Author: Rick Klau

I held a Sidekick last night – happened to pass by a T-Mobile (aka “The cellular company formerly known as Voicestream but now we’ve hired Catherine Zeta-Jones and got rid of Jamie Lee Curtis”) stall at a mall and checked it out. Initial reaction: great form factor, nice big screen, very functional design. The construction…

The shape of the InternetIt is less random than people thought Oct 3rd 2002 [Economist.com: Science & Technology] From the article: Dr Barabasi [at University of Notre Dame] noticed that the World Wide Web (the most visible bit of the Internet) was scale-free in 1999. His observation touched off a flurry of research, and others…

My, how the Brits have fallen. Thirty years ago, Monty Python revealed that they had discovered the funniest joke in the world. It was so funny, in fact, that a team of translators were working on snippets of the joke. The sketch begins somberly, and escalates in classic Python style, until the Colonel declares that…

Words can’t express the combination of horror, humor, and shock: http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm Enjoy.

Thanks to the wonders of TiVo (and its dual tuner), we were able to watch both West Wing and the season premiere of Amazing Race tonight. Steven wanted to know who was singing at the end of the West Wing episode; thanks to a visitor to his site, we now know it was Aimee Mann.…

Did anyone else receive this e-mail yesterday? What’s amazing is that Pointcast died at least a couple years ago… but someone held on to the e-mail lists.

When they tell you that any press is good press, make sure “they” take a look at this article. This is most certainly not good press for the Michigan firm of Olsman Mueller & James: Bookkeeper falls for Nigerian e-Mail Spam Scam, steals $2.1m from law firm. [via Earl Bockenfeld’s Radio Weblog]

Apparently Chris got word to his sister Kathy that she has some admirers. Just in case you missed my earlier links, make sure to swing by Inane Comments. It’s a wonderful log of life with three kids. Someone should hire Kathy to write this stuff…

Well, so much for talking about Google hacks. They just downgraded my weblog’s PageRank.  Personally, I think the two are related (FWIW, I thought it would be a good thing to make it easy to allow people to get RSS feeds off of Google News pages and add Google search to their site.  I guess not). …

On the plane this morning got caught up on some magazine reading. I absolutely love MIT’s Technology Review – in its latest incarnation, it focuses on all things relating to innovation. The result is a magazine that is full of useful and intriguing information. This month’s cover story is on data extinction (available to subscribers…