mbpr

ha cool . . . pretty similar to something I crudely put together awhile back:

http://hackskimmer.heroku.com

it uses viewtext to make things 'readable', which unfortunately seems to be choking right now

I wanted to put something together to let me get through hackernews quickly when i didn't want to get caught up in the comments.

why? is the story not true? please explain . . .

Renesys' network sensors showed that Egypt's four primary Internet providers — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr — and all went dark at 12:34 a.m.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5heO3VMhFHp...

Frightening.

i threw this together a while ago, when i was spending too much time reading comments http://hackskimmer.heroku.com/

isn't this a relaunch? didn't fabricly originally set out to connect apparel cos with suppliers?

while not illegal, the direct marketing online yellow pages biz is shady as hell, comparable to online lotto's, online deals and foreclosures database purveyors, and "punch the monkey"-style advertisers (all legal businesses that employ many people). Not something I'd consider as a value-added business, more sucker-traps than anything else. The fact that "yellow pages" and the logo are up in the air makes that entire industry a massive gray area. I wouldn't want to be associated with that. What would we say if 37signals launched a bargain network service tomorrow? . . . not illegal, but goodwill down the drain.