There’s nothing wrong being wrong.
And people should be less worried about that.
But being wrong, bigoted and loud, that’s when Public Shaming comes in to take down the offenders. And there’s some spectacular displays of subhuman behaviour (a lot of it done under real names, so the Penny Arcade Theory does not apply).
WTF QR Codes, a tumbler of misplaced two-dimensional machine-readable-only content.
Even imaginary rules have a rationale. Such as authors’ rule #23: Never respond to reviews.
The counterpoint provided by Jacqueline Howett’s self-destructive spiral in these comments.
Record companies sue Limewire for a sum equal to the entire money supply of the world.
A case of internet plagiarism is pretty blatant if it makes onto the newspapers in Finland.
This time, though, it’s not a minister caught red-handed with his thesis, but an american cooking magazine whose editors have a seriously laissez-faire attitude to copyright.
The backlash is ferocious, and investigation has turned up 140+ articles illegally published.
Worst edited-for-television movie lines. Ever.
Sadly there’s no video, and no attributions.
The worst offenses inflicted on Big Lebowski and Snakes on a Plane.
EDIT: The video works now, temporary glitch only it seems.
Any counterscam that involves smurfs, umlauts and a verbal surprise at an international arrival gate gets major approval points.
kaisarastimo.info, because people need to know how little clue our councilmen have.
Carma, the site of my first ever Michelin-starred meal shuts down, allegedly on account of falling for a Nigerian scam.
Paul Allen sues everybody. Except companies from Washington state.
To mend its ailing economy Philadelphia requires bloggers to purchase a 300$ license.
The Facebook version of Scrabble has a pretty tight grip on the “bad UX of the year”. An unavoidable 30 second wait with a small and inappropriate advertisement is not really the way to encourage returning to the game often. Double annoyment demerits on account of the game status not being visible outside the application.
Five inmates escape when a guard concentrates on Plants vs. Zombies.
Yes, PopCap’s quasi-tower defense game is good entertainment, but not this good…
As if the 2155 competing entries on cow tipping, whether it is appropriate to include a picture of a cow with a semi-humorous caption.
96% (8.7 Billion dollars) of the money allocated to rebuild Iraq is unaccounted for.
Thanks to Janne, the sad state of internet-savviness of the finnish green party is now on the table. Or the utter lack thereof.
I’m sure Jyrki Kasvi, whom I could now (following the move to Espoo) vote for, is not happy with the state of affairs.
And unless Kaisa Rastimo’s cluelessness is reined in, the vote for the greens remains just a prospect, not reality.
Finnish authorities have launched nettivinkki, a red button service to inform of unsavoury content on the web.
Too bad the service has an invalid security certificate.
Two strikes against Activision: termination of a fan-produced King’s Quest sequel (a franchise dormant for eleven years) followed up by a summary dismissal of Infinity Ward lead developers (citing insubordination always goes down well in non-menial jobs).
The former could save itself with a sudden turn towards a satire, the latter probably has the Electronic Arts higher management slavering at the prospect of employing the duo.
Bruce Schneier’s essay on the matter is as water-tight as they come.
The top 20 clients from hell listing makes me glad I’m not a web designer (as is obviously evident from the layout here as well).
Sadly, one of the most surreal titles of the year is not a graceless play with words: the minions of the hasbeen-ish actress have indeed initiated legal action towards the one of the biggest blogs in the net.
The reason: blowing the whistle on image manipulation.
The verdict: not guilty. That is, unless publishing the original and altered image side by side is considered to be a crime.
Security theatre expands once again, after the failed attempt on a Delta plane.
Certainly the appropriate countermeasure for a surreptious explosive strapped to the sessile wannabe-terrorist’s groin is to ban all passenger movement within the final sixty minutes of the flight as well as all electronics.
But following the ipods full of soothing music and laptops packed with ripped movies being forcibly taken away, in most airplanes there’s not much to do for amusement.
Unless the airliner-provided in-flight entertainment systems are globally improved to the level of Singapore Airlines and such, the remaining trio of books, alcohol and mile high club will segregate passengers to two categories: either very quiet or rather rowdy.
Games Workshop has initiated a massive purge of all user-generated content for its games from the internet.
The cease-n-desist list includes games that have been out of print for 20+ years.
Thankfully the role-playing games built on the company’s IPR are in much better hands.