“Stocks plunged today after a sell-off in China rattled markets worldwide and fanned fears that the economy may be vulnerable to a downturn.” [See the NYTimes article] After hearing this news that the recent stock market utopia isn’t as rapturous as Jim Cramer would like you to believe, I went to Google Finance to check [...]
Archive | February, 2007
Hackers attempt to break the internet, fail (Smart Mobs)
Here’s a beautiful image, a “map” of the internet, found at The Opte Project site… I thought of this map when I read this post today, from Smart Mobs… Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the [...]
The T&A of Viral Sites: Microsoft’s Ms. Dewey
Microsoft’s viral site “Ms. Dewey” loosely promotes the new LiveSearch. Full-motion video, and a script that directly address the viewer directly are nothing new, and bring to mind a bunch of similar sites and software (Subservient Chicken, Wing Commander IV) The production value of Ms. Dewey is pretty fab. As is Ms. Dewey herself (I [...]
