Writer's Block: Reminiscing about the Internet

... around 15 other teenagers sat around in a Beatles chatroom on AOL in 1996, having deep and intelligent conversation about such things as Ringo Starr's talking penis. Today, most of us still stay in touch via mass emails. Our topics have evolved to recipe-sharing, racism in places outside the US, good cocktails, and how Dali liked to splooge on his own paintings. ...I will wager that I know 80% ...

Сайт поддержки Дымовского и его последователей

... Dymovsky is a Russian policeman who made a video appeal to Putin and his colleagues in the police via the Internet a month ago. Now the site has videos by also several other policemen, as well as civilians. The site is well-made and accepts donations, including via PayPal. http://dymovskiy.name Полезный и хорошо сделанный сайт. Внес и я туда ...

Your End of November Moment of Zen

Unbelievably Cute YouTube video via ellen_datlow : Zero to Smile in under seventeen seconds. And I put (a) a cat (b) YouTube link on the Internet. (grin) Dr. Phil

Hadthi dream where everything was backin place Back where it belonged, there were no mistakes and everyone was in a better way. I still remember the voices. I didn't hate the internet. I didn't hate anything. I haven't dreamed in a long time.It hurt.

5 mixed things on a Sunday

1. RIP, Robert Holdstock. (via Ansible ) 2. Tobias Buckell has a lovely thoughtful essay on Rastafarians and dreads . 3. mirrorthaw and I went to see Hayward Williams last night (blues-country-indie rock and a voice you can wrap around yourself like deepest, darkest velvet). He was excellent, as always. 4. 67,500 words on The Goblin Emperor . 5. Pat Rothfuss previews ...

I didn't study film but this was a good movie.

... different color, without bars under them, and that encourage reading slowly maybe?   Started via LiveJournal.app .  Finished via my IBM laptop because the app, however promising, still has some bugs that google chrome just ... possible by: Kyle showing me this movie, a brain, and the internet (which is kind of almost like a brain sometimes).  

Writer's Block: Reminiscing about the Internet

Do you remember the things you did when you first started using the Web and how it has changed your life? Sponsored by Yahoo! View 90 Answers I did what everyone did - got onto MSN and pretended to be someone completely different XD For years I was all about Instant Messengers and I guess I do still have most of them, although I lack the time to use them much these ...

The Google Monster Swallows the Internet a Little More

... Google Public DNS , and we invite you to try it out. Now I just need to go back to my Google House and plug the new address into my Google Router, so my Google DSL service will go vroom vroom, beep, beeeeeeeeeep, screeeeeeeeetch, crash, bang, rattle, rattle, weee-wooo-weee-wooo. [via Official Google Blog ] Originally published at blog.td76.com . You can comment here or there .

Manifiesto "en defensa de los derechos fundamentales en Internet"

...la cultura a través de Internet, los periodistas, bloggers, usuarios, profesionales y...defensa de los derechos fundamentales en Internet". No suelo fotocopiar libros, apenas me...veo una o dos series, normalmente via streaming. No tengo miedo que nadie...entorpece la creación cultural. Con Internet y los sucesivos avances tecnológicos... fin que dicen perseguir. 7.- Internet debe funcionar de forma libre ...

Hello, peoples of the internet

... even I thought it would be, but it was, although I feel like it turned out decently well--so trust me, I will not be letting you forget it any time soon. And yes, I do read every single comment that comes in, via my email, so if you go over and say something, no, I won't miss it. So, as promised: I did not do a damn thing today. I didn't even turn on the computer until 6 pm. I did read email ...