saila: I have just written the world’s worst science research paper: More than incompetent, it’s a mess of plagiarism and meaningless garble. Now science publishers around the world are clamouring to publish it. —Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen Source: ottawacitizen.com

Based on “Test web apps on iOS by DNS spoofing your LAN with Ettercap” by Henrique Barosso. Modified to work on a Mac running OS X. To access a website or service that uses a virtual host but isn’t in DNS, you need to add it to the hosts file of the machine you’re using for testing. Unfortunately, you can’t edit the hosts file of a (non-jailbroken) iPhone or iPad. This makes testing difficult.

atlasofprejudice: Europe According to Serbia (2013) from Atlas of Prejudice 2 by Yanko Tsvetkov. Holy crap this is funny: predjudiced atlas of Europe, Serbian perspective

Pai’a memories

Larry, Sergey, have you signed off yet on this years $4M April Fools budget? How are we going to attract and recruit the best engineers unless we’ve got a reputation for the very best and most foolish April Fools trickery? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507297

whatsdifferentincanada: Canadian lottery results Canadian lottery results. No, really.

Write snappy headlines that include no information. Link those headlines to a four-hundred word article which, if properly edited, would be two sentences long. Make people who try to read your website on a mobile phone dismiss a request to install your App. Every. Damn. Time. Include multiple, paid links beside every article. Do not label them as “paid”. Better yet, apply a misleading label like “Articles Recommended for You.

…if you want your new tech corridor to play in the big leagues with Silicon Valley and its VCs, don’t stress about capital for entrepreneurs to create companies. Stress about capital that will buy provide exits for companies or that can get them to a liquidity creating IPO. Marc Cuban, blogmaverick

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Sir Winston Churchill as quoted by Michael Dobbs in House of Cards

I was fortunate enough to get online in the mid-90’s. I wrote some terrible software to configure Dial Up Networking in Windows 3.1, and then sold it to a local ISP for years of free access. At that point, consumers were rapidly adopting what I’ll call “open” technologies, including email, forums (USENET), messaging (IRC) and file transfer (ftp). The web was about to be littered with millions of consumer home pages, hosted by Geocities and people’s internet service providers.