News Archive for: Sep 20, 2001 to Sep 26, 2001
"In defense of freedom". Not a bad list.
Scobleizer: "It took 15 seconds to change the look of hundreds of pages here. Oh, I sure don't miss using FrontPage anymore."
Just plain silly: "The military campaign has tentatively been named 'Operation Infinite Justice,' according to sources." Quote via CNN
Wow. Dave Winer points to Mapquest's arial photo of the WTC site.
radioPossibility: Marek reiterates the function of the web as a communication tool.
Michael Moore had a lot to say yesterday, but of course I zeroed in on this quote: "[W]hat we have is Bush speaking like a wind-up doll, mouthing a bunch of nonsense clich?s, repeating them over and over and over. But occasionally his batteries run out -- and he goes off on some unintelligible tangent."
Paul Simon, American Tune:
We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hours and sing an American tune
But it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
That's all, I'm trying to get some rest
"[T]erribly shocked, but not really surprised."
Some days are better than others. Today isn't one of them.
via MSN
As audiences go, Friday's telethon averaged 59.3 million viewers during the entire two-hour event, according to Nielsen Media Research. The numbers are based on audience totals from ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, as well as UPN, the WB, E!, PAX, PBS, BET, Comedy Central, Court TV, Discovery, F/X, Fox Family Channel, Hallmark, HBO, Lifetime, MTV, SciFi, Showtime, The Learning Channel, TNN, TNT, TVLand, USA Network, VH1, Telemundo, Univision and Galavision.All told, the telethon pulled in seven million more viewers than President Bush's 45-minute address to Congress Thursday night, which drew 82.1 million viewers at any one point.
From a historical standpoint, the telethon's 38.3 household rating and 65 share fell short of any all-time lists. The top network telecast of all time still remains the 1983 finale of M*A*S*H, which pulled a mammoth 60.2 rating and 77 share.
I Love New York: That wacky Dave Winer is up to stuff again!
Zeldman: The Angry Flag Vendor
The story that contains this quote may be making the rounds of the internet:
On Monday, September 10, the day before terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a fifth-grade boy in a Dallas suburb told his teacher that World War III would begin the next day, school officials have reported to the FBI.But you shouldn't believe a word of it. It's purported to come from a newspaper called the "Dallas Chronicle", but there is no such animal.
Oliver Wrede: "A society under pressure should not fall into such a regression and welcome any kind of distortion of reality. Especially not in this time."
Pure Evil: And you thought pop-ups were bad. Salon.com has an advertising system which places a full-page ad between pages. See, clicking on a link from their home page to view an article shows an advertisement for Sprint Wireless which (I assume) is meant to forward you to the actual article after a short period of time. However, due to some "errors" on the page, it never forwards you! And the link to proceed directly to the article only shows you the advertisement again.
Hmmm... Now it's working a bit better. Maybe it's cookie-driven so that I'll only see that ad a couple of times? Not sure, but at any rate, placing ads as full-pages that slide in between the page you're on and the page you've clicked on is pure evil. Very Bad.
Ah-ha! It IS cookies and the ad is only supposed to show up once per day and it only started yesterday. Still-- EVIL and BAD.