Under a Gibbous Moon

Yes, I shamelessly stole that title from a Smashing Pumpkins song.

Blog spam is something that anyone (and I mean anyone) who has had a blog for more than five or six seconds has had to deal with. Sure the amount ebbs and flows with the tides and your page ranking but it is still and omnipresent nuisance.

Blog spam is split into two categories, SEO spam and I-Hope-You’re-Stupid-Enough-To-Click-On-This spam. Continue reading “An Ode to Blog Spam (Fuck You)” »

This is pretty much the story of my life.

Hat Tip: BoingBoing

Remember this bit of snake oil? Well it seems the the Iraqi government has finally gotten wise to to it. Apparently a plastic box with antenna but no actually testing materials is, in fact, a hoax.

Of course it is probably never a good idea to sell thousands of fake bomb detectors to a government, but at least if you do you should abscond with your money after the deal is done. It seems though, that he was not that smart and Jim McCormick, the companies managing director, has been taken into custody. At least he’s lucky his in England (where the company is headquartered) and not in Iraqi.

In Turkey, an archeological team found an ancient temple. How old? It is estimated to be seven thousand years older than Stonehenge. That puts it somewhere around 9500 B.C.

That’s pretty much before the start of human civilization. Let’s see an inexplicably old temple in the middle of nowhere. It sounds kinda familiar.

I wonder if the Predators are here yet?

Now all we need is a ill billionaire to lead an expedition inside. I wonder is Steve Jobs is available.

This is a fascinating article, I am fairly certain that very few people have been so completely wrong about so many things in such a short period of time. While, in the comments section, many, many, many people have piled upon the author for this work, I personally have thrown back my memory to that prehistoric time, 15 years ago…

The Internet circa 1995

It was around this time that I saw my first commercial for the Internet. It wasn’t for any specific company (that I can remember) nor did they seem to be selling anything. The scene was at a rather quiet house party. The lights were low and a couple were talking in one corner he hands her (or vice versa) a piece of paper on it with his/her email address on it (a what!?). The tag line of the commercial was that one day our email address would be more important than our phone number. Continue reading “The Internet will never amount to anything, a retrospective” »