- All your income is the government’s
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You have got to be shitting me. A University of Florida professor in tax law complains that because Google lunches aren’t taxed, he’s paying for them. - Climategate crashes Google?
- Google is claiming that, in order to provide the most relevant, objective results in Google News, they need to toss ones that people want to read and comment on. What?
- Google hacked by climategate deniers?
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I can’t believe that Google would actually remove climategate from their common search drop-down. But something appears to be happening here. - Google is wasting your ad money
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From this viewer’s perspective, it certainly looks as though Google is deliberately wasting the money of their advertising customers. Google and YouTube have massive information on every viewer, and seem to delight in targeting ads in a way that is guaranteed to fail to sell the product. - Google making the web safe for ads
- Google is attempting to make it less annoying to follow advertisements.
- Google Maps location-sensitive ads?
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It looks like Google Maps is providing location-sensitive ads. - Google responds to Climategate-gate
- I’m guessing Google got a lot of questions about this; their response didn’t answer my question.
- Google Video’s DRM is a disservice to Google’s users
- Google has a history of doing things right for their users even under pressure to restrict their users. Now that’s changing.
- Google: This is a closed out of date discussion
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Google’s Blogger forms are a bit on the wonky side when they close a topic. - Media Monday and Photo Friday on Facebook and Google+
- I’m going to start uploading maps, fliers, and inspirational media to the Gods & Monsters social networking pages every Monday and Friday.
- The nude grenade
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Looking for links to nude photoshops of news-making conservatives and conservative-leaning libertarians? You filthy bastard. Watch out for the Google grenade. - What app keeps stealing focus?
- I’ve been having a problem on Mac OS X with something stealing focus. Here’s how to at least find out what that something is.
More Information
- Google Firing Over Diversity Memo Shows How Outrage Addiction Is Making Us Stupid
- “When a man’s words are right in front of you, it would be idiotic to fire him for what people accused him of saying instead of what he actually said, but that’s precisely what Google did… These are not stupid people. Why, then, have they approached this issue in such a foolish fashion? There are two options. Either they desire to feed their own outrage addiction or they want to profit off others’ addiction. Either way, everyone involved gets dumber.”
- How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
- “In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook.” (Techmeme thread)
- What Happened to Yahoo
- “When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to be.”
- Google takes the FTC to school
- The newspaper industry’s cries for saving remind me of the infamous homeowner who wouldn’t leave his house during a flood, because god would save him. He ignores the flood siren when the rains come, he refuses to get on the boat when the rescuers come, and he refuses to get on the helicopter when the coast guard comes. Then he drowns. “God, why didn’t you save me?” “I sent you a warning, a boat, and a helicopter. What more did you want?” The newspaper industry received its warning from the moment the Internet went public. Back when Usenet newsgroups were the popular forum online they had the opportunity to take advantage of the…
