By now we all know the verb to google. It’s widely used in a distict meaning. But it turns out the Google legal departement doesn’t like it. Look here for a note from a Google trademark counsel asking Paul McFedries to remove the verb from his Word Spy site. Now, I thought it was every […]
Archives for mars 2003
Is stitching big in Korea?
03/14 2003 – I don’t know if stitching is big in Korea, but it must be big enough for somebody to think that he/she might gain something by spaming the world. I don’t read Korean, but there is enough of English in the graphics of this page to get the message. Click here if you […]
Uday Hussein and his Yahoo! mail account
This is one of the rare occations when a story evolves by itself. When I published the text below back in mid December I did it to mock Uday Hussein, who claimed his Yahoo! mail account had been withdrawn by Yahoo!. I also did it to have a good place for linking to Human Rights […]
Make your own graffiti with GraffitiCreator
Ever wanted to re-make your logo graffiti style? Tough? Difficult? No, wrong, it’s really easy with Mikael Widén’s tool GraffitiCreator. After some time out of bandwidth, Mikael’s site is up again! Try it out and play around at www.graffiticreator.net
The Google Dance is over. For good.
Once upon a time there was a monthly event that hypnotized and stole almost all attention from a great number of webmasters. It was called the Google dance. Today it doesn’t exist anymore. Since a couple of months back Google updates it’s index almost every day. Depending on the size and update frequency of your […]
The spambot stopper
03/06 2003 – Even though I know some ISP’s that might not like it, I think it’s rather fun to imagine the spambots trying to work their way through the load of email addresses at the Anti-Leech spambot stopper: www.anti-leech.com/spam/spambot_stopper.php (unfourtunately long gone now) I wonder if it will work though. My simple email evaluation […]
Google looking hacked (why do they do this?)
Google has been discussed widely lately. Some people even tend to think that Google has a secret agenda of overtaking the world (at least). But I still can’t think bad of a company that has enough humour to present a preference page with a hacked look. (This might just be a really old link, but […]
Five year prison term for spamming in Virginia
05/02 2003 – If you’re planning a career as a spamhouse operator, don’t move to Virginia. Here is a report straight from the legal news letter at out-law.com: The toughest anti-spam law in the US came into force on Tuesday when Virginia Governor Mark Warner signed two bills creating a maximum prison term of five […]