Peiratikos

It’s called polysemy: Congratulations on discovering its existence. (See 13 and 14 June 2004.)

gzip: well, sometimes it’s simple: Why Blogger web sites display garbage sometimes. It involves character sets (that's what I thought) and gzip compression.

The LiveJournal of Anne Frank: Apparently.

More on “the work is the work”: Sean Collins: "Of course the work is not just the work... sometimes what you want a given work of art to be is what it probably should have been." Uh, is this where I'm supposed to say THANK GOD YOU SHOWED UP?

Rolegaming, a Postmodern Pastime: Bruce Baugh writes about roleplaying as a quintessentially postmodern activity.

Six Apart announces more changes to Movable Type license: Innovative new pricing scheme!

Tightening the Reins on Gmail: California's Senate voted yesterday to support a bill that restricts how Google's Gmail service will be allowed to implement its controversial advertisement targeting feature. The bill requires that Gmail work only in "real-time," not create records of email scans, and not collect personal information from emails.

Microsoft Eyes Master Search Tool: In their attempt to wrest supremacy of Internet searching from Google, Microsoft announces a single tool that will search the your local computer, your email, and the Internet. They also plan to build in extensive personalization features including tracking users' Internet activity to help refine search results. Yay for privacy issues.

GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive: The GAO released a report yesterday on the extensive use of government data mining, and government watchdog groups release their own reports with suggestions for protecting privacy and limiting the invasiveness of data mining.

Truly Grotesque Anatomy!: I was impressed by our own marquis de sade blog, but Johna Jakala wins the prize for most most Cthulhu-like madness-inducing search phrase.