Category: Paleoblogs

  • What About the Misidentified Victims?

    A growing number of people, having been duly convicted of heinously violent crimes, are now being released and put back on the street, based on newly fashionable legal technicalities such as DNA mismatches. We hear the predictable chorus of soft-on-crime lobbies, running on ad nauseum about the precious civil rights of misidentified convicts–even when the…

  • Oops! The truth!

    House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said in a statement that Cunningham’s sentence “should send a strong message that no one is above breaking our nation’s laws, including the Members of Congress who make them.”

  • Picture for picture

    Sketch Swap gives you space to draw a picture. When you’re done, you submit it and get someone else’s picture in return.

  • Listening to customers

    Dispatches from Blogistan says that Amazon is experimenting with product wikis. I hope they have better luck with that than the LA Times did with their “wikitorials” experiment. At least Amazon already hosts a culture used to giving feedback (with their reviews feature). I’m still hoping for a way to aggregate product feedback and reviews…

  • Presto! instant website

    Aaron Swartz is building infogami in public. So far, it lets you set up a site more or less instantly(junkyard) and edit it like a wiki. The site comes with a blog. Not sure what else it’s going to do. Looks like there are Google text ads down the side. Guess that’s the business model.…

  • Words we’ll soon retire

    Farewell to… –Like a broken record –Carbon copy –Trick photography Kind of sad. So far, we have replacements for two: Clone. Special effects (though with Special morphing to oblivion). We’ll have to get to work on Broken record.