[Peter Sellers, in What's new, pussycat?]
For some time now the government* has been collecting the URLs of every website visited by you and me.
Of course they justify this to their sheeplike** drones on the basis that everyone must be watched, all the time, by machinery that never sleeps and can miss nothing, just in case [...]
Archive for the ‘internet’ Category
I like thighs. Do you like thighs?
Posted in internet, tagged porn on 20 June, 2009 | 7 Comments »
At last: the knowledge tax
Posted in internet, tagged search-engine tax on 4 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It seems that Slashdot is prepared to take seriously this story from the Daily Mail (caveat lector), which says that the government is considering taxing search-engines.
Someone has to come up with something which works like a search-engine but isn’t a search-engine, so it can’t be taxed as one.
There is no point in arguing with a [...]
Living proof
Posted in internet, tagged blogging, libertarians on 28 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m back, though there will be a crisp minimalism to proceedings while I catch up with everything else.
Oh, the irony.
Brian Micklethwait did a list of libertarian bloggers. I wasn’t on it.
Then Liberty or Dearth did the same thing again, this time with computer assistance, four-part harmony and feeling.
On LOD’s list I came out at no. [...]
Nightjack wins Orwell Prize
Posted in internet, tagged Orwell Prize on 23 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nightjack:
My representative at the Orwell Prize Ceremony has just rung me with the news that I have won.
Surprised? Not I. Congratulations to the Writing Detective. He deserves it.
I have a work of fiction to write.
As the assassin fellow says in Total Recall:
“It’s about goddam time!”
Told you so, didn’t I? I did.
Glitch
Posted in internet on 21 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WordPress is wiggy again. More later, with luck. I think instead I’ll go and visit the baby rats.
Amendment 138
Posted in internet, tagged Am138, eu on 21 April, 2009 | 6 Comments »
There is an article on Slashdot which suggests that the EU (upon which, etc. etc.) is up to no good in some way about the internet.
It refers to this, which is, frankly, no more comprehensible.
Strategically there is only one solution: Britain must leave the EU.
Tactically, though, this might be important, but I’m damned if I [...]
Goldman Sachs 666
Posted in internet, tagged blogging, repression on 18 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
More stuff that I don’t understand.
A Mr. Mike Morgan, who runs this website, is, according to Anna Raccoon, being threatened by lawyers employed by the wunch of bankers the details of whose behaviour (doubtless very naughty, but well over my head) he has had the temerity to criticise.
It looks as though they’re going for [...]
“Down with this sort of thing!” “Careful, now!”
Posted in internet, tagged blogging on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Father Ted]
To the excellent advice of Old Holborn I can add only the tactical suggestion that those taking up blogging (as everybody with a computer should) might consider avoiding things which might assist the enemy in silencing them.
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1. Libel
Britain is the libel litigation capital of the world. Nowhere else is it so easy for the [...]
The bells have made me deaf, Esmerelda
Posted in internet, tagged blog on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry to hear of the departure of Dennis from his Belfry.
I suspect that he’s going to write a book. This seems to be catching on. I’m actually supposed to be writing one myself.
Blogs cause Cancer: official
Posted in internet, tagged blogs, censorship on 13 April, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The cautionary revelation of the Apocalypse:
Now we are seeing the first signs of the next stage in this plot to get rid of the free air-waves… And with the resent fall of one of Gordon Brown closest confidants through libertarian bloggers, several lefties is reacting, not only indignant against this sleazy trash-talker that had to [...]
