Matte Elsbernd
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Domain Name Background Checks
I’m still amazed at how many people have bought domain names with no thought or understanding that once a domain has been bought before, it lives out there in various places in its old form. It might never have any of those references updated. So you’re buying the history of the site as well. This…
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Path of Least Resistance
You’re at work and you’re trying to locate someone. They’re not at their desk and you’ve asked the cubicle next to them to no avail. What do you do? I bet if you did some traffic analysis (fancy term for snooping on people by pointing cameras around the office and hitting record) you could probably…
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A New Kind of VC
As I’m in a new contracting role, I’ve found myself evaluating work and what are it’s worths to my life. One of the most obvious is money. And I actually commented to someone that “I’m doing it for the cash infusion.” That’s pretty frighteningly like what might come out of an entrepreneurs mouth as he…
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Book of Spam Poetry
Why not make a collection of poetry that’s haphazardly created in modern spam email as the authors try to circumvent filters. It can be quite interesting. Like the cut-ups that Burroughs did. From an actual piece of spam received August 30, 2005 by “Al Zamora”: “Eskimos will marry the pediatricians. Disney characters sabotage the directories…
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Battle of the PBS Documentaries
From a dream. Inspired by PBS’ infamous Ken Burns documentaryspectaculars… The Gods of Jazz vs. The Big Names in Baseball In a live television event. Watch them do battle. See all the action in the wonder of panned freezeframes. Watch each blow land. Each note crush the opponent. And if you liked this, don’t forget…
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KaraokeByTel
1-900-You-Sing Ad… Guy in a shower with various accoutrements of a recording studio in it with him…“Don’t just sing in the shower, record an album” Ad… Woman in a car in traffic, in car is recording gear, backup singers in the back seat, maybe a producer up front?“Don’t just sing in traffic, record an album”…
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Probably a Bad Idea
Okay, this one is destined for abuse. But why doesn’t an online store have a shopping spree – you get five minutes to click anything you want at tremendous discounts. People would practice all sorts of ways to browse a site faster in order to get past slow download times. Or perhaps the site would…
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The Dead Link Society
A site of just dead links. If the link becomes live again, it’s removed. Helping to “fight back” on PageRank hogs?
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The Onion Article That Wasn’t
Elementary school class shares the Nobel Peace Prize as they ended hunger in a small, developing nation with their contributions to the hunger relief program…with image of top ramen being delivered.
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Useletts
Forget how I came up with the name (wasn’t there something like Figlets?) but my definition was/is little bits of information which is non-germane to the context, yet “seems to follow” from the topic. An example of this is when during a conversation which touches upon Latin and its use (or disuse) it’s inevitably mentioned…