From the “this is news?” department: Study shows teenage girls sexually harassed on the Internet.
Links
Stuff I find around the web that interests or amuses me.
More fun with Google
The articles I linked to about Googlebombing on the 5th have inspired a third followup article worth reading: The Tripping Blog – How Weblogs can turn an idea into an epidemic.
Ravi who?
On the internet, nobody knows you’re Ravi Desai (with apologies to Peter Steiner).
Going, going, gone
There’s a very interesting article on Slate talking about Arthur Andersen’s disappearing act, as the accounting firm enters negotiations investigating being absorbed by other major accounting firms (disclaimer — I am presently employed by Todays Office Staffing, a temp agency who contracts me to Xerox, who has me running the print shop for Arthur Andersen‘s Seattle office — however, I learn more about the current Enron/Andersen scandal from papers and the ‘net than I do from the office).
Fun with Π
My birthday is within the first 100 million digits of Π (specifically, 1,040,331 digits in [or 11,057 digits in, if I use the non-zero-padded version of my birthday 5373]). So is my current phone number, sans area code (49,168,544 digits in). My social security number isn’t, though. Bummer.
Text Pong
Just in case Infocom making Tetris wasn’t weird enough, here’s one weirder — text-based Pong!
Sure, we checked their credentials
Why I trust my government to keep me safe: On Monday, the INS approved student visas for two of the 9/11 airplane hijackers.
Those eyes!
How completely fascinating. If you’ve ever picked up a National Geographic magazine, you probably remember a cover from 1985 of a girl with stunning green eyes, from a story about war in Afghanistan. Somehow National Geographic found her again.
Propaganda
Propaganda, anyone? This site really got my attention after it was posted over on MetaFilter today. On the one hand, on a conceptual/artistic level, I like most of what I see (though some of the posters really are just plain bad). However, on a more intellectual level, it’s just frightening, due to the strong resemblance to WWII-era Soviet propaganda posters. I was hoping that it may have been more satirical in nature, but apparently this is a real, serious attempt…though at exactly what isn’t entirely clear from the site.
Teleportation
Ray Kurzweil “teleported” today to the Nanoventures 2002 conference, which is focusing on commercialization of nanotechnology.