http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
The 404 “Not Found” response is familiar to even the occasional Web user. A number of studies have examined the prevalence of link rot on the Web, in academic literature, and in digital libraries. In a 2003 experiment, Fetterly et al. discovered that about one link out of every 200 disappeared each week from the internet.
The 404 “Not Found” response is familiar to even the occasional Web user… and so is the subsequent rage.
In solidarity with today’s 24-hour Wikipedia blackout, Things I Wikipedia has decided to also black out.
(Drunk.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_logo#Google_Doodle
My Dad: “WHAT IS THAT THING???”
Me: “Um… Dad. That’s Google. You know… the website?”
Dad: “…BUT HOW DO I GET RID OF IT???!?!??!”
Computer funtime with my dad. (The man who calls the refrigerator the “icebox.”)
What he was referring to in panic was actually the Les Paul Google Doodle, an insanely addictive and interactive Google.com image in tribute to the master guitarist Les Paul (inventor of, among other things, the eponymous Les Paul guitar). In case you missed it, you could actually “play” the strings of the image like a guitar and even record your masterpiece.
In relaying the above story to my friends, however, I realized I had no idea what the actual name for the “Google.com image” was. And I was ashamed.
But I am ashamed no longer, because I am now armed with this knowledge. And I’m totally self-deprecating about it, which means I’m rubber and you’re glue and makes anything you say bounce off me and stick to you. BOOM!
(Source: twettey.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Winklevoss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Winklevoss
Musicians, self-taught web developers, Harvard graduates, Olympic rowers, MBAs from Oxford… is there anything these guys can’t do?
Oh, right. Create Facebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Erlich
I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS MAN. I want to know him better. In every sense of the word. (Yes, Biblically too.)
If you haven’t seen him in action, please—for the love of the internet—get yourself here ASAP:
http://current.com/shows/infomania/
http://current.com/shows/the-rotten-tomatoes-show/
Thank me later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lazaridis
“At age 12, he won a prize at the Windsor Public Library for reading every science book in the library.”
Power to the nerds—this dude’s rich. He’s the evil genius behind the Blackberry. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs is cackling in his igloo of gold blocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
Relevant to the 7-hour session I spend in front of my laptop cleaning a virus. You may now proceed to hire me as Chief Technology Officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein
