Posted in Linux, QOTMFD, babbling, computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, internet, media, ramblings, usenet, tagged liberation, computers, usenet, nntp, freedom, taxpayers, corporate welfare, war-on-terror, neocons, newsgroups on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Usenet has been, and continues to be, a great source of information, where technologies that push product can easily be pushed aside using filters. There are more than 10,000 newsgroups on nearly every topic that delienates our human existence, all hierarchically arranged. The major hierarchies are known as “The Big 8″: comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, [...]
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Posted in Literary, Pop Culture, Rants, articles, comedy, entertainment, humor, internet, parody, racism, ramblings, satire, tagged Ireland, Irish, lampoon, media, National Lampoon, P J ORourke, white supremacy on June 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been a fan of the National Lampoon since I was a teen in the 1970s. One of the most shocking articles for me to read in the mid 70s was P J O’Rourke’s “Foreigners From Around The World”, which appeared in the National Lampoon in May, 1976. The article is really a heap [...]
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Posted in Aphorisms, Literary, Miscellaneous, Random, babbling, comedy, computers, humor, internet, misc, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, sayings, software, tagged Aphorisms, babbling, comedy, computers, humor, internet, Literary, misc, Miscellaneous, quotes, ramblings, Random, random thoughts, sayings, software on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Anyone who had used a UNIX operating system might be aware of some of the fun things on it. Such as a command called “fortune”, which generates short aphorisms and quotations similar to ones found in fortune cookies. Except some of these are funny, witty, sarcastic, satirical, and so on. I use a Linux system, [...]
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Follow this link. It is the best Nat Lamp parody I have seen in a long time. Apologies for the repost, it is being posted to several new categories.
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I have a retro cassette of pre-Beatles music from the 1959-1963 era. I have had it for years, and it is full of really boring tunes that I hardly ever play. It was an era of sappy sentimentalism, when torch songs reigned supreme, and everyone tried to outdo each other with the ultimate love tune. [...]
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Posted in Academe, Random, babbling, comedy, computers, folklore, internet, media, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, software on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a “foggy” essay generator that just did the following, for an essay on folklore:
Of course, the characterization of critically co-optive criteria adds explicit performance contours to the profound meaning of “The Raw and the Cooked”. Conversely, a constant flow [...]
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Posted in General Comments, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Random, Thoughts, Writing about writing, articles, babbling, comedy, computers, humor, internet, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, television, trivia, video on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Wow. I was going through You-Tube, and, remembering the Chris Crocker hysteria (his and those he caused), there are now a plethora of Chris Crocker imitators who are standing up “in defense” of Jamie Lynn Spears. “Leave Jamie Lynn Alone” seems to be the most common title. All of them try to imitate the conniption [...]
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