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Jackass of the Week

I’m going to take a leaf out of the Book of Gruber.

Mark Cuban is the Jackass of the Week.

Ars Technica has everything I would say in response to this article so I’m not going to go over it again.

Mr. Cuban, I would do some research. Not all Bittorrent traffic is warez. And it shouldn’t be so hard for Comcast to keep bandwidth up — not to mention the US is pretty far behind in terms …

zefrank

Although I first heard of the show with zefrank when it started, mostly thanks to Kottke, I never really watched any of it. So, I’m starting with the very first show, from March 17, 2006, and I’m planning on working my way through the entire year of “episodes” (mini-episodes?), all the way to the very last one, posted exactly one year later.

zefrank also made a special video (I think it was a special video) about …

Google Down

What happened?!? At about 10:30 PM PST.

Wikia, Where It’s At

It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet — and I just stumbled upon a goldmine of information that is hosted by Wikia, a hosted wiki service started by Jimmy Wales, most famous for, of course, Wikipedia, the wiki of all wikis. Just some gems I found.

  • Wookiepedia — everything (and more) you wanted to know about Star Wars. Everything.
  • The Matrix Wiki — I don’t know anyone who didn’t like The Matrix trilogy, …

StumblingUpon

Upon the insistence of a friend, I’ve installed the StumbleUpon Firefox extension and I must say I can’t believe I’ve missed out so long. When StumbleUpon first hit the news, I passed it on as a ridiculous fad, but now I’ve killed countless minutes clicking the “Stumble!” button.

I’ve already found a few gems, such as the winners of the “I Like My Dog” contest, hilarious images like this one and a [list of “almost every …

Speed Testing

Apparently my Qwest connection has about 3M download, and 512k upload. Not so good for a service that claims “up to 7 Mbps download” (I’m getting 3) and “896 Kbps upload” (I’m getting 512k).

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