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New Features: Google Friend Connect and Movie Reviews

By Giania • Dec 5th, 2008 • Category: Recursion

Hot: Hi friends! We just added some Google Friend Connect features that will allow you to publicly declare your RKNet fandom. GFC supports login/signup via Google accounts, Yahoo! accounts, OpenID credentials or AIM signin info. Right now you can add RKNet as a favorite site using this feature, link to us via Facebook, Myspace, etc [...]



Stupid Things on the Internet: I Accidentally a Coca Cola Bottle

By Giania • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Memes

Hot: This is how I first encountered this speech pattern meme-thing in the wilds of soup. It made no sense and every time I saw it, I giggled like a small, feeble-minded child. The absurdity! The expressions! And oh how the mind delighted over the many awkward possibilities of the missing verb. This pattern, “I [...]



Analytics is Not a Perfect Science or How to Tie A Shemagh

By Giania • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Until I started looking at the Analog 6.0 stat reports for the site, I had no idea what a shemagh was. Now I know it’s a it’s a style of head wrap which originated in the Middle East. If you really want to know how, ActionGear.com has a pretty handy tutorial (with pictures!). However, [...]



Owen Wilson Hospitalized, Doubtful He’ll Be Left Alone

By Giania • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest, Film, Fnord

Hot: Owen Wilson was brought to the hospital today via ambulance. It is unknown at this time why exactly, but he has already released a statement regarding this incident, stating: “I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time,” the 38-year-old actor said in a [...]



Register Interview with Opera CEO

By Giania • Aug 21st, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest, Browsers, Internet Tools

Hot: In a 4 page article on The Register’s buzzard-bedecked website, writer Andrew Orlowski sits down and drills Opera’s CEO and founder Jon von Tetzchner. They discuss the issues of compatability and the speed at which web technology grows and where Opera rates with all of it. (See the HowToCreate.co.uk Browser Speed Comparison if you’re [...]



Carbon Footprint Labels on Food Seems Like a Waste of Ink

By Giania • Jul 30th, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest, Internet Tools, Nature, Science!

Hot: Via The Underwire: UK Food retailer Tesco is going to spend $10 million on testing of foods at Oxford University in order to develop a carbon labeling system, letting their customers know exactly what kind of “carbon footprint” their cereal and steaks leave on the environment. It seems to me that putting “Carbon Footprint” [...]



Search Crystal Example: Cthulhoid

By Giania • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Internet Tools, Internet Toys, media

Hot: Ever wanted a quick visual representation of a particular set of search options from multiple engines? Search Crystal has you covered. It provides 3 different ways to view search results: clustered, spiraled, and listed. It will show you which engines pull up which results, too. So if Google and MSN are showing the same [...]



Hope, strength, and patience to all who lost something today

By Giania • Apr 17th, 2007 • Category: Philosophy, Politics

Hot: The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind Because everyone else will be espousing their philosophical and political agendas, I feel it appropriate to bring up a philosophical and political standpoint that has been on my mind a [...]



Dear Money-Grubbing, Soulless Music Pimps: Enjoy Your Horse Porn Emails!

By Giania • Mar 21st, 2007 • Category: Fnord

Hot: Jackshoegazer was kind enough and clever enough to take some important legislative news in regards to music, internet radio, broadcast radio, and everybody's favorite group: the RIAA, and break it all down for us. On March 2, 2007, The CRB approved royalty rates that will bury any small webcaster, and create a heavy burden [...]



I just don't get it

By Giania • Dec 27th, 2006 • Category: Fnord

Hot: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061223/ap_on_fe_st/justo_s_cathedral This might be the saddest thing I ever read. Here’s this guy, 81 years old. Building this cathedral all by himself. No one who could help in any major way wants anything to do with it. A bunch of people want to tear it down. All he’s got is faith, scattered minor support, [...]