Tonight’s match between Andre Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis was incredible. I’m sure it will eventually be in the rotation on the classic sports channels. If so, be sure to check it out.
August 2006
Here’s a life tip for you all: When you’re jumping your rocket-powered Lincoln Continental over a river, make sure air doesn’t get under the hood.
Pitchfork has posted an MP3 from the upcoming Decemberists album.
A quick thank you to Matt and the Automattic gang for getting Akismet back up so quickly. I think a lot of people have taken for granted just how well it works.
I’ve got your strategy right here
Tonight Google finally unveiled the beta of Google Apps for your Domain. Not a very catchy name. Why not call it what it really is? Google Office. I guess once Writely and Google Spreadsheets are added to the suite, the name will be more appropriate.
What was it that people were saying about Google not having a strategy?
Of course, Steve Gillmor has a good deal to say about this.
Let the disruption begin.
There are five upcoming shows at the Crystal Ballroom that I’d like to see. Please let me know if you’re interested in going with me.
Gmail Notifier has become Google Notifier (via TUAW). The application now includes notifications and a menu bar icon for Google Calendar. I’m really happy about the calendar integration. It’s something I’ve been wanting for a while now.
This daye, goode Jason Kottke dide poynte oute thatte Geoffrey Chaucer hath a moste intyrestinge blog.
The war on terror? Really?
Paul Stephenson, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (From Times Online):
We are confident that we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and commit mass murder. This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale.
The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation.
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But obviously, we’re still not completely safe, because there are people that still plot and people who want to harm us for what we believe in. It is a mistake to believe there is no threat to the United States of America.
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The American people need to know we live in a dangerous world, but our government will do everything we can to protect our people from those dangers.
Spreading fear kind of defeats the purpose of a “war on terror”, doesn’t it? Of course, if people would bother to stop and think for a minute or two, they’d realize that this fear is totally irrational and wouldn’t be affected by the tactics of the terrorists or those charged with defending us.
As usual, Ze Frank says it best.
AOL intentionally releases user data
I doubt that this news will directly affect any of my regular readers. However, when a company breaches the trust of its users on this scale, it needs to be disseminated as widely as possible.
AOL must have missed the uproar over the DOJ’s demand for “anonymized” search data last year that caused all sorts of pain for Microsoft and Google. That’s the only way to explain their release of data that includes 20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users.
The data includes all searches from those users for a three month period this year, as well as whether they clicked on a result, what that result was and where it appeared on the result page.
If you searched for something on AOL this year, you might want to think about what keywords you used and which links you clicked on.