http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_n_acquires_nuclear_weapon

The internet is very quiet today.
What is it, have you all suddenly got real lives or something?

Bastards.

This level of crankiness is brought to you by Having A Headache, and Not Being Able To Do The Things I Need To Do.

Poking through this article yesterday, in a similar way to ed_fortune and I am in two minds about it. On the one hand, I agree, the points look pretty damn valid and within their context, they make sense. But on the other.... There's a lot of interaction I have that just couldn't exist without the net, friends I've developed that I wouldn't have otherwise, ( Read more... )

Ways to reduce trolling on the internet

I'm not saying it will work.
It's just funny....

It's either feast or famine round here. This morning was crazy and I think I am now on an adrenaline high. And now, there's a post lunch slump consisting of helping someone decide which jeep to hire for their hols and futures trading sweeties (how much is a current raspberry sherbet worth in potential Haribo Starmix? Three, we thought, four if it ( Read more... )

http://pmog.com/

Steampunk themed technogame you play on the internet with webpages.
Create paths between sites for other players to follow, or chuck them down a portal to somewhere random.
Give them goodies or blow them up when they get there.

What a lovely idea.

Covering Conflict

An voice essay by Robin Lustig on war photography, probably NSFW , because they are war photos.

Internet arrived in it's smart shiny little white box and was up and running in no time at all. Spent a while catching up with e-mails and online comics, but mostly was happy to have the window on the world back and to no longer have to sneak the odd minute here and there inbetween the chaos at work.

Life is looking to contain a high portion of LARP ( Read more... )

 Things that have been happening on the internet that I thought I would share with you lovely, lovely people:

Yanks conned out of cash by poor people from a small town in Romania  Mayor comments: "the victims are mostly Americans because they are on the internet most often and they're naive." Apparantly the EU has been pouring cash into this area in ( Read more... )

Right, I'm in the office by myself and have no appointments.   Hmm.

Seems like a good day to poke teh internets something chronic.

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