The #nocleanfeed / #openinternet campaigners are notoriously bad communicators.
But occasionally, rational, well-produced messages do escape from the IT Blahtopia. Here are three of them.
via Department of Internets | Anti-filter ads that don’t suck.
For fans of Silent Hill or Zombieland, check out this awesome collection of photos from Six Flags New Orleans, abandoned after Hurricane Katrina.
No Bama No!
Bored? Counting down the clock? Well here’s a little challenge for you… Find one official site for a film that contains absolutely no flash. Go on, I dare you!
Now that The iTunes Store and XBOX Live both have my credit card details saved, I’m beginning to realise just how easy it is to click a big shiny “buy it now” button without thinking.
In the last 6 months, I’ve spent over $300 dollars in iTunes alone, most of it on $1 – $5 iPhone apps.
Now i realise the whole “buying stuff online” phenomenon is a few years old, but as an old man i only really trust companies i can sue later, like Microsoft or Apple. Thus, I’ve never felt comfortable buying shit from strangers on eBay.
But the other day I Googled a DVD (The 3 Disc Special Edition of Hot Fuzz featuring a commentary track with Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino) and found myself at Amazon.com. 20 minutes later i had a shopping cart totalling just over $400 US Dollars. (About $72,000 Australian Dollars including shipping)
That’s when it hit me. If Amazon ever opened in Australia, i would just spend all day, every day, on my fat arse buying shit on the web.
So for the love of Christ Amazon, please never open in Australia, and please keep those international shipping rates ridiculously high. (Same goes to ThinkGeek, and Threadless)
Dawwww… 
According to people smarter than me, true love can actually last forever.
Ain’t that cute?
These same scientists previously believed that ‘true love’ generally lasted just 15 months.
So i guess romantic comedies aren’t all full of shit.
Dr. Horrible is currently being re-streaming on Hulu! All 3 acts! Yes you can watch it in Australia without messing around with Proxies!
But so often I come in at the end of these internet ‘memes’. Rarely am i there at the beginning. But just now i think i saw something that by Thursday afternoon will rival Rickrolling, 2 Girls One Cup, or Goatse.
Its called cake farting. Google it, but not at work. I cant link to it here.
There’s been a bit of a brouhaha recently and Uncle Kevin’s new internet censorship laws, and what they will mean to you. Fucked if i know, but i’ll comment anyway.
I think the whole situation has been blown out of proportion by the usual suspects in the Australian blogosphere. They’re all in a huff arguing our politicians want to ban free speech, which is probably true. Kevvy and Conroy have also played a nice pr move by framing the debate in such a way that anyone concerned about the new laws are really supporting kiddie porn.
Time out.
If you visit the excellent and informative Department of Internets, you’ll see the government just wants to protect you and your children from all internet porn, not just the kiddie kind. And i, for one, support this.
When i was just hitting puberty, there was no such thing as internet porn to warp my mind. Just the good old fashioned printed kind. Like most guys my age, i found my first porno mag on the side of the road. It was Club International, and I’ve had a soft spot for Club ever since. It was amazing, incredibly graphic, and despite being dumped by the side of the road, i loved it like it were my own.
A few months later, after exhausting all the hiding places in my house, and terrified my mother would eventually find it, i dumped it back exactly where i found it. 5 minutes later it was gone, hopefully to another young boy in need.
And thats the kind of experience i think todays kids, in our world of high speed boobies, are missing.
A few months after i gave up that issue of club, i realised the mistake i had made. I went to replace it, only to discover newsagents dont sell porn to 14 year olds. And that printed porn is actually quite expensive.
Again, our forward thinking laws helped in my development, they taught me how to steal. The first magazine i stole was a copy of the now defunct Australian Playboy from the Macquarie Fields Ampol Service Station. It was this issue with Drew Barrymore on the cover. I’m going into that much detail because i’m sure the clerk, god rest his soul, actually spotted me stuffing the magazine down my pants but let me steal the magazine anyway. After all, he was 14 once too.
In the next few years i became so good at shoplifting, that once i was able to casually slide another Club International down my jeans while talking to the newsagent. He didnt see a thing. Later, i graduated to stealing walkmans, jeans, silk boxer shorts (they were a status symbol when i was 16..) and even a gameboy, but thats another post.
The point is, i worked hard for the boobies. These days kids just need to be able to break the pointless firewalls and filtering software their parents (or the goverment) installed. And if the software is easy enough for their parents (or the goverment) to install, then the kids can break it.
Maybe, if Conroy and Co want to stop kiddies looking at porn, they should increase broadband speed/accessibility across the country. In fact, i vaguely remember that being an election promise. Cos as I’ve said before, atleast in my case, the higher the bandwidth, the less porn you look at. When you have the speeds to comfortably steal movies, tv shows, albums, download podcasts, and watch Youtube vids all day long, then porn is just another distraction. On shitty speeds, just about the only fun thing you can do on the net is look at babelogs.
Either way, these stupid fucking laws wont mean a thing.
hey kids, 
i’ll admit that i thought lolcats were cute too for about 3 minutes earlier this year, but man they got old quickly. i really hoped the fad would be short lived, but like pictures of britney spears vagina, they just keep coming back.
Anyhoo, while i can handle coming across the odd lolcat, i draw the line at lolspeak. Jesus, its only funny when there’s a fucking cat involved! It’s not rocket science people.
And if my twitterfeed is anything to go by, the only people who find lolspeak amusing are (ex)Microsoft employees…
please kids, make it stop.
