The Linux Launderette
The Web is dead, apparently.
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:17:00 +0100
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1 ("The Web Is Dead, Long Live The Internet")
The first graph in that is put into context here: http://boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html
the 'X is dead' idea is discussed here: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-x-is-dead/61663/
("[I]t's impossible not to notice ... that Anderson's inevitable technological path happens to run perfectly through the domains (print/tablet) he controls at Wired, and away from the one that he doesn't.")
Oh, and... "THEN Javascript NOW Objective C".... rofl.
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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Interesting spam: in Irish!! [100% FÁIL IASACHTA Ráthaíocht]
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
Fri, 6 Aug 2010 18:53:38 +0100
The Irish is so bad it can only have come from Google Translate, but it's fun to see spam in my (native? no, that implies first; national?) language.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Francis Tyers <[email protected]> To: TAG <[email protected]> Date: 2010/8/6 Subject: [Fwd: 100% F?IL IASACHTA R?tha?ocht] To: joregan at gmail.com Cc: mlf at dlsi.ua.es
My first spam in Irish. :D
Fran
---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:?john smith <jsjohnsmith.loanfirm at gmail.com> > To: > Date:?Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:41:00 -0700 > Subject:?100% F?IL IASACHTA R?tha?ocht > Dia duit a chara, > > T?imid ag Christian Eagra?ocht a buna?odh chun cuidi? le daoine i > riachtanais Cuid?onn, den s?rt sin mar go gcabhr?idh airgeadais. Mar > sin m? t? t? ag dul tr?d an deacracht airgeadais n? m? t? t? in aon > praiseach airgeadais, agus t? ag cist? g? chun t?s a chur le do ghn? > f?in, n? is g? duit iasacht a shocr? do bhfiacha n? do bhill? a ?oc, > as t?s a chur le gn? deas, n? go bhfuil sibh ag baint s? deacair a > fh?il ar iasacht ? na bainc cheannais chaipitil ?iti?la, d?an > teagmh?il linn inniu tr?d an r?omhphost jsjohnsmith.loanfirm at gmail.com > an b?obla "a deir Luke 11:10 ag gach duine a fhaigheann iarrann; s? ag > iarraidh a fhaigheann; agus chun ? a bhuaileann, beidh an doras a > oscailt" . Mar sin n? lig an deis seo a th?ann t? ag toisc go bhfuil > ?osa mar an gc?anna inn?, inniu, agus n?os m? go deo. Le do thoil ? > seo do Dhaoine ar eagla minded agus Dia tromch?iseacha .. > > > T? t? comhairle a l?onadh agus na sonra? th?os .. ais > Do Ainm :______________________ > Do Seoladh :____________________ > Do T?r :____________________ > Do Gairm :__________________ > Iasacht M?id g? :______________ > Fad :____________________ Iasachta > :__________________ Ioncam M?os?il > Uimhir f?n Cell :________________ > Maidir is Fearr > > > John Smith.
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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