• AOL Blocks Links From LiveJournal

    Slashdot | AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal “ Last week, AOL began blocking all HTTP requests with ‘www.livejournal.com’ Referer headers. This is a common practice by image hosting sites to prevent off-site linking of their images and ‘bandwidth theft’. However, in AOL’s case, they’re blocking everything, not just images, effectively breaking all links to any…

  • Bruce Chizen for Gov of Cali

    Is it too late to nominate Bruce Chizen for California Governor? To paraphrase Jack Kennedy, “A PDF on every website, and PostScript in every printer.”

  • Fourth Crow Movie In Post Production

    A Boy and His Bird News reports updates on the fourth The Crow movie, starring David Boreanaz (“Angel”, “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer”), Tara Reed (My Boss’s Daughter), and David Ortiz (“Miss Match”), is the fourth dark fantasy film springing from James O’Barr’s graphic novel series, “The Crow.” Did you know there were already three films?…

  • Miramax: Unfair Telling Friends Movie Stinks

    I’m very interested in, and more than a little amused by, Hollywood’s sudden disillussionment. Read the article (I’ve quoted the entire thing in Continued) and you’ll see the whining of Hollywood studio execs. Waah! Our big-budget marketing campaigns aren’t duping people into spending money on bad films. I kid you not, that is what the…

  • Quark: “No bitterness among customers.”

    Macworld Magazine, cover date September 2003, from letters to the editor: Congratulations to Pamela Pfiffner for delivering the most amazing scoop I’ve ever seen in Macworld: Quark is committed to its customers and giving them what they want (“The World According to Quark,” June 2003). Perhaps the reason Quark hasn’t perceived any bitterness among its…

  • Shopping For Cell Service

    After an experience earlier this week with T-Mobile (formerly VoiceStream) Customer Service that still has be too incensed to rationally discuss it, I’m shopping for new wireless service. I refuse to give T-Mobile any more of my business. The choices, however, are dizzying.