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Thoughts on the Accessibility case against Target.com

October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

US District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has allowed the lawsuit against Target to go forward and she’s certified the case as a class action. The lawsuit in question is one filed by the National Federation for the Blind and it alleges that Target’s website is inaccessible to blind computer users. Parts of the shopping [...]

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NBC and the IT Crowd

October 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Please, dear God don’t screw this up. Season 1 of the IT Crowd , the brilliant British Nerd/Geek sitcom, was outstanding. I have that season in wide screen, high sound quality avi format. i haven’t seen any of Season 2 yet, but I hear it’s just as good. Now it seems NBC will bring it [...]

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Fun with Wikipedia

August 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Internet. Is there anything it can’t do? Virgil Griffith created a site that looks at the edits made in Wikipedia and lets you match those edits with IP addresses and their likely owners. Want to see what the New York Times has been editing in there? How about Fox News? Or Al Jazeera?
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