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Guess who’s coming to dinner? Has-beens!
Mark at BoingBoing is rapidly becoming my favourite blogger. Fresh from the earlier triumph of shocked curtain-twitchers, he now brings us this little beauty: Supper with the Stars is a UK-based company that lets you book former celebrities to come to your house and have a little chat… The only other celeb I recognize is…
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Blogging leads to kiddie-fiddling
According to this BBC news report, anyway. A forensic psychologist spoke about the dangers of online journals, or blogs, and pictures posted directly online. Rachel O’Connell said adults could use weblogs to learn about children. Dr O’Connell said that the emergence of moblogs – mobile weblogs – allowed even faster transfer of pictures to the…
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Ban this sick filth… once we’ve finished watching it
It’s posts such as this BoingBoing story that make the internet worthwhile. Mark Frauenfelder points to two stories where people were shocked to their very foundations – a couple who recieved a porn movie by accident, and a couple who saw a neighbour fiddling with himself. In the first case: “My wife and I were…
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Dinner dinner dinner dinner Wikipes!
As if Wikipedia wasn’t useful enough, there’s a new offshoot of the technology: Wikipes. Wikipes is a community-contributed recipe database. In other words, we allow anyone to contribute recipes. Our feeling is that this will create a more diverse collection of unique and delicious recipes and in the long run you’ll be able to choose…
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Suicide isn’t painless
This post from MetaFilter describes an awful situation better than I can: Yesterday in Los Angeles a suicidal local man stabbed himself in the chest, slit his wrists, and drove his car up onto train tracks, lost his nerve and hopped out at the last minute, to watch in anguish as not one but two…
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How to fight back against the phone frauds
I received an automated call a few minutes ago from Palm Travel – despite being on the Telephone Preference Service, which means I shouldn’t get marketing calls – and they had some good news for me. They’ve been trying to get hold of me for ages, because someone in my household entered a prize draw…
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Website bloody website (or: How to disgruntle an adoring fan)
I didn’t go to see U2 on their last tour, because I felt the ticket prices were taking the piss; this time round, it seems the prices are even higher. According to U2log.com, Glaswegian fans are apparently expected to shell out £85 for general admission tickets [edit, 27 Jan: Glasgow’s Evening Times reports that the…
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No smoke without fired
A US firm has sacked four employees who refused to take an ‘are you a smoker’ test. From 1 January, Weyco’s policy was that it would no longer employ smokers, even if those smokers only indulged in their spare time. As the firm explains: While trying to be sensitive to smokers’ personal predicament, we’re also…
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Join the CTSOIABTAGS
CTSOIABTAGS? I hear you cry. Yes, I reply. CTSOIABTAGS: the Campaign To Stamp Out Idiotic Acronyms Because Things Are Getting Silly. Organisations do tend to play fast and loose with acronyms, skipping words or combining them so that the result is a recognisable word rather than an Eastern European surname, but this one – a…
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File sharing: the opera
On the face of it, Jerry Springer: The Opera and Kazaa don’t have much in common. But according to The Inquirer, religious groups are on another “let’s ban stuff” crusade, and this time they want to crack down on file sharing networks. The Christian Coalition, the Concerned Women for America, and Morality in Media have…