The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

On Global Nerdy, there are these stories:

• Newspapers Need Nerds! There’s a demand in newsrooms for people who have both programming and journalism chops, like Adrian “Django” Holovaty.
• My Dirty Network Neutrality Secret. What’s my secret? That I haven’t fully worked out my position on network neutrality.
• Developers Aim to Lure Women to Adult Games, A Little More Hesitant About the Gay Dudes. Two words: “Ass physics.”

And on Tucows Blog, there are these articles:

• The Latest Domain Name Statistics. I put together some graphs based on VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief.
• .mobi Names Hit the 400K Mark. Well done for the folks at dotMobi, who say that their adoption rate outpaces .com, which got only 100,000 registrations in its first decade. I put that statement into perspective.

Who knew insurance guys could be edgy? Here’s a Nativity-themed ad for car insurance from Puerto Rico:

Click the image to see it at full size. Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

A fun graphic for a chilly but sunny day, courtesy of Reddit:

Back when I was a freelancer and worked from home (or quite often, at a cafe), I took an hour off in the afternoon and went outdoors, sometimes with the laptop and sometimes just to relax. Besides, I maintain a nice caffe latte shade year-round.

You could argue either way. Personally, I think he’s a member of the late Rhino party…

Click to see the comic at full size on its original page.

The comic comes from The Pain — When Will it End?

Reddit, the “social news bookmarking site” popular with nerds, is currently all about impeaching Dubya tonight:

A screen capture of Reddit, taken tonight at 8:21 (EST).

I’m looking around for a decent content management system for the Tucows Developer site, which I plan to bring back from its rather comatose state. The site should be a place where developers who build upon or integrate with the Tucows platform of services (domain name registration, email and anti-spam, and so on) can get documentation, download client and example code, look for information on a wiki, read news and announcements and so on.

One of the enticing systems on the list is the open source CMS Joomla!, which looks half-decent. If you have any experience with Joomla!, I’d like to know what you thought about it. Let me know in the comments or email me.

On the Tucows Blog, I’ve got an article titled O’Reilly Radar Asks if We’re Winning the War on Spam, which takes a look into what was received at the O’Reilly email server last week (nearly a million messages, 95% of which were spam) and looks at predictions for success or failure in the ongoing war on spam.

At Global Nerdy, there are these articles:

• Another digital ad network, this time from Nokia. “This is interesting for a number of reasons. Obviously, many people expect mobile advertising to experience the same growth we’ve seen over the past few years with internet advertising. Nokia’s move to get in the middle of that revenue stream could yield significant rewards for the company.”
• 7 Confessions of a Former Cingular Sales Rep. “No idea whether this will help you get a deal on an iPhone, but in the wake of Consumerist’s article with 8 tips from an ex-Verizon sales rep on getting the best deal on a phone from his former employer, an ex-Cingular rep has stepped up and provided this list.”
• 5 Things CIOs Should Know About Software Requirements. “This article at CIO Online says that these 5 things are…”
• How to Get Six New Fonts Included with Vista, Legally AND For Free! “Matt Thomas points out an easy way to get these fonts without having to fork out the money for Vista and without resorting to illegal copying…”