Things I've Liked on the Internet Lately

The first lolcat The first flame war Meet the Natives How to be a successful evil overlord How we read Men have more personality than women (where personality = "consistent, predictable behaviors"). The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra:

Rant

... believe it or not, some people thought of similar ideas totally independently of each other long before the internet and online fandom. I know that many of my ideas about the characters were formed way back in ...thumb their nose at me would devastate me. I have thought about removing my stories from the public archives they are on and just keeping them on lj, and maybe friend's locking them. But I ...

Trinity of One (a tale of love, loss and redemption) 4/9

...on campus and looked through some voodoo medical texts. I wasn't about to trust anything from the Internet, especially in those early days. I wanted it printed out on real paper. Under real doctors' names... "The original expedition took lots of pictures of Athos and your people. I found them in the archives." Teyla rewarded his generosity with a formal bow. "You have done my people and me a great ...

... requests the same de-listing . He wants the entire internet to get off his lawn. The _hilarious_ part is... 1995 when Microsoft said that MSN would "destroy the internet", and then they tried to "embrace and extend" the web with "this site best viewed in Internet Explorer"? Apparently, Murdock has now caught up with the...90's: "You think you can own the internet? I want in." Bit slow on the uptake, ...

I do not hail to your Roman gods -- and you are not my emperor.

... ONE SONG BY THEM CAN BUY ONE OF THEIR T-SHIRTS ON THE INTERNET , is that Band A's fault, or the fault of the guy ... is, the one who decides what should go on the fucking Metal Archives and what bands you should keep secret lest someone tries to make you ...what they are if it weren't for what's available on the internet. The advent of technology means very little is left completely sacred, copyright-...

On settling disputes

As we know from the famous conflict between Alexander Hamilton and AAWAN BUUUUGH, dueling was once seen as the penultimate method of honorably settling a disputer (into the ground). What, then, is the ultimate method? The secrets are locked within the comments of this thread. Ben Franklin, according to the observation noted there, is clearly the father of the internet.

News Clips

... conditions or drop coverage when someone gets sick. Republicans used their weekly radio and Internet address to slam the legislation, calling it a government takeover of health care that ... of Minnesota demanding political allegiance for educators... University/Liberal Bias http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/23/university-of-minnesota-demanding-political-allegiance-for-educators/ November 23, ...

News Clips

...yourself a black man”... Racism/Socialized Health Care http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/18/jesse-jackson-you-can%E2%80%99t-vote-...climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature...alarmist centres - and put the files they stole on the Internet, on the grounds that the science is too important to be...

I'm a doctor... no, really, I am.

... less tastefully, there's an internet full of the most depraved,...'s where 95% of my internet presence is. I have a ... about them anywhere on the internet where those who would hold ... text, clashing colours everywhere, fluent internet twatspeak, the eye-gougingly ugly ... never connected it to the internet. And I hate - absolutely hate ... roundly lambasted somewhere on the internet, and I agree with them ...

Pet Peeves.

... minimum filter of "adequate, competent" the number of programmers in the world shrinks even further. And while I know this is my anecdotes, backed up by reading one to many rants on the internet, there is certain distrust and dislike of software in much of the world of management as well. Yet, our world increasingly relies on software to avoid descent into anarchy. There are several ways these ...