Monthly Archives: July 2006

Here at the Consumerist is a great post. It’s a recording of a guy’s attempts to cancel his AOL account. Listen to the whole thing, it’s great. One of the best moments is when the AOL call centre operator asks to speak to the caller’s father, despite the account and credit card being in his […]

It’s nice to know that even Wikipedia suffers from argument. Perhaps a year down the line we’ll remember the overriding feature of the web 2.0 world was the tendency for flame wars and arguments. Read all about it here.

David Aaronovitch, writing in the Times, makes some good points about the Afghan war. As I read Christina Lamb’s extraordinary account in The Sunday Times of being ambushed in Helmand my thought was not “too much”, but “not enough”. More helicopters, if they’re needed. More of everything, if that’s required. We should be doing it […]

1. Lesbian, a distribution of GNU/Linux2. Heatseek, a browser designed for looking at porn. Mind you, the internet is for porn.