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(Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back): (Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back)Dance Monkey Boy, Dance!!!What other company could have a manimal for their CEO and still be profitable. Only a monopoly could maintain such control. All hail, America's second favorite idiot. Homer Simpson being the first. Peter Griffin is third.RE: (Photos:...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Monkey Boy, Homer Simpson, animation, Peter Griffin, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-03-07

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E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering: E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...; Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial; Discussion threads 2008-07-22
Viacom, Google cut deal on user data: Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataIf I see one I'll let you know NT&Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataOh this is funny. Google never cared about user privacy before and now that they are going to be sued into oblivion they suddenly care? I hope Viacom hits...; Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., user data; Discussion threads 2008-07-15
Viacom statement on YouTube user data: Viacom statement on YouTube user dataGreat news for the entire copyright communityDing dong ... the witch is dead! ... or at least she is starting to melt! Wow ... I would say this is very good news for the entire copyright industry. While potentially inconvenient to YouTube viewers, and understanding...; Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, user data, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-10
12 terabytes of YouTube data: 12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...; Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA: Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...; Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-30
I'd love to tell you about this article, but...: I'd love to tell you about this article, but...Chris, you should have quoted the article anyway...Or even better, quote a little piece of the Odyssey that relates to the article. I don't think Homer holds the copyright on that since around 500 B.C.(if today's copyright terms applied) :)Re:Chris, you should...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Homer; Discussion threads 2008-06-23
Images: Satellites follow killer cyclone: Satellite images from NASA track a cyclone and the flooding it caused--which may end up killing over 100,000 residents of Myanmar formerly Burma.The government of Myanmar formerly known as Burma has reported that over 22,000 people have died so far, due to the effects of Tropical Cyclone Nargis which hit...; Tags: Myanmar, Satellite, Image, Government, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-09
How long can AMD continue to blame Intel for its failures?: I have a policy on this blog of not passing judgment on what's legal or not (in the words of Homer Simpson, that's for the courts to decide) but I do keep wondering how long AMD are going to continue blaming Intel for its failures instead of taking a look...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Impressionism Art Screensaver - 800 paintings (exe): Paintings of the Impressionists Fine Art Screensaver; 800 paintings, 50 artists including Degas, Manet, Sisley, Morisot, Sargent, Renoir, Monet, Cassatt, Pissarro, Eakins, Chase, Homer, Caillebotte, and many more. Turn your computer into a virtual picture frame that will be worthy of gracing your surroundings. Elegant, inspirational, educational, and beautiful. Like...; Tags: Screensaver, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2008-04-30
Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws: Psystar, a Miami-based OEM which is now offering OS X on generic PC hardware, claims that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violates U.S. monopoly laws. Whoa, bold claim there. Better have some deep pockets if the company wants to take the fight to court. In an interview with...; Tags: EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Monopoly Law, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction pool: Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction poolLost cause by then[i]- XP SP3 will keep it alive until then while MS franticly tries to push Vista harder and bring it up to snuff.[/i]Vista will be a lost cause by then. Too tainted except by the most...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Release Date Prediction Pool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows7, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-04-09
Audaciousness (html): This sound-production tool manipulates digital recordings of your voice to create a final result that sounds just like the pop singers you hear on the radio and MTV. Put your digital recording through the Cher vocoder treatment, the Rihanna echo effect, or the NIN grinder. It's rumored to supposedly have...; Tags: HTML, Pop Singer, BoyBands-R.us, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-04-01
Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll culture: Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll cultureLike Beethoven at the keyboard .Microsoft .Coxisms[url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45152&messageID=834512&start=-9961]Typical Coxism[/url]Gets me through the day with a 'chuckle'.What do you call ...... a MAC portable user?An AIRhead.Didn't amuse the MAC community ... and I'm not ananymous so I guess you'll have to disqualify it...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, No_Axe_to_Grind, Vista Capable, Aero, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-03-31
Yes, you can get internet access in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska: I am conducting shipchecks on an Alaskan Marine Highways ferry this week in the Gulf of Alaska with stops in Kodiak, Homer, Seldovia, Whittier, Cordova, and Port Lions. I was afraid I would be completely offline and out of touch, but it turns out that the particular vessel I am...; Tags: Internet Access, Speed, Alaska, Download Speed, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-03-26
The MacBook's mysterious WiFi dropout problem is still unsolved: Despite Apple's recent spate of Airport updates, complaints on discussion boards keep climbing over long-standing problems with MacBooks and MacBook Pros holding their WiFi connection. While the WiFi technology chain is complex and problems can be transient, Apple is taking a quality-assurance beating on this issue. Several...; Tags: Router, Network, Problem, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Networking, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-03-20
With doughnut policies who fills the hole?: The big trend in health insurance this year is the Consumer Directed Health Plan CDHP. It is, in essence, a doughnut policy. (Picture from Scooter's Doughnut.Net.) You're given so-called catastrophic coverage, in fact a ginormous deductible. Then you create a Health Savings Account HSA,...; Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-13
Value in hospital branding: Branding is a hush-hush topic among hospital administrators. Most prefer to think of reputation. That's different. You throw out a name at someone, they nod, and that's a good reputation. They throw a name at you, that's branding. Individuals like Rusty...; Tags: Brand, Mayo Clinic, Technology, No., Branding, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-28
BULLETIN: "Critical Severity" BlackBerry outage: Note: This is a mirror post from my BlackBerry Beat blog. Important enough news to spread through both blogs, IMHO. Sounds serious, and it is. As an AT&T Mobility BlackBerry subscribver, I first started to pick up something wrong when I sent some photos...; Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Outage, E-mail, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Online Communications, Hardware, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-11
RIM: "Critical Severity" BlackBerry outage: Sounds serious, and it is. As an AT&T Mobility BlackBerry subscribver, I first started to pick up something wrong when I sent some photos of me swimming in a spa pool yesterday to some of my other email addys. They aren't getting thru. ...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Outage, E-mail, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Online Communications, Hardware, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-11