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February 28, 2004
1996 vs 2004
Hard to believe in 1996, Well.com was ranked #10 in terms of
highest audience-reach websites, at a time when Microsoft was 26th.
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/2871.asp
Posted by brian at 10:12 AM
February 27, 2004
3D Printing
Someone on The WELL mentioned Stratasys as a stock they just bought. I'd never heard of the company before so went to their homepage to check 'em out.
What they're doing is very cool: three-dimensional "printing" of prototypes. I'm reminded of the scene in the movie Fifth Element , where the robotic arms literally "stitch together" the fifth element, played by Milla Jovovich, who gets one of the greatest screen introductions of a film character since Omar Sharif came out of the horizon on camel.
First, be sure to check out the video of the "FDM process" they use to build stuff.
One wonders what the chemical and solid wastes are that these machines create over time.
Posted by brian at 07:19 AM
February 25, 2004
Denounce vs The Onion
I noticed today over at Jason Feifer's Happy Scrappy blog, in the "Monday, Feb.23" entry, a reference to the Pricekut / Chicago Tribune thing. Then I noticed the oft-repeated phrase describing Denounce Newswire : "an Onion rip-off website". I emailed Jason to let him know Denounce precedes The Onion, and thought afterwards, heck, might as well blog this so I don't have to keep emailing folks who don't know Denounce's history relative to other satire media sources. (Jason emailed back, and mentioned he posted an update on his blog. Thnx Jason.)
Still, there is a common myth floating around the Web, that Denounce Newswire is, take your pick:
A rip-off of The Onion
A rip-off of Andrew Marlatt's SatireWire .
A rip-off of BBSpot
A rip-off of Sebastian Mendler's Plausible News
A rip-off of [insert y"
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