Top 100 Websites as Rated by PC Magazine

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Microsoft in Talks to Sell Highly Rated
Online Magazine, Slate
(washingtonpost.com)

Microsoft in Talks to Sell Highly Rated
Online Magazine, Slate
(washingtonpost.com) 07/23/2004 11:15 PM
washingtonpost.com - Eight years after Microsoft Corp. launched an online magazine in a groundbreaking attempt at cyber-hipness, Slate may be sold.

PHP Magazine (International Edition):
PHP Magazine Interviews Zeev & Andi

PHP Magazine (International Edition):
PHP Magazine Interviews Zeev & Andi 06/25/2004 06:41 PM
With the third RC of PHP 5 released on the 8th of June and the Zend PHP 5 Coding Contest, it is easy to see that the full stable release of PHP 5 is just around the corner. At this very late stage of development, PHP Magazine got David Mytton, of olate.com, to interview the two original creators of PHP and Zend – Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans – to find out more about their lives as developers of possibly the most popular Web programming language ever!

iMicrosoft Certified Professional/i
Magazine to Become iREDMOND/i Magazine

iMicrosoft Certified Professional/i
Magazine to Become iREDMOND/i Magazine 06/02/2004 01:05 AM
MCPmag.com Jun 2 2004 4:48AM GMT

Wired Magazine wins at National Magazine
Awards

Wired Magazine wins at National Magazine
Awards 04/13/2005 05:46 PM
Xeni Jardin: WIRED Magazine received a National Magazine Award for General Excellence from by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today. This marks the fourth time the magazine has won an "Ellie" award, three of which with current Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson. (FYI, all four BB co-eds also happen to be contributing writers to the publication). Link

The Wave Magazine - The Bay Area's Best
Entertainment Magazine... Ever.

The Wave Magazine - The Bay Area's Best
Entertainment Magazine... Ever. 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
infiltrated the reality show 'Blind Date.' .. harmon leon goes on Blind Date .. This is hilarious .. The Wave Magazine .. invades

thewavemag.com/printarticle.php?articleid=24594
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does any 1 know of sum 'A' rated games

does any 1 know of sum 'A' rated games 07/09/2004 08:10 AM
TechTree Jul 9 2004 12:09PM GMT

This Firm Is Not Yet Rated

This Firm Is Not Yet Rated 01/03/2004 06:02 AM
Want full disclosure from corporate America? Start rating cybersecurity. A commentary by Mark Rasch from Wired magazine

Tsunami charities rated

Tsunami charities rated 12/29/2004 10:00 AM
Cory Doctorow: Benjamin sez, "I did a little digging into a few of the major charities mentioned on Google's page and on the tsunami blog, and have posted ratings and links from Charity Navigator, the Better Business Bureau, and the American Institute of Philanthropy for the top few." Link (Thanks, Benjamin!)

Disney's x-rated fare

Disney's x-rated fare 12/22/2004 01:57 AM
The original plates for the famous parody work (that was never sued over) Disneyland Memorial Orgy, is on sale at eBay. Here's the whole story on the piece, which ran in 1967 in a small underground newspaper and was created by Paul Krassner. I bet a copyright/trademark lawyer with a sense of humor buys this to mount over his desk soon.

The Terminator's G-rated GOP lovefest

The Terminator's G-rated GOP lovefest 08/31/2004 10:22 PM

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute?

An R-Rated Trademark Dispute? 04/19/2005 04:16 AM
The MPAA really does get a little crazy when it comes to over-reacting on intellectual property issues. Their latest move is to send out cease-and-desist letters to sites that host fan fiction -- not because those made up stories use characters, places and themes from real movies -- but because they use the (trademarked) MPAA movie rating system. That's right, if you happen to label your story as rated G, PG, PG-13, R or NC-17, you'd better watch out, the MPAA might come after you. Of course, they seem to ignore the fact that this system has become common around the world, is hardly taking anything away from the MPAA's own system (if anything, it enhances it), and also is useful in keeping age-inappropriate stories off the screens of those who shouldn't see them.

Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated
PG-13

Revenge of the Sith Officially Rated
PG-13 04/11/2005 05:59 AM

Object relational mappings are
over-rated...

Object relational mappings are
over-rated... 01/01/2004 06:18 PM

... At least according to Tim Bray:

Lots of architects have learned, painfully, that you usually can't magick relational rows away behind object/class abstractions. The right way to think about a database is as a set of normalized tables that are designed to be addressed with SQL strings.

This brings in to focus something I've been thinking about for quite a while. I always try to abstract away the details of the data storage layer behind some kind of interface, so that none of my front end code ever has to make a direct database call, instead calling methods on my application objects with names like "get_user_by_id" or "get_blog_entries_for_date". The idea is that I could, if I wanted to, completely switch out the underlying data source. I should also be able to write new front-end functionality that calls the existing application layer methods without having to change anything in the data access code.

There are a couple of problems here. Firstly, I've already got a data abstraction layer in the form of SQL. Although there are many discrepancies between implementations, basic SQL statements such as selects and joins should work on pretty much any database. Additionally, in my three years of building web applications I can't think of a single time I've needed to change the data layer for an existing application.

Modern database features such as stored procedures and constraints allow you to move huge chunks of application logic that relates to data coherency in to the database itself. In fact, PostgreSQL even allows you to write stored procedures in third party languages such as Python or Perl. With carefully written stored procedures, much of the important application logic could live in the database along with the data itself - a concept comparable to object oriented programming where the data and the methods that can be run on the data are encapsulated together.

I certainly haven't made up my mind one way or the other, and at the end of the day the best approach is the one that gets a project completed in a reasonable time frame and that results in easily maintainable code. Plenty of food for thought, in any case.

Yahoo back in X-rated business

Yahoo back in X-rated business 11/17/2003 06:56 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 17 2003 6:19AM ET

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students"

"Keep the Sex R-Rated, N.Y.U. Tells Film
Students" 12/05/2003 10:14 PM

Worst Cars Of All Time Rated

Worst Cars Of All Time Rated 01/26/2004 07:36 PM

Best Online Poker Websites: ESPN World
Series Of Poker Finds Best Online Poker
Websites Are The Training Ground For
2003 Poker World Champion Chris
Moneymaker And Other Top WPT And WSOP
Gaming Stars.

Best Online Poker Websites: ESPN World
Series Of Poker Finds Best Online Poker
Websites Are The Training Ground For
2003 Poker World Champion Chris
Moneymaker And Other Top WPT And WSOP
Gaming Stars. 07/21/2004 02:30 AM
The best online poker websites have become the best training grounds for the world's top poker players and future poker stars. 2003 World Series Of Poker Champion Chris Moneymaker shocked the Las Vegas establishment and world with his domination of the 2003 ESPN WSOP Championships at Binion's Horseshoe Casino. Yet his Cinderella story was anything but a rags to riches tale. Chris Moneymaker honed his skills and paid his dues like so many other modern day players that participate daily in the best online poker tournaments, satellite competitions and world wide poker websites. http://www.MonteCarloGrandResort.com [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

JobSniper Rated #1 Job Meta-Search
Engine

JobSniper Rated #1 Job Meta-Search
Engine 09/21/2004 02:44 AM
JobSniper.com has been rated the Internet’s number one meta- job search engine by an independent human resources and web technology development and services organization for the second time in as many months. [PRWEB Sep 21, 2004]

Hefty fine for X-rated spam scam

Hefty fine for X-rated spam scam 02/17/2004 01:02 PM
A telecoms watchdog has fined a US firm for spam that dialled up premium rate lines without permission.

Gifted pupil summer schools rated

Gifted pupil summer schools rated 05/17/2004 08:52 PM
Summer schools for gifted and talented children worked well, boosting their knowledge and confidence, Ofsted says.

Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters)

Lego rated adults' favourite toy
(Reuters) 05/31/2004 10:01 AM
Reuters - Lego, the multicoloured plastic bricks which delight youngsters but catch out unwary barefoot parents, has been voted the nation's favourite toy, according to a poll.

Low-Rated ABC Ousts Top Executives of
Entertainment Unit

Low-Rated ABC Ousts Top Executives of
Entertainment Unit 04/20/2004 06:18 PM
One month before it presents a new lineup of programs to advertisers, ABC fired both the chairman, Lloyd Braun, and the president, Susan Lyne, of its entertainment division.

X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated

X-Arcade MAME Dual Controller Rated 05/23/2004 10:27 PM

'Over the Rainbow' rated no. 1 movie
tune

'Over the Rainbow' rated no. 1 movie
tune 06/23/2004 10:59 AM

Bush Climate Plan Rated Somewhat
Improved

Bush Climate Plan Rated Somewhat
Improved 02/19/2004 12:11 AM
The president's plan for climate research has improved, but can succeed only if the research is shielded from political pressures and if more money is spent, an independent panel said.

ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit

ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
A Hair Raising Account From A Soldier Caught In An Ambush In Iraq .. ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a tourist attraction, dammit .. a breathtaking account of what can go wrong .. soldier's eye view .. Alamo

livejournal.com/users/ginmar/256570.html#cutid1
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Subservient Chicken's X-Rated Bits
Exposed by Code

Subservient Chicken's X-Rated Bits
Exposed by Code 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
Following up on the launch of Burger King's "instameme" promo -- background in this earlier BoingBoing post -- geek supersleuth NEMESIS reveals the Subservient Chicken's naughty little nuggets:

"By backwards engineering the API within the HTTP headers, you can un-censor the censored ones:
Link 1 (scratch, crotch, balls, nutsack, destroy tokyo, stomp, godzilla, jonny rotten, punk rock, fsu, fuck shit up)
Link 2 (rub, chest, breast, breasts, boobs, jugs, tatas, hooters, jugs, nips, burning man, mardis gras, girls gone wild, playboy, penthouse, barely legal, leg show)
Link 3 (give bird, give the bird, bird, middle finger, flipping, fuck you, fuck off, flip , flip me off, flip them off)
Link 4 (shit, ass , fuck, cock, pussy, motherfucker, cunt, piss , arse, suck, dyke, bitch, clit, cum , dick, dildo, feces, felch, foreskin, whore, jizz, jism, masturbate, jerk, anal, bastard, blowjob, butt, suck, choad, erection, fellatio, incest, semen, tit)
Link 5 (touch yourself, naughty spot , naughtyspot, private, privates, sore, nuts , testicles, balls, groin, crotch)
Link 6 (show breast, breasts, tits , titties, slut, whore, tramp , seduce, hooker, prostitute, tatas, jugs, nice rack, your rack, tatas, show yer tits, show yer breasts, show your breasts, show yer tis)
Link 7 (masturbate, masterbate, play with yourself, jerk off , take off mask, take off costume, take off your, streak , flash , strip , naked, nude, take it off , get naked, take it all off, nekkid, get nekkid, whip em out, show your tits, show yer tits, tits , take off your clothes, take off yer clothes, clothes, off like a prom dress, prom dress, do me , blow me, take pants off, take off your pants, mask)

But to paraphrase another fast food empire: Where's the bukkake? Link to copy of file with index of all Subservient Chicken Behavior commands, many of which would merit FCC fines, if they were -- I don't know, read aloud on the Howard Stern Show or something. (Thanks also to Josh Santangelo!)

"ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit"

"ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a
tourist attraction, dammit" 04/10/2004 02:10 PM

Microsoft's Sender ID rated
incompatible to Open Source

Microsoft's Sender ID rated
incompatible to Open Source 09/03/2004 08:35 AM
Today the Apache Software Foundation has rejected Sender ID, arguing that while the license is royalty free, it is incompatible with Open Source, and thus the foundational properties of the Internet.

N.Y.U. film school keeps its
students’ on-camera sex R-rated

N.Y.U. film school keeps its
students’ on-camera sex R-rated 12/05/2003 06:40 AM

nytimes.com/2003/12/04/nyregion/04MOVI.html
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Toronto tech sector rated as
third-busiest in North America

Toronto tech sector rated as
third-busiest in North America 05/13/2004 11:11 AM
Sympatico May 13 2004 2:26PM GMT

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

"a week-long eating binge though much of
Chicago?s best-rated food
establishments"

"a week-long eating binge though much of
Chicago?s best-rated food
establishments" 01/04/2005 12:48 AM

GPS Industries Installs Inforemer GPS
Solution At Highly-Rated Courses in
Washington and Nevada

GPS Industries Installs Inforemer GPS
Solution At Highly-Rated Courses in
Washington and Nevada 06/18/2004 04:08 PM
BC Technology Jun 18 2004 8:08PM GMT

CACI Rated Number One in Wall Street
Journal Ranking of Computer Industry S

CACI Rated Number One in Wall Street
Journal Ranking of Computer Industry S 04/01/2005 10:40 PM
OutSourcing TV Apr 2 2005 2:09AM GMT

The Web site of Burger King's
Subservient Chicken ad campaign found to
take X-rated orders

The Web site of Burger King's
Subservient Chicken ad campaign found to
take X-rated orders 04/10/2004 08:47 AM
subserviant chicken reverse engineered .. un-censoring the R-rated ones .. Boing Boing .. weird

boingboing.net/2004/04/08/subservient_chickens.html
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Study finds violence, unlabeled content
in teen-rated video games

Study finds violence, unlabeled content
in teen-rated video games 02/17/2004 05:14 PM
SiliconValley.com Feb 17 2004 9:35PM GMT

"The Web site of Burger King's
Subservient Chicken ad campaign found to
take X-rated orders."

"The Web site of Burger King's
Subservient Chicken ad campaign found to
take X-rated orders." 04/13/2004 03:29 AM

Micron Technology, Inc., and Digi-Key
Corporation Provide Access to
High-Quality Products with Top-Rated
Deliv

Micron Technology, Inc., and Digi-Key
Corporation Provide Access to
High-Quality Products with Top-Rated
Deliv 04/05/2005 06:16 AM
ZDNet India Apr 5 2005 10:25AM GMT
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