October 2008
39 posts
“I am not the A-Team.”
– Zed Shaw - ZSFA — 2008-10-28
“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of...”
– Jules Renard
“We have a lot of experts coming to us saying, this can be done”
– Stephen Conroy wades into child porn net flood | Australian IT
It’s scary when the government thinks idiots are experts.
Scotch tape used to perform X-rays →
Australian proposal for internet filtering →
The Australian government is currently looking at a proposal to spend approx $125 million on filtering the internet for all Australians. The proposal gives people two options for their internet…
“He said the name “Mongols,” which appears on the gang’s arm...”
– California-based Mongols biker gang members rounded up | U.S. | Reuters
Wow, freedom of expression anyone?
“At the bottom of the screen, look for ‘Gmail view’ section. In there, ’standard...”
– Turn off GTalk in GMail? « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog
smallcode » Blog Archive » Using sentinel in... →
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
– Albert Einstein
Web applications →
So a bunch of people are really unhappy at the changes made to http://google.com/ig if enough people complain maybe google will offer a way to get back to the old version…maybe they won’t. This is…
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and... →
“The problem is that we’re using tabs and spaces to format text for aesthetic reasons rather than treating them semantically - tabs are for indenting and aligning text, spaces are for separating keywords.”
I’ve been saying this for years.
the life of a sysadmin » /etc/ld.so.nohwcap →
the more I learn, the more I WTF
“Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.”
– Jonathan Winters
Proxy.org - The Proxy Authority →
“Proxy.org is the pragmatic Web surfer’s guide to online privacy and anonymous web surfing.”
Come on kids, jump aboard the proxy porn wagon.
All these filters do is stop children going to google and typing “free porn” and actually getting it. Kids are pretty smart and computer savvy these days so it won’t take long before every kid that wants to view pornography realises that all they have to do is use a proxy(or even easier, a proxy web application). Making the filters a huge waste of time and money.
Techdirt:...
“And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from...”
– Fight Club (film) - Wikiquote
“As my friend was trying to explain to the 911 operator that we needed an...”
– One Sentence archive - story #2537
“I really never liked Fridays (I don’t)
I can’t do what I wanna do...”
– NOFX LYRICS - Thank God It’s Monday
“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other...”
– James Russell Lowell
“Suzan of Brisbane asked: “What’s worse, being a fatty, getting scanned and...”
– Passengers fear airport “virtual strip search” | NEWS.com.au
“The man who cut me off in the Starbucks parking lot proceeded to hold the door...”
– One Sentence archive - story #2517
listless definition |Dictionary.com →
“By empowering drug dealers with decriminalization of marijuana, we would be...”
– Massachusetts DAs claim that tobacco is safer than marijuana | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
WTF? Some people watch too many movies.
“I’ve had it I just can’t take no more
You need to wake up
And get...”
– Mighty Mighty Bosstones - You Gotta Go! Lyrics
Reminds of a random that wanted to stay one night and ended up staying a week.
Porridge →
Porridge is fucking awesome. You should eat it. You should eat it right now! It’s like $2 a kg, and that will last you all week.
GodTube.com - Sex before marriage, yeah it's like... →
lol,
Alleged Holocaust denier held at Heathrow →
This worries me. It’s a human right to be able to express one’s opinions.
Is Anal Sex Fair to Women? | n+1 →
wait..is this person seriously saying that men don’t have nipples(breasts)?
“Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same...”
– Evan Esar
Crowd jeers suicidal jumper to his death →
what is the outcome of bombarding people with the sorrows of the whole world constantly? They have to not care at all about anyone they don’t know. They call themselves anonymous, they are hackers on…..etc.
Mum drove teen to drug deal - police | NEWS.com.au →
More attempts by the authorities to prevent us from committing crimes against ourselves. Thanks….
An obese society starved of able cooks |... →
I wonder how they can afford it. Eatting out is massively expensive. For the cost of eatting out for dinner on one day I can feed myself at home for 3 days.
September 2008
50 posts
