Now we know what makes the President tick…
Kim’s Dong
Posted on July 7, 2006 ·
Kim Jong Il can’t get his Dong up and the Daily Show makes fun of the silly names he gives his weaponry.
Adult Supervision at Google
Posted on July 7, 2006 ·
“Sergey, you can have whatever bed you want in your room; Larry, you can have whatever kind of bed you want in your bedroom. Let’s move on.” Now go brush your teeth and up in your room ..
OK, I added this last thought, but the above quote is from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, putting an end to the dispute on what furniture (“hammocks hung from the ceiling”) and toys the two founders should have in their stateroom aboard their private Boeing 767. Read the full article at the WSJ.
Adult supervision at its best. 
Update 97/4): And if you two don’t start behaving, I’m going to ground you for a month
HieroZlango? Zlanglyphs? :-)
Posted on June 28, 2006 ·
profiled Zlango,
a cute icon-based SMS ZMS language. Nice, who knows what the outcome will be:
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It will not take off, since to really use it, the receiving end needs to have
it on their phone, too.
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Because of the above, it will spread virally
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Since it’s so cute, it will spread among kids first, and the language
separation will be final: we can give up any hope of understanding the 10-year
olds ever again.
Either way, as Ethan
points out, the idea is not quite new: Zlango = ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs + modern
technology.
Tags: zlango, sms, zms, hiroglyphs, egypt, techcrunch
Where Would Web 2.0 Be Without AJAX? :-)
Posted on June 23, 2006 ·
Thanks to Espen Antonsen for pointing out the cornerstone of Web 2.0
Is Evil More Readable than Good?
Posted on June 15, 2006 ·
Dennis Howlett recently ran a readability test on some blogs he follows. The Gunning Fog index is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content. The lower the number, the more understandable the content is.
This reminded me of another test I wrote about, the Gematriculator, which calculates the Evil / Good ratio of a website.
Now for the shocking result: I took a sample of blogs I read, and ran them through both test. Blogs with a higher Evil ratio appear to be more readable! Wow! But of course the sample was too small, to really see if there is strong correlation we’d need a larger sample. So, in the name of science (?) please fill in the form below, using the results from the Readability test and the Gematriculator:
If the form does not work in your feed, please click through to my blog to complete it. When I have a large enough sample, I will publish the statistics.
Thanks for your participation!
Update (6/15): The form I created is fairly basic, but there is a lot more you can do with Zoho Creator, as this animated tour demonstrates.
What do MommyBuzz and Ziki Have in Common
Posted on June 15, 2006 ·
(Updated)
MommyBuzz launched today announces Steve Rubel.
Business model? The same that Ziki started with: commission-based deals with sunglass-manufacturers.
If you visit the site, you’ll see it yourself – but not for long, your eyes will burn (sans shades).
Ziki toned down there colors in a few days – let’s see how soon Mommy gets the buzz ….
Btw, in my usual Johnny-come-lately fashion I thought I would register Toddlerbuzz … too late.
Update (1029): Mommybuzz does not seem to care.. apparently they think the eye-burning colors work. See VentureBeat on this and other Mom-sites.
Go to Hell
Posted on June 4, 2006 ·
No, I am not rude. I am talking about visiting the festivities in the town of Hell, Michigan, next Tuesday, which is 6/6/06, or … 666, the “Number of the Beast“.
Yes, the town really exists, although Google refuses to find it, desperately trying to come up with a match in California. Now, I’m not a big fan of German food, but it’s amazing that the places Google associates with Hell are Elbe German European Cuisine, Harry’s Hofbrau, Hardy’s Bavaria, Teskes Germania Restaurant…etc. Although if you regularly dine at the Google Cafeteria, I can understand every ting else is Hell… well, except perhaps the French Laundry. (Back to Google, I wonder how Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren got on the Hell List
). Anyway, where Google fails, Yahoo delivers.
Tuesday will be a big day in the life of Hell, the mayor who runs the town and a gift-shop ordered a lot of commemorative items, all in quantities of 666, so run while supplies last! The town’s website (dying 
from unexpected traffic) has a telling domain name of hell2u.com
If you’re not quite ready to go to Hell … well, there is always Harmony, CA, with a population of 18. 
(What an explosion, I have an old photo from the early 90’s when it was 8).
Update (666): Dial “Hell”, reach Stowe Boyd.
Update (12/17/08): Look where the Hell sign showed up 🙂 Do they know? 🙂
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