Daily Archives: November 1, 2007

Teh tree uv cookiez

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 1, 2007

And today I was studying the lolcatbible and it occurred to me to start at the beginning becuz that’s how Ceiling Cat did it, and I ran across this passage in Genesis, Chapter 2, wherein we get a hint that maybe at one time before the fall, there was indeed a cookie tree, but unlike [...]

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C’est ça le cookie magie

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 1, 2007

Ever notice how Chris Locke almost always hits home hard with synchronicity?  Today’s effort is for me a mental mash-up of the Berkman Center’s Stop Badware cookie crumbles contest at the FTC “ehavioral” advertising Town Hall, and the populist concern about “ehavioral” cookie driven advertising on the web.  How the Nation Magazine found themselves advertising [...]

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eHavioral Advertising

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 1, 2007

The feddies were out in force.  The FTC Chairman, Deborah Majoras, a political appointee who doesn’t look all that republican, sent a video.  Her subordinate, Lydia Parnes (Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, and a bureaucrat who will be here after the Republicans have been tarred and feathered and such) spoke next, setting the [...]

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Cookies in Translation, What Mari Said

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 1, 2007

The video… The transcript: Mari explains what a cookie is and isn’t. – Slim Shady, Brimful of Asha, remix cc Attribution license. (Diagrams and written text in parenthesis): (What is a cookie?) This is a cookie, right? There’s also http cookies, right, like web cookies which are just like bits of text sent by a [...]

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