Monthly Archive for December, 2003Page 2 of 2

Join the new Tribe!

cynical cretins worldwilde .

I know you want to. What was your first thought while reading this?

See!

Edited for link.

Edited on Dec 12th 2003, 23:27 by jeck

We are all nerds now

…at least according to The Guardian.

Will it now be rebellious to become “MTV-cool”?

[Quote] These days, the takeover is complete. In the meantime, the nerd has replicated and sub-divided to the extent that it’s tough keeping tabs on him. The fantasy junkies who thrill to Lord of the Rings and role-play games form one obvious tribe. Yet so do the sci-fi aficionados who have graduated from Star Trek conventions to the sleeker, trench-coat fashions of the Matrix movies. [Quote]

[via /.]

I took over microsoft.com

With the help of zapthedingbat I took over the domain microsoft.com.
But alas, due to techical problems the change is only visible for IE users. Who could have thought that they would defend their homepage using the same browsers they wanted to get rid of?

*tss*

You aren’t citizens, you are consumers…

From “His green, colorful ideas awaken furiously” by Craig Morris at telepolis.

[Quote]
As Chomsky puts it, the US media see their audience as consumers, not citizens. Today, TV shows aim to get a large audience for advertisers, not inform citizens. It all started with soap operas, whose content was the product of the advertising industry trying to get housewives to sit in front of the TV when ads for detergent were broadcast. Almost fifty years later, even “news” channels like CNN and Fox do not sell news to their audience, but the audience to the advertisers. [Quote]

winxp: deleting locked files

start taskmanager
kill explorer.exe
start shell
del file
start explorer.exe

Voilá!




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