If you haven’t noticed, our pal Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has become quite the Internet celebrity. Here is one site pertaining to him (beware that it is INCREDIBLY slow loading).
A little basic help for ya
I have squandered a lot of time trying to figure out how to make simple explanatory pages for people on how to use their computers and the net. So, I went looking and I found some people who can do it a whole lot better than I can.
If you know people who need help learning the basics of the internet, point them to BBC’s Webwise page. There’s also a really basic tutorial on computers too. They’ll thank you for it.
With Leslie being gone over the past couple of weekends on interviews I have been tinkering about with some ideas for pages and content. Hopefully you’ll see a bit of that in the upcoming weeks.
Misinformation
I don’t know how much of the war you all are watching…hopefully not enough that it affects your normal lives. I am a bit of a news junkie myself so I know the symptoms. In any case, if you have been catching any of the lovely speeches given by the ultimate spin doctor, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Information Minister, you will have noticed something verging on the comical. I mean, this guy should get his own late night talk show when this is over. Al-Jazeera could host it, except that he’s made them mad too. Of all the dire and serious events going on, for this guy to go ranting about anything and expect to be believed in ridiculous.
Which is why the following makes me chuckle:
Also, I managed to get someone at Central Command to send me the world map wallpaper you may see plastered all over the plasma screens at the Doha, Qatar media center. You can download it from here.
Now this is fitting
So, we just got back from the conference/job hunting in St. Louis and Indianapolis and I am going through my email and I get this image (well, an excerpt of it), which is hilarious when you are aware of one of Jason’s stories of things that inmates do to humor themselves. He probably won’t tell you – and I certainly won’t – so consider it an inside joke of sorts.
Say what?
Via a link from those wacky kids at Kuro5hin, a dialect survey being conducted by a professor at Harvard.
From now now, I’m getting my news from comics
Thought this was a slightly ironic take on the whole thing. I am going to try to talk about some lighter subjects from now on.
Just like Nintendo…
Visited a little page called Idleworm again today. I remember surfing that way awhile back. Amongst other new things is a little thing he has called Gulf War 2. Whether or not you agree with what he has to say, you’ve got to admit he’s spent some time working on this.
Inappropriate Response
Sometimes I really can’t help myself but some things crack me up. This is one of them.
Snow Day
Actually I did go to work, but it is snowing here, which is somewhat of an irregular experience.
For now though, a couple things that made me laugh:
Zits online comic strip for February 6
A mock-up movie poster from our friends at Mad Magazine.
For those who care, I am redesigning Otherland and may have that back up in all its glory next month. Stay tuned.
Also archived any news older than the first of the year (which I understand doesn’t leave a whole lot).
New News
The Headliner.net news feed apparently died while we were gone over Christmas. Currently I am trying out the Moreover.com feed. If you have any input on this, let me know. And since they have an ungodly number of feeds, I will be putting those on other pages, including the computer support type pages. Basically, there is a wealth of information out there and I’m willing to set up as many of these as you’d like (on various other pages of course).