I’ve decided to go with a new service – Feedblitz – to deliver my rss feed in email format. This one looks like a big improvement. I was able to import my subscriptions from Bloglet (where delivery was too unreliable), so anyone who was getting emails from there will notice a change. If you would like to get updates on VirusHead blog entries, sign up.
The United States has, until now, been a (if not "the") world leader in scientific research and the development of technologies. This has been the backbone of public policies that navigate reality, and it has brought us our highish standard of living and our economy of relative priviledge. But I think we’re on the way out of that role. When ideologies replace knowledge, it is always the people who pay. Certain fundamentalist groups, suspicious of all intellectuals, "eggheads," and independent…
HackerWatch Map I’m getting several attempts on my computer every day. I report these hacker attempts with my firewall software. They analyze corporate and individually-submitted data like mine to track patterns of attacks, hacking attempts, and disruptions. Once a pattern is mapped, the appropriate authorities and ISP carriers can be notified. I just looked at their sourcemaps for the first time today. Significant incidents recently reported: 24 Hours – 78,541,667 7 Days – 547,791,660 30 Days – 2,356,379,550 It shocks…
Ok, Exxon Mobile beats out my entry on Chevron’s profits. The world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil, has announced its record-breaking profits for 2005 — $36.13 billion. That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism. Again. That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism. ExxonMobil uses its billions to sabotage efforts to slow global warming and to lobby Congress in support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off…
You can get a tee shirt with your blog’s “word cloud” printed on it at snapshirts.com. They let you tweak it too (in case you really wished you’d seen this before you posted something like that last joke). It’s a fun idea, but the execution here still needs a little work. It seems to me that I’ve seen a better, more aethetically pleasing word cloud function somewhere else. Anyone know where?
Free Press : Internet Freedom Under Fire: Act Now Take Action at freepress.net. After destroying TV and radio, mega-media corporations are scheming to control what content you can view and which services you can use online. Streaming video, Internet phones, podcasting and online games are the future of the Internet. But companies like Verizon, AT&T and Comcast want Congress to let them deliver only their own products at super-high speeds … while sticking the rest of us in the slow…