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Giant Freakin’ Robots are coming.

See you online, everyone. Roll out.

The most highly anticipated film of the year is coming out tomorrow (I was thinking today, but today isn’t the 18th).

We’ve been hearing so much about how it’ll be good because it has Samuel Jackson (the highest paid black actor in Hollywood, and the one who famously renamed it from “Pacific Air Flight 121”), so tomorrow’s box office will be the judge.

In the meantime, here’s a classic mashup AMV for ya’ll to enjoy.

Yes. He does.

OK, now if the populist prez from Tehran can get a blog, then I’m sure that Thabo from Pretoria could update that ANC Today column that he usually writes.

Just put in some RSS, a blogroll, and some AJAX spray and even the ANC could become buzzword-compliant!

Oh yes, and upon the announcement of Mahmoud’s blog, Israeli hackers brought it down for a few hours in an apparently coordinated DDoS attack.

Oh, and some people aren’t taking too kindly to the design of the site (and the lack of RSS).

From the GTalk blog

Now it comes with file-sharing capabilities (finally! ’bout damn time!) including photo drag-and-drop with Picasa, Google’s very capable answer to iPhoto. Also, you can now leave voicemail.

Haven’t been using GTalk in a while, though, since I have so few Gmail contacts who use it. BTW, its been exactly one year since it came out, so a dandy b-day to it.

When, exactly, are they going to add such useful tie-ins as profiles or something like that? Neither AIM nor Y!M got to where they were today if it wasn’t for those tie-ins.

Meanwhile, we’re all patiently waiting for LJTalk to come out.

And here’s that video on Xenu for anchasta.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article on the same.

From MIT’s own anime club

We’ll probably get one started here in the fall quarter, since there are a number of students who watch anime, play on their DSes, or play D&D in the cafeteria…

EVERY FUCKING DAY. Dammit these people seem to have no life outside of such a routine.

However, they’re in the minority, considering the demographics of the school (the majority are older students who are trying to get their GED, diploma, or degree while holding a job).

So I dunno…

The “blogosphere” is going nuts with Fark-esque photoshopped parodies.

“I Am Fucked
My Whole Life is Fucked
I’ll Fuck You, Fuck
Sugar Tits
Jews”

GOLD!

The post on the WikiFur Creative Commons thing was the first time that I had used the word “Furry” in the title in months.

And it was also the first time that I received a visit from an obvious Dramatica denizen, or a long comment thread. Humorous, is it not?

So I suppose that I’ve been staying away from the subject matter that makes up, what? More than 50% of LJ’s post content or something like that?

Yes. Maybe I have….

I should get back into the swing of things, but aren’t I 19? Isn’t that a bit old?

Or is it just me?

I mean, seriously, I think that my hairline is receding early, and Mom keeps on telling me that its only that it grows uneven and kinky (which is true, but still).

Yes, I’m a bit paranoid.

Listening to me talking, you would most likely think that I’m a good bit older than 19.

And yet, Mom is often lauded by different acquaintances on her looks, that she looks much younger than her age (55, which she’d nearly kill me over).

Now I sound like a girl…. 😦

In the traditional world of advertising, companies pay television/radio networks/stations and newspapers to advertise on alloted time. Then, when the companies get alot of customers, they then pay the (remaining) excess to the networks, stations and newspapers for more alloted time. This, of course, is how the traditional media makes its money.

On the web, (1) companies pay (2) search engines like Google for term-relevant text (or flash) ads. Then the search engines pay (3) domain owners via AdSense to feature those text ads on their websites. The customers for the companies pay for the goods, some of which then goes to Google for more adspace, while Google pays-per-click the domain owners with the money paid to them by the companies.

Its on this fuel that Google’s IPO has skyrocketed in such a brilliant way, with pyrotechnics along the way.

So is this how its done? How to make money on the web?
And, with Google being the king of search engines, is this a done deal?

From Engrish.com