Remember SoClear?

No, it's not the Church of Scientology's latest skin care package, it's a worldwide pedo information exchange on Yahoo. They have a creepy beyond belief channel on YouTube that makes this writer feel like switching YouTube off. (Even though I never clicked on even one of Bong's links.)

Well, it looks like they've got their own messageboard now - called SoFightBack.

It started this week by the look of it, has only 5 members and 3 posts so far, but one of those members is ELP.

EVERYONE in the anti-pedo community should know who ELP is. He's almost as much part and parcel of that crowd as was DLW who got jailed late last year.

Having just looked over the Wikisposure page, I noticed neither of those two creeps has a listing.

Come on Pee-J, I thought you were the best in the world. Maybe I got that wrong and the only kids you care about are American kids.

Fancy that because DLW is VERY famous. He was one of the first to bitch about Justin Berry turning state's evidence (laying all the blame on Justin of course - DLW is a pedophile, therefore he's as cowardly as they all are).

That's David Williams, the pedo maggot scumbag.

Not so chipper now, are you David.

Cunt.

Wish I could remember who put that arrest on the board.

Anyway, in other news, the Australian Federal Police rang me from Canberra on Wednesday about a report I filed in the UK about a month ago.

The hardest part of reporting stuff you've seen happening to other people's kids is that without the incident being reported by the kids themselves, there's not a hell of a lot to go on. And when the kids won't even talk to their parents about what's happened, what hope is there of getting them to talk to police?

This one affects me personally because the kid did so much to improve the situation - didn't just sit there being a victim, didn't just 'let things take their course and deal with it as best you can'. This was one brave kid who just doesn't happen to have parental backing when it comes to taking the steps vital to prevent the same thing from happening to other kids.

My crew and I are also in touch with CEOP for a manual on the best way to secure the arrest of online predators. This is where my crew differ from Pee-J. My crew aren't just trained adults. They're fairly savvy adults and they're kids from 14 - 17 who are turning the tables on perverted filthbags by KNOWING WHAT TO DO WHEN A PERVERT STARTS A CHAT.

Yes, that's right. Perverts don't just mistakenly chat to undercover Pee-J operatives, perverts actually chat to real kids as well. The standard advice is "block them, delete them, report abuse."

Erm, pardon me but fuck off.

The kids in my crew are fed to the back teeth of that kind of 'action' and they're so fed up with perverts hitting on them they want to take active steps to prevent it. The stupid 1950's patriarchal attitude goes something along the lines of "This is no job for a kid, let an adult take care of it."

But what happens when a kid hands it over to an adult?

Bloody nothing of course, because the adults have bugger all idea what to do about it either. So, I've got a bunch of people - including kids - who WANT to take action so by Christ I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure if or when the time comes, they know exactly what to do in order to maximise the possibility of getting a pervert arrested.

Oh... Sorry Phillip, that's the non-American way of doing business on the internet. You don't wait for the nursemaid to clean up, you learn to clean up for yourself.

Another site

I've been trialing freehosting websites for the last few weeks before I transfer a finished product to my own domain.

Most of them are complete crap, which I sort of expected but I did at least expect to be able to upload and update the site contents as and when I wanted.

They all have the same cPanel editing which is geared to complete novices at web design which didn't suit me at all, so I design the site on my desktop then upload it as code when the page is done. No problems.

Well... that is until I opened the site in Firefox and IE and noticed the vast difference in layout between the two browsers, then the browser hacking started and it took me 4 hours to get rid of as many bugs and tweak the code so it presents almost identically in both browsers.

I tried to upload the code in 2 of the 5 free hosting sites I picked and one just wouldn't even let me into the cPanel environment.

The other, after wrestling with the code, I joined the host's forum and made a note of how much of a bitch it was manipulating the css to cater for the different browsers and lo and behold, when I signed in tonight to do more updating, the best site of the 5 I've tried fixed up the css issue and now it's twice as easy and convenient as it was before.

So, if you're looking for a free webhosting service with no banner ads, no pop-ups or pop-unders, I seriously suggest trotting along to 977mb.com and signing up.

Sure there are hosts with more space allowance; I got ones with 2gb, 5gb and 10gb but what's the point when almost 1gb is more than enough for what I'm doing and the site actually works and the admins are on the ball and responsive.

I've got a great switched on team helping with everything as well. As usual, they're spread out across the country and around the world, but having people in 4 timezones is a huge bonus.

^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^

In other news, if anyone was wondering how much damage an internet stalker can do in real life, one of the kids had a stalker log in to his msn and start messaging contacts. I was woken by a phone call at 5.30 in the morning from Boston because the stalker thought it would be funny to get this kid's mates to "show more than (their) faces" on webcam by this creep.

The kid has to face these people at school next week and explain that it wasn't him and why this cretin is stalking him. It's all happening in England too which makes it almost impossible for me to trot round to the stalker's place and give him a fat dose of how's yer aunty.

I did the next best thing though; I gathered all the logs from all the kids involved and emailed the whole lot off to Scotland Yard with as much detail as I know about the creep who's doing it.

So, if you know Keiron Harkin of Preston, Lancs, do be sure and brick the maggot's windows.

^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^ * ^

The party in Narre Warren made me laugh a bit.

The media scrum afterwards made me sick to the pit of my stomach. If I were Corey Delaney, I'd be pressing assault charges on that fucker who manhandled him in the radio studio.

On A Current Affair, the reporter seemed proud after waiting around outside a police station all day for a chance of catching a glimpse of 2008's first hero, he got wind of the fact Corey was at Frankston beach and the media circus stalked the lad even there. Creepy suckholes.

They're all over the kid like sunburn and because Corey won't take off those epic sunnies, they hate him. They can't understand why he won't co-operate. They ask him megalithicly stupid questions like "do you regret what you did?" to which Corey quite rightly says "I didn't do the damage, so I'm not responsible for what other people did."

He's kicking the media's arse with his attitude and that is fantastic. No he ain't gunna toe the media line and no he ain't gunna be made to feel contrite because of stupid questions about morality and responsibility.

He's 16 not 24!! He lives in Narre Warren, not some salacious upmarket utopian suburb.

The more Corey refuses to bow to media pressure, the more the rest of the non-deadhearted sections of the population cheer him and the more intense the media scrutiny becomes.

He's been offered a guest spot as a host for Big Brother 2008. I wonder how many more slightly savvy but equally creepy media bosses will jump on the band wagon and try to make him bow their will by offering bribes.

I just get the feeling it either won't happen or it'll be a monumental disaster for them. You don't tame kids like Corey Delaney. You find out what he likes and get him to put his name on stuff. How perfect would it be for RayBan or Oakley to have their sunnies on that kid's face.

Bloody YouTube, the tightarses..

500 character comment limit my arse.

Here's the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXXaAdi4XTE&NR=1

And here's the comment:

16 in a row - the last 2 against blokes with mos. Sam Kekovich has the answer: You can't expect a top team to adopt a policy and then abandon it at the first sign of trouble. A bunch of left wing bleeding heart soft cocks would bow to the forces of nature and grow back the mo to regain that lost aura of masculinity but what a lot of bullshit that is. Look at all the mo wearing poofters in history, Mercury, Olivier, Dumbledore... The true test of courage is the team that turns adversity to its advantage and "natural forces" on its head and drags the rest of the world kicking and screaming into its own future and ignoring those un-Australian forces still living in 2005 that think the mo maketh the man. It doesn't. Not any more. The Australian way is only the way and the rest of the world has to accept that if they want to get anywhere in this life. Them and those mo wearing jungle bunnies comprehensively thrashed by the all-conquering hero test nation of the planet have to smarten up their thinking, throw a lamb chop on the barbie and crack open an ice cold beer.

And the best cold beer is Vic.

You know it makes sense.

Here we go again - Judges, wtf??

This landed in my inbox today...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22946347-2,00.html

TWO men and three teenagers who sexually abused an 11-year-old boy at a remote Top End Aboriginal community should not be called rapists, according to a Supreme Court judge.

Ok, so the judge explains himself in a manner I reckon is just plain confused but further on in the story, there's this bit of utter stupidity...

"They have to prove not only that the victim didn't consent, but that the offender or offenders were aware that the victim was not consenting."

For fuck's sake, the kid was 11, he's not ABLE to give consent. Are you all fucking sunstruck up there or stupid or what? What the hell is the judiciary coming to? Are they all following last year's lead of UK judges who trotted out similar bullshit?

I just don't get it.

These people are supposed to be legal authorities.

The cops do their job and I have enormous respect for the work they do. Investigations are actually able to proceed despite the unbelievable amount of mire through which cops have to wade so how do the poor coppers feel when a year long investigation ends up with a bullshit result like that.

I've got 4 things on the go with cops at this moment. Every day brings new information, every day there's another kid telling me stuff they're embarrassed to tell the authorities. With a judiciary and legal system that trots out this kind of insanity, what the fuck am I supposed to tell those kids????

And the wheels on the bus...

This guy asks a "serious" question...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMY8vr2ktGY


This guy is your perfect answer...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gj36RklMJY


Just bring back the noose, there is no such thing as rehabilitation for those creeps because they refuse to accept there is anything wrong with themselves for a start AND they're campaigning for equal rights and protections so they're not subjected to the same prejudices and hate propaganda formerly suffered by gays, blacks and women and, they say, Jews.

Gimme a break!

Spend just one week doing what I've been doing all year and then come back with a pedophile apologist's line. One week. I fucking dare you.

randomness.

Last week I was given an email address to communicate directly with a particular detective sergeant here in Melbourne.

Bonus points or what!

Met Rutger Hauer the other week too. What a great bloke! Really friendly and actually spent some time to talk, not just parrot some crappy show-biz lines or advertising schtik.

I also bullied a particular social networking site into removing a member who is known to put the hard word on kids for webcam sessions. The CEO of the site himself came to visit my blog and within minutes, the profile had been blocked.

There is, of course, other stuff going on as well, but the people involved in all of that don't need me crowing on about what a great bunch of people they are so I won't, except to say it's the best bush telegraph ever.

Facing up

From last Monday's Register...

Mark Zuckerberg has been given a taste of his own medicine: his personal information is being plastered all over the web forever.
The Facebook boss has failed in a court bid to gag a magazine that published data including drunken extracts from his college diary and his social security number.

Federal judge Douglas Woodlock told the 23-year-old's lawyers on Friday that the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 had the right to release the documents, which were part of another court case.
02138's investigation centred on the dispute between Zuckerberg and the operators of ConnectU, another Harvard-founded social network. It's alleged that in the early days of Facebook, "the new Bill Gates" nicked ideas and source code from brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who had asked him to work on their project.
Digging into that period, freelance reporter Luke O'Brien turned up a series of depositions and other documents on a visit to the courthouse, and the magazine ran them in support of his article. The piece is sympathetic to the Winklevoss twins and reports accusations by classmates that Zuckerberg had lied in front of them.
Facebook lawyers applied to have the documents taken down on Thursday, saying the court had ordered them to be sealed.
A spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal: "One reason the court ordered certain documents' protection was to prevent exactly what has happened: misusing documents and taking documents out of context to sling mud."
Their failed application also attempted to force O'Brien to reveal how he obtained the files, since they had been locked up. He has maintained he was given them by a Federal Appeals Court clerk.
The judge denied all Facebook's claims. According to the New York Times, the clerk mistakenly handed over the files to O'Brien.
Zuckerberg and Co. will be hoping Friday's decision marks the end of a run of public embarrassments for Facebook. On Thursday, it was finally forced to bow to pressure over its creepy new ad system Beacon.
There could be more privacy-related defeats ahead, however. The UK's Information Commissioner is investigating Facebook's "Hotel California" policy on user data that means accounts can only be deactivated, never deleted.


For what I really want to say, well.. that's for my MySpace.

Good lawd!

There appears to still be one poor misguided idiot who thinks I have claimed to be anything more than a complete bastard.

Others, bless them, have credited me with being possessed of moral virtue, I never have.

Of course I can actually PROVE where others have said I'm a nice person, the liar leaving comments on my recent posts can't prove any of their claims. Not one. It's just the same old accusations based on distortions, false claims, misconceptions and half truths. But not one skerrick of evidence.

Of course, this being the internet, unfounded accusations are par for the course, however what is absolutely unforgivable is to comment on someone's blog with the most boring lot of repetitive, sanctimonious and pompous load of old bollox time after time and more and more longwinded each time...

Look at my code of conduct... now look at the very first item in my code of conduct.

Got it?

Post whatever, just don't bore the fuck out of me with repetitive drivel which showcases your penchant for adjectives over actual objectives.

A lot of people??

One comment in the barrage of desperate (but amusingly prolific) comments to this blog yesterday said a lot of people are wondering about me.

It is, of course, a lie.

In the website Outfoxed, the argument from authority frequently used by Fox News journalists is exposed for its dishonesty. Some people say - is a fallacious argument.

Being from Liars Team HQ though, this sort of dishonesty is only to be expected. It's what they do, after all...

So, if a lot of people are wondering about me, the anonymous commenter must therefore be able to name at least a few of them...

They won't - that would lead to all sorts of discomfort for them. But it'll be interesting to see what lie they use to escape the burden of proof.

Go for it, liars.... who are these "lot of people"?

Truth comes out again...

I was wondering what had prompted the rash of attendees to this blog from Liars Team HQ last week, so I had myself a bit of a peruse for the 2nd time in about 4 months or so and found the following exchange...

c.I refuse to argue with someone who acts like Chatrat and who refuses to acknowledge when she fucks up and does the wrong thing.

This must be why Lea the Liar thinks she's perfect. (She SO did not tell me to tell her I love her even if I didn't mean it. -->fkn amazed emote picture here <-- ) She also SO ordered a copy of the play, (read "credit card declined" - couldn't afford $15)

The riposte by Clorox was fairly passable though...

C. Acting like ChatRat? Lol. I am so sick of your emotionally charged overreactions lately. I teased you in chat, and you said "I'm not talking to you anymore" just like Reesa does when someone disagrees. Now you're doing it here again. If I disclosed your credit card information, and told you you're fucking up your children, then perhaps you may have a point. However, you don't. You're lashing out, much like Reesa, and making random nonsensical stabbing motions. You're dropping your basket. Yet again. Quel surprise.

Welcome to the "Sick of Loopy Lea Club", Claratyne. Nice going though, the stupid cow had to come and revisit the dead brother theme she sooooo regretted last year. Truly though, how could anyone be surprised that Lea and Reesa are friends? They're both barking fucking mad schizoid breadknifing maniacs. (At least Reesa is good for a laugh though, even if it is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.)

Oh, in case you both hadn't noticed, ChatRat has moved on. Clearly, you freaks need to do the same.

Pedophiles are such fkn cowards.

dave harry says (2:59 AM):
asl

Paul says (2:59 AM):
40 male Australia and a friend of the girl you're trying to wank on cam for.

Paul says (2:59 AM):
guess what creep.

Paul says (2:59 AM):
you're busted

dave harry says (3:00 AM):
what

dave harry says (3:00 AM):
u taking a bout

Paul says (3:00 AM):
you want a c&p?

dave harry says (3:00 AM):
what

Paul says (3:00 AM):
dave harry says:
u like cock
me says:
if some1 finds out u have been sayin this stuff
dave harry says:
they wont
dave harry says:
any way
me says:
how do ya no?
dave harry says:

dave harry says (3:00 AM):
not me

Paul says (3:01 AM):
nice try

Paul says (3:01 AM):
ain't gunna cut no ice with me

dave harry says (3:01 AM):
so what u going to do

dave harry says (3:01 AM):
come on

Paul says (3:01 AM):
hahaha..

Paul says (3:01 AM):
call her a bitch did you

dave harry says (3:01 AM):
nothing

Paul says (3:01 AM):
blame the kid

Paul says (3:02 AM):
go on, coward

dave harry says (3:02 AM):
i did

dave harry says (3:02 AM):
why are u chatting with her then

Paul says (3:03 AM):
because she asked for my help dealing with a cretin like you who thinks it's cool for a 25yo to j/o off cam for a girl he knows is only 14

dave harry says (3:03 AM):
she added me to all this

dave harry says (3:03 AM):
msn and net log??

dave harry says (3:03 AM):
so its chat

Paul says (3:03 AM):
so you're going to blame her again...

dave harry says (3:03 AM):
and when she want to me

Paul says (3:03 AM):
still isn't going to cut any ice with me.. you're the adult.

dave harry says (3:03 AM):
i wont any way

Paul says (3:04 AM):
what's more... I know you have her phone number and I'm warning you if you try to contact her by phone, she and I will both notify the police immediately.

dave harry says (3:04 AM):
i dont have her number

dave harry says (3:04 AM):
so how can i

dave harry says (3:05 AM):
so u are in her then

dave harry says (3:05 AM):
i am sorry

dave harry says (3:05 AM):
and when she gets on i will delete her

Paul says (3:05 AM):
She's already blocked and deleted you anyway

dave harry says (3:05 AM):
sweet

dave harry says (3:06 AM):
just seem that a 14 is want sex and cam with any 1

dave harry says (3:06 AM):
any way

dave harry says (3:06 AM):
its cool

Paul says (3:06 AM):
don't keep blaming her, she's a kid and as an adult you're supposed to know better

dave harry says (3:06 AM):
i wont txt/ msg at all

dave harry says (3:06 AM):
its chat

Paul says (3:06 AM):
how can you, you don't have her number

dave harry says (3:07 AM):
maybe she shoud lead guys on like she has

Paul says (3:07 AM):
it's not chat when you offer to j/o off cam... and the law takes a real dim view when you know she's underage

Paul says (3:07 AM):
oh man.. you best block me now.. you're just digging yourself into a deeper hole

dave harry says (3:08 AM):
point 1.... the day i she added me.... why

dave harry says (3:08 AM):
??

dave harry says (3:08 AM):
why??

dave harry says (3:08 AM):
tell me

dave harry says (3:08 AM):
..................................

dave harry says (3:08 AM):
u canrt

dave harry says (3:08 AM):
bye

Paul says (3:08 AM):
you are blaming a 14yo

dave harry says (3:09 AM):
no

dave harry says (3:09 AM):
i am not

Paul says (3:09 AM):
you knew she was 14 yet you still offered to j.o on cam for her

dave harry says (3:09 AM):
why the fck would she add some of that age

Paul says (3:09 AM):
you tried to deny it when I challenged you

dave harry says (3:09 AM):
and why would she lie about her age

Paul says (3:09 AM):
and she's talking to me - and she knows I'm 40

dave harry says (3:10 AM):
i have chatted with her 6 or 7 times and she hasnt told difrent

dave harry says (3:10 AM):
and why would she look at my cam if she was like want some

dave harry says (3:10 AM):
dont make sence

Paul says (3:10 AM):
then you don't need to bother talking to her any more then do you.

dave harry says (3:11 AM):
i wont

dave harry says (3:11 AM):
if she chats with me

dave harry says (3:11 AM):
she will be canned

dave harry says (3:11 AM):
not on

dave harry says (3:12 AM):
dude .... again sorry

dave harry says (3:12 AM):
but at her age why is lead guys on

dave harry says (3:12 AM):
??

Paul says (3:12 AM):
I have an answer to that but you're not going to get it.

dave harry says (3:13 AM):
in ur words

Paul says (3:13 AM):
In my words, I have an answer to your question but I'm not going to give it to you.

dave harry says (3:13 AM):
when?/ where

dave harry says (3:13 AM):
thats poor

dave harry says (3:13 AM):
say it

Paul says (3:14 AM):
There's nothing to say.. she told you she is 14 and you kept on with your chat. You've broken the law now just hope to hell she or I don't report you to Crimestoppers for it.

Paul says (3:15 AM):
we're both pretty familiar with the ceop.gov.uk website too.

dave harry says (3:15 AM):
i am from tasmaina dude,,, not the uk

dave harry says (3:15 AM):
so no

Paul says (3:15 AM):
so yeah... crimestoppes applies right to you...

Paul says (3:15 AM):
1800 333 000.. ring any bells?

dave harry says (3:16 AM):
no

dave harry says (3:16 AM):
why would i

Paul says (3:16 AM):
that's the cop hotline right around Australia

Paul says (3:16 AM):
it's a free call

Paul says (3:17 AM):
anyone can call anonymously...

Paul says (3:17 AM):
There's a website too

dave harry says (3:17 AM):
thanks 4 the tip

Paul says (3:17 AM):
where chatlogs can be uploaded

Paul says (3:17 AM):
am I being clear enough yet?

dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am here 4 chat

dave harry says (3:18 AM):
and thats all

dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am pissed and should be in bed

dave harry says (3:18 AM):
i am goin now

dave harry says (3:19 AM):
by the way

dave harry says (3:19 AM):
she been look at me today at net log?? why

Paul says (3:19 AM):
you're married with a kid.. why would you j/o on cam for her?

dave harry says (3:20 AM):
i am going to leave it here

Paul says (3:20 AM):
I bet you are

dave harry says (3:20 AM):
she has been deleted

Paul says (3:20 AM):
say hi to the missus for me

27 years ago...

My brother Christopher was born...

Not a day has passed when I haven't thought about him at least a hundred times.

Social networking sites

Suck.

They do. I've seen more heartache, pain and misery emanating from social networking sites than I've seen in a lot of places for a long time.

The filth are like a hidden army running through those sites, sometimes in packs and often in more than one site at a time, luring kids into god knows what.

Oli's brother grabbed me into one such site and after lurking there for a tad over 6 months now, I've managed to get one kid out of a nest of filth and I hope for all I'm worth I'm not too late to extricate another - and that's not even beginning to address the more than 850 kids who were on John Quan's friends list before the posse hounded him into submission, forced him to hide his MySpace picture, caught him out at Ringo and eventually stole his account. (that was me... lulz!)

Dirty fucking bastard was tricking underage girls into webcam shenanigans.

One bloody site, so many unhappy kids.

But in the midst of it all, and in the back of my mind has been my friends. In particular Oli, Marc and Anton. I've been giving so much of my time to fighting perverts at that shithole that I've been completely absent from those friends I really do love so much. (There's also the slight inconvenience of having to actually go into work and spend 8 or 9 hours at the office which I would otherwise have spent at home being pleasantly distracted, but hell, for double the pay, why not.)

So anyway, the upside of it is there's a bunch of new people to care about, in particular Justin, Andrew, Nick, Sara, Rory, Simon, Alej, Kat, Ray and Sue. It just makes me feel pretty low that I haven't been around at all for Oli, Marc, Wilbur, Mel and - and of course, His Lordship.

OMG!

They've killed Pete Doherty!

Lulz. Those crazy guys.

The things we do...

I joined a couple of groups on Tuesday and now I'm fearing the worst. I met a couple of decent people and had words with one of the admin before we 'parted' on good terms but I also started something there that already looks like it's more than I can handle.

I'd like to do it but I feel too strongly for the friends I have already to even give the appearance of looking at moving on. Anton, Oli, Mel, Seth, Chris, Marc and all the rest mean a great deal to me and this new thing I did on Tuesday would not only demand more time than I am inclined to give it, it would be pretty much in competition with what the crew and I are still hopeful of achieving.

That's about all I feel like making publicly available right now.

Fuck timezone differences.

Uh oh.

I'm getting seriously twitchy about Vanessa Amorosi.

There are some voices that are pure, smooth, bell-like, have a great range etc...

Well, I'm not making any observations about the first three, but range? My GOD!

2000 Olympics rings in my ears, this 19 year old as was performing to an audience of billions and she carried it off just perfectly. Perfectly.

The song of choice, Heroes, could not have been better and I couldn't think of any other artist who could even have performed that song, let alone done it with such emphasis and heart as did Vanessa.

I remember back in the early 80s not thinking anything at all of Madonna. She was, to me anyway, just a slaggy popstar who sang trashy pop songs that I didn't especially like. Then, listening to the radio on my way home one afternoon, I heard the song "Live to Tell" and my mind was blown. That woman has been an idol of mine ever since. I haven't gone ga-ga about all her songs, but even JS Bach did stuff I don't like. But I still respected the woman.

I didn't pay a great deal of attention to the Olympic Games opening ceremony in 2000 either. I did arc up when they announced an obscure artist was going to sing - because I wanted to see who the obscure artist was. (Nicki whatsernamie floating above the arena was just way too creepy for me and I don't like her strangled canary voice either) I was hoping it wasn't going to be her.

Then came the trumpet fanfare, the arena went quiet and this song of enormous pathos filled that space and charged it. The echo, the atmosphere and the aura of anticipation as the subtle beat behind the flow of the lyrics generated the sort of electricity it is impossible to ignore.

Then at the climax, the beat takes over and the lyrics sound out like a clarion call to the essence of humanity. Heroes live forever. And don't they?

What a way to open the biggest competition Earth has to offer. Mindblowing.

And that final burst of Heroes Live Forever - how long is that last note? How many beats? I can only just hold my breath for that long and she's belting out that note like her lungs were about to explode out of her chest and there's not a hint of fade in it.

Just incredible.

And to think, she was just 19. If what she did 7 years ago isn't deserving of admiration and respect, nothing ever was or will be.

In this message, you laugh, you lose.

http://www.netauthority.org/offenders/1863.shtml

I lawled big time.

Netauthority is a byword for racism and aids on the internet. The subtly filthy designs of their website and their IAUP are more hateful than anything I read in Mein Kampf or Machiavelli. The arseholes behind netauthority are the cancer that is killing society. I hope they all fuck off and die today.

They have banned the Wiggles for "hateful content". Yes, The Wiggles. How demented are these people? They also say there were no dinosaurs, God put the fossils there to test man's faith in him. Bitter irony, eh.


Also Bags, since you'd been vanished for 2 years or so, I've lost your contact details. If you wants to catch up, you is going to have to give them to me again. My details are all still the same.

Moar wtf!?

The New York Times is messing with my head.

They're having another crack at Google which makes me seriously doubt the sanity of the people who write these articles.

Where to begin?

1. Google is bigger than its two closest rivals Yahoo and Microsoft - by a longshot.
2. Googling is part of the language now, which I noted previously in this blog.
3. The article talks about search engine startups with alternatives to Google's hyper-secret search algorithm and the nature and content of the returns provided by those alternatives.
4. One of these start ups is boasting a return of 5000 relevant returns for the search term "Paris Hilton". Google returns 59,700,000. Clicking Google's News results returns a further 21,310 results.
   
5. The article talks about little search engines snaffling tiny percentages of users from Google and it crunches some numbers which add up to (potentially) billions of dollars in returns for relatively small capital outlays - making search an attractive business proposition.
   

I suppose the aspect of this article that has set me off is the headline:

The Human Touch That May Loosen Google’s Grip

Pardon me, but BOLLOCKS.

The one line in the entire article with a solid footing in reality didn't appear until the 6th paragraph, towit: "Even gathering the crumbs of business left behind by Google could generate a lofty market capitalization."

Which does not in any way equate with the headline. What Google leaves behind, Google obviously doesn't want.

The article also skirts nimbly around the search terms that might prick the collective conscience of NYTimes readers, namely porn.

Some people, like myself, like to go through the back pages of search results to find off topic returns for a particular search. I wouldn't have found seedsofdoubt.com if I'd just gone looking for what someone else deemed as 'relevant' to my search query which was bush+hitler.

This leads me to feel that whatever you can't get from a Google search, you really oughtn't to be searching for anyway. So where does that leave these potential rivals to Google's superiority?

Either with piss-poor search returns, probably all of which Google would return anyway, or a database full of cp, links for terrorists and goatse. Oh, and 5,000 'relevant' links for Paris Hilton.

Back to the relevance aspect, the article (on page 2) goes on to talk about search engine optimisation.

To those in the trade, outsmarting the algorithm is called “search engine optimization.” For the rest of us, it produces Web pages littered with spam.

Don't include me in your "rest of us", buddy. It doesn't take long to work out which sites are crap and which are going to provide good information. That sort of navigational information also travels like wildfire around the net. Who hasn't heard of The Onion? (Here, have a laugh.)

It also doesn't take much effort to hit the back button or the little red x (top right of the window) to return to the results page and go find another link.

And speaking of being "littered with spam", would it hurt if I mentioned that reading NYTimes articles online is made awkward because of the massive advertisement taking up the right side of the page and the links to 'relevant searches' intruding into the article from the left?

Ok, so at the end of the day, little search start ups might make for themselves some nice tidy profits and set an example or two of what can be achieved if one looks at alternatives. They're incorporating a site ranking by user-vote system, which is nice, but it isn't going to affect the dominance in the market place by the one big search company that is so big because it gives the people what the people want.

All this leaves me wondering why such an esteemed news service is repeatedly waffling garbage when it comes to Google.

Love, ChatRat

Lots of goodies in the news this week...

Top of the list has to go to a zdnet report on the US Homeland Security department with the trojan ridden computers.

The man in charge of IT security for the US Homeland Security department may lose his job after the revelations that his department’s IT systems have misconfigured firewalls, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections.

In response to reports of persistent cybersecurity flaws at the Department of Homeland Security, a top congressional Democrat on Wednesday questioned whether the agency's chief information officer deserves to keep his job.

Nah, they'll promote the incompetent swat. That's what they do in the public service. Kick them upstairs to get them out of harm's way without provoking the union to a revolt.

Some poor old Aussie spreader of good cheer will serve 15 months in chokey in the U.S. after having been extradited from Oz to LaLaLand for his leading role in the interweb piracy website drinkordie, which was shut down by U.S. Customs and Interference. Poor bastard. Total sentence - 51 months, time already served means he'll be out in time for next year's Melbourne Cup. The silly prat boasted he'd never get caught. PROTIP: Hew; in order not to get caught, you might consider not doing crime.

Finally, the one that is closest to my heart:

This from Reuters:

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Putting feelings into words makes sadness and anger less intense, U.S. brain researchers said on Wednesday, in a finding that explains why talking to a therapist -- or even a sympathetic bartender -- often makes people feel better.

I have a massive bent against the destruction of our language at the hands of people either too inept, too lazy or just too uneducated to be considered responsible users of words.

The reason being; if you deprive a person of language, the means to communicate, you remove from them the very essence of what it is to be human.

Misusing the language to the extent it reduces one's own ability to express thoughts and feelings has exactly the same effect. It increases frustration, accentuates isolation and reduces one's efficacy for life in a society which functions because of its use of language.

This cold hard fact is borne out even the Bible! At the fabled Tower of Babel. To thwart the plans of the fabled people to build a tower to an even more fabled Heaven, the fabled god "confused their language."

By not having and appreciating an adequate grasp of language and how fundamental it is on every aspect of our lives, we reduce our understanding of ourselves and each other.

The report goes on...

They said talking about negative feelings activates a part of the brain responsible for impulse control.

"This region of the brain seems to be involved in putting on the brakes," said University of Southern California Los Angeles researcher Matthew Lieberman, whose study appears in the journal Psychological Science.

Putting this into the context of the Virginia Tech shootings and the fact we have since discovered that Cho Seung Hui was an isolate - according to reports quoting people who knew the guy - one might start to realise that communication is fundamental to a healthy society. And that means not just watching tv or getting news from the internet, it means communicating - expressing oneself.

The better a person can communicate their thoughts and feelings to people around them, the better that person will be able to function both as an individual and as part of a broader group.

Erode the means of interaction and you diminish the person. See "1984" for an up to date list of un-words. It's double plus good.

"I think we all believe that by talking about our feelings, we reach deep new insights, and that understanding is what transforms us,"

"It's not just the deep thoughts," (Lieberman) said. "It's something about the way we are built."

Amen!

Now, this report was not specifically about humans and language, how language helps us identify our own thoughts and feelings as well as those of the people around us, it was a report on the findings of a study conducted on 18 women and 12 men.

What they found is that when people attached a word like angry to an angry-looking face, the response in the amygdala portion of the brain that handles fear, panic and other strong emotions decreased.

I've been trying to explain this to a number of my younger friends that emotions do respond to intellect, rather than the other way around, and thinking improves with practice. Thinking, as distinct from feeling, is generally done in our minds using words. Continual improvement in skill at using language facilitates better understanding, comprehension and communication. It makes us more "human".

Technorati?

Announcement!

I'm not usually given to devoting much time to politics except to rant about some particularly offensive bit of bullshit, and I certainly don't give much of an airing to matters of a political nature in this blog. Having said that, I was poking around the interweb tonight in pursuit of enlarging my substantial knowledge of all things Nazi Germany when I chanced upon letters addressed to Hitler emanating from the Watchtower and Bible Tract Society, Magdeburg.

Cutting to the chase, I arrived at the blog of one Mr Doug Ross.

So impressed was I that I've added a link over there on the right.

Ok, announcement over. For those of you who want to see what else I found whilst lurking about the wires, here's one for all of you who think there is any difference in politicians just because of the date or the skill of their speechwriters.

I lol'd.

The imdb mini-bio of Hitler contains more than its fair share of misinformation and doesn't cite any of its sources.

And here's a picture I found at this url...

http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/images/monkeys-new-ag.jpg (I love the pic title.)