Technology

Here’s a guy (or juy?) with his priorities straight. He’s arguing that the GIF file extension is pronounced with a soft g like giraffe, not the hard g as in great loon or go fuck yourself, or get over it! What the hell do geeks know about the english language anyway!

Gerk!

Experts say administrators can’t control the information transferred between these devices and a corporate network, unlike e-mail and other network traffic

You can never have too much e-mail of the news variety and, as I’m very slack about checking my favourite sites for updates, I’ve found BlogStreet‘s Info Aggregator to be quite the nifty tool.

It’s an RSS-to-IMAP service that lets you receive and read RSS feeds in your favourite mail client, delivering all the latest news and blog posts directly to your mailbox.

There’s also a handy RSS Generator for those sites that don’t have an RSS feed available.

Qantas has effectively ruled out the installation of anti-missile technology on-board its aircraft due to doubts over cost and effectiveness

A power outage struck a Qwest Communications facility that hosts many of eBay’s servers, rendering its services inaccessible for far longer than the reported three hours

Shane Atkinson, a New Zealander who sent millions of junk emails out every day has shut his business after his personal details were posted on the web

No refrigeration, no subways, no smooth traffic flow, no air conditioning — well, at least the Internet worked

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto have come up with a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen

Julian Dibbell has quit his day job to sell items from Ultima Online in the real world, hopefully making a living on which to support his wife and daughter