November 2009
23 posts
"It's like Twitter. Except we charge people to use... →
I’ve read other excellent stuff from 27/6 before (notably Overdue Account), but this one is so good I almost swallowed my tongue laughing.
9/11 pager data on Wikileaks →
A trace of half a million pages from five hours before the first attack on the WTC on 9/11 to 24 hours after it. It makes for pretty eerie reading.
Edit - the more I think about it, the uneasier I get about this. A lot of that data isn’t anonymised, and we’re not talking about Wikileak scenarios like exposing corrupt politicians via whistleblowers; these are everyday, scared people....
On the future
so i’m sitting here doing overtime and waiting for a test to run and i notice a blog/reblog one-two (by Michele and Danielle, respectively) of exit music (for a film), which i haven’t heard in ages so i click and i listen and i realise suddenly that a) i don’t know where my copy of ok computer is and b) it seems i’ve never ripped it so i don’t have a digital copy but...
On the sticky subject of social class
MaliA: Although, I'd say that the forum members I met in London are all middle class.
MaliA: Except for PenLlawen, who is obviously dual classing a hobbit and a foghorn.
VAGUE POST HEADING
fuiru:
mercurypdx:
phantomrigged:
IRONIC STATEMENT
Reblog pointing out how that is a coincidence and not really irony.
Reblog with etymological technicality
Reblog to correct splleing errro in etymological technicality clarification.
On the Administration of the suffix “-do” in UK to...
fuiru:
UK creation: The board game ‘Cluedo’
Name when released in the US: ‘Clue’
Net change: Removal of “do”
UK creation: Where’s Wally?
Name when released in the US: Where’s Waldo?
Net change: Replacement of “-ly” with “-do”
Notes:
The name ‘Cluedo’ is a play on the name of another British board game, ‘Ludo’, a game which is a) pretty much unknown outside Great Britain and b) more dull...
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