Ghost Sites of the Web – tracking the remains of the web’s dead sites. Boo.com, pets.com, webvan – all the famous disasters from early nineties.
Category: Web/Tech
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A YouTube video. A magnificent walk-through at Plastic Bugs. Submitted by users. A gallery. To coincide with the film launch, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have launched a web site, Jesus Decoded, which (in the words of its rather precious front page) “provides information for anyone who wishes to know more about Jesus Christ due to claims that appear in current popular media”. Still in doubt about what the USCCB thinks about the Da Vinci Code? Here’s the opening line: Causing people to see something they never saw before in a five-hundred-year-old work of art which is among the most famous and reproduced of all time is an accomplishment of genius, if that “something” is a valid new insight. If it is not, then this kind of achievement usually goes by other names. Catfight! New York’s main park (and some other parks) will have WiFi access by July, the NYT reports (via The Huffington Post). The article is silent on whether Central Park’s model, Birkenhead Park on the Wirral, will be similarly equipped. Only about a year after everyone else, I have discovered Clutter, a Mac OS X program that quietly looks up the cover art for whatever tune you happen to be playing in iTunes. You can drag album covers to the desktop to create a visual link to the album in iTunes and – the best feature for me – copy the album art to iTunes with a quick key combination. Great for all that music ripped from my CD collection. A profile of MySpace in the NYT. Transcript of a speech by Jason Scott.
If Microsoft designed the iPod box
Getting DVDs onto your iPod
Alternative bbc.co.uk homepages
Bishops use web to refute Da Vinci Code
Free WiFi in Central Park
Clutter for Mac OS X
A profile of MySpace
The failure of Wikipedia