Forward Slash  Contributed by mstrebe on Wednesday December 31, 2003 @ 01:42AM from the uncanny-accuracy dept. Matthew writes: At the beginning of each year, SlashNOT predicts the top 10 tech trends. The 2004 predictions are: Anti-spam software will finally become useful, allowing you to blame it for not getting e-mail from people you don’t want  Read more »

Asian nations have reacted swiftly to the discovery of madcow disease in the United States. Japan, the world’s biggest importer of US beef, announced a temporary ban. It came less than three hours after US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said initial tests had shown that a cow from northwestern US state of Washington may have  Read more »

A meme is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change  Read more »

In the very beginning I used Lynx and laughed at people using graphical browser’s because at dial-up speeds back then it took a very long time for image heavy pages to load. Then I broke down and used NCSA Mosaic to visit web sites that had image maps and other things that did not work  Read more »

I came across this through a post about a post about a post on morons.org It’s a thread about a poll called “America’s Poll on Homosexual Marriage” by the ever present American Family Association. There is a great posting in this guy’s journal: griffen it’s worth a glance. Direct link to the specific thread at:  Read more »