Hey, whoever it is that keeps using Google to search for "Dane Carlson," email me at danec@thevision.net. Referer logs can make a guy crazy!
Rasmussen Research looked at the results of its Portrait of America Presidential Tracking Poll since July 1 to see what they could learn about Harry Browne's voters. The results are here at: Who Votes for Harry Browne? Jakob slam's another web technology this week in Flash: 99% Bad. To be honest, though, I hate Flash.> #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"
Virulent Memes : Stupid and Contagious looks like an interesting blog. I'll have to check it out later...> Today I thought I'd take it upon myself to send an email and personally thank each the owner of every weblog I visit for their "time an energy put into their weblog," and remind them that we're on the way to "digitizing all of human thought." Comments? Email me danec@thevision.net. > What is it with weblogs like this one? Do *.editthispage.com weblogs only link to each other? Is it somehow easier to face themselves at the end of the day? Do Blogger and Pitas people do the same?> Interesting argument against abolishing the electoral college. The electoral college is like the World Series: "Runs must be grouped in a way that wins games, just as popular votes must be grouped in a way that wins states. ">
Shot by shot analysis of the fake "Star Wars: Episode II Teaser Trailer"> Want a good directory of search engines? SearchEngineBase is a choice find.> Geeks4Christ is a sort of Slashdot for Christians> Libertyboard.org is sort of a Slashdot for Libertarians> Sony Playstation 2 sells for $5,100.00 on eBay. Supposedly, Sony is only going to ship 500,000 of these in the next few months. I know that today was the release date, but 25 times the retail prices?! Give me a break.... why didn't I preorder?!> Harry Browne (LP) and David McReynolds (Socialist) were the first to answer Slashdot's questions to the presidential candidates. I'm sure that some will like his closing remark: "And if you choose to watch TV and use the Internet all day, that's ok with me, so long as the rest of us aren't required to subsidize your lifestyle choice. ">
Flags Of The World: here you can read more than 8,100 pages about flags and view more than 14,500 images of flags Did you know that there are sixteen English versions of Little Red Riding Hood?> Online auction meets QVC. Oh boy, we're in for it now. Ebay is developing its own daytime television show. Personally, I think that they might do better with a 2am show... but I'm not in television.
The Great TiVo Giveaway Contest: TiVo is giving away a TiVo to whoever writes a < 250 word "Why I want a TiVo" essay. Interestingly enough, there seem to be quite a few people who've gotten a TiVo for writing crap.> Law School Dropout, the blog for future ambulance chasers? List of major news search engines. I need to get listed here.> The Internet Public Library has a huge directory of online international newspapers. I got many of my sources for Headlines from here.>
In case you missed it when I posted it a couple days ago, I've built "Headlines: The Search Engine for News." A search box is at the top of this page. Try it out. Its interesting. Is blogger really slow tonite, or is it just me? Angie and I have built a ego-site for ourselves. We are getting married (on Jan 6, 2001) and needed some url to send out with our invitations. So, without further ado, here is Alphabet Soup: words with and without chicken.> Today's Google search of "naked librarians" returned some interesting results: Jessamyn's naked librarian page has an interesting quote: by the time a man can read a woman like a book, he is too old to collect a library. Ten Things You Can Do To Mess With Stupid Dr. Laura popped up, as did an anarchist librarian web page devoted to stopping Dr. Laura. Guess "naked librarians" and Dr. Laura have something against one another?> #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"
Did you know that there are hundreds of write-in candidates for President this year, and that some of them even have ballot status? Politics1 has a long page with all their bio information: The Independent Candidates #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"
NASA conference seriously considers terraforming Mars!>
I've built a search engine to index the head line (main index) pages of hundreds of national and international news websites. Each hour the pages are reindexed, insuring that you are always searching the up-to-date pages. Try it out, and let me know if you see any improvements to be made or bugs to fix. Its located at http://www.nickelnews.com/headlines/ #title "Dane Carlson's Very Old Archives"