Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Fix F*cking Firefox!
Have you ever watched one program go from the greatest thing ever to the worst piece of sh*t ever? I know I have. Watching the number of crashes increase in what feels like the shallow end of an exponential curve is not really pleasurable. I understand that you’re probably feeling squeezed by vendor-specific [...]

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Forgot Something, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Jay Adelson, CEO of digg, is hilarious sometimes. In this interview about the digg revolt, he comes up with the novel theory that it wasn’t actually a revolt because there wasn’t a statistically significant number of users involved. This kind of sent me down a rabbit hole to see how many revolts involve a statistically [...]

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Hick, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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The Best Kind, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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when I said that digg stories on techmeme was an increasingly rare occurrence – today we have a veritable plethora of digg stuff.
A user revolt, how refreshing. Like they haven’t done it before. The main problem is that there is increasingly less to do on digg. Basically there’s two things that are anyway fun:

Look [...]

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is this one. If it isn’t obvious why, here’s a hint – they mention me

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The most impressive digg clone yet. Is it a phishing site? Some kind of weird caching? Inquiring minds… and all that crap.
From the whois for tmpnetwork.com:
Registrant:
Digg, Inc.
300 Bel Aire Drive
Oakville, Ontario L6J1M1
Canada
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: TMPNETWORK.COM
Created on: 25-Aug-02
Expires on: 25-Aug-08
Last Updated on: 26-Aug-07
Administrative Contact:
Lovett, David domains@digg-inc.com
Digg, Inc.
300 Bel Aire Drive
Oakville, Ontario L6J1M1
Canada
9055553675 [...]

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Following up on yesterday’s post, it looks like “Black Wednesday” is only taken in the UK.  Jeff Mathews has a slightly related, nice, post up called “The Great Private Equity Cash Robbery of 2007.”
It’s a nice reminder of how to get rich in the USA – rape and pillage.

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This morning I woke up to an increasingly rare occurrence, two digg stories on techmeme.com.
First we have Muhammed Saleem auditioning for Digg’s open PR job. His ability to spin several hundred words without a hint of actual facts make him a shoe-in!
Then we have someone named Jeffro explaining why whiny Microsoft fanboys are way, [...]

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