Archive for the ‘The Internet’ Category

I’ve been blacklisted

18 de May, 2008

I was recently conversing with a student at my old school and he mentioned something interesting to me. My blog is blocked by their firewall application. I was ecstatic. Now I have no idea how SonicWall actually works, but I like to believe that someone manually added my website to a blacklist. Someone out there at [...]

Jason Calacanis: I hate your fucking ugly dogs

5 de April, 2008

This post was mostly inspired by this blog post and the comments on Flickr photos by Justine Ezarik and Jason Calacanis. These sycophantic, bordering on creepy comments.

Let’s take this photo for example.

Has such wonderful comments as these:

May I massage those lil’ piggies for you por favor? Virtual Cabana Boy at your servicio. Fantastico!

Yay, [...]

New Poll: Internet Shorthand

14 de February, 2008

There’s a new poll here on Funky Speaks. There on the right side you can find it.

What is the most annoying internet shorthand for laughter?

Forum Warz

13 de February, 2008

Forum Warz is a great online game in the style of Kingdom of Loathing. Only instead of a stickfigure RPG character, you are a forum poster archetype. This game really takes the piss out of online communities in a fun and definitely NSFW way. Try it out.

Microsoft/Flickr Panicmongers

5 de February, 2008

Microsoft has put in a bid to buy Yahoo. Which isn’t that surprising at all if you’ve been following this industry for more than a couple of months.

However, it wouldn’t be the internet if a ton of nerds didn’t get in a tizzy over it. Tons of horrible, horrible photoshops protesting, using memes that haven’t [...]

My Twitter Stats of 2007

2 de January, 2008

My Twitter Stats of 2007 thanks to Damon Cortesi.