Snappy the ClamChowder is evil.Who knew- August 31, 2007 That VRM was actually a 3-dollar acronym for bitching about companies, especially those that effect the life of a often traveling pundit... Man, they're pretty desperate in Cambridge these days.http://www.snappytheclam.com/archives/000936.html Good boy, Rex! (3 in a series)- August 6, 2007 About Fake Steve Scobleizer:UPDATE: Rex Hammock reminded me that Daniel Lyons wrote the famous Attack of the Blogs article for Forbes.Good boy, Rex!http://www.snappytheclam.com/archives/000935.html Legs to the snake- August 5, 2007 Gruber on Amazon's new PayPal killer:Interesting but unsurprising sign of the times: they&8217;ve got example code for Java, PHP, Ruby, and C, but none for Perl.Surprising omission he didn't notice: Python.http://www.snappytheclam.com/archives/000934.html Good boy, Rex (2 in a series)- August 5, 2007 rexblog.com: Rex Hammock&8217;s weblog &187; Blog Archive &187; News Corp should open up WSJ.com&8217;s golden door to the huddled masses yearning to surf free:Jeff Jarvis makes the argument &8212; one that seems so counter-intuitive to old-time media executives &8212; for the &8220;free model.&8221; I agree with his philosophical and marketing-oriented reasoning, but I think there are more practical, bean-counting reasons for the WSJ.com to drop the cost-wall on a big portion (but perhaps not.http://www.snappytheclam.com/archives/000933.html Why vegetarians don't eat meat- August 5, 2007 In contrast, he provides a compelling critique of factory farms, which cram thousands of cows, pigs or chickens into rows of cages in warehouses, feed them drugs to plump up their meat and fight off the illnesses caused by these inhumane conditions, and produce innumerable tons of environmentally destructive animal waste.The terms "grass fed" and "pasture raised"&8212;meaning that an animal was allowed to graze the old-fashioned way instead of being fed an unnatural and difficult-to-digest diet.http://www.snappytheclam.com/archives/000931.html |