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I’ve whined in the past about long, obscure link addresses, so I was delighted to see a best-in-breed URL for an article at Tufts Daily.
I prefer to use non-graphical email clients, so if you email me a link, I often see something kinda like this:

It’s a little hard to read in the screen capture, […]

Clean Software
Stop Badware

Also (unrelated), math jazz. I’m curious, but suspect it might sound terrible.
(OK, back to the saltmines. Coz it’s labor day.)

For my taste, this does not compensate for

the leading edge of intrusive/obnoxious web ad delivery/click tracking tech
(sometimes including spyware)
the general level of inanity
the most obnoxious music player since the glory days of shockwave
funnelling more dollars into Murdoch’s multi-media empire

But Billy Bragg’s efforts to alter MySpace’s TOS (warning: tracking cookies and other nasties) is […]

. . .to try to keep up with our friend Unremitting Failure, who generates approximately 4,113 posts a day. (We don’t quite understand how he remains gainfully employed.) We remain slightly bemused by some of his recurrent tropes (e.g., admiration of Manson, excoriation of Lennon, and a penchant for elaborate alternate histories of National Socialists and other […]

She’s the best. Just by way of example, she recently hipped me to maci, a swell little Java-based puzzle/game. You could think of Maci as the maiden aunt of Tetris, quietly sipping a brandy by the fire with a blanket on her knees while the tykes whiz around chanting their Russian folk songs.
The scoring’s pretty […]

(i sure hope they come play boston)

Three cheeers for

Huzzah to Boston Globe for daring to print author Ross Gelbspan’s op-ed piece, the first (to the best of my knowledge) in a major mainstream US media outlet to connect the dots. The severity of the damage done by Katrina is related to the storm’s total energy, which is related to the temperature of […]