Honestly! I don’t go looking for this stuff! I don’t need to – it’s like shooting fish, but more satisfying. Apple Rating: WTF is This?
Flickr
I just signed up for an account on Flickr [see www.flickr.com/photos/domipix] on which I’ll be putting my PaD (which is also on pbase and my own photo site) amongst other things. Flickr seems like a really nice piece of work. Might be due for an upgrade to a pro account sometime soon…
Zoomquilt
Is Google News Biased?
Interesting article at Search Engine Watch.
Isometric pixel niceness
Sorry if this is old news, but I’d never seen DC Flyby, which is of all things a US government site. It’s a slice of some pretty nice pixel art. And large.
msnbot
It’s a bit like the annoying kid at school who everyone tells to push off, but they keep coming back just in case you want to talk to them. MSNbot, on seeing my “bugger off” in robots.txt, deserved thanks to its full-on approach to spidering that comes in somewhere between a DoS and a handy revenue generation trick for your ISP, now comes back to double-check the robots.txt file anywhere between every couple of hours and every couple of minutes. Get the message, MSNbot! ‘Op it!
Seriously, though, so many web admins are denying MSNbot spidering in robots.txt that it could find itself with large holes in the index. Or maybe that’s the plan? Make holes in the index, *where there would be sites run by savvy admins*. Leading to more sites run by non-savvy, or bandwidth-ambivalent admins. i.e. people trying to run IIS and Big Corps.
But now I’m just being paranoid.
"Free Internet Telephony that Just Works"
I’m getting quite into Skype. As always with this sort of thing, it’s of limited use until there’s a decent number of your contacts using it, but that’s boosted by the fact you can use it to call mobiles or even (gasp) landlines.
1.4M Chinese chat with Barcelona's Ronaldinho on internet
So says Tribal Football. I remember doing internet chats for “stars” – how the hell do you organise a million and a half chatters?!