A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
Want some encouragement? Read this. Either way this should make you happy - either you’ll be happy that there are other people enjoying high culture like you do, or you’ll be happy that other people are enjoying high culture so you don’t have to.
I need a robot which follows this advice to the letter.
Valleywag is pretty insightful about the MySpace IM system: “MySpace will last about four months before all the kiddies go right back to AIM, where their friends are. In the meantime, the media will find one case of a child being sexually solicited through the new tool, and a watchdog group will try to push legislation, a boycott, or a federally funded program.”
Jeremy Zawodny has put up a Top 10 Sources list.
The Cranky Insomniac takes Andrew Sullivan to task for not taking the Second Amendment seriously.
Some Valleywag nonsense though: “the average blogger doesn’t give a damn about OPML”. Guess we’re not the average.
Those cheeky bastards at the Advertising Standards Authority are saying that “unlimited” really means 1Gb
The “.xxx” debacle could finally be at a close, the BBC are reporting. Oh, thank Buddha for that. The .xxx domain was one of the worst ideas to have hit the ‘net, and it’s taken nearly a decade to finally get rid of it. It would have been extremely “web-centric” - there are more than enough differing protocols and uses for the net, so to shoehorn the web in to the porn industry blueprint would be very limiting, and also very stupid. We need to have a clear wall between content and domains - especially as the governments around the world have a certain interest in domains (remember the goatse.cx debaclé).
openDemocracy has an article on net neutrality.
James has started out on my idea. Cool. Once I’ve knocked these essays on the head, I’m going to put something together.
