Tuesday, August 28, 2007
EarthLink Announces Third-Quarter Employee Loss
EarthLink will have several hundred fewer jobs to offshore come tomorrow. This afternoon, the struggling Internet service provider announced plans to sack 900 employees–about half its workforce–as part of a broad corporate restructuring that will shutter company offices in San Francisco; Orlando, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Harrisburg, Penn. “While we see this as an [...]
New ‘Digital Divide’ Discovered Between San Francisco and EarthLink
This agreement catapults San Francisco into a leadership position in wireless technology: the network ensures universal, affordable wireless broadband access for all San Franciscans, especially low-income and disadvantaged residents; and through the mayor’s digital divide program, children and students will have the digital tools to ensure that they have access to everything that the Internet [...]
Much Like the Visual Artist, We Telecoms View ‘White Space’ as ‘Negative Space’–in Our Earnings.
Progress does march on, doesn’t it? The Federal Communications Commission has only just announced technical specifications for its upcoming auction of the airwaves in the 700-megahertz band, the last piece of prime real estate left in the nation’s radio-frequency spectrum, and efforts to develop the next-generation wireless technology that could supplant it are already heating [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
