No doubt some of these will turn up False on Snopes, but most are probably true.
Did you know why Amazon.com is called Amazon.com. I have to confess, I didnt.
Here’s the full source list, from Wikipedia.
ENN: “In a lesson no doubt relevant to Irish banks, Britain’s banking sector has been told to jizz up its customer databases to effectively target the female market.”
It’s “jazz” Maxim. Jizz is something completely different.
I’m not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination, but I do like puzzles and the like, so Games for the Brain is just a tad addicitive. Don’t say you weren’t warned. :)
About bloody time lads, in fairness. How about a theme browser that doesn’t suck the sweat off a dead man’s balls next? ;)
An interesting, non-obvious look at how social networking sites, and to a lesser extent web 2.0 websites are affecting Internet performance.
CircleID: A typical MySpace profile page is a rich assortment of images and blogs posted from friends. Users can post videos and flash-based content, as well as links to favorite songs in MP3 files. In most cases, each of these content pieces is stored in a separate DNS domain. For example, each image belonging to a friend is retrieved from a distinct URI. This means that retrieving and displaying a profile page may require hundreds of DNS lookups in the background—compared to ten or so lookups for a ‘standard’ B-to-C web page.
MySpace is one of the most visited sites on the Internet. Each of those page downloads may account for ten times or more the amount of DNS traffic of a typical web page visit. Here is an important clue to the recent, unusually high increase in DNS traffic. And, alas, there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Because DNS queries are very small and generally very efficient, I don’t think this is a major problem, but it should lead to innovation in the space.
A college that can’t manage their own email? Next you’ll be telling me about a college that can’t develop their own website!
ENN: Trinity College, Dublin has become the first European university to adopt Google’s Gmail application as its standard e-mail system. The college’s 15,000 students will change over to the system in October, and will retain their @tcd.ie e-mail suffix on the Google system for life. Welcoming the announcement, Google’s European sales and operations director John Herlihy said: “We are very excited to be partnering with an august and progressive college such as Trinity on this project. Their vision of how technology can enhance student life and build a long term relationship with college alumni is shared by Google”.
EDIT: Peter asked me to point out that UCC does manage their own website. In fairness though, I never suggested they didn’t — development is about design and implementation, and configuring a third-party CMS is hardly implementation. If configuration of the CMS takes up more than half the work, why bother with it in the first place?
Peter also remarks that UCC doesn’t employ any full-time designers of it’s own, but I’d bet that out of the thousands of students in UCC, there are more than a few that would produce far better than the frankly quite drab end-result. They’d appreciate the money a hell of a lot more too, no doubt a ridiculous amount?
Big ups to Twenty Major for winning the Most Humourous Post category in Saturday’s Blog Awards. I was well chuffed to be sponsoring a category again this year, so being the first to present an award to the elusive Twenty was a big bonus. :)
Congratulations to Allyn Quigley for winning CIX-sponsored Best Videocast with Size Matters at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh2d0w7VJTk
I’m not quite sure who was sponsoring Tom’s dancing, but boy did they get their money’s worth!
I’m sponsoring two categories in the Irish Blog Awards this year, Most Humorous Post via Beecher Networks, and Best Videocast via Cork Internet eXchange. The initial nominees are listed below, you can vote for your favourite in each category here. Good luck to the nominees!
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