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Your daily listing of interesting, unusual, quirky and topical web sites. Keep up with the internet zeitgeist.
| Monday, 29th April |
You may well have noticed that this site hasn't been updated in well over a month. There are many reasons for that and I can only apologise. Rest assured that BlokeAtBack hasn't died but is merely like a caterpillar that has crawled into a cocoon, it is currently undergoing a metamorphosis and will soon emerge, blinking in the summer sun looking healthier and more beautiful than ever. In other words there is a new version of BlokeAtBack currently under development that will be powered by the jardBlogger system. This will bring a whole host of advantages both for you, the visitors and me, the blogger. Watch this space. |
| Poster: James | As: Internet |
| Wednesday, 6th March |
Time, as the saying goes, is money. But what if it wasn't? What if we had all the time we wanted to waste on the internet, doing crazy, pointless things and learning some, quite frankly irrelevant, information? What would we do for entertainment then? Unfortunately this isn't true so there is only one solution. First of all run yourself through the human virus scanner for diagnosis, then shutdown the internet. |
| Poster: James | As: Internet |
| Weekend, 2nd,3rd March | So one day you're surfing around the web looking at the same old sites and you realise that you've seen it all before. Is there anything new on the 'net any more? Of course there is, there are hundreds of online comics out there getting regularly updated with brand new multicoloured, cartoon goodness. Of course many of them cater to the more geeky, techy types that tend to proliferate online but there are still more that cater to both the 'normal' person or the slightly screwy, all giving their unique, slightly skewed view of the world. |
| Poster: James | As: Online Culture |
| Thursday, 28th February | Speak any unusual, obscure or downright nerdy languages? Fancy searching the web using amusing made-up languages? Remember Google have probably got a version of their search engine for you. And if typing their address in, or clicking a bookmark is too strenuous then you could install the Google Toolbar (IE only), make Google your address bar search engine and add the Google Sidebar tab (Mozilla or Netscape 6+ only) or add Google toolbar buttons (any javascript enabled browser). They also offer specialist searches for certain narrow areas of interest. If you're fed up with all of this serious research then why not have a look through their logo archives, or glance at their Zeitgeist page and see who's searching for what, and what's going out of fashion. |
| Poster: James | As: Internet |
| Wednesday, 27th February |
Mobile phone antennae are sprouting up all over the country, in the most surprising locations. Are they safe? What's The Government saying about them? What can you do about them? More important how stylish are they, do they have predictive text messaging and what games do they come with? |
| Poster: James | As: Comment |
| Tuesday, 26th February | So, it's the 26th of February 2002, you're 20 years old and a student. What do you do now? Eat loads of bananas? Go out for a beer or ten? Have a mahoosive party? No, you go to work. How strange. |
| Poster: James | As: Strange |
| Monday, 25th February | Do you remember the time I knew a Girl From Mars? I don't know if you knew that Oh we'd stay up late playing cards Henri Winterman Cigars Though she never told me her name I still love you the Girl From Mars (Apologies to Ash) |
| Poster: James | As: Music |
| Sunday, 24th February | Slacking. Is it the greatest ideal that a man can dedicate his life to? Studies have proven that according to Moore's Law you can actually achieve more by slacking off. Let's face it, students do it, office workers do it, why shouldn't you do it? Loafing, make it your way of life. |
| Poster: James | As: Lifestyle |
| Saturday, 23rd February |
Many's the winter afternoon in my youth when we'd pull the Scalextric set down from the spare room and spend hours trying to knock each other's cars off at the chicanes. Want to recreate it? Well here you are. Apparently these days people race full size cars too, not sure what that's all about but it seems to be fairly popular for some reason. Perhaps it's so that top directors can create excellent short films with some familiar faces and great car chases. Or possibly small is beautiful after all. |
| Poster: James | As: Sports |
| Friday, 22nd February | In the beginning was the Internet, and they saw the internet, read the word, and it was good. But the darkness was upon the network for yea, though they could read the word, and they could email the word, and they could ftp, or irc the word they could see no formatting, and each word was an unlinked island unto itself. Then one day from the land of the Swiss came an Englishman called Tim, he looked upon the internet, and he was not happy. And verily in the year of 1990 he begat the World Wide Web, and there was much rejoicing. And others did see the Web and said yea though the words are now linked, and the headlines are now H1 we see no images, and they did create the images and there was much rejoicing. Then one day came the beast from Unisys and tried to pull down the image from the Web, and though they failed the wounded are still being healed. Then another day came the British Telecom, and they spake thusly, "We hath invented the hyperlink, All Your Hyperlinks Are Belong To Us". And Tim didst weep. |
| Poster: James | As: Internet |
| Thursday, 20th February | The one thing that anyone who's thinking of posting on Usenet, a bulletin board, discussion forum or even just sending emails needs is a decent "sig". Now back in the old days when I first got on the net using Unix workstations a "sig" was literally a file on the disk called ".sig" and you had to be a bit of guru to even think about customizing it let alone doing anything clever with it, these days any old email software (even M$ Outlook) will let you create one. So what is a "sig"? Put simply it's a short saying, one-liner, fact, non-sequitur or quote placed at the bottom of an email or other online post. |
| Poster: James | As: Online |
| Wednesday, 19th February | World getting you down? Think you could run it better? What you need is the Evil on a Budget magazine. Maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves here, first you need to know two things: how much of a bastard (or bitch) you are, and just how greedy you are. If you don't score highly on those two tests, then there's not much point in thinking about taking over the free world, because you're never going to make it. Just to get you started here's some of your essential vocabulary and of course the Essential Guide to Becoming an Evil Overlord. |
| Poster: James | As: Careers |
| Tuesday, 18th February | Indecisive? Or are you not quite sure? Bored of Magic 8-Balls? Then ask the Mystical Smoking Head of 'Bob'. Or you could ask the Lovetron 5000 all of your love questions. Feeling a bit low? Then you need the virtual Affirmation Ball to give you a quick boost. Of course if you're one of those people who's a little too sure of themselves then the sarcastic 8-ball can help put you back in your place. But whatever you do don't ruin the magic. |
| Poster: James | As: Mysticism |
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