News Archive for: Sep 25, 2001 to Oct 2, 2001
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.
You can send all of those AOL CDs that you get in the mail to these guys, who will send 'em right back to AOL. They've collected over 2000 so far, but that's just the tip of the million-CD iceberg they're shooting for.
"I have amassed enough evidence to convince me the universe is a fractal larva grown in a five-dimension fluid information medium. I think the larval universe is growing rapidly towards adulthood and understanding, so nothing scares me much, except for giant spiders and normal sized moths." How I love this guy!
"When the cat sticks its head into your Tim Horton's Own sandwich bag, the Tim Horton's Own sandwich bag will get stuck on the cat's head, because the bag and the head have, by a happy accident of geometry and karma, the same circumference."
Debunking WTC Urban Legends: I've visited this site many times in the past and it's good to see that they're still able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Doc: "The best thing we can do is inform ourselves and keep asking better questions. There is nothing about either that's unpatriotic in the least."
Dave: "I watched CNN and MSNBC last night. They showed pictures of Americans lining up to buy gas masks. I don't see that happening anywhere around me."
Dave again: "I selected all my David Bowie songs and right-clicked to play them in WinAmp, thinking it would be all Ziggy Stardust and Major Tom, but to my surprise..."
Zeldman: "I can picture the overworked creative director in a news organization, choosing from different graphic treatments of AMERICA UNDER ATTACK: 'Use a different font. Too fancy, too bloody. Show me something with the Towers.'"