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The art of Jenevieve Hubbard
We’ve been wanting to talk about art more. As artists, we’re always interested in new and innovative things that other artists are doing. Occasionally that applies to websites, but occasionally that applies to, you know, real art — tangible art you can look at and (possibly) touch and smell and experience. I’m hoping that this…
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OpenOffice.org no longer the FREE alternative to Microsoft Office
it’s finally happened. months after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems — developers of the free Java platform, among other things — the formerly free alternative to Microsoft’s Office suite is now the cheap alternative to Microsoft’s Office suite. anyone who knew about the acquisition wouldn’t be too surprised by this, however it’s still sad to see. OpenOffice was…
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Keeping your website safe
Once upon a time, a long time ago, you could buy a new computer and not have to worry about what type of virus scan software you needed to load onto it. Firewalls were things only extreme geeks and intrepid hackers knew anything about. Adware, spyware and malware weren’t even words. Those days are so…
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Keeping your website safe
class=”aligncenter” Once upon a time, a long time ago, you could buy a new computer and not have to worry about what type of virus scan software you needed to load onto it. Firewalls were things only extreme geeks and intrepid hackers knew anything about. Adware, spyware and malware weren’t even words. Those days are…
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GoDaddy-hosted sites at risk — WordPress, Joomla!, Pligg, ZenCart, others…
Recently, there was a malicious attack on GoDaddy-hosted sites. It’s tough to track down the exact date of the original attack — I was first able to find a mention of it on Slashdot from 4/26, and I found a topic in the WordPress support forums that supported that approximate time. However, I also found…
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the cost of offshore drilling
the oil spill in the gulf of mexico made the front page of huffpo today with some terrifying images of the destruction to the native wildlife, many of which came from Greenpeace who flew down there to document the disaster. but these two striking photographs of the drilling platform on fire with the simple caption “the cost of offshore drilling”…
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Free Calendar Wallpaper: Captain’s Log…
Okay, so this month’s wallpaper has a bit more of a story. Or, at least, it’s meant to imply that it has more of a story. I wanted to do something spacey/sci-fi because it’s something we haven’t really done. I started thinking about what a captain’s journal might look like if it wasn’t explicitly limited…
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the god-awful heyday of Geocities…
StumbleUpon found this site for me today, and there’s a particular reason why this gadget resonates with me… the Geocities-izer the tagline for the Geocities-izer by the aptly-named Wonder-Tonic (who brought us ShadyURL, a URL shortener/renamer that will make any URL look like it’s trying to scam you out of all your money and infect your computer…