Category Archives: Net stories

Does something like justice to Iraq. Continue reading →

(And the power law won). (via) Continue reading →

John Naughton follows up this Register story and discovers that Google Maps lists four brothels in Cambridge: the Medical Research Council, BBC Radio Cambridge, one pub and one publisher. Inspired by this research, I tried checking for brothels in Saffron … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Google print appears to be out of beta. It knows about grayling flies, a lot about entelechies, less about rhodomontades but not, really, much about Puck of Pook’s Hill at all. This last search an interesting example of failed OCR, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some weeks ago I wrote about the IDN vulnerabilities in Opera and Firefox. These arise from the fact that many unicode letters resemble one another. Now there is a quick visual illustration of the size of the problem — someone … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But I had never realised quite what a zelig I am until I looked at this search engine, found through John Batelle, who seems to hold down many fewer jobs. Continue reading →

From this morning’s post: “It has come to our attention that yourPapal Continue reading →

Is this a spοοf? well, yes: the two “o”s are actually Greek Omicrons. Here is http://www.раураl.com — except that it’s written using cyrillic look-alikes for “paypa”. It turns out that somebody has already thought of that one. But unicode domain … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a collector of dolls who likes to dress them up in Nazi uniforms, and have the cadet sitting on the officer’s knee. “here’s a bunch of guys in a cardboard box before i hide them – i have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The FWB was muttering over her my laptop this afternoon when the words “Legolas girl” emerged coherently. This was, she said, the teenage female equivalent of being called Nathan Barley. I said no one could possibly call themselves that. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →