A day ago this post went up on Reddit and then got reposted to Hacker News, both sites I lurk on. I’ve been watching the comments with much interest: some admire the way this guy hacked OkCupid (it’s a social engineering hack, not an attack on OkCupid) – and some are strongly saying that it…
A lot of people seemed to think the points made in 2010: The Year Of Whining About Women In Tech (zdnet.com) were very important. It’s really too bad the article was published before an industry friend sent me Marissa Mayer: Girls Can Be Geeks Too (newsweek.com). Newsweek asks one of the highest-up, highest profile women…
I’ve been watching the news, and UK politicians are intent on setting up porn filters on the ISP (Internet Service Provider) level to filter the Internet going into people’s homes, etc. You’ll remember that I wrote an article about it a few weeks back (Britain Considers ISP Filters To Save The Children: Flawed Logic). In…
I took off the gloves in my newest post for ZDNet, 2010: The Year of Whining About Women In Tech. I just couldn’t stand seeing people say that women in tech, or lack thereof, is a problem – without telling me WHY this is a problem. How the hell do you solve a problem if…
This is beautiful, brilliant, and of course, darkly tragic. Design studio Nation used the 2600 list of words Google blacklisted for their “Instant” search function and made a Google Blacklist holiday card generator (wearenation.co.uk). It’s filthy and funny – and it shows just how ridiculous the words actually are on Google’s list of filtered words.…
This morning I woke up to a round of comment spam waiting in my queue; you see, I personally approve all commenters here. We have a wild, but very real, and always human community. When someone tries to do a drive-by for SEO (this blog gets serious traffic, so it happens), I catch it every…
This morning I filed an in-depth look at the paper that named YouPorn as the top culprit for “history hijacking” and why they were singled out – it wasn’t because they’re a porn site. I’m a fan of YouPorn for a number of reasons, and while I am upset about the snooping I am also…
Warning: Beware of annoying, noisy postroll ad. I sort of cheated and went ahead and gave you the #1 video from Joystick Division’s list, 8 Unforgettable Video Game Sex Scenes [Super-NSFW] (joystickdivision.com, thanks Angie!). The above scene is from God of War III – Aphrodite’s Bed. But just because you saw their top pick, it…
Update: Hey, my article made it to the ZDNet/CBSi front door! Yay! Last week I got an email from Zack Whittaker, ZDNet’s iGeneration blogger. He sent me an article on BBC that had stats about wee ones looking at pr0ns that made it look like an epidemic — an impossible set of stats, to my…
I was astonished when ZDNet colleague and SEO expert Stephen Chapman sent me a tip about Yahoo!’s new product, Clues, with the message that it seemed to be filtering out certain terms. In a few minutes of entering terms, I saw something very upsetting. Clues was supposed to be like a richer Google Trends, and…