John McCain’s war on Blogs. John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere. Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles, not to mention stiff fines for not doing so. [via]
Remember 2 weeks ago when I said we were thinking of moving to Charlotte, well, this rollercoaster ride goes on and on and on as I had a phone interview on Monday with a Concord, NC. based company… Now I thought it went well and they said they’d be in touch next week if I was moving on in the process.
They called yesterday. Can I come to their office on Friday for a face-to-face interview?
Wha?
So after much debating, swindling and general nervousness, we’re taking a completely unplanned road trip tonight straight after work… Driving 250 miles after a full day’s work isn’t quite what I had in mind, but hey, better than a poke in the eye right? Also, they gave me 24 hours to complete 3 mock index page designs, and if you take out working and sleeping time it was probably somewhere around 5 hours.
At this rate and if things go well, we could very well be in Carolina far, far, far, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar sooner than we possibly could imagine. That’s kind of scary actually.
An American woman officially recognised as the world’s oldest person has died at the age of 116. Elizabeth “Lizzy” Bolden died at a nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee. Born in 1890, she married at 19 and was widowed in the 1950s. She suffered a stroke in 2004 and spoke little after that.
A Charlie Brown Christmas as performed by the cast of Scrubs. No really, A Charlie Brown Christmas as performed by the cast of Scrubs…
For anyone back home who thinks it must be nice to live over here where it’s warm as an oven in Summer and reasonably mild in Winter.
I can feel your jealousy from here…
The body of missing CNET editor James Kim has been located. Kim had been missing in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness for 11 days.
Wild rumor: Apple & TiVo partner for iTV. An Apple/TiVo partnership or an Apple DVR? It may just be a wild rumour and 99.99999% fake, but it would be an interesting proposition if that 0.00001% is actually true.
NBA players have been complaining for two months about the new synthetic basketball, prompting their union to file a grievance last week with the National Labor Relations Board about the league’s unilateral implementation. Now the NBA have admitted their mistake… What happened to “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” [via]
The Top 20 of Wikipedia vandalism. At the moment, the topics include Wiki, Muslim, MySpace, D-Day, Death, Thanksgiving, Heroes (TV series), Mental retardation, Theory of everything and Pay per click.
I’ve been wearing one for the last five years, not just one day.