Archive for September, 2007

The DoaminTools blog takes a look at some of the generic domain names owned by big companies. It’s an interesting list, and the author’s point that a lot of these companies are letting their domain properties languish is well made. It’s especially unfortunate that the awesome domain Kids.com, owned by CNET, has one of those tacky generic garbage pages that tries to look like a real portal but is full of sponsored links. CNET has the biggest list of generic word domains in the DomainTools post: Kids.com, Help.com, Computers.com, Download.com, Online.com, TV.com, Upload.com, [...]

So I just came across “The Allnighter” on the Encore channel, and I immediately Googled it. Turns out, it’s pretty handy having the New York Times archives online: WATCH enough exploitation films about sun-loving, fun-loving teens and you become accustomed to a certain level of benign idiocy. But even by that standard, ”The Allnighter” is outstandingly dim. It concerns graduation eve at a California college, though none of the students seems clever enough to graduate from driving school. The principals are three bubble-headed women who room together, and the film [...]