Monthly Archives: January 2005

More Philly bloggers nominated for awards

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Karl

Philadelphia bloggers rule the Koufax awards. Make sure you go vote.

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A shameful request

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Karl

Did you know there was a Firefox extension that shows you the Google PageRank of any page? It works great. One thing I found out right away was that my home page has Google juice. Philly Future has none. Zilch. … Continue reading →

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Google wants ‘dark fiber’

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Karl

Google hires two prominent Firefox engineers, rumors of it launching a VOIP service emerge, it launches a TV show search service, and now this. BTW – don’t you just love the term “dark fiber”?

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Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Karl

…A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey’s bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers … Continue reading →

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Philly bloggers nominated for Bloggies

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Karl

Go read the details and vote.

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My thoughts and prayers Al

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Karl

Let me join Dave and many others to send you my best wishes.

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While the left and right want to argue about the significance of the Iraq vote…

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Karl

I want to say to those in Iraq who decided to vote in an atmosphere of violence and cynicism – you’re heroes. I pray that whatever the final outcome, the people of Iraq will keep their spirits up, because I … Continue reading →

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Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till

Posted on January 29, 2005 by Karl

As the story in Salon says: three makes it a trend. Your taxpayer dollars at work folks.

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Get the subscriptions of any Bloglines user

Posted on January 29, 2005 by Karl

You, or news reader software so enabled, can utilize the subscription data of any user at Bloglines. Here goes mine if you care to see them.

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Nothing comes cheap

Posted on January 29, 2005 by Karl

Shelley Powers writes the most thought provoking post so far on Technorati Tags. Yeah, I’m biased, so if you don’t believe me, check out the most popular links on del.icio.us. I’m still coming to grips with tags, what they are, … Continue reading →

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