a network of cameras and sensors along the Texas-Mexico border that feeds live streaming video. Users monitor suspicious criminal activity along the border via this virtual fence. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
on safari, it happened only the first time the site uploaded. Now I go to the same site and it does not start with the video. there is the banner F-150 ad still there though. - kartik vaithyanathan
mg - ever wonder why espn is top 10 in video views - could it be cuz their videos autoload? that ad was a shock to me today as well - if you ran that ad on vb, what would people think? i've contemplated writing a post about why some ad formats are ok on the msm but not on blogs - Allen Stern
I'm not sure I've ever been to ESPN.com at all. I'd be lost there. - Thomas Hawk
yeah i say go for it allen, ESPN (and yes, some of the other MSM sites) have been out of line in that regard for too long. - MG Siegler
@thomas - if you like ads check it out! :) - MG Siegler
By contract, the spartan and functional interface for their.... food and spirits line of business http://www.espnzone.com/ - qthrul
FireFox and AdBlock Plus makes all these problems go away. I'm always amazed when I visit a site in IE and see all the ads that I'm "missing". - Kenton
fox + noscript - am not even seeing the new F-150 that i want to buy. only allowed espn.go.com domain on noscript. did not allow 2o7.net and one more. yay fox. ever since i moved to mac, no trying IE for me :-( - kartik vaithyanathan
hey kenton - thanks for supporting all the news and education you get daily! - Allen Stern
I use the Flashblock plugin for Firefox so I don't see any of the junk :-) - Dave Hodson
Pretty much all of the Disney owned sites (espn.com, abc.com, disney.com) are like this - high on clutter, lots of Flash, too many ads, confusing to use. - rogersdc (Chris)
I often have to try & make the argument against clutter to clients who view their autostart, etc. as "attention getting." Where is the limit for you? - Michelle Darnell
I went to ESPN, was presented with a full-page FlashBlock, which I accepted only to be presented with a full page of white (something else must have been blocking the intended content, perhaps my hosts file). So I clicked through to the main ESPN page... no F-150 at all, but Firefox did prevent a popup. I never saw Duncan's elephants either. - Logical Extremes
wow looks like theonion taking the piss - Michael Neale
I suppose it's worth mentioning that the New York Times put an ad on the front page for the first time in history today. Sign of the times?? - Charlie Anzman
wow, scathing review. but you're right, the f-150 ad is incredibly obnoxious. - Jess Lee
Michelle, tell your clients that autostart makes me close the window before it's even finished loading and go elsewhere. If the product is attention-getting, then I'll *want* to click to start it; if it forces me to start watching before I'm ready then I assume it's incapable of getting my attention on its own merits, so I move on to the next thing on my to-read list. - Deborah Fitchett
Yeah for Firefox and AdBlocker plus! woo hooo! no crap ads for me thanks! - Susan Beebe
megascale engineering / architecture blog. how to "harvest energy from the earth's rotation", "design a mountain", "farm water from the atmosphere" etc - Gregor J. Rothfuss
Is there a North American version of Stonehenge just sitting up there beneath the glacial waters of a small northern bay in Lake Michigan? If so, are there other submerged prehistoric megaliths waiting to be discovered by some rogue archaeologist armed with a sonar scanner? - Gregor J. Rothfuss
The theory proposes that the extinction of most of the large animals in NA and the demise of the NA stone age Clovis culture is due to an air burst from a large comet which set vast areas of the North American continent on fire. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
December 30 at 5:48 am
- sethgodin.typepad.com
- Link
Can the CFO of a large church be an atheist? It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
"the deep molecular biology of the cell actually fosters biological novelties when plants and animals need them most, not merely when random chance generates them." - Gregor J. Rothfuss
Have you read this? If so would you recommend it? - Evan Parker
You probably know that I'm reading it now. I definitely recommend it. As such things go, it's not as good as Clark and Russell, or the Sean Carroll books, but it's about as interesting as Matt Ridley's books, which is saying something. - j1m
i haven't read it yet. jim is my filter for biology books ;) - Gregor J. Rothfuss
"There aren't any quarrels about the need for more broadband," says Ms. Eshoo, who outlined a series of broadband stimulus options in a memo to the House leadership in October. "It's a matter of how we're going to do it and the actual language." - j1m
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"Remember, you only get to do this once, so you want to build the widest highway possible," Mr. Russo says. The Telecommunications Industry Association, which represents equipment makers, is pushing for a $25 billion grant program for Internet service providers. Under another proposal that is being discussed, grants could go to state and municipal authorities, which would build high-speed networks and then open them up to competing service providers. That would likely meet with considerable resistance from large carriers like Verizon Communications Inc., which have challenged attempts by local governments to build and operate their own wireless or high-speed fiber networks. - j1m
bend over America, time for a massive give-away to the telcos. - j1m
Where do I sign up to be an Internet service provider? Also, when do Americans, that is the tax payers, get some of this money? However, if we're going to be giving out money, increasing any and all Internet infrastructure, especially the last mile, is something I can get behind, as it will directly effect people positively the most I believe. - Andy Bakun
I sort of expect we'll see debates like this in every aspect of stimulus spending in an area that hasn't always been 100% something done by governments. Even for those things, like bridge and road building, there will probably be a lot of tussle over the role of private contractors. I can only hope things go more in the direction of competent execution and public stewardship rather than corporate giveaways. - ⓞnor
@Gregor: I was just thinking the same thing. I wonder if the telcos will take *another* $200bn in gov't money, do nothing, and then come back and say "we can't afford to provide decent connectivity unless you allow us to discriminate against others' traffic"? - Joel Webber
December 29 at 10:59 pm
- bcs.rochester.edu
- Link
"neuronal noise" may not be a nuisance at all, but instead the brain's way of providing as comprehensive a statistical representation of the observable world as possible. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
According to the HTTP and URL specifications, this markup means that there is an image at the same address as the HTML document. IE silently drops the image. Other browsers do not; which results in a "duplicate" request for the page. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
"gallery2picasa is a Python command-line tool to migrate gallery2 galleries to picasaweb." finally. i was getting tired of the lock-in, open source or otherwise. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
