Posted in art, blogs, christmas_2008, entertainment, language, literature, made_our_own_fun, media, nu-media, oulipo, seasons, short_stories, time, webrings on December 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
It turns out to be trivially easy to “hack into” the Skyfi at one’s parents-in-law’s house (the password is printed on the underside of the router), but I do have to return to the merry throng presently and be sociable before K. gives me any black looks. I just thought that anyone who might have [...]
Posted in blogs, cliques, crime, dickheads, journalism, media, nu-media, opinion, research, society, understanding, webrings, wisdom_of_groups on February 10th, 2008 5 Comments »
I posted some time ago about the chilling effect on free speech of rather too freely bandied-about writs. In doing so I made a Z-list contribution to a nascent webring in support of those on the receiving end of those legal letters. it was pleasing to see that they heavy-handedly sowed the seeds of their [...]
Thanks to the tagtion of the Poet Laura-eate, you must all sit through the following meme.
When people say ‘Christmas,’ you immediately think
“Where will we be this year? Where will all the people I care about be? How can I make as many of those places the same?”
Favourite Christmas memory
Watching my future in-laws and my parents [...]
Posted in art, blogs, cliques, criticism, humour, language, literature, media, neologisms, nu-media, society, webrings on March 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
Trust networks never really work. These are semi-formal systems on the web where people nominate other people that they consider to have a particular relationship with: say, they trust them to look after their puppy. Then these new puppy-trustees each nominate even more people, based on what they think are similar criteria, that they would [...]
