Here’s another strange blog artefact. I’ve mentioned before how “odd searches bring people to this site”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000496.html. One of the popular search terms has been *tiananmen*, which leads searchers to a “brief note commemorating the 1989 massacre”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000327.html. It consistently gets 300 or so hits per month, while other top search terms average 20. When Google started [...]
Posted by Chris in Blog on January 31st, 2006 | 2 Comments »
A group of Georgetown law students responded to a shill session by Alberto Gonzales in the best way possible: “they turned their backs on him”:http://insomnia.livejournal.com/652389.html. The protest is being downplayed by some media outlets, but it warranted a mention in the “Washington Post”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401593.html: bq. Gonzales’s appearance, which was part of a three-day White House campaign [...]
Posted by Chris in Law on January 25th, 2006 | Comments Off
(Author’s note: Chris Messina implored us to blog about Mash Pit. I didn’t want to just parrot other excellent posts, so here’s my demented version of the event.) Four thirty. A.M., as in oh-dark-thirty. Ben and Karen will be asleep for another three hours. Uh huh. Why am I up this early? Because I have [...]
Posted by Chris in Making Stuff, Technology, Travel, Web 2.0 on January 25th, 2006 | Comments Off
Not really, but my entry in the “Mashup Camp logo contest”:http://www.mashupcamp.com/index.cgi?PreviousLogoIdeas was chosen to be the official logo. Yay! (Not bad for half an hour’s work on the bus.)
Posted by Chris in Fun on January 23rd, 2006 | 4 Comments »
The galaxy is a more exciting place than you might think. From Space.com: bq. A new “X-ray movie of the Milky Way Galaxy”:http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060119/sc_space/exclusivenewxraymovieshows10yearsofmilkywayactivity shows stars erupting and black holes pulsating over a full decade of time. It’s strangely compelling, like signal lights from a distant shore… [Thanks to Bryan for the link.]
Posted by Chris in Space on January 20th, 2006 | Comments Off
