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Entries from May 2008

Important Phorm News!

May 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Please take note. Just crusader against the data-raping Phorm (i.e. WebWise) infestation (herein known as Mr. G. Unit) has requested that you all digg this. Please do, it’s for a very good cause and as a web-user, it’s all for your benefit. Show your support. He’s bothering to show up to the protest himself. I [...]

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Tags: Interesting · News · Rant

Self-proclaimed Guardians of the Free World get Terrorist Propaganda confused with a computer game…

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Thanks to Chet for this one… Apparently the FBI’s moles responsible for watching Islamic terrorist webbys have turned up an image, posted on such a site as proclaimed in this article. The article, entitled ‘Al-Qaeda’s terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack’ proclaims: “Washington is laid to waste. The [...]

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Tags: Interesting

What is happening to this planet?

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Someone has just brought this to my attention. To summarise, it’s a ‘Dear Dierdre’ from well known purveyor of text-adorned bog-roll, The Sun: “MY mum is completely addicted to an online game called World Of Warcraft and it’s destroying the family. I’m a girl of 18 and my mum is 40. She and my dad [...]

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Tags: Rant

Business Card Creativity

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Things like this are always worth a look. Especially if you like things that make you think, laugh or berate yourself with silent cries of ‘fuck, wish I’d though of that’. This pages features a bunch of cleverly designed business cards, guaranteed to get their business noticed. Bloody clever stuff. My favourite aesthetically is probably [...]

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Tags: Interesting · Weirdness

One in the eye for Phorm

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

As some of you may be aware, Virgin, BT and Carphone Warehouse have signed up to a system called Phorm in order to watch your browsing habits [Google for 'Phorm' if you want to find out how this scheme of questionable legality actually works]. It seemed pretty obvious to me that eventually someone was going [...]

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Tags: Interesting

More Trite BBC Pseudo-knowledge

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Fuck you, BBC [again]. This article nearly made my cry and hit things with my own face. To quote: “Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found.” NO, BBC. You have NOT found ANYTHING VAGUELY INTERESTING HERE. If you watch the pathetic piece of misinformation embedded in [...]

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Tags: Rant