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On 'ovation inflation' in the concert hallToday Ben Brantley, theater critic for The New York Times , used that newspaper's ArtsBeat blog to post a thoroughly entertaining rant against " ovation inflation ." He began with the useful rhetorical strategy of a positive note, praising an enthusiastic audience at a performance of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for showing their appreciation while ... (more)
topix.net | 17-May-2012 23:28
Urd 1.3.0
Urd is a Web-based Usenet binary download manager. It stores the newsgroup information in a MySQL database and aggregates the articles into sets of a single download .
topix.net | 17-May-2012 03:55
OE Classic 1.24
OE Classic is email and Usenet reader designed to be a perfect replacement for Outlook Express , Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail and even Mozilla Thunderbird .
topix.net | 09-May-2012 22:24
Letters to Editors - 05/7/2012
Dear Groong readers, We bring to your attention the following letters we've received.
topix.net | 08-May-2012 03:53
Godwin's Law In New London
It seems Godwin's Law has been invoked in New London. This particular principle dates back to the Internet's early days in 1990, when online arguments could apparently get just as heated as they do today.
topix.net | 06-May-2012 19:31
This Week's Most Popular Posts: April 28 - May 4
This week we started learning those skills we always tell ourselves we're going to tackle, sussed out our readers' favorite Android phones, learned a simple trick to look better in photos, compared BitTorrent to Usenet, and more.
topix.net | 04-May-2012 23:11
UK's Pirate Bay blockade begins, but only ISPs must oblige
British ISPs have begun blocking access to The Pirate Bay. The court-issued block only applies to ISPs.
topix.net | 03-May-2012 13:59
Newsgroup Image Collector 2.11
Newsgroup Image Collector is the perfect application for collecting images from Usenet newsgroups.
topix.net | 01-May-2012 11:29
Owning Your Words: Personal Clouds Build Professional Reputations
'Tune into Radio and Experience the Power and Freedom of Desktop Web Publishing,' reads Radio UserLand's site.
topix.net | 27-Apr-2012 18:03
The Literary Groong - 04/22/2012
Dear Groong readers, The homepage for The Literary Groong is at: http://www.groong.org/tlg/ ANN/Groong postings are for Groong's audience only.
topix.net | 22-Apr-2012 23:19
NewsReactor build 20120411.13
NewsReactor is a tool to download binaries from Usenet newsgroups. NewsReactor scans, combines and downloads files from selected newsgroups.
topix.net | 13-Apr-2012 13:07
All inquiries are welcomed
A compendium of digital fonts that match the typefaces displayed in "The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces" Towards the end of 2009, "Fontana" issued a spreadsheet containing a list of the typefaces contained in the Solotype Catalog.
topix.net | 13-Apr-2012 08:57
Opinion: Happy 20th anniversary, BBEdit
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the venerable Mac text-editing app BBEdit.
topix.net | 12-Apr-2012 09:15
Thomas, The first part of my
A compendium of digital fonts that match the typefaces displayed in "The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces" Towards the end of 2009, "Fontana" issued a spreadsheet containing a list of the typefaces contained in the Solotype Catalog.
topix.net | 11-Apr-2012 23:41
NZB Download Deluxe 1.0
NZB Download Deluxe was developed as a simple, clear and easy-to-use NZB downloader.
topix.net | 11-Apr-2012 07:18
Eternal September lives on
"SEPTEMBER 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended," wrote Dave Fischer in an internet posting in January 1994.
topix.net | 10-Apr-2012 03:20
Easynews Upgrades to 1330 Days of Retention
Easynews' last enhancement resulted in retention reaching a record 1,275 days. This latest upgrade comes at no further cost to new and existing subscribers.
topix.net | 09-Apr-2012 23:11
Arizona and the Trolls
Trolling is a form of being annoying on the Internet. It's a minor irritation that, frankly, is relatively simply managed delete and ban, delete and ban.
topix.net | 07-Apr-2012 19:10
RE: Printing web format images (JPG) from IBM i
I haven't seen any USENET postings from him in a long time... Not sure what happened when IBM sold all of their printer-related systems and down-sized their people.
topix.net | 04-Apr-2012 17:18
Letters to Editors - 04/2/2012
Dear Groong readers, We bring to your attention the following letters we've received.
topix.net | 03-Apr-2012 03:07
NewsBin Pro v6.30
NewsBin is a usenet binaries reader that automatically downloads, decodes, and reassembles any binary file posted to usenet including movies, music, pictures, even software across multiple groups and servers simultaneously.
topix.net | 30-Mar-2012 13:58
SABnzbd (Mac) v0.6.15
SABnzbd is an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python. It's totally free, incredibly easy to use, and works practically everywhere.
topix.net | 30-Mar-2012 09:49
Baen revamps the Baen Bar to revive old features, add stability
I've long enjoyed hanging around on the Baen Bar , the password-protected web forum where many of e-book pioneer SF publisher Baen 's authors, staff, and readers hang out and communicate with each other-though my ardor for the forum had cooled over its last couple of incarnations.
topix.net | 20-Mar-2012 19:11
nzb 0.2
It natively downloads, decodes, and even streams the files specified in the .nzb file, an XML format which describes binary files on Usenet by their message-id. libnzb provides developers with useful nzb processing functions.
topix.net | 20-Mar-2012 07:52
Letters to Editors - 03/18/2012
Dear Groong readers, We bring to your attention the following letters we've received.
topix.net | 19-Mar-2012 02:10
The September Problem
Jon Evans is a novelist, journalist, and software engineer. His novels have been published around the world, translated into several languages, and praised by The Times, The Economist, and the Washington Post.
topix.net | 17-Mar-2012 19:43
Social Q&A
This article presents a review and analysis of the research literature in social Q&A , a term describing systems where people ask, answer, and rate content while interacting around it.
topix.net | 17-Mar-2012 03:50
NiouzeFire+ 1.4.0
NiouzeFire+ is an easy to use application with integrated extracting capabilities that can help you read the latest news.
topix.net | 12-Mar-2012 11:35
The Internet is a Utility
Last week, I moved to a new Internet Service Provider . Nothing particularly unusual about that except that I had been with my old ISP, Demon , for nearly twenty years.
topix.net | 11-Mar-2012 17:02
NiouzeFire+ 1.4.0
NiouzeFire+ is an easy to use Usenet newsreader with integrated extracting capabilities.
topix.net | 08-Mar-2012 02:06
Coping with hidden mischief of Internet trolls
As long as there have been message boards, discussion groups and comment strings, there have been "trolls" - people who, under cover of Web anonymity, post bullying, lewd or off-point comments, disrupting and demeaning the whole enterprise.
topix.net | 05-Mar-2012 09:22
Giganews Achieves World-Leading 1,300 Days of High Quality Usenet Retention
No other Usenet provider in the world can make that claim. Founded in 1994, Giganews is the undisputed industry leader in Usenet, providing Usenet services to consumers, Internet service providers, telecommunications companies and multi-service operators in over 200 different countries.
topix.net | 28-Feb-2012 00:57
Is your community designed to get answers to questions?
I have scribbled a few notes from the Stack Overflow community presentation below, so excuse the style of writing; there's also times for where the points are made on the video if you simply want to jump to them.
topix.net | 27-Feb-2012 15:42
Same-sex pairs slow to march down aisle
John Weiss, right, and Karl Boggs, inspired by health insurance woes, wed in July under this tree at Liberty View Farm in Clintondale.
topix.net | 27-Feb-2012 08:28
How to Wreck Your Career With Social Media
Thoughts on physics, politics, and pop culture, by a physics professor at a small liberal arts college, plus occasional conversations with his dog.
topix.net | 20-Feb-2012 23:33
Entry: O Rly?
The earliest documented use of the phrase "O The popularity of the snowy owl image macros reached its peak when one of the 4chan moderators implemented a wordfilter script that replaced all mentions of "repost"--an overused 4chan term referring to duplicate content--with the word "owl," provoking users to respond by uploading owl image macros with ... (more)
topix.net | 17-Feb-2012 20:46
Vic... Let Me Tell You A Little Something About Me
Canadian Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews has found himself caught in a 1998 style flame war that would be the pride of usenet.
topix.net | 17-Feb-2012 04:02
The Internet will be a fad, claimed futurist in '95
We were reminded of Clifford Stoll yesterday when we posted a photo from when the Internet first came to NPR .
topix.net | 17-Feb-2012 00:03
Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology
In the 1990s I followed the Usenet group comp.lang.forth. Forth has great personal appeal.
topix.net | 16-Feb-2012 07:19
Re: MSF crashing. What should I look for?
James, Assuming that nobody messed up with the MSF exit points, I just Googled your CPF and MSF and found that someone had a problem like yours with V5R4: http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/13033/19969/ HTH, Luis Rodriguez IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries
topix.net | 10-Feb-2012 21:27
The vilest antivaccine lie that won't die: Shaken baby syndrome as...
" A statement of fact cannot be insolent ." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory Orac is the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior ... (more)
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 10:55
SABnzbd 0.6.15
The SABnzbd application was designed to be an open-source cross-platform binary newsreader written in Python.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 01:38
End of the Internet or the beginning of a new-style Internet?
Those eight little letters, spawned into a web for the entire world, connecting everyone together instantly, forming entirely new paths of business, communication, research, ways to make money: a virtually unlimited and ever-expanding entity.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 21:24
Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
On Monday, I trained it up to New Haven to meet a Yale professor named Dina Mayzlin and talk to her class.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 04:28
Six Tricks For Getting a TV Show, Via Louis CK and Lorne Michaels [Video]
A comedy blogger has unearthed Louis CK's rundown of making TV pilots, posted to Usenet in 2006.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 00:23
Link for People, Not Search Engines
I made that statement in April of 2003, almost 10 years ago. It was my closing statement in an interview with Ralph Wilson of Web Marketing Today .
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 16:14