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Digg is full of vapid, listmongering idiots

This is an angry post written in uncov style. I may submit it over there if it’s sufficiently full of bile and vitriol.
Digg: the little news aggregator and home for moronic comments that could. I’m finally giving up on it, yet not for some presumed lack of Kevin Rose fanboy love. This particular train has [...]

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The Digg/Consumerist mob strikes: Denon’s $500 Ethernet cable

Background: Denon produces an expensive Ethernet cable, much like the kind Monster are known for. It goes for $500 for 1.5 meters.
Body: Story hits Digg, the Consumerist, and a variety of other self-righteous forums that really should focus less on “ohpleaseohpleaseohplease check my ID when I hand over a credit card”, “they sent me [...]

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I am incredibly sick of Digg lists. Stop it.

If the future of social bookmarking and Internet news is indeed Digg, then there is something seriously wrong with the collective attention span of the public. I’ve spent probably an hour in total tweaking my Yahoo Pipes “Digg Stupidity Filter” RSS feed, which performs the following functions:
Removes idiotic stories from the general Digg feed: any [...]

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Firefox zealots move downward on The Hierarchy

I think I’ve found a group of people just as annoying as elitist Mac users. This group would be the no-holds-barred Firefox/Mozilla zealots who hang out at Spread Firefox and post Diggbait articles about the state of browser compatibility. Yes, Firefox has done great things for Web standards and interoperability of sites; it’s also nice [...]

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Friday’s links of interest: color themes, a new blog, and tech talk

In an effort to be regular with my content – considering this week has not been kind to my posting schedule – I’ll continue with “Random Links of Interest Friday”. Here’s what I’ve stumbled across this week:

A List Apart: Sliding Doors CSS. This article provides examples of how to implement rounded tabs by styling an [...]

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