I Love the Internet

Metafilter reports on a new Internet community of “Greenlighters”, people who wear green polo shirts with the collars turned up as a signal of sexual interest. Not surprisingly this “community” has a website, which for now is down, but I can verify earlier today that it did have some postings on it. The site, which was registered yesterday, is in the name of [redacted], a University of Michigan student. I can’t help (as some other MeFiers were as well), be…

From Veljo Haamer: Yet another great Internet video.

So what’s better than Flickr? Flickr + Google Maps! Example: Photo of Boyk at The Bird, click the link that says “GeoTagged” under the photo. Here’s how to do it.

So just now I read Paul Boutin’s cool Slate piece on Wikipedia. And then he emailed me if I was the one responsible for creating his entry. I was. (He could tell because the IP address points to Columbia.) Then I went back and looked at my own entry. There, I discovered that about a month ago, I was almost deleted from Wikipedia. Whoa.

So my friend Jennifer Weiss wanted to buy up a domain around her name (jenniferweiss.com, etc) but many of the relevant permutations were owned by this one guy. So she emailed him and then got this response : “Hello New York Jennifer Weiss. How strange — I’ve always wondered what someone else with my name is like. . . . My friend [redacted] told me after receiving your e-mail that he had bought up a bunch of domain names with…

Zug.com: FLORAL SHAPE ADHESIVES JH: No, I’d also like to discuss item #141-869. VS: OK, the Floral Adhesives. JH: What are these things? VS: These are basically, ah, a lot of people wear them, they attach to the ends of your breast, so that you could, uh, you can wear a more sheer outfit without being immodest. JH: Are they like those no-slip things you put on the bathtub? VS: I guess you could call them something like that. They’re…

(Courtesy Paul Thornton) President George W. Bush: George W. Bush is tha 43rd President of tha United States gangsta style. He was swizzay into office January 20, 2001, afta a campaign in which he outlined steppin’ proposals ta reform America’s public schools, transform our national defense, provide tax relief, modernize Social Security n Medicizzles n encourage faith-based n community organizzles ta W-to-tha-izzork wit government ta help Americans in need n shit. President Biznush served fo’ six years as tha 46th…

Sumana Harihareswara: Science!: Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today. If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don’t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, you have a plethora of options! It is kind of weird that we still don’t know why the copper IUD works. Now here’s a question I have: for most medicinal tests, don’t they have to have…

Ok, so that was predictable. Kudos to Sens. Boxer and Kerry for voting against. One thing that I really don’t understand about the Dems is why they aren’t more obstructionist. Why is it that they are such pushovers? No, really. I mean, they don’t have a majority in any branch/house, but they could still be much more rabble-rousers if they wanted to be. I don’t get it. And even more predictably, when The Daily Show aired yesterday and referred to…

AccordionGuy: Let’s say it’s the early 1980’s. You’ve just bought a Quick and Dirty Operating System and repackaged it for IBM to include with their new “Personal Computer” (IBM had such a revulsion for non-mainframe things that the PC was created by the “Entry Systems Division”, which suggested that these were things you used until you got a real computer). You’re a hot rising software star, and hot rising software stars need dates. Which photo should you send potential soul…