Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Monday, 15 September 2014

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Horse nonsense

Investigating the facts and stats of the HarvardX Ancient Greek Hero course, I note there is a 'Rules of Online Conduct' point explicitly banning the use of 'trojan horses'.

Monday, 10 March 2014

Exegesis

True enough, poetry can oftentimes appear somewhat complicated, bemusing in its encryption, or even - perish the thought! - merely wilfully opaque.

On other days, though... see bottom-right.

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Internote

My Samsung Galaxy tablet (still?) prefers that 'the internet' be spelt with a capital I.

Like, as in Skynet?

Discuss.

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

The Eliot app

If I were to go out and purchase an iPad just so's to be able to read the Waste Land in its new-and-million-selling app incarnation, it would - I estimate, at a total of about £400 - be by some margin the most expensive book I have ever bought.*

But this article has given me cause to consider it.**

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* not to mention, of course, that I already own a copy.
** also, see third paragraph from bottom for splendidly ironic dysfunctional-meta-data gaffe.

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Bloody liar

What's wrong with this picture?