So here is an assortment of technical tips & tricks whereby bloggers can cut down the volume and the repetition coming from this cyberbullying cadre of keyboard jockeys, making the harassment little more than a tiny hiss of background noise instead of an overwhelming flood of spite.
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. Please leave your own interesting links in comments.
I wonder if Mr Harvey thought through the consequences of highlighting to his customers on every news site just how much better deals are online.
This repost is part of our Summer Slowdown revisiting of the archives. This post was originally published in 2007, at the time of the last La Niña event affecting Australia.
The December solstice happened about twelve minutes ago as I compose this post (2010-12-21 23:38 Universal Time). APOD, as per usual, has the solstice goodies:
From Computerworld:
Researcher HD Moore spells out how to see what accounts were among 1.3M accessed by hackers
Today’s LOL theme is: the power of science! Is there anything that it can’t do?
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Part of this month’s Blast from the Past reposting program: originally published January 4, 2006. This post notes the ongoing pattern of research around abortion being distorted and misrepresented.
A microbe has been discovered in a remote Californian lake that can survive without phosphorus, capable of substituting arsenic into that slot in its biochemistry instead.
People ask search engines the damnedest things: what can we do except help out as best we can?
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