a convenient truth

yay recursion

Remember the AACS business last week, where they are threatening anyone who mentions a certain big number with prison. Well, you too can own an integer! That’s right, under the auspices of the well-thought-out DMCA, you too can sue anyone who mentions your number, and just imagine - if every number becomes owned by someone we could end in a world without numbers! Utopia! The DMCA will have finally achieved it’s aims.

Incidentally, E4 DE 37 A0 C7 1F 8B 5A DC F4 F2 C3 6D A4 D8 33 is mine, ALL MINE!  bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

It’s the address that really cracks me up.

Internet Explorer, Zope and Geoff Boycott should be locked in a room together. Forever.

“You expect me to talk?”

“No Mr Kennedy, I expect you to die.”

Once a week, Phoneswarm targets a random US payphone, then tells the world to call it.

via metafilter

Apparently the word “Podcast” has made it into the OED. In light of that, I’d like everyone to know that I have invented Folksonompodjaxes, which is a clever combination of collaborative taxonomies, mp3 and javascript to produce something really new and clever that everyone will love. So, when you see Folksonompodjaxing in the dictionary in a few years, just remember it was me that started it. Oh yes.

This is one of the silliest ideas I have seen in ages. I thought Dan Gilmore had more sense.

If you can’t tell the difference between the professional, the personal and fiction, perhaps you should get off the Internet and go back to watching TV?

Julius Caesar was addressing the crowd in the Coliseum. “Friends,Romans
Countrymen, lend me your ears. Tomorrow I take our glorious army to
conquer Northern Europe and I shall start with France. We shall kill many
Gauls and return victorious.” The crowd are up on their feet “Yes, yes,
hail mighty Caesar”.

In the background, Brutus turns to his mate and says “Caesar doesn’t half
talk some sh*te eh? He couldn’t fight his way out of a wet parchment bag.”

Six months later, Caesar comes back having conquered France and addresses
the crowd in the Coliseum. “Friends, Romans and Countrymen, I have
returned from our campaign in France and as I promised, we killed 50,000
Gauls”. The crowd is up on their feet again. “Yes, yes, hail mighty
Caesar”.

Brutus once again turns to his mate “I’m sick of his bullsh*t. I’m off to
France to check this out.” So Brutus sets off for France. Three weeks
later he comes back to Rome,just as Caesar is addressing the public in the
Coliseum again. Caesar is giving his usual patter to the assembled throng,
“Friends,Romans Countrymen, tomorrow we set off for Britain and we are
going to sort those b*stards out!” The crowd is up on their feet.
“Yes, yes, hail mighty Caesar”

Brutus jumps up and shouts, “Caesar, you are exposed as a liar. You told us
that you had killed 50,000 Gauls in France but I’ve been there to check it
out and you only killed 25,000!”

The crowd is stunned and all sit down in silence. Caesar gets up and looks
slowly round the Coliseum then across at Brutus and says

“Brutus, you are forgetting one thing. Away Gauls count double in Europe.”