The Web

27Feb05 — 2

Punk Slam Dunked

Effra, the first commenter on this story at Harry’s Place says most of the things I’ve felt about punk for the past twenty-plus years. She does so as she compares that musical movement of late seventies to this Web movement of the mid-noughties. She’s right about punk, but her assessment of ‘Blogging is about as […]

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05Jan05 — 9

For The Encouragement Of Learning

[UPDATE: Yes, this is a reply to a real email message I received today. It showed every sign of being from the National Portrait Gallery, scoring only 0.8 out of a possible 5.0 on X-Spam’s spam-o-meter. I haven’t emailed my message directly to the original sender yet. I may yet tone it down, but if […]

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24Dec04 — 1

WikiWikiWoo!

I am a Wikipedian and link from PooterGeek to the wonderful Wikipedia frequently. This communal project has shown (yet again) the power of distributed collaborative work via the Net—just like the operating system running my PC and the Web server sending this page to you. Further, Wikipedia has proved conclusively that a philosopher can be […]

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16Dec04 — 0

Tally Ho!

Also from Slashdot I note that the planned advertisements for the superb open source Firefox Web browser have appeared. The ads depict the Firefox logo, a giant fox encircling the globe. This monster is the combined result of Tony Blair’s ban on hunting with dogs and his authorization of the release of GM organisms into […]

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25May04 — 0

Watching

Leasey led me to this reservoir of weirdness. Leasey is a small, young woman and I am a larger, older man, so I’m not sure why she found the stalker’s “confession” Fancy Soup VI amusing and I thought it was creepy—further confirmation that I am a wuss?

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31Mar04 — 2

Crazy of the Day

Some kind spammer has invited us on the EMBOSS team to check out this page lamenting the terrible state of the World. In summary: why can’t they see that Jesus was black? homosexuals are perverts, George Bush is a terrorist [yawn], and white people are unhealthily obsessed with the Jacksons.

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13Mar04 — 0

Blue Murder

According to Oxford Today, BBC Oxford has produced a popular online murder mystery game, introduced by Colin Dexter. One piece of advice I have read: don’t view the last clue until you’re sure whodunnit. I don’t know the answer myself, but I suspect it would also be wise to cover up the public poll results […]

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27Jan04 — 0

Rebel Without The Balls

Commenting on the way Mike Rowe eventually rolled over when instructed by Microsoft‘s attack lawyers to hand over his MikeRoweSoft.com domain, one Farker wrote: “DAMN THE MAN! FIGHT THE POWER! DOWN WITH HUGE CORPORA… ohh an X-Box… never mind”

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04Nov03 — 0

Going Down

Google Zeitgeist is a cruel place. Every modern decline and fall begins on this page summarizing the current state of Web searches. The latest losers: David Blaine—number two declining query for the week ending 27Oct03 Manchester United—displaced as most popular football team search by Arsenal and Real Madrid Britney Spears—from most popular search on the […]

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13Aug03 — 1

Material World

The BBC has a report on a man who has gone into business to sell virtual goods that exist only in the Internet gaming community of Ultima Online. As the sneering became deafening, this Slashdot comment rose above the whine to make a telling point: You could call this social criticism(Score:5, Funny) by panurge (573432) […]

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17Jul03 — 2

Stop with the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Already!

Back in February I put what I was worried was an already-tired link to the famous Weapons of Mass Destruction “error message” in my ‘Blog. (Scroll down to the 13Feb03 entry for the original reference.) It has recently re-emerged as the sort of phenomenon even grandmothers know about [ 😉 winks at Judith*] and I […]

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21Jun03 — 0

Haben Sie Angst?

Appropriate that I should be sitting in a Californian Internet café with Rammstein banging out of the sound system (“Ich will die Ruhe stören!“), as I point you at the “Pavement Terror Web page. Some years ago, an evil photographer drove around a British town scaring the bejesus out of random passers-by and capturing the […]

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08Jun03 — 0

Gun—sorry—Geek For Hire

No blogging this weekend because I’ve been slowly constructing the PooterGeek archive and working on a new version of Claire’s Web pages [currently broken: not my fault, honest] for her book Loose Lips. [Have I mentioned it enough times, now?] Yesterday evening, it briefly reached about 1400 in the amazon.com bestseller chart. It can go […]

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16Apr03 — 0

Too Interesting

You can Enhance Your Browsing Experience by installing something called the Google toolbar into your copy of Netscape, Mozilla or [spit!] Internet Explorer. As well has providing a built-in search facility, the bar has an indicator which tells you, on a scale of one to ten, how "important" the Google database thinks the currrent page […]

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31Mar03 — 0

So Many Ideologies; So Little Reason

I came across SaveTheHumans.com today. It's a satirical Website with a promising front page manifesto Welcome to savethehumans.com, a magazine of humor, satire, and commentary for people who prefer thinking over screaming for "peace", stripping for "peace", puking for "peace", cross-dressing for "peace", or otherwise rallying in favor of brutal, Middle-Eastern dictatorships. The site then […]

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