Posts tagged “internet culture”

Wikipedia already had that newly-rediscovered Helen Keller photo in her entry just four days after it made the news. Britannica could never.

I spent the weekend being antisocial and exhausted. Also, I posted an "illegal" number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. The MPAA is trying to suppress it, Digg revolted, and I explore what happens when you empower users enough to destroy your own site.

(Etymology: "I love SF" -> "I heart SF" -> "I "I less-than-three SF" -> "I cone-ass SF" -> "I ass-cone SF") The reason I'm loving SF is that somebody made that joke and everybody in the car got it without having to explain. Also, nice weather and good food.

Coolness is just the respect of your peers. My peers aren't on MySpace judging my music taste, they're respecting my dancing, my conversation, my domain collection. So forget the hand-wringing: I'm not uncool, I'm unbelievably cool. And so are you.

I explore what it means to be a geek: someone with an intense intellectual obsession, once a social outcast but increasingly cool since the dot-com era proved geeks could outearn athletes. The internet has helped us find each other. Simple rule: you're a geek if you say you are.

"Dooced" is not a word. 6,000 Google results don't make it one. "Blog" has 99 million. Let's kill this neologism before it spreads. Also, I got the flu on my tropical vacation. Karma is a jerk.

I outed a fellow blogger's Gaydar profile by Googling his domain name. The fetish list is pretty funny. He doesn't seem too bothered, though he claims his tastes have evolved since posting it. Lesson learned: you can't hide anything from Google.

Filthy link dump: cars with cheat codes, bunnies re-enacting The Exorcist, Mars rovers on LiveJournal, a talking vibrating Hello Kitty USB hub, and more. The iGrill may be humanity's greatest achievement.

A brain dump of half-formed thoughts: UI is the only problem that matters, the internet isn't evil, Wal-Mart is, apples and oranges are totally comparable, and someone please remind me to download the Postal Service.

Stealth Disco has consumed my office and, inevitably, me. Also: Jason Mraz is great, the RIAA is suing Share Bear, Angle Grinder Man is our sad answer to the Naked Cowboy, and Teen Girl Squad is getting weird.

Links: optical illusions, BoingBoing's Rotten.com guestbar with a hidden "FUCK YOU ALL" message, a deeply unsettling photo, a bummer, and gay webcomics. FAGZ beats Boy Meets Boy on laughs and nudity, which is basically my main criterion anyway.

I'm a giant ant monster who breathes poisonous gas, apparently. Also, OJ Simpson sees parallels between his case and Scott Peterson's. Gee, I wonder why, OJ.

Fun links: fight me as a kung-fu monkey, test your ESP, and get your mind read by a Flash program (spoiler: there's a trick to it).

TheFunny.Org is hit or miss, but this TATU parody ("I'm a lesbian, she's a lesbian...") is worth a listen despite the terrible singing. Also check out the Super Mario theme on classical piano, complete with underground music and the frantic speed-up at the end.

A roundup of fun links: a website with a big red "delete everything" button, the real Hogwarts Express, Homeland Security jewelry, conceptual art mocking commerce, and a pile of Mac vs. Windows debate fodder.

Backlog of links including Tropico addiction, post-natal abortion satire, the many things named Voss, a comedic internet history, depleted ocean fish, pervy hobbit diaries, lipograms, Lovecraft, stickman battles, and more. Still drowning in links. I love the web.

Parallel universes, USB watches with analog faces, Hillary's presidential inevitability, virus-killing brain cancer, and Christian ministries warning kids away from grumpy atheists. Another day, another backlog cleared. Professor Giraffenstein assures us dinosaurs still roam the earth. Who am I to argue?

Catching up on a backlog of links: everyone copies search engine winners (now Google), the Google Dance explained, IQ tests during exam revision are a bad idea, the Daily Mail is racist (shocker), rebranding the Tories, barcodes as art, X2 beats Matrix Reloaded, and more.

A grab-bag of links: gas mask ties, GPS art, NationStates policy geekery, childhood misconceptions, genuinely gruesome body modification (you've been warned), esoteric programming languages, Stuart Hughes's war blog, NARA's exhibit hall, XP powertoys, and a Peter Jackson revelation. Plus my current geeky toolbox.

Massive link dump covering everything from RSS search engines and Google's brand anxiety to sea lion soldiers, Shar-Peis, ties as sexist oppression, and Terminator 3. Consider it a window into my chaotic, easily distracted brain. You're welcome, you link-hungry fiends.

Long-overdue link dump covering everything from RAF rain experiments and Bonzi Buddy lawsuits to vaginal airbags and Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins. Relevance may have expired but the weird is eternal. More to come.

My tooth is killing me. Also: rotten.com is disturbing, UBS Warburg convinced me investment banking is morally bankrupt (they charge people to hide stock ownership, then charge others to reveal it), the weather is awful, and I'm trying out WinMX.

I'm working in tech support now. Also, you know society has gone lawsuit-crazy when fanart comes with "please don't sue me" disclaimers.

After long searching, I've found the ultimate procrastination tool: holdthebutton.com. Also, a complete l33t 5p33k translator now exists online.

Vegan bondage gear for the ethically conflicted, the Osbournes on every magazine cover including Popular Science, and a genuinely hilarious breakdown of pop idol formats worldwide. Click that last link. I mean it.

Lego men building a computer? Yes please. One day I'll make something this cool too.

FARK got punk'd by a diving humor site. Also: Buddhist spaceship cults, online population stats, dragon truthers, and drunk driving consequences. I finally wrote some Java after classpath hell, then promptly slacked off by playing the virtual stock market with $500k I'm too scared to invest.

It's been 2000 years since the last set of commandments, so here's an updated list for the 21st century: get a computer, get internet access, check your email, verify your sources, don't spread rumors, and for the love of all that is holy, read the manual before bothering your techie.

Two posts in one day -- sorry! Check out AllTooFlat.com, especially *A Brie History of Time* and the Google mirror. Also, the stock market's continuing slide looks eerily like 1929, and I'm worried history is about to repeat itself.

Last night in New York playing Tropico and stumbled on SaveKaryn.com, where a woman wants strangers to bail her out of $20k in self-inflicted credit card debt. The audacity is staggering, especially since she apparently put even more debt on the card to build the donation site.

My bookmarks pile up until I can't take it anymore. This week: the Israel-Palestine conflict needs to just stop, I built an XML/PHP app, some webcomic recommendations, the Simputer, the evil CBDTPA, spike-based spam justice, and Scott McCloud being delightful.

Survived another sleepless deadline stretch on 14 hours of recovery sleep. Today's absurdity: Divorce-Online.co.uk running their own dating service. Nothing says "find the love of your life" like a site dedicated to ending marriages.

I discovered EurekAlert, where science journalists get their stories, then fell down a rabbit hole through memepool, B3TA's animal mashups, Animutation, and FARK. I stopped eventually. I should have stopped much sooner.

I found Anna Kournikova bestiality pics and I'm linking them. Scroll down on the site. Check archives if it's been a while. Buwahahaha.