Category: The Web Sucks

I’m concerned about linkrot in blogs. Blog entries tend to mention interesting stuff by hyperlinking to news articles, websites, and other blogs. Since it’s so easy to create a link to something (rather than excepting a relevant paragraph), you’re pretty much guaranteed to get a 404 when you try to visit that link at a […]

I’ve gotten a handful of the Nigerian money-laundering scam emails over the past year, although it seems like I’m getting one or two a week now. I’m reminder of a story in Wired Magazine about some Netizen who decided to catch the scammers on film. Apparently this person had a lot of time to waste […]