Wouldn't hurt to check!
Sep. 23rd, 2009 08:35 pmI just got pointed to this by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
persiflage_1 - everyone should check whether their journals have been compromised!
(I was getting strange connection requests in my browser the last few days - maybe something on my friends page did cause this...!)
persiflage_1 - everyone should check whether their journals have been compromised!(I was getting strange connection requests in my browser the last few days - maybe something on my friends page did cause this...!)
Found on www.funtoosh.com :
A complex family tree
Many many years ago
When I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow
Who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She is my grandma too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa.
Or at least know where to look and double-check, if possible.
It turns out that the new German minister for economy, Mr zu Guttenberg has a wagonload of first names, since he's from the nobility. Nearly every major newspaper in Germany hit on to that fact. Among the array of names given they always gave "Wilhelm", too. Which is about the only first name Mr zu Guttenberg doesn't have.
How did it come to this?
There was a guy who decided to have fun with wikipedia, and inserted the "Wilhelm" into Mr zu Guttenbergs wikipedia entry just after the announcement of his appointment had been made. It ended up across what is basically the entirety of German media. And because wikipedia takes media citation as proof of reliability, this created an interesting circle.
So, lessons learned?
Serious journalism isn't what it used to be. The hive-mind that is the internet is largely self-referential. And wikipedia is, after all, changeable by everyone. So don't be surprised if everyone does just that.
I'm sure there's something infinitely more philosophical about this little incident, but I can't really put it into words. It was just a thing I deem very worth noticing.
This is the German bildblog entry for this.
http://www.bildblog.de/5695/wie-ich-freiherr-von-guttenberg-zu-wilhelm-machte/
Plus a recap of how major news sites reacted:
http://www.bildblog.de/5731/wilhelm-ii/
It turns out that the new German minister for economy, Mr zu Guttenberg has a wagonload of first names, since he's from the nobility. Nearly every major newspaper in Germany hit on to that fact. Among the array of names given they always gave "Wilhelm", too. Which is about the only first name Mr zu Guttenberg doesn't have.
How did it come to this?
There was a guy who decided to have fun with wikipedia, and inserted the "Wilhelm" into Mr zu Guttenbergs wikipedia entry just after the announcement of his appointment had been made. It ended up across what is basically the entirety of German media. And because wikipedia takes media citation as proof of reliability, this created an interesting circle.
So, lessons learned?
Serious journalism isn't what it used to be. The hive-mind that is the internet is largely self-referential. And wikipedia is, after all, changeable by everyone. So don't be surprised if everyone does just that.
I'm sure there's something infinitely more philosophical about this little incident, but I can't really put it into words. It was just a thing I deem very worth noticing.
This is the German bildblog entry for this.
http://www.bildblog.de/5695/wie-ich-freiherr-von-guttenberg-zu-wilhelm-machte/
Plus a recap of how major news sites reacted:
http://www.bildblog.de/5731/wilhelm-ii/
I really used to like ...
Jan. 30th, 2009 01:17 pm... Aretha Franklin. In fact, I think I still do.
But I've come to the conclusion that I really, really don't like her hat. And the fact that it's popping up EVERYWHERE does not help one little bit. That's one meme that's really getting on my nerves. :oP
(Although I must admit, Ten with a brown-striped Aretha-hat was kind of a cute idea.
I wonder if Ms Franklin has any idea about the web wave she created with that particular piece of headwear.)
But I've come to the conclusion that I really, really don't like her hat. And the fact that it's popping up EVERYWHERE does not help one little bit. That's one meme that's really getting on my nerves. :oP
(Although I must admit, Ten with a brown-striped Aretha-hat was kind of a cute idea.
I wonder if Ms Franklin has any idea about the web wave she created with that particular piece of headwear.)
This is just too good not to pass on.
Jan. 30th, 2009 07:36 am Apparently, this Gentleman wasn't too impressed with his food on a Virgin transcontinental flight.
So he wrote a letter to Richard Branson.
http://www.popbitch.com/home/which-one-is-the-starter-which-one-is-the-desert/
Gotta love this.
So he wrote a letter to Richard Branson.
http://www.popbitch.com/home/which-one-is-the-starter-which-one-is-the-desert/
Gotta love this.
Don't you just love it...
Jan. 23rd, 2009 06:09 pm... when you run an online virus scan (just to be sure with all the Conficker talk going on), after about 20% it tells you you're infected, making you all nervous, and after an eternity of scanning it turns out that all the damn thing has found are five TRACKING COOKIES?
*facepalm*
*facepalm*
If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
Ever since 1999, actually. :)
Ever since 1999, actually. :)
Seen at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fid_gin's - this one is just too good. ;) I could be at it all day.
*SPLORT*
Nothing to add, Your Honour. XD
fid_gin's - this one is just too good. ;) I could be at it all day.What Can David Tennant Do For You?
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Do You Have The David Tennant Inside?
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*SPLORT*
We All Adore a Tenth Doctor.
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A Tenth Doctor Is Forever.
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Nothing to add, Your Honour. XD
Anybody in for a cat cartoon?
Nov. 5th, 2008 05:40 pmOne of my comms led me onto this:
http://www.twolumps.net/
Gotta love sarcastic cats. *G*
Edit: Ooooh, and here's a Hamlet one too!
http://www.twolumps.net/d/20051228.html
http://www.twolumps.net/
Gotta love sarcastic cats. *G*
Edit: Ooooh, and here's a Hamlet one too!
http://www.twolumps.net/d/20051228.html
Got to re-post
Sep. 30th, 2008 03:04 pm... this little bit from one of the comments in
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
mock_the_stupid:"Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas."
XD
Yep - because, as everyone knows, bananas are good!
Okay, one more.
Sep. 28th, 2008 06:46 pmYeah, I know. I meant to spare my fingers, but this here reminds me too much of dune_drd to pass it by:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080928
Especially the headline.
I LOVE userfriendly. :) Cartoons can't get more geeky than that. *G*
dune_drd to pass it by:http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080928
Especially the headline.
I LOVE userfriendly. :) Cartoons can't get more geeky than that. *G*
VERY interesting concept...
Jun. 11th, 2008 08:50 pmAlternate Reality Games. (Link is a German site, I'm sure you can google an English Explanation.)
I read an article about Find the Lost Ring today, and I simply had to research about that further. Since I've always been a fan of role play games and scavenger hunts, I find that absolutely intriguing. Has anyone had any experience with those games so far?
And right now, I'm just about to be caught up with www.aladygma.com. WTF!! o_0
(Here's a German forum discussing this. Oh, I'm gonna spend time with this.)
I read an article about Find the Lost Ring today, and I simply had to research about that further. Since I've always been a fan of role play games and scavenger hunts, I find that absolutely intriguing. Has anyone had any experience with those games so far?
And right now, I'm just about to be caught up with www.aladygma.com. WTF!! o_0
(Here's a German forum discussing this. Oh, I'm gonna spend time with this.)
