May 8, 2003

Enterprise Meets the Borg

I think the Star Trek Enterprise Regeneration episode last night was one of the best in the series thus far. However, I have to agree with Jeremey Zawodny in that I was at first confused about the timeline, but I do think they pulled it together nicely.

As a few people have already mentioned on Jeremey’s blog, when the Borg contacted the Enterprise, they didn’t say, “We are Borg…”, which coincides with the storyline in ST:NG whereby they didn’t know of the Borg.

May 7, 2003

Suit Settled for Students Downloading Music Online

A quote in the [NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/national/02STUD.html?ex=1052539200&e n=62f647db4d1433df&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND) from Howard Ende
of DB&R about the suit:

“This suit is about the industry’s attempt to intimidate
Internet users and instill fear of lawsuits against users of the Internet,
particularly students,” said Howard Ende, a lawyer from Drinker, Biddle &
Reath who is representing Mr. Peng. “They need to find some other way to
protect their economic interests than bringing suits against bright creative
young people.”

May 7, 2003

Nation’s Dogs Dangerously Underpetted, Say Dogs

I got this one from Ted, which of course came from here (LOL!!)

“NEW YORKÂ—At a press conference Monday, representatives of the Association of
American Dogs announced that the nation’s canines are dangerously
underpetted. “Every night, thousands of U.S. dogs go to bed without so much
as a scritch behind the ears,” AAD president Banjo said. “If this sort of
neglect from our masters continues, it could lead to widespread jumping on
the furniture.” Upon his owner’s arrival in the press-conference room, Banjo
abruptly ended his speech, frantically barking, leaping, and rolling over on
his back in an effort to communicate his need for a vigorous belly rub.”

May 7, 2003

How To Make A Telemarketer Cry

Mark Eckenwiler
details his experience suing a telemarketer (link via [Doc](http://doc.weblogs.com/2003/05/07#theContinuingDeathOfAdvertisingAsUsu al))
I love this stuff!
Good summary of Mark’s work:

“The Small Claims process in D.C. – at least what I saw of it – was so
painless as to be dangerously addictive. While the decor in the clerk’s
office leaves a lot to be desired, the staff were consistently helpful and
professional during my phone calls and in-person visits, and you can’t beat
the results if your case has merit. (While sharing news of my success, I
learned from a work colleague that she had used Small Claims previously to
recover $5,000 from a crooked used-car dealer.)”

May 6, 2003

Lockergnome Text Ads

Hmm, looks like Lockergnome’s Bits & Bytes started to put text Ads into its RSS feed on Friday.

May 5, 2003

Flash Face

This is pretty slick — create your very own mug shot with Flash Face

May 4, 2003

Collaborative Filtering Visualization Tool for Music

Audioscrobbler Browser — “[is] a visualisation tool for finding new music by exploring links between related artists”

Wow! I found relationships between artists that I never realized existed.

For example, Nina Simone and Portishead are releated via Radiohead.

May 2, 2003

Blogging complements the water-cooler

Anders Jacobsen, whose blog I have just started to read on a regular bases (due to his comments here that I still need to respond too), has some rather compelling posts about KM and blogging, like for example this response to the recent Business 2.0 article on Management by Blog:

Anders Jacobsen: “I don’t think blogging in businesses will be capturing the water-cooler buzz… On the other hand blogs definitely have potential to smoothen out the intranet / knowledge database submission process. “

May 2, 2003

America 24/7: How to Participate

This could be fun…

“If you live in the US, have a digital camera, an email address and a
passion for telling stories with pictures, we invite you to take digital
photographs from May 12-18, 2003 and submit them to the
America 24/7 web site.”

May 1, 2003

Most spammers lie

Say it isn’t so!!

“Fraud in spam is a big problem that calls out for law enforcement, says the FTC, which found that 66 percent of the unsolicited messages contain fraudulent claims.” (via CNet)

You mean that those pills really aren’t going too… well nevermind…