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For people who love everything about porn…Except the sex.

NINJA CAT!

Back in middle school when I thought I was an uber hacker, I used to carry text files printed off of BBS’s in my backpack. Bell tone codes, the anarchist’s cookbook, and, my personal favorite, IBFT articles. Textfiles.com has apparently been gathering a bunch of the more famous textfiles and putting them up for archive. They certainly don’t age that well, but there’s a ton of crazy stuff worth reading, if not solely for nostagia’s sake. Y’know… if nostalgia to you is reading old internet text files.

So Kevin Martin (not the one who used to post here. The other one.) is apparently set on auctioning off a large portion of the wireless spectrum to whomever can provide nationwide wireless broadband — free of charges and free or porn. Which, to me, is where it gets really interesting. I’m a freedom of speech nut and, in my mind, porn falls squarely under “speech.” But I also believe free internet access to all Americans is, perhaps, equally important.

So which is more important? Absolute, no-exceptions free speech that cuts off our figurative noses to spite our information-craved faces? Or free data nationwide that sets a dangerous precedent? And for any free-marketeers out there, are we at a point where we can consider internet access a utility like electric and water? Or does the U.S. Government have no business pushing free internet?

I’m running the risk here of posting yet another thing that’s already been discussed.

Has anyone here ever been on Woot? It’s fantastic. They generally sell one thing per day at a ridiculous price. The items can be anything from night lights to gaming mouses (is that the proper terminology?) to 50 inch plasma screen TVs to Roombas to coffee makers and so on. Everything with 5 dollar shipping.

About once a month or so, they do a thing called a “woot-off” where they have a set amount of one item, they sell it off, and they bring on a new one. It’s been known to render entire days useless.

The big coveted item here is the “Bag of Crap” A.K.A. “Random Crap” Basically, their cost is a dollar, and they throw in random stuff. Usually including some dollar store stuff, but on occasion a plasma TV, some GPSs and other assorted goodies costing well over a dollar. General practice is that you buy three, so total cost would end up being 8 bucks with the shipping. A quick Google search of “bag of crap” should bring up message boards of people telling what they got in their packages. If you see it, act fast as they generally don’t last more than a few seconds.

Anyway..Happy Wooting. http://www.woot.com/

My son loves to take the long walk to the mailbox with me. He likes to carry back the junk mail, look through catalogs and ask me about the multitudes of stuff I seem to get, and he always wonders why I’m such a popular guy to get so much mail, when he gets nothing. (it’s 70% junk, 30% bills believe me.)

I remembered reading one particular strip in the Calvin and Hobbes series where Calvin was getting “mysteryâ€? letters. Calvin is so enthralled by this he yells to his mom; “This is real secret agent stuff…it’s so cool, I have to go to the bathroom!â€? I thought I could do something like that for my eight year old, Cooper. …Maybe something in a strange-alien-secret agent-mystery code.

We have a web-based tech repair notification system here at the school where I work. When something is broken, a teacher will file a request on this website, and I get an email saying that there is a request (which, incidently, just creates more paperwork than if the teacher just emailed me directly). I then go to the website to login.

my family is taking a vacation this summer down south, and a few of us are flying fairly cheap to get there. my dad signed us up for the airline’s miles club so that we get our due credits. now, we get emails from the airline every week or so for specials they have.

today, i got this one:
“Return of the MILF Sale – Fares from $1 Each Way”

err…

So as some of you know I’ve had a Livejournal for a while, and recently it’s been getting quite a bit of attention around the interwebs. I think the time has come that I have outgrown my little blog, and I’d like to start my own site, namely one in which I can display ads that will get me some sweet moola.

Problem is, I am totally clueless as to how any of this works. I know a lot of you guys have been running your own site since back in ’Nam, so what better group to ask about this?

April Fool’s Day Across the Web

My favorite is definitely UK Youtube.

I’ve been trying to get a submission on their official Lists section for a while now. I can’t believe what has played out today.

The article’s title says it all: Has AT&T lost it’s mind!? And while I think his gasoline:bandwidth analogy is, perhaps, a bit of a stretch, the author makes great points about this new form of “corporate seppuku.”

I only wish Apple would chose its wireless partners more wisely. I hate giving these jerks my money.