Archives for 2000

Bwa ha ha

July 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

: recognize this? August Bourr’s vestige.org. [link copped from Zeldman Presents]

Here’s the image

July 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

from the Axis webcam at work. Yes, the clock is wrong.

There’s a new blog

July 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

in town. A friend of mine has put up his new site, for now (forever?) called jamessstreet.ottawa.on.ca. It’s still in need of some filling in, but I am really looking forward to the site.

There’s an interesting

July 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

article summarizing the current legal assault on linking in CNET today: “Hollywood looks to kill hyperlinks in copyright fights“.

of this article, the writer states that whether adding a hyperlink to a Usenet post archived by Deja consitutes a change to the text is a grey area. Huh? It’s clear that it does change the text, no? I’m glad I don’t bother with Usenet any more – I certainly wouldn’t want links to be added to my posts by a company who just scarfs up others’ posts and then uses them to drive traffic to the shopping part of their site.