Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

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Alter-Google Earth

by Seraphine Khorana on May 19th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Alter-Google Earth

So why exactly did God (or Allah, Yahweh, El Roi, Gore, Sophia, Zhu, Budda, Elohim, Abba) invent the Internet? Surely, the Answer to Life is contained therein, or the Internet wouldn’t exist. One final question regarding our human identity, because I have forgotten the answer: Are we Blips, or are we The Others?

If you type “the answer to life, the universe and everything” into Google (without quotes or capitalising the small words), the Google Calculator will give you 42.
Quotation from Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org)

The Campaign to Save Paste: If you donate anything, even a dollar, to save Paste magazine, you’ll get download access to their vault of over 100 songs, which currently includes artists such as Cowboy Junkies, Indigo Girls and Neko Case. Seriously good music! Bettye LaVette’s Change is Gonna Come alone is worth the price of admission.

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Shoot Photon Torpedos from the Captain’s Chair

by Seraphine Khorana on April 9th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Shoot Photon Torpedos from the Captain’s Chair

I’m glad cyber-thiefs haven’t disrupted the world’s chocolate supply. But if they ever do, watch out! The public reaction to a worldwide chocolate shortage will make puppy-stealing seem like child’s play.

Intelligence officials worry about cyber attacks taking control of electrical facilities, a nuclear power plant or financial networks via the internet… Officials said water, sewage and other infrastructure systems were also at risk.
Quotation from Electricity Grid in US Penetrated by Spies by Siobhan Gorman (The Wall Street Journal)

All we ever wanted was everything
All we ever got was cold
Get up, eat jelly
Sandwich bars, and barbed wire
Squash every week into a day.
Lyric from Bauhaus, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (YouTube)

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Posting Your Animated Shorts on YouTube

by Seraphine Khorana on August 18th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Posting Your Animated Shorts on YouTube

There is more content on YouTube than there
was on the entire internet eight years ago.
People do anything, and will post everything.

Sasquatch hunters claim hairy corpse is Bigfoot (msnbc)
“I slept with 75 men and got crabs” (YouTube)

Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, a top Russian officer, said Friday that Poland’s agreement to accept a battery of U.S. missile interceptors has put Poland at risk of attack, perhaps with nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.
Quotation from Douglas Birch, Crisis frays strands between Russia, West (More scary than crabs!)

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Little Miss Muffet Searched for a Tuffet

by Seraphine Khorana on May 14th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Little Miss Muffet Searched for a Tuffet

Little Miss Muffet learned to be a Warrior Princess
crossing wooden swords with neighbor boys,
but nothing fully prepared her for
meeting Tonto in the on-line chat room.

Safety on the Internet: A Guide for Teens (youngwomenshealth.org)

Buttons: Clowns are funny people, Holly. They only love once.
Holly: All men aren’t like that, even if they act like clowns.
Exchange between James Stewart and Betty Hutton
in the movie, The Greatest Show On Earth

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Press Leaks

by Seraphine Khorana on May 9th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Press Leaks

Internet advertising is growing over 20% a year. As a result,
newspaper sales are falling. What are people going to put on
the bottom of their bird cages? How are we going to potty train
puppies? Shall we smack them on the nose with an iPod nano?

“[Newspapers] give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They
chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and
with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic
details of the doings of people of absolutely no interest whatsoever.”
Quotation from Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.”
Quotation by Liz Smith in her newspaper column, American Way

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