About Me
Up-Load.com is about the vagaries of life, in all its complex and nuanced– nah, stuff that: like so many irregularly maintained blogs, it’s whatever nonsense that comes to me, whenever I can get motivated to put fingers to keyboard. Sometimes [...]
Osama Still Alive
So sayeth the counter-rumors. Here’s the thing: bin Laden exists in the Heisenberg state of being simultaneously both dead and alive. No one knows for sure — or rather those who do know aren’t talking. So long as news about [...]
Conspiracy theory du jour: Wagging the dog
The news-sphere is abuzz with reports of a “leak” from French intelligence that Osama bin Laden died last month due to typhoid. It’s time to reveal my own personal conspiracy theory: Yes, Osama is dead; but he died five years [...]
NYT Business: No Wikipedia, Please
As a further sign of Wikipedia’s deteriorating status in the press, journalists in the New York Times Business section are not to use Wikipedia to do fact checking, according to a memo posted on Poynter.org: 12/7/2005 10:22:30 AM From: [New [...]
Wikipedia Backlash Begins
For going on two years, I’ve been a regular contributor to one of the greatest experiments in shared knowledge: the Wikipedia. When I first wrote about the site back in February 2004, I posited: …the greatest danger to the Wikipedia’s [...]