Book Autopsies!

Stolen from ashiikankwe

(no subject)

Letters from the trenches of the first World War

a diary, being put up on the web daily in time with the entries, displaced by 90 years. So Dec 30th, 1917 went up on Dec 30th, 2007.

In other news, water is wet.

Network Solutions: Scum.

If you use Netsol's WHOIS to see if a domain is free or not, they immediately register it and park it - so you can't get it anywhere except from them, at vastly inflated prices, and they've published it into DNS with an expiry date, meaning it is now vulnerable to cybersquatters and (other) frontrunners buying it microseconds after Netsol's extortion attempt times out.

So, if you want a domain, don't ask them if it's free. You can get it, but only from them, and only at their incredibly inflated prices.

Today's interesting reading.

Notes on how authors misunderstand street-and-fringe-living people, and how it actually is, from someone who did it.