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WikiLeaks a puppet for future massive Internet regulation?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

From The Hill: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicted Thursday that a case involving WikiLeaks would likely come before the court. She said that the WikiLeaks “incident,” in which the group posted thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents online, “and others are going to provoke legislation that’s already being discussed in Congress, and so some [...]

Logged on to IRC…

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

It had been a while and I thought I’d do it. Logged on to my blog, it had been a while and I thought I’d do it. My vacation ended the 10th. It was OK, will probably enjoy it more next year.   You Are Tomatoes You are kind hearted and open minded. You’re always [...]

Tutorial: How Webmasters and Blog Owners Can Weaken The Influence of Wikipedia

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The easiest way to do this is to remove all references and links to Wikipedia from your site. I myself have just deleted various blog posts and modified others that mention or link to Wikipedia, and intend to avoid discussing the site in the future. Mentioning or linking to Wikipedia (or Wikimedia Commons, or any [...]

going to sc again in a few hours or so

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

  Your Style is Traditional You have a strong preference for classic things. You want items that will look good forever. You don’t fall for trends. You know what you like, and little is going to change that. You have an eye for quality. You’d like to hold on to your things for a long [...]

But when it involves bad medical advice…

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

…then it is spam. I was really unhappy to see, this afternoon, that someone had linked to my previous blog entry and written a commentary themselves, which I could only read a half a paragraph, since the user shut their blog down on the same day. No Internet Archive either. I guess it’s forever lost [...]

“Blogs vs. Twitter & Facebook” Arguments, As Applied to the Bill of Rights

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

There have been a lot of posts (and political lobbying) within the past few years by a dying Media 1.0 establishment and a gullible public to discourage the creation and reading of blogs, this time by encouraging Twitter and Facebook as replacements for blogs. Examples: 1 2 3 4 Rather than go on a standard [...]

Blogger Code

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I remembered something from a long time ago called “Blogger Code“, apparently it was updated since then with more and modern features. Here is the older version, a single line, no picture: B4 d t+ k+ s u– f- i- o x e- l+ c+ Here is the updated version: B4 D T+ K+ S [...]

BBSpot Quizzes

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

These quizzes have been around for ages, but I haven’t been to BBSpot since way before xcopfly.com came into existence. So I took a bunch of these quizzes again.     Which OS are You?     Which File Extension are You?     How White and Nerdy Are You?     Which Caffeinated Beverage [...]

Code for Technorati

Monday, December 14th, 2009

It’s been screwy, so I’m removing/re-adding XCopFly.com from Technorati.com: VSNZYXVQJSRB

AOL’s Noisecreep: Best (Rock) Songs of the 2000s

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

AOL’s metal/hard-rock site Noisecreep released “Best Songs of the 2000s” (click here to see) I think the choices are based on the band more than the song, but check it out anyway.