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Start a Rumor at Rumor City

Got something the world needs to know? Tell us all about it at Rumor City.

I wrote this as an internal toy for work last weekend. This weekend I decided to make it available to the world just to see what happens. I bought the domain name www.rumorcity.com and right now it's being hosted in my basement. If it uses too much bandwidth, I'll move it to a commercial hosting company.

Many years ago I wrote a similar Win32 program and was amazed and amused at how much fun people had with it. This web version isn't quite as cool, but it has the advantage of being available from anywhere in the world. Will the jokes be as funny? Will it descend into silliness or worse? Will it inspire? Or will it just be ignored? Time will tell.

By the way, right now the program needs a recent version of IE on Windows to work. I'll fix that if it turns out to be popular.

All the news that's fit to aggregate

Yesterday's weather report was so successful that fans have already started asking where the sports and news are. For sports updates I recommend you check out, uh, I have no idea, but the internet is a wide and wonderful place and I bet you can find sports somewhere.

For news, though, there’s no place like the JimH Blog for all the latest. I created an RSS part with feeds from sources as reliable as The New York Times and the k*spot. It’s on the right-hand column. Scroll way down past the weather and you’ll find it.