Mature, refined and elegant. Almost, but not entirely unlike the geek equivalent of a good wine.
I’ve just about had enough. Anyone who wants to say something to me had better do so soon, because I’m not staying in a country that so disgracefully treats people who are down on their luck. Not that I can afford to go anywhere. I’m just going to vanish, unexpectedly, like the generousity and compassion of the British people did while I went travelling.
I suppose it should come as no surprise that the
A response to the
Yes, but XML is not HTML, fortunately.
I’m an engineer, not a philosopher, meaning I’m irritable, impatient and totally uninterested in moral arguments, which eliminates most of yours. I just don’t care.
O sweet perfume!
How my heart trembles to your touch.
My lover blooms,
and as a butterfly
I must find her scent,
return its strange caress.
I invite discussion on the future of
What the f**k is the
Please read the
Why? For access to your search history from anywhere on the internet.
Just be careful with the weather. Given the limited range of regions and cities available, Google are likely using it to target advertising. If I can’t have the weather for
If I could offer my blackbird to trade its sweet voice for a weapon to thwart the hungry cat, how would it choose?
This is a topic of inherent value / fundamental importance. Know your limits.
What does one advertise to people who want to read about “Violent Pornography on the Internet”?
According to Google, maternity clothes and pregnancy advice.
Is that tasteful or what? Machine intelligence at its best.
No better or worse than a MP who speaks in Parliament the names of websites publishing pornographic images, forever making the Parliamentary record an unsafe place for inquisitive children.
No better or worse than my bringing attention to it. My God, where will it end?
And left woefully ignorant of how.
Well, no, actually, the BBC didn’t say that. I just made that up. They couldn’t, but this programme sequence I’m watching might as well have that in BBC News headline format along the bottom. The do say you have to learn how to shop. What a work of genius.
“Learning Zone”, BBC2, 2am-4am. No-one is watching.
Almost perfect. Almost. Unfortunately, I was watching. Oops!
This is the message from the BBC. Tell everyone you know. “Treat yourself. Stop spending.” Shop with your mind, not with your heart. Do not enslave yourself to debt. Shops and banks are not trying to help you achieve your dreams. They are deliberately manipulating you to consume more than you need. You can have everything you want for cheaper if you put a little more effort into it and you can have more fun doing it.
Nowadays, you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own home! Why shop at the mall if you can shop while having sex? What could be more perverse?
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More fun conversing with Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” searches. Or is it? Liberta, I respectfluffly challenge you to determine whether a computer or a human supplied these links in answer to these questions. Is this just technology or is it behaviour? It made me laugh.
“how the speed of light is measured” yields Measure The Speed of Light With Chocolate and A Microwave
“no really I want to know how the speed of light is measured” yields The Speed of Light which has the audacity to say that light always travels at a speed of 299,792,458 meters per second, no matter how its speed is measured
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What, even if I measure it with chocolate and a microwave?
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