Wow, an article about a kid who made a bomb using instructions from the internet and blew his hand off (although it looks like he kept his now-unopposed thumb). Back in ’94 or so (possibly pre-web, I can’t remember) it seemed like that was the only bad thing people could come up with about the internet. Parents were all concerned that their children would die in horrible bomb making accidents because of bad instructions on the internet. Actually, I think people were worried about other children making the bombs more than they were about their own well behaved brats, who were no doubt bypassing the bomb info in favour of the drug and alcohol recipes. Speaking of which, I used to wonder who would actually ingest the outcome of an internet drug recipe, but that was before I heard about inhaling gasoline and household cleaners. Yeesh.
Anyway, this will no doubt cause a crackdown on the porn industry, who got so big that they distracted everyone’s attention from the other information that you could find online, like bomb making. And calculus.
In other news, I started at Meme Machine Go and somehow ended up at the Advocacy Game. Great fun, and yes, somehow in the midst of all of this I’ve been working.
It’s too cold at work, and it’s too hot at home. I hear it’s a smog day, and we may have had one yesterday. I don’t know. I used to check these things online, but it’s too depressing. I found out about today because it was on the front page of the paper I stooped in front of after my (pain free!) run this morning. I was a bit bummed that the smog article was taking up valuable front page space that should be dedicated to actors who drive race cars into walls, but then I saw that Jason Priestly made it into the prestigious “bottom of the page” slot, which is technically “above the fold” if you hold the paper wrong. The smog article cut across the fold, which means you have to work harder to read it, especially with the air the way it is.