alt.culture is a rather useful pop culture encyclopedia that I just discovered through a link from Jim Romenesko’s new site.

Jim Romenesko has launched an Obscure Store spinoff … Jim Romenesko’s Media Gossip. Media Gossip has long been the bottom of the page item at the Obscure Store. I’m glad to see it’s grown up into a site of its own.

Shove-it is a useful program if you want to keep your Windows taskbar at the top of your screen and stay sane.

How do you define irony? Compare these two headlines, Gates Gives $20 Million To Address Population Boom and Gates Is a Father Again.

Word is getting out on the “iMac notebook.” A manufacturer has been named, and News.com is reporting that production is set to begin in June. That means they could be on the shelves by July.

I linked to a story about psychotic Y2K alarmist Gary North some time ago. Little did I know that there’s a whole web site documenting his insanity! Alas, it seems like the site will be gone shortly. Perhaps the author is not familiar with the concept of free Web hosting.

I thought it was hard to find the search interface for Microsoft’s technical support knowledge base before; it’s actually impossible now. I clicked on the Support link, but it was a total dead end. After wandering through their site aimlessly for twenty minutes or so, I clicked on the Search link (not where the search engine for their support stuff used to be) and learned that you could restrict your search to “Support & the Knowledge Base.” Even so, it doesn’t let you narrow your search by product the way it once did. Damnation.

RedHat Linux 6.0 includes “boss key” functionality that instantly switches your display to look like the infamous Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, for those workplaces where alternative operating system lifestyles are not treated with respect by others.

About 15 months ago, I wondered in this very space about the future prospects of GoTo.com. Now they’re offering 5 million shares of their company to the public at $11 to 13 per. An interesting detail in this story is that the search results on the site are provided by Inktomi (no surprise there), and the ad sales for the search results are managed by 24/7 Media. Despite the fact that they don’t have any internal technology, they managed to bleed about 6.2 million dollars last quarter. What does this company have to offer other than a domain name? Who cares, they’re a perfect candidate for an Internet IPO.

The New York Times is consolidating all of its online properties in a single company. Please tell me they’re not going to do some kind of portal.