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Humor: The 10.5 most stupidest captchas on the web
Captchas have been around now for a few years but still some web sites use them more as a Darwin award then a Turing test.
For them it seems that captchas help to keep traffic from annoying passers-by at a minimum.
Here is our collection of the funniest, most unusual or plain unusable captchas - 10.5 ways to assure that (”almost”) nobody will be able to access your web site….
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Data-Visualization: Country Codes of the World
Currently more than 260 top level domains are in use on the Internet. While the .com domain still remains the most popular, many country domains are now widely used as well.
On the map below each country is represented…
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Video: Twitter in Plain English
You might have seen some of Commoncraft’s paperwork in the past like for example “RSS in Plain English”, “Wikis” or “Blogs” in Plain English or “Social Bookmarking” explained in the same way.
Now they have added another animation to their series of basic explanatory videos called…
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Video: The IT Crowd - Break the Internet
This is to cheer up some of you after the Google stock price seems to be falling and falling and falling.
We finally found the reason why this is happening: “…and I have it on good authority. If you type Google into Google you can break the Internet…“
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Data visualization: Social networks around the world
With new data on Facebook making the headlines yesterday telling us that their user numbers are leveling out in the US and the UK, we remembered that we recently have seen a great info-graphic showing the use of social networks with the most popular providers per country around the world in the French Newspaper “Le Monde”
The data used in the graphic is from August 2007 but it’s interesting to see the popularity of providers in different countries. There are a few white spots on the map, some…
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Humor: Chasing saints at Ebay
There are web sites sieving through the offers of the online auction house “Ebay” to find the strangest, funniest or famous people selling things. There are people offering themselves or their services like women as party gags etc.
And you might have heard about it when in 2004 a slice of toast said to have an in-print of Holy Mary’s face reached offers of USD 20 Millions (it actually was sold later for USD 28,000 and is now displayed at a casino with other Ebay curiosities). So yesterday “CNN” was running a report on what was described in the offer at Ebay as “Virgin Mary pretzel” and the object went for USD 16,000.
So as with most successful pranks soon there will be…
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Humor: (Dada) Time Waster web sites (2)
Also in the best tradition of the “dadaist nihilistic movement” from the 1920s, this site neither does anything nor provides any useful information - but in difference to the two others we have introduced in a “previous post” this one also has some kind of political aspect and if it’s just a name.
The web site with the title “B.O. Is Your New Bicycle” provides you with a new teaser line every time you click on the text.
Our favorite so far: “B.O. spent the afternoon setting up your router”…
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Internet: Wikileaks.org ordered offline by US court
The BBC today has an article online about Wikileaks.org, a website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents.
The “BBC reports” that “…following a California court ruling, the site been taken offline in the US…” Well seemingly that’s not completely true. You won’t get access to the site via wikileaks.org but that’s because the DNS server entries have been deleted.
But hey - there are other ways. You can access the site’s content at other servers on the Internet (see image below). We suggest searching for the web site’s name and DNS and you might find it yourself. Popular bookmarking sites might also turn out helpful.
While you can question the motives why people upload documents to this site or even question the content of some of them, Wikileaks.org definitely had a rough ride the last days.
Within days they endured a fire in their server room, massive DDoS attacks and censorship threats…
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Internet: Lights go out on two fiber backbones
A reminder on how dependent we already are on global communication networks and how quickly these can fall apart has again been provided yesterday afternoon.
Close to the Egyptian harbor of Alexandria, ships that could not enter the harbor due to weather conditions have stripped apart underwater fiber network cables for Internet and telephone communications with their anchors. The damaged cables are part of the “SEA-ME-WE 4″ fiber backbones reaching from Europe to Asia and into Africa. As a result from these damages Internet connectivity in Egypt has dropped to about 30% of the normal bandwidth and also Arabian countries as well as India have reported substantial impairments within data traffic to and from these countries…
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Music: Deutsche Grammophon starts online shop
The highly reputable Deutsche Grammophon has tonight started to provide many of its classic music recordings as MP3 downloads.
Like its parent company, Universal Music Group that already earlier this year has begun offering music recordings without digital rights management protection, Deutsche Grammophon will provide the downloads DRM free through its online shop called “DG web shop”.
The store currently offers about 2,400 albums including 600 out-of-print CDs as high quality 320 kbps (vs. 128-192 kbps standard rate) MP3s. You can download complete works, individual tracks or whole albums…
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