Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'Internet'
Does the Internet Make Sexism Autopoietic?
This comic by Gabby Schulz forecasts a recent dustup over a presentation by Rebecca Watson at the 2011 World Atheist Convention in Dublin. Basically, Watson explains she doesn’t like it when anonymous men hit her up for sex at...
Obama Administration Warns About Using Information Devices Which Have Produced the Most Widely Distributed Publishing Platform in Human History
I really want this thing to work out with President Obama. He’s smart. He’s a constitutaional scholar. His adminstration has taken steps to advance the welfare of US citizens and the welfare of people worldwide. So I don’t get...
Simpleminded
After finishing the major work for a new web page, I discovered the page wasn’t properly rendering on Internet Explorer. I expected some discrepancies because the page layout used some moderately advanced CSS. What I didn’t expect was that the...
Please tell me this isn't true
I am praying some of the information in a New York Times article regarding pacemakers (implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, or ICDs) is in error, is fabricated, is untrue, is a lie or a dream. How can it be thatdevice makers have begun...
Quickening
Microfilm was a terrible technology from the word “go.” Today, it's become just a little bit worse....
Digital Cartesianism
The Internet abhors censorship....
Niceties of Conversation
No time at all, but I came across the video below1 through the blog of oneautumnleaf, who replied to a comment I left on Sarah O.’s blog. It articulates how the battle for Net Neutrality in the United States is...
Data Dada
Great boobies, honey bun! My lower intestine is full of spam eggs spam bacon spam . . . spam spam spam . . . —”Spam” Monty Python The Brothers McLeod Spamland #1iPod-compatibleCtrl/Right-click on the link above to “Save File...
Net Neutrality: Part 2
There’s a lot of activity regarding Net Neutrality just about now. Today, I received the following email from eBay CEO, Meg Whitman (or at least her automated counterpart): Dear mistersquid, As you know, I almost never reach out to...
A Series of Tubes
Some might say I'm slacking by posting only the following video from YouTube. The gory truth is that my Internets is clogged. Bonus MP3*: “It’s a Series of Tubes!”CTRL-click to “Save File As . . .” Notes *The file...
Net Neutrality and You
Internet service providers (ISPs) such as AT&T, Comcast, Time-Warner, and Verizon have been conducting an intense lobbying effort to end Internet neutrality. Without outlining the history of these industry incumbents and their relationships to the Internet as providers, I...
Email Blackout: The Supermoves of a Stupendous Bozo
To anyone who may have tried to contact me by email on Sunday, 21 May between 1:00 pm and 9:30 pm EST: your email may have been irretrievably lost. I made changes to the postfix servers on my two...
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