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Scoble whinnied. So did Alex. Can you?

This may very well be my favorite Bloom County cartoon of all time. What’s yours?

Play Infocom text adventures online. Log in as ‘zork’, no password required. Requires a telnet client (Windows 2000 comes with one, your mileage may vary). My favorite was Wishbringer (one of the easiest ones). [via MetaFilter]

This year’s Tickle-Me-Elmo: Harry Potter Legos [via Scoble] Damn, my girlfriend’s gonna want some of these, too. Along with an iPod.

Jargon Scout. Doesn’t appear to have been updated lately (a pity, as I’m sure there’s been lots of terrorist-related jargon flying around in the past six weeks). But it does have some juicy tidbits from days gone by, including a mention of the origin of ‘blog’, dated August 25, 1999. And in fact, I can’t find any references to ‘blog’ that mean anything close to ‘online diary’ before then. Apparently it used to have meaning in the sci-fi fandom community as a party drink.

Also, the Jargon Scout lists the (now thankfully obselete) C2C. I remember the days when Napster was being refered to as “C2C, catalyzed by B”, or “C2B2C”. And you wonder why it never stuck. (Well, that, and people interacting with other people directly don’t generally think of themselves as “consumers”, which was the “C” in “B2C”, “C2C”, “C2B2C”, etc.)

Uber.nu: Google bombing [via Textism]

Google is unique among search engines in that while it almost always shows you pages that have the exact keywords you are looking for, occasionally it will show you pages that don’t have those keywords, but other pages linked to that page with those words. … Now Google is smart, simply having tons of the same links with the same phrase on a single page will do nothing. It requires a multitude of pages to have that link with specific link text. But this power can be harnessed with a concentrated group effort. And it must be harnessed, and for one very important goal: make Andy “talentless hack” Pressman look stupid.”

I am happy to report that their experiment has completely succeeded. Typing “talentless hack” into Google does indeed bring up Andy Pressman’s weblog. See for yourself. You can also see who links to it to see who the main culprits are in keeping this meme alive.

SatireWire: DotCom holiday card. more like this

I will be working at a client site all week, with no net access during the day. Weblog updates will be sporadic, and email will be answered in the order received. Operators are not standing by. Your call may be monitored to ensure national security.

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