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Posted by: Stuart

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Posted on: 3 July 2004

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FireFox Anyone?

This isn’t my normal kind of thing but I happened on this site yesterday and I thought I should share. If you use FireFox and you’re into wallpaper he has just the thing for you. If you use Camino or Safari he has things for those too. This is one hell of a good designer. I like his site format and whilst you are there make sure you look through his portfollio. I’m saying nothing but you will find one or two familiar things in there.

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Thomasso
Re: BombShells :notworthy:

Hey Stuart, I just read the "review of Michael Moore..." you linked to. I should show you some of the criminalogical research done in the US on these types data "skewing" and post them to you! Google has always being on the forefront of data skewing, but they are tame compared to the huge think-tanks that acedemic institutions work with i.e. the C.C. Howe Ins. and Fraser Ins. here in Canada. But Google is only one of many. They infact may be quite justifide in placing right wing positivist sites over the "agreeing supportive to Michael Moores sites;" simply because those are the top paying sites and Google put more wieght to them. Money!
3 July 2004, 10:54
Root
Well that bothers the heck out of me.
3 July 2004, 15:24
Stuart
By all means send them over Tom. The thing with Google though is that they are "flavour of the month" at the moment with their GMail account giveaways etc and are the top internet search engine and when you combine that with Microsoft's ambitions to take over the internet world things start to look a bit worrying.
4 July 2004, 07:59
Root
A world in which print media is dominated by *moguls* has been bad enough. In the US the tradition is for the print world to be liberal. That is not true every where else. If google becomes - de facto - the gateway to the internet, if it has the ability to suppress, or ignore, certain categories of sites, and if it then chooses to exercise that power, we will be screwed. Royally. It will become a kind of globalised AOL. Run by MS and their ilk. Make no mistake people. The power of you and I to publish our words and images, freely, in a completely uncontrolled way, terrifies governments. Joe Soap is of course allowed free speech. He just musn't tell any body anything. Our very own BT - a Stalinist remant of a nationalised telecomms industry, has just blocked access to millions of sites. [Rant off]
4 July 2004, 18:04
Thomasso
I'm going to see if I can pull the articles off the Univerity Data base and put them on my site... they are in PDF format. :think: I know of 15 papers that talk about skewing on the net: 2 of them talk/deal about Google. They are from the SOCI department at Simon Fraser University in BC. If I can fined a HTML version, I will grab that too and set up a link to it. I'm going up there this week, maybe Thursday, I'll do that then. Root, you may not like what you read, but they do have some good ideas on how to "keep a watchful eye for such things" if you know what I mean... It makes you engage in asking questions about your environment and the people around you:!:
5 July 2004, 08:42
Stuart
I'll keep an eye out for them Tom. In the meantime has anyone actually been to the site I linked to in the post? :pray:
5 July 2004, 09:20
Root
Briefly. Did not get excited. What was familiar?
5 July 2004, 09:59
Stuart
Well you need to go into his portfolio cuz you might recognise things I don't but he is responsible for the FireFox and Thunderbird logos amongst other things.
5 July 2004, 18:23
Root
Oh well now you are talking. I will go again. I like that little fox.
5 July 2004, 23:22

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