Zwol.org

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.

"Upon completing His outburst, God fell silent, standing quietly at the podium for several moments. Then, witnesses reported, God's shoulders began to shake, and He wept."

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.

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

"[T]erribly shocked, but not really surprised."

Some days are better than others. Today isn't one of them.