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Google Responds to Me: April Fool’s 2004

An autoresponse, but one nonetheless. In regards to their April Fool’s joke. Thank you for contacting Google about our Copernicus Research Center. We’ve received an overwhelming response to this opportunity and are not currently accepting additional resumes. We will, however, keep your information on file should we have an opening in the future. At the…Continue Reading…

Google Job Opportunities: Google Copernicus Center is hiring

Google Job Opportunities: Google Copernicus Center is hiring Life in the Googlunaplex The Googlunaplex is a working environment that will be unique both because of its location and its design. Based on a working model constructed by Google co-founder Larry Page from Lego? Mindstorms%u2122, the facility features compact living quarters and a state of the…Continue Reading…

Google Advertising Gmail

As you can see in the below screenshot, Google is advertising its brand new Gmail service via Adwords. All signs seem to indicate that this is no April fool’s joke.

Google Launches Gmail

Google will be launching a free email service providing 1 GB (yes, one gigabyte) of storage for every single user! Is it an April Fool’s joke? Not really sure! By the way, Gmail is an awesome name in my opinion – try saying it aloud and comparing it with the word E-mail. The official press…Continue Reading…

Freelance Bush ad

Here’s an awesome freelance ad for Bush. (Update: it’s down, so I removed the link. It used to be http://members.cox.net/macallan_the/GW/GWBush1_Start.htm.) It seems the administration has been ineffective at presenting the case for the Bush economy, which from what I understand, is better in many ways and equal in others to the Clinton economy at the…Continue Reading…

Security Flaw in Internet Explorer

Slashdot | Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw GreyMagic Software, an Israeli computer security firm, has discovered a serious security flaw in Yahoo and Microsoft’s email services which allows hackers to run malicious programs on users’ computers. According to the website, all attempts to contact Yahoo unfortunately failed. Here’s the interesting part: the exploit works only…Continue Reading…