I do Google searches on just about everything. What I’m eating, what I’m looking at, what I’m thinking about, and so on. Not just to waste time, either — it never hurts to learn something unexpected about the topic at hand. Recently Google’s been frequently directing me to Associated Content, which is pretty much the [...]
NOTE: The content of this entry may not be suitable for individuals under age sixteen or so, or people who get uncomfortable with sex and female reproduction. There’s no arguing that the internet is primarily a man’s world. I say there’s no arguing with it because if you visit any online forum, you’re bound to [...]
Howdy, loyal readers. Michael and I have been working on the Gallery we have, and there are a few things up. Feel free to peruse it here. In order to see permission-protected galleries for family and friend pictures, you’ll need to set up a login and have us grant you permission. Without registering and having [...]
<rant> People of the Internet, hear me: Stop using symbols from languages that you do not speak for purely aesthetic purposes! Just because those glyphs don’t mean anything to you doesn’t mean they’re meaningless to everybody! I’m talking to you, Wikipedia/bulletin board posters who always put “ツ” after their names. It may look like a [...]
I’m a stalker from way back, baby. As soon as I got your phone number, your bus-stop, I was all over you like tasty gluten is all over rice. I would find out your boy-scout troop, your class schedule, your after-school activities. I had friends in all places, lurking, watching and passing the information onto [...]
I’m proud to announce that 4d2.org is now available via my favorite Internet protocol: Gopher. Feel free to jump down the gopher hole to gopher://gopher.4d2.org if you are using Firefox, Lynx, or another browser that supports Gopher. Our Gopher site is also available via HTTP if you’re using a browser like Internet Explorer that doesn’t [...]
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
I’ve been trawling around on Yahoo! Answers for the last week or so, collecting what I like to call the “worst” of the questions and answers that appear on the site. For what it’s worth, I’ve also been answering questions — in an attempt to offset the negative karma I am doubtless accruing by poking [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Ahh, Yahoo! Answers. A place where anyone can ask a question and have it answered by…well, anyone. When pressing personal problems confront you, why wait for the sage advice of Abby, Margo, Carolyn, Amy or myriad others, when you can have your question answered right now by the unwashed masses? Yahoo! Answers is simultaneously one [...]
(In which we count the number of things that are wrong or suspicious within a scam e-mail message, just for sport.) This showed up in my mailbox this morning, and I think it’s better than most: To: lscfhafes@4d2.org Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:05:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: Congratulations!!! You Have Won One Million Euro…Contact Your [...]
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Today I received what is probably the strangest phone call ever to work its way through Sprint’s pathetic cellular network. The caller was an anonymous European-sounding man, and he was upset over threats that I had apparently made against his website. I had no idea what in the world he was talking about, but I [...]
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