Don't mind me. Just putting up my portable death ray shield.
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: The DISCLAIMER

I was just going to change the topic on this thing from Off the Wall Speculation to The DISCLAIMER but I looked at the title of the article posted originally on this post (before I went back and edited it - the date is down at the bottom, noodnick - I trust Lycos keeps backups) and 'Host not found' made me think of James Gray the unfortunate Microsoft expert in distributed transactional computing who sailed off to where there be dragons.

And then I thought. No. Could be about a parasite looking for a dwelling and finding it in the stomach of a cow. And not a very productive cow at that. Of course, you don't want to eat that parasite so you don't eat the cow. But while the parasite is there whatgood is the cow? Smelly. Poopy. Stuff green stuff in one end and get brown on the process end? Great. OK the brown stuff is useful for cabbage patching but what else do you do with it until it dries into a useful form? GACK.

 And Methane (and you have to say it 'me-thain' like the brits do or it isn't hauf as funny) my god the Methane. We shall be roasting Al Gore's bollocks on the sidewalk it's so damn hot.

 So I don't have a clue what this article is about because I don't have the energy to scroll any further frankly. Aside from some tragic accident involving Merve Griffin and Weslie Snipes I have no interest beyond prurience and pockets.

To wit: 

Host not found

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2046545,00.html#article_continue
Dissidents must be protected from internet censorship, argues Hari Kunzru in an essay for a PEN anthology, Another Sky.

Saturday March 31, 2007
The Guardian

"Sometimes the 'Don't be evil' policy leads to many discussions about what exactly is evil. One thing we know is that people can make better decisions with better information. Google is a useful tool in people's lives. There are extreme cases, we're told, when Google has saved people's lives." Sergey Brin, Google founder, interviewed in Playboy, September 2004

As the internet enters its second decade as a mass medium, it's worth looking back at one of the old saws that was bandied around in the covered-wagon days, when Californian sages made gnomic pronouncements about the future and the rest of the world repeated them at dinner parties. "The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it." These are the words of John Gilmore, radical libertarian, Sun Microsystems employee number five and bona fide west-coast guru-gazillionaire, and for much of the last 10 years they've been repeated as part of the founding story of the internet, along with a gloss about the net's inception as a military communications network designed to withstand partial destruction by nuclear attack.

more at above URL

 

What the... knucklear attack? I better get my Bell helmet and my gomer goggles and head down to the bastement. I got a feeling the turkey's gonna blow up in the mikerwave any minute... spittooee