codyg1985’s Think Tank

Google News is a service that grabs news stories from many different sources and displays them to users. Unfortunately, some of those sources are not authentic, and what’s worse is that some of those sources are prank websites that posts fake news stories for humor.
A blogger noticed that the news aggregator was displaying links […]

AOL and Yahoo are proposing an email tax to combat spam. This website presents an open letter to stand against this tax, citing AOL’s two-tier email system as a divide that will grow, forcing businesses to switch to the paid email system.
I encourage all readers of this blog to sign the open letter and […]

Blogging can be difficult. Jason Kottke was a web designer that quit his day job for blogging. His blog looks nice and simple, and he updated it on a regular basis. Unfortunately, this was not enough to keep Kottke from quitting full-time blogging.
Kottke’s blog won the lifetime achievement award at the 2003 […]

News Corp, the owner of the FOX network, answers the newly-formed CW that resulted from the merger of The WB and UPN. The network will run on affliiates that were former UPN or WB affiliates that were left out when the other afiliate changed to The CW.
My Network TV, as it will be called, […]

Google is allegedly working on a cheap PC, called a Google Cube, that will provide access to a separate internet, known as “GoogleNet.”
An Internet Service Provider is in talks to provide the service to Google Cubes.

After taking a look at the CSS style sheet for Facebook, the website does not use Segoe UI as the default font, but Lucida Grande, as evidenced by this code:
body, p {
font-size: 11px;
font-family: “lucida grande”, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
text-align: left; }
The fonts look very similar though. If you have Segoe UI on your system, […]

Microsoft clarified that it would remove blogs from MSN Spaces if it recieves a legally-binding notice from a government to do so. The statement comes after criticism of Microsoft deleting a blog of a Chinese journalist.
Microsoft also calls for an “international framework” to lay out regulations for blogging services across the world.

After Google failed to meet its profit projections, its stock traded down on Wednesday by as much as 19 percent at one point. The loss has stabilized to 10 percent, or at $395 per share.
The lower profits are attributed to a 11 percent higher tax rate for the Q4 2005.

According to this blogger, Bob Woodruff, co-anchor of ABC News’s World News Tonight, was injured in Iraq by insurgents working within the Iraqi Army. This is quite an impressive argument to make, but the author of this piece does have some legitimacy to put behind his argument because he was stationed at an Iraqi […]

Dateline NBC took a look at the popular social networking website MySpace.com. The on-air piece featured a teenager that got hooked to the website after realizing how convinient MySpace made it to talk to her friends.
This is another example of how parents should monitor the websites that young kids and teenagers go to. […]