that gets free crap.  Its kind of like schwag for a virtual tradeshow with a decentralized  cocktail party.    Newsweek has a...

Holy Crap

Holy Crap 07/29/2004 09:58 PM

So I just got an email from my friend Jessamyn, who might be on tonight's Daily Show, and I guess she somehow got Ed Helms to do this:

Like I said, holy crap.

More Crap From Dvorak

More Crap From Dvorak 12/29/2004 03:30 AM
I thought about doing a detailed rebuttal about John Dvorak's latest turd, Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis, but I couldn't get past the second sentence before I realized that a thorough debunking would take more time than I have....

Too much crap over the phone

Too much crap over the phone 03/14/2005 05:04 PM
I just got the same push-poll that jenniebee did: A push-poll kind of group, calling themselves "Dove" called me this morning, wanting to screen me to see if I wanted to be inundated with calls from an outfit called "Feature...

As Was to Offer "Makeover Package" for
eBay Sellers at 2004 eBay Live -
Community Conference

As Was to Offer "Makeover Package" for
eBay Sellers at 2004 eBay Live -
Community Conference 06/14/2004 02:05 AM
Package of consulting services can start, market, and improve eBay businesses [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-21

Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-21 04/21/2004 04:57 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-06

Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-06 07/06/2004 06:45 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Crap. Goodbye Elliot.

Crap. Goodbye Elliot. 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Elliot Smith killed himself today. I downloaded a few songs of his back in the Napster heyday and ended up buying a few CDs. I had the opportunity to see him live a few times in SF, but never went.

Crap, I really liked his stuff.

It's a little weird, in a life-imitates-art sort of way, to realize his song was used in a suicide scene (in The Royal Tennenbaums), and now he's gone and done that himself.

Crap marketing sites

Crap marketing sites 03/06/2004 02:01 AM

i-am-asian.com is McDonald's excruciating "I'm lovin' it" site targeted at Asian Pacific Islander Americans. With gems like whether we're sipping green tea or enjoying a Big Mac sandwich, we're helping make the magic mix called America become even richer you can't go wrong. Meanwhile, the infamous beef industry sponsored cool-2b-real has rebranded itself as "zip 4 tweens" - for "tween" kids - not quite teens but definitely not children! Where's the raging platypus when you need him?

Cut The Crap Software 2003-10-30

Cut The Crap Software 2003-10-30 10/31/2003 12:49 PM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-20

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-20 05/20/2004 05:53 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-14

Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-14 04/14/2004 08:59 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

holy crap that's a big boat

holy crap that's a big boat 04/22/2004 06:55 PM
this NY Times slideshow demonstrates that the Queen Mary 2 is freaking gigantic

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-26

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-26 05/26/2004 07:39 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Cut The Crap Software 2004-06-23

Cut The Crap Software 2004-06-23 06/23/2004 06:03 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Kickin' the Crap Out of Karaoke

Kickin' the Crap Out of Karaoke 08/17/2004 01:37 AM

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“By typing in a text of any kind you can get it sung for you by some of the world’s great-est pop stars. A database of sung words has been built up and is supposed to be gradually growing through the users’ own interaction. If you find a word missing in our sound vocabulary, just tell us, and we will extract the word from a song of your choice, and add it to our database….

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-13

Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-13 05/13/2004 06:28 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Comments on Bomb Crap

Comments on Bomb Crap 05/03/2004 09:42 AM
Advanced methods of bomb detection and investigation. New equipment developed to scan cars and people, such as a parking lot device which quickly bathes the car's trunk in invisible neutrons, a procedure that makes materials inside the trunk emit gamma-rays that would indicate the presence of explosives. Also, a bomb disposal robot which take[s] fingerprints before blowing [a] package up.

Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-21

Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-21 07/21/2004 11:23 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Keep Your Crap Out Of My iPod, Say Users

Keep Your Crap Out Of My iPod, Say Users 06/17/2005 03:35 PM

Owners of Apple's popular digital music player love being able to shut out the world's distractions, hate their cellphones and would prefer not to talk to anyone. By Judy Monchuk, Canadian Press

Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-28

Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-28 04/28/2004 08:56 AM
Java packages implementing a generic persistence model.

Move Over eBay: MyXstuff.com is a Free
eBay Alternative.

Move Over eBay: MyXstuff.com is a Free
eBay Alternative. 06/20/2004 03:39 AM
MyXstuff.com is a place to display items for trade or give away. MyXstuff.com provides a radical new way for networking by allowing knowledge as trade collateral. The trade transaction/method and trade collateral is up to the members or visitors and correspondence is tracked in the user space as the trade offers. MyXstuff.com is in Beta phase and ready for public release. It is a woman owned website based in Boulder, CO. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

Hollywood stars look like crap in
high-def

Hollywood stars look like crap in
high-def 03/19/2005 03:02 AM
Cory Doctorow: A list of movie stars who look like crap in high-definition. There's a huge push to get Americans to switch over to digital television and the FCC is convinced that getting the broadcasters to air shows in high-def is the answer -- I think they're wrong and this list is exactly why. The first TV shows were radio shows like Burns and Allen done on stage instead of in a radio studio, and it wasn't until multi-camera setups (like the one on I Love Lucy) evolved that TV started to come into its own, as more than radio with pictures.

It's clear to me that high-dev isn't just low-def with bigger pores, but when you hear studio execs talk about their high-def plans, they always revolve around showing us the same people doing the same things with more pixels (the exception, of course, is Marc Cuban's HDNet).

If governments want to get their citizens to switch to digital TV, they're better off shoving more of the standard-def programming out on the free-to-air stations in digital form (as they have in the UK) than hoping that the opportunity to see Jennifer Anniston's hairspray residue on a 36" set will convince every to throw away their TVs and start over.

3. Britney Spears
The pop tart is still in her early 20s, but she looks about 10 years older in high-def. Her face is puffy and she's starting to show wrinkle marks around her lips, reportedly from a two pack-a-day cigarette habit.

4. Brad Pitt
Like Ms. Diaz, Pitt had a terrible skin problem in his younger years. The impact is clear in high-def. He's still a good-looking guy, but he doesn't look like one of People Magazine's "Most Beautiful."

5. Jewel
The singer looks great in still photos and music videos, but she looks terrible in high-def. And someone should help her with make-up; it looks like it was done by Ringling Bros.

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