If you caught my recent attempt to wax lyrical on the subject of causememes, and the new age of digital caring, it’s possible that you may have detected a small amount of cynicism in my stance on the subject. You may even have developed the impression that I’m one of those generally negative people who [...]
Category Archives: Insane Ramblings
Censor is bad Iranochina – stop now or the Internet will get you
June 17, 2009 – 11:56 pm
Do you sometimes feel an emptiness in your life, that even your FriendFeed can’t seem to fill?
You add the friends to your wall every day, send hand-picked e-gifts on all the right occasions, take up the latest quiz challenges from your friends and LOL along with the group when everyone comes out as Yoda.
But you [...]
Big Brother’s Budget Blues
May 28, 2009 – 11:41 pm
I recently completed a Facebook quiz to find out which deity I would be and it turns out I’d make a great Allah. I don’t like to waste my potential so I signed up for the first available spot on a job shadowing program – you wouldn’t believe this guy’s workload.
In the morning we had [...]
Angry troll is angry
May 4, 2009 – 10:29 pm
If you live in a world that runs on memes that spread across the globe in a matter of hours and sub cultures that spring up around the latest social network, or MMORPG, sometimes the slang can get a little confusing – even for the most hardened of Internet users. For this reason I like [...]
The FBI can steal your Pr0nz
April 24, 2009 – 10:20 pm
A sophisticated FBI-produced spyware program has played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in federal investigations into extortion plots, terrorist threats and hacker attacks in cases stretching back at least seven years, newly declassified documents show. [full story]
You know it doesn’t take an awful lot of paranoia – when you read stuff like this in the context [...]