The upcoming Superbowl is as good a time as any to see the Muppets’ great Mahna Mahna remixed as a tribute to the Steelers’ Troy Polamalu: My sister and I loved singing the original as kids. (Still do.) Speaking of Polamalu, during the game he’ll be starring in a re-imagining of the classic Mean Joe […]
Commander Mike Fincke, a Pittsburgh native, NASA astronaut, and Steelers fan, shows us that outer space is Steelers Country. Click here to start the video. UPDATE: de-embedded video because of player bugginess. You can use the link above to see the vid.
I’ve written before about the Bush administration’s use of the robots exclusion standard to tell search engines and web archives to stay away from chunks of the Whitehouse.gov website. As of last November, the robots.txt file was nearly 2300 lines long. (Here’s a copy of it.) In my opinion, such materials should be freely archivable […]
The Twittered Inauguration. Though I doubt President Obama will twitter from the podium tomorrow, many others at the inauguration will post tweets, photos, and videos at what the NY Times is calling a “wireless Woodstock.” Although wireless networks are adding extra capacity, they’re still asking people to try to limit their wireless use. No shock […]
