The Internet Link Recycler

Not really.

Virus Comix presents a sampling of Things they don’t tell you (but should).

I probably should make my kids read this so they can become jaded sooner.

I could barely get past the, “You need the latest Flash Player,” message.

But, once I got going, Neave TV was great.  It was like watching TV with all the convenience of not having to repeatedly press the up button on the TV remote (or yelling at the kids to stop pressing the remote button).

Not in today’s travel atmosphere (as always, the comments are where the meat is).  The loss of traveller data is just one more reason not to leave the house.  I really have to guess that the Gov’t of the US just doesn’t want any more people flying.  The internet can get a message to China in seconds.  But a human requires a good 24 hours, coming from the east coast.  What if… What if we could transmit people as fast as ideas?  Nah, that would represent a complete collapse of the rule of law.

Hand Drawn Maps.  Wikimapia, it’s not.

When I was a kid, in grade school, I can remember doing those geography units.  You had to draw your neighborhood from memory and stuff.

Now there’s google maps.  The internet makes everything better.

Ronald Ecker has put together some nice bible study pages.  I especially liked the David and Bathshua screenplay.  It includes plenty of adultery and backstabbing, but everything works out in the end.  It’s also a nice take on why biblical names changes inexplicably at times.  I mean we sure wouldn’t want to blame those monk who flawlessly hand copied the books all those years.

But this Calvin and Jobs spread just tugs at my heart strings, despite having screwed its way to the top of the web.

So, why, when someone posts a static.flick.com, can you never google up the original photo.  Where did this originally come from?  And why do I care?

SexyBeijing.tv doesn’t really live up to its name.  Anna, is not a dude, it’s probably the glasses.  Su Fei sounds like “little fat” to me.  But it is an engaging show.  So my wife and I spent the past several hours laughing (and cringing) at Anna’s commentaries.

The fine art of Polaroid Manipulation defined and taught at Polaroid Manipulation.

Polaroid films are fast becoming history, only a few are still being manufactured, but not for long.  That said, I think it would be fun to play with an 8×10 Polaroid, or even larger.

So if Polaroid isn’t making polaroids anymore, what do they make?  Other consumables.

Today’s Boingedy-Boingedy linked to the Memory Hole for an article about obtaining blank NSA forms.  At about a dollar a page the haul appears to quite a bargain.  I can’t find the toilet paper requisition.  I wonder how they handle that?

According to the Register, Cuil is supposed to quantum search up results, and show related picutres (or something).  But they point out a reader who has had less than satisfactory results.  Google, too, has said they have way more pages on file, which I can believe.  I thought this would mean the more nonsense I typed in, the more unrelated porn I would get.  I typed Egg whites into Cuil and got nothing, (and everybody knows condoms are lubricated with egg whites).