Salon : Reading, writing and candy ads
"At Colorado Springs' Harrison High School, students are largely unimpressed by the debate over their ZapMe computer lab. 'Sure, the ads can be distracting,' says one 16-year-old junior, adding that he doesn't see anything unusual about being pitched at in school. After all, he says, 'we see ads everywhere we go. It just seems natural.' And about the possibility that students' every mouse click could be monitored from afar? 'Big deal,' replies another student. 'That starts the day you get a Social Security number.' "
The Headless HorseMP3
"is a PHP script designed to be an interface for playing MP3s (or any other type of file with slight modification) on the web server. My intended use is to be able to play MP3s from a headless (no keyboard, mouse, or monitor) old computer which I can stick out of the way, under a bed or something. However many other uses do come to mind. One could use it to scare his/her college roommate by making their computer start playing MP3s from a public lab, or even start a web-cam like server where the public internet controls what music (out of your collection, entirely legal of course) he/she listens to."
I, for one, am less than impressed with 120seconds.com
Aside from the fact that the site seems to be little more than an exercise in gratuitous plug-in usage, it is almost completely forgetable. I remember seeing a link to the site from the main
CBC site a couple months ago. The link disappeared a day later --bad-- but even worse, until
Michael and
Ed each mentioned it a couple days ago I could not for the life of me *remember* what the site was called. 180 seconds ... no, maybe 90 ... well, it's a bunch of something .. oh forget it. 120 seconds?? I've been known to be a little dense sometimes, occasionally describing Montreal as an island surrounded by water, but I can't see any connections here. Two minutes of what, exactly? Is it supposed to represent the attention span of their target audience? Maybe instead of buying all the propellor heads new versions of Flash to make the site still more annoying, the CBC could spend some money promoting the damn thing and telling us what it is.