Posted today on Friendster’s home page, we find the following message:

“Many of you have written to express concern about the suit by New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer against MySpace’s parent company, Intermix Media, Inc. for distributing “spyware”. We want to reassure you that Friendster does not sell or release its membership data, does not install spyware, and would never compromise your safety on the Web.”

Ouch.

[Update: Now it's gone. I wonder how many angry lawyers called.]

David Duchovny has a blog.

Someone thinks the makers of Independence day may be hiring people to post comments on AOL messageboards, but they’re probably just being paranoid.

What would Roger Ebert say?

Oh, and by the way, this was written in 1996

The future of interactivity on the web (and what makes Google Maps so cool (doesn’t have to refresh to redraw) is SAJAX.

And a pretty girl (SFW)

Kinda takes the edge off having to pay $70 for video games soon, but not really.

Okay, so Becky from NetFlixFan posted a comment to a previous entry which got me thinkin bout the ol’ NF and some minor things that keep me from total stupid-grin fanboyism.

I’m a NetFlix addict. I always have between 490 and 500 movies in my queue. A lot of these at the moment are TV shows on DVD, so it’s important that certain items in my list always arrive in order (I’m in the middle of watching The Shield, and just finished a run of Buffy (still one of the most amazing shows in TV history, I think), so imagine my annoyance when instead of The Shield season 2 arriving, yesterday I got the second season of OZ, skipping season 2 and 3 of the first show and season 1 of Oz entirely.

Now, I’m sure the ones that were skipped are among the more popular rentals, but sending me season 2 of a show that I haven’t seen season 1 of doesn’t make any kind of human sense.

So perhaps NF can introduce some kind of “lock” mechanism on their queue page so that discs that are ‘locked together’ must be delivered in order. I’d much rather get a standalone movie from further down in my list and come back to the series discs than have to either return-and-readd or keep 4 discs while I cycle the one that came through on time in the hopes that the ones that I actually wanted would come through.

Reed, are you listening?