A compelling presentation of one possible future for mass media. But I can’t figure out how buying TiVo(tm) serves Google in any way.

EPIC 2014

David Pescovitz:
Following up on my earlier post today about JewelEye, Shannon Larratt of the excellent Body Modification Ezine points to his wife Rachel’s personal account of Cosmetic Extraocular Implantation. Shannon says Rachel was the first American to have the procedure done. And I was very wrong in my original post: self-installation is clearly not an option. Rachel writes:

“The procedure itself involved injecting a liquid to elevate and separate the layers of the eyeball, which helps the surgeon with the placement of the implant under the conjunctiva (in old age, many people build up calcium deposits in this area, so our eye is actually designed to handle material stuck there). A small flap is cut, and the implant is inserted. After it was in place, they began suctioning out the liquid that was used to elevate the layers. After a few weeks, the liquid will dissipate and the implant will become even more visible.”

Link

…excerpt from: www.boingboing.net…

Ed: Don’t be fooled by Blockbuster’s clever marketing; they think they’re competing with Netflix, but they’re not even close. (And I haven’t been a Netflix subscriber in several years, thank you.)

Over on TechPopuli I’ve posted a little rant about Blockbuster’s claim that they’ve “eliminated” late fees. The thing is, they actually haven’t eliminated them, just reduced them, and changed the structure….
…excerpt from: www.jackhodgson.com…

Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing’s sysadmin extraordinare Ken Snider says, “IE has only a 1.6% lead on Moz/Firefox for BB readers now on BoingBoing.net…. Check out the stats: Link.
Add up Moz and Firefox. And if you include the 1.6% from netscape, which also uses the Gecko rendering engine (so is the same as Moz/FF really), they’re exactly tied.”

November: IE 38%, FF 30.6%, Moz 5%, Netscape 1.8%
October: IE 38.2%, FF 28.6%, Moz 5.6%, Netscape, 1.9%
Going back 6 months (June): IE: 41%, FF 12.7%, Moz: 7.4%, Netscape: 2.2%

Reader Frank Hecker says,

Two points re your post regarding Mozilla/Firefox use by BoingBoing readers. First, “Netscape” in your statistics may include Netscape Navigator 4.x (or earlier). If so, then it’s not strictly speaking correct to count all of the 1.6% Netscape share toward the total percentage share for Gecko-based browser; you should count only the Netscape 6 and 7 share.

Second, note that Camino is also a Gecko-based browser, so its 0.2% share should be added to the figures for Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape 6/7.

With these corrections, the Gecko-based browser share based on the current statistics (Link) is something between 35.9% and 37.5% depending on the relative breakdown of Netscape Navigator 4.x or earlier vs. Netscape 6 and 7. (31.1% Firefox + 4.6% Mozilla + 0.2% Camino + 0-1.6% Netscape

…excerpt from:

https://jimbala.net/2004/12/19/