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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
Lately, for some reason Google is reminding me of SkyNet.
THE LATEST GOOGLE SEARCH is for a snake loose in Google HQ.
"What you have heard is in fact true and not an April Fools' Day joke," a Google spokesman wrote in an e-mail to technology news site CNET News.com.
..."Should you see the snake, please do not attempt to touch it or pick it up. Call security immediately."
The site is Conservapedia:
Welcome to Conservapedia
A conservative encyclopedia you can trust.
Conservapedia has over 4,100 educational, clean and concise entries on historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics, including more than 350 lectures and term lists. There have been over 2,900,000 page views and over 27,300 page edits. Already Conservapedia has become one of the largest user-controlled free encyclopedias on the internet. This site is growing rapidly.
Conservapedia jumps to Number One!
Traffic ranking among conservative websites as of March 8th (by Alexa):
1. Conservapedia
2. Rush Limbaugh
3. Sean Hannity
4. Bill O'Reilly
Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we give full credit to Christianity and America. Conservapedia is student-friendly.
(Hat tip: A.M. Whittaker).
Is your favorite website blocked in China? Find out here. (Hat tip: A.M. Whittaker).
"Police Turn to YouTube to Catch Suspects"
High-School-Age Video Game Teachers get $25/hour.
"Fake relics sold on eBay 'funding terrorism':"
Forged archaeological artefacts traded on internet auction sites such as eBay are helping to fund international terrorism, it was disclosed today.
The faked historical relics, purporting to be genuine, Middle Eastern artefacts dating from as far back as 2000 BC, are being sold to innocent collectors and tourists for up to £2,000 each.
Police believe the profits are flowing back into criminal networks in the Middle East and that some is helping to fund insurgency in places like Iraq.
Some of the seized artefacts were on display at an exhibition of fake and forged works of art at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London today.
The exhibition is being held by the Metropolitan Police's specialist Arts and Antiques unit to raise awareness of the increasingly sophisticated fraud, estimated to worth up to £200 million a year in Britain alone.
Detective Constable Ian Lawson said of the artefacts: "We know for a fact that there is a terrorism link. Archaeological stuff is being exported by the tonne load from Middle Eastern countries. If the money goes back into criminality, some will inevitably end up in the hands of terrorists."
Did you know that online gambling just became criminalized?
Consider the following oddly similar current stories:
I just don't believe that YouTube, the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, or MySpace has an official policy biased against Conservatives. So what's going on here? What's the explanation?
Let's start with YouTube. With 65,000 new videos uploaded daily, there's no way for YouTube to inspect each one and even consider censoring it. In fact, the company's official policy is for the site's community to be self-policing:
YouTube said it does not monitor the content of video submitted by users, though it prohibits videos that are violent. The site relies on users to alert the company to offensive videos, and YouTube reviews requests for removal.
So if Conservative videos are being blocked on YouTube, it means that users are emailing YouTube claiming that they find the videos to be offensive. The Libs have cleverly found that they can shut down YouTube distribution of videos that show a point of view they want to suppress. All they have to do is claim that the video is offensive.
Given that this is surely happening in the case of YouTube, it appears to be a likely explanation for the similar events at the U.S. Dept of the Interior, and at MySpace. Libs are emailing to say that sites they disagree with are offensive, leading the proprietors to shut down those sites.
And of course, at Columbia University, the students left no doubt at all that they want to prevent people they disagree with from speaking, even though the views being expressed by Gilchrist are shared by so many Americans, that Congress has recently voted to build a 700-mile fence on the border with Mexico.
So this is the latest tactic of the Left. While claiming to support free speech, in fact, they oppose it for those who disagree with them. Using this new tactic, they are seeking to keep people from hearing, views that they disagree with.
That new web site that purports to be from Pres. Ahmadinejad of Iran, tries to install a virus on your computer. (via LGF and Regime Change Iran).
CHECK OUT this YouTube video, "The Death of The Internet?" (via Pajamas Media).
The Top 10 Web Fads Ever (So Far).
[SUPREME] COURT: FILE-SHARING SERVICES MAY BE SUED.
Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting warnings that the lawsuits will stunt growth of cool tech gadgets such as the next iPod.
This looks to me like another great decision. Copyright must be protected.
THE NUMBER OF CONSUMERS DOWNLOADING MUSIC LEGALLY, IS ABOUT TO SURPASS THE NUMBER DOWNLOADING IT ILLEGALLY.
