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Weblog of a cyber-geek

I was randomly surfing YouTube today when I came across a new form of music - produced by computer hardware. Of course, computers have played a central part in modern music for some time now, but never before has “electronic music” been taken so literally:

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I found a few fonejacker videos on YouTube and ever since, I’ve been fairly hooked. The guy basically prank calls random people and speaks nonsense to them until they slam the phone down (well most of them do anyway).

Here’s one of my favourites:

Well I’ve finally finished watching all of the Star Wars films - through from episode 4 to episode 6 and then the prequel episodes too. They are great films and in some ways very powerful - probably my favourite quote out of all of the films came in the last one I watched (Revenge of the Sith), where Padme says “So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause.”

Anyway, a bit of YouTube surfing led me to this video where Darth falls back in love with someone - enjoy!

I site I managed to find recently through Google was the Web 2.0 validator.

For those unacquainted with the term, “web 2.0″ is a term used to describe the new internet, following the recovery after the .com crash of the late 90s and early 2000s. The only problem is that no-one actually knows exactly what “web 2.0″ really means - some people think it’s about design, others about new technology (i.e. AJAX), community-based websites or a mix of them all. It’s simply become a buzzword and there are a number of running jokes in the tech industry about it.

Back on track, the web 2.0 validator tells you whether you’re site is 2.0 or not! In their own words: “we’re the dot in web 2.0″!

This sites results are as follows:

The score for http://www.danlprice.co.uk is 10 out of 66

• Uses Cascading Style Sheets? Yes!
• Attempts to be XHTML Strict ? Yes!
• Actually mentions Web 2.0 ? Yes!
• Uses Semantic Markup? Yes!
• Refers to web2.0validator ? Yes! (Woohoo!)
• Uses the “blink” tag? Yes!
• Appears to have Adsense ? Yes!

Wow, I’m so 2.0….

“Conservatipedia” sounds just like another web 2.0 site jumping on the bandwagon, and with such a name would obviously be targeted towards a right wing audience. The name simply suggests that it’s a right wing site about politics, perhaps discussing the different ideologies on this side of the political spectrum.

However, if you actually go over to this site, you quickly realise this isn’t a place for moderate Conservatives to air their views, but for far right wing Conservatives, perhaps even Fascists, to indoctrinate their viewing audience with absurd ideas about a number of topics. (more…)

Following a thread on Webmaster-Talk about similarities between people/things, I decided to have a look around for any similarities I could find between people (and creatures!).

I discovered:

To me, the resemblance is uncanny. Is the USA being led by a primate?

I was told once that on average, we use 1% of our brains - that seems ridiculous now I’ve read this BBC News article saying that the belief we use on 10% of our brains is untrue - how could I have believed we use 1%?!

Anyway, the article follows a recent study to discover the truths behind a number of medical myths. These include the myth that reading in poor light damages eyesight (which seems a bit logical it has to be said) and that hair and nails grow after death (who would even be watching then?!). Well worth a read.

This is a hilarious article I found when I was browsing around the net. There are actually people that ARE this annoying!

MSN Messenger users will agree with me that people with connection problems that sign in 10 times in about 10 seconds is also a great annoyance. There are probably hundreds of other things I could list, but it’s nearly 11pm and my brains turning off!