August 20 2007
Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 12:09 pm
The Herald has been hiding Tim Shadbolt’s blog… hang on, there’s more… There’s Audrey on Politics, which has been going strong… In the Lifestyle section we have the established Blonde at the Bar and newbie blogs Family Life with Dr Robi Sonderegger and Mother of All Challenges with Tina Shaw — both tapping into that huge neurotic parent market. In Technology, there’s Peter Griffin’s must read and some faceless guy called MadGamer … apparently there are more to come. Now if they were just all in one place so we could find them…
Best scam attempt ever: In California, 51 year old man is busted for selling oven doors as flat-screen TVs… (video)…
Who has the time (or the inclination) to make your own soap and paper? This twaddle is for tightwads without kids/jobs/lives who have time to make things from scratch — recipes, booze, clothing, cosmetics etc…
A South African ad for classic movies on sale at Toys “R” Us. Surely the body count alone (and the sappy romance, plus the fact it’s excruciatingly long) makes Titanic not kid-friendly? But maybe they’re after the Mums…
I’m all for expressing one’s personality through clothes and personal adornment, but this guy goes too far…
A retro TV news report on the very early days of the Internet (Any guesses about when this would have been made?)
August 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
The follow up to the california oven door/tv guy is awesome – Canadian TV reporting on whether forcing mules to do a 24 foot high-dive is “animal cruelty” in Texas. No prizes for guessing the answer…
August 21st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
My goodness that list of make your own stuff is sad. Moisturiser is one of the worst/best on there. But it’s good that now I know how to make my own 3D glasses because I have SO many 3D glasses emergencies!
Didn’t you love how they described emoticons in that internet piece?
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:39 am
You were the first of their writers to start a blog – yes?
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:53 am
I’d guess that it’s from ‘94/’95. It’s based around Usenet and not the World Wide Web, which is what we think of as “the internet” today.
I like how it’s technically accurate and reports it as a cool new thing, rather than the “is your X safe?!” angle that seems to focus on most reports of the net now.
Ah! I just googled it and it turns out it was from 1993 (wow!)