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The state of Free Expression

by ben @ Monday, April 21st, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under dot internet, dot politics

Via GamePolitics.com, a disturbing story in two parts.
Brazil has banned the game Bully from its shelves. At first glance, it would seem semi-logical, as Bully comes from the makers of the Grand Theft Auto series. It’s a nasty little piece of reactionary pie, though, because the slightest bit of research into what the [...]

Quick funny

by ben @ Wednesday, March 19th, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under dot internet

References for those not understanding:

The Ring
Rickrolling
xkcd.com

Mini-multi for 1/24

by ben @ Thursday, January 24th, 2008. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under dot internet, dot stuff

William Hung singing “Circle of Life.”  Not recommended for people taking antidepressants, antioxidants, or antifreeze.  Actually not recommended for people who have more than 10 functional brain cells.
Get Well Soon, Kate. 
A third bullet.  It’s nearly Friday (and I have a job, Smokey, sorry).  In fact, it is Friday on most of the planet.  It’s gonna [...]

Time Warner testing data limits on service plans

by ben @ Thursday, January 17th, 2008. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under dot internet, dot tech

This, frankly, sucks.
They are attempting to do is what many Canadian internet providers do — set a limit on how much you can download in a single month, and charge you for the overages.
Mr. Dudley said the company was still working on what to charge people who exceed their limits, but he pointed to Bell [...]

Potential mates are Googling you

by ben @ Wednesday, January 9th, 2008. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under dot internet, dot wtf

Discussion on this morning’s Mikey Show on Rock 105.3 turned to an email a listener sent in.  Said listener had a first date with a nice girl… and so he asked her out on a second date.  She casually mentioned that she googled his name inbetween dates, and he’s “safe,” and she’s very glad of [...]

Hotlink hate

by ben @ Monday, January 7th, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under dot internet, yarbroughs dot org

Here’s a pet peeve of mine… I hate “hotlinkers.” The dictionary says a hotlink is “a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.” A hotlinker, by unofficial definition, is someone who uses a file that is on [...]

The death of the Netscape browser

by ben @ Saturday, December 29th, 2007. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under dot internet

This should not come as a shock to anyone who notices these things; at the same time, my eyebrows ARE slightly raised.  I don’t know why.
I first got on the internet in 1997.  I was a little late to the party; I had just moved into a new city and was working on becoming single [...]

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