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Free CrapFree CrapFree 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... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Free CrapGrok Headline matches for Free CrapCrap Service for Crap HoundCrap 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? IE is crapIE 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. With crap like thisWith crap like this 04/02/2005 02:14 AM Google Ride Finder .. RideFinder labs.google.com/ridefinder 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!). ReMove CRAPReMove CRAP 07/11/2004 08:06 PM Initial file release Why IRC is crap, yet uselessWhy 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 Holy CrapHoly 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. 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... Too much crap over the phoneToo 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... Like crap, falling from the skyLike 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... Tomcat CrapTomcat 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. More Crap From DvorakMore 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.... Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-06Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-06 07/06/2004 06:45 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Keep Your Crap Out Of My iPod, Say UsersKeep 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 2004-05-13Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-13 05/13/2004 06:28 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-26Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-26 05/26/2004 07:39 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-20Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-20 05/20/2004 05:53 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. Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-21Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-21 04/21/2004 04:57 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-21Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-21 07/21/2004 11:23 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Comments on Bomb CrapComments 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. holy crap that's a big boatholy 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 2004-06-23Cut The Crap Software 2004-06-23 06/23/2004 06:03 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Cut The Crap Software 2003-10-30Cut The Crap Software 2003-10-30 10/31/2003 12:49 PM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-28Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-28 04/28/2004 08:56 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-14Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-14 04/14/2004 08:59 AM Java packages implementing a generic persistence model. Kickin' the Crap Out of KaraokeKickin' the Crap Out of Karaoke 08/17/2004 01:37 AM Direct and Related Links for 'Kickin’ the Crap Out of Karaoke' “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….Crap marketing sitesCrap 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 a bunch of crap and one great linka bunch of crap and one great link 05/07/2004 03:08 PM DR: So much to confess. I have a sinking feeling those responsible will never speak to this man. Rachel Lucas: holy crap I did itRachel Lucas: holy crap I did it 05/08/2004 02:04 AM she has risen .. Rachel Lucas .. It worked rachellucas.com/archives/000858.html Forget eBay, Just Give Your Crap AwayForget eBay, Just Give Your Crap Away 09/27/2004 03:20 AM While some people look at eBay and see a great way to get rid of old junk they no longer have a use for, there are still some people where eBay seems like too much of a hassle. For those people, they usually have four choices: just hang onto the stuff and let it pile up (my personal favorite), toss it into the garbage pile, donate it to some charity or (maybe) hand it off to one of those eBay middlemen who seem to keep popping up everywhere. However, there seems to be a growing group of people who have another option: give it away to someone who wants it. This isn't new (and I'd thought we'd written about it before...), but it appears that the concept of Freecycle is growing. Basically, they sign up for an email list in their area, then people email "haves" and "wants" to the list, and others respond. It's not trading. It's not about selling. It's all about free. If you have something you want to get rid of, rather than doing any of the above, you just find someone directly who could actually use it, and you give it to them. Of course, it looks like some of the groups are pretty high volume, which could make it difficult to deal with. Still, it's an interesting way to build a community in a Craigslist-style fashion. Big brains, crap design skills.Big brains, crap design skills. 07/24/2004 09:29 PM Giga Society: the world's most exclusive high IQ society, where an IQ of 196 or higher (one in a billion) is required to join. Not quite as cranially-advantaged? Well, there's always the Oath society, which'll take you if you're only one in a thousand (a mere 150 IQ or higher). Big brains and design skills (or language ones, for that matter) don't mix well, though, it would seem. [more inside] Crap auction this Sunday in TorontoCrap auction this Sunday in Toronto 09/14/2004 02:49 PM Cory Doctorow: Mark Taaffe is the funniest, most engaging auctioneer I've ever met (he appears in thin veneer in my story Crapho und). His old weekly junk auctions in Toronto were a high-point in my life there -- the bargains were incredible, matched only by Mark's florid description of his wares. Now he's back at it, with a really promising-looking estate auction in Toronto next Sunday (dig those lists of lots!): Saturday, September 18, 11 A.M. Crap cockpit UI may crash planesCrap cockpit UI may crash planes 01/07/2004 06:09 PM A new study has found that the bristling impressiveness of the standard airplane cockpit is a UI disaster and theat the complexity can lead to plane-crashes. They say that, during emergencies, pilots are overloaded with technical information which they are unable to process quickly enough. This could mean that wrong decisions are made at crucial moments -- and these cannot be reversed.L ink Hollywood stars look like crap in
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