a gopher or a hamster or something
I got back yesterday from beautiful, scenic south-suburban Ottawa. It was an appropriate time for a visit to the parents: this weekend was what is known here in Canada as "Thanksgiving", and elsewhere as "Canadian Thanksgiving".
Whilst perusing the Internets after my return, I came upon a webcomic called Patches, which I thought was funny sometimes - funny like how White Ninja is funny, except not as funny as White Ninja. Here is a particular episode of Patches which made me laugh.
And while we're on the subject of massive, free, collaboratively developed, non-profit online encyclopedias, Wikipedia.org is exactly that. All of Wikipedia's users are able to add to or edit the content of any of its articles. It is doing well so far, with over one million articles in one hundred languages (over 350 000 of those are in English), although it has been criticized for being biased toward the kinds of things that internet geeks like to talk about, like technology, science fiction, and the various substitutions for the painfully difficult and often humiliating process of human interaction (e.g., instant messaging, pornographic web sites, blogs).
Whilst perusing the Internets after my return, I came upon a webcomic called Patches, which I thought was funny sometimes - funny like how White Ninja is funny, except not as funny as White Ninja. Here is a particular episode of Patches which made me laugh.
And while we're on the subject of massive, free, collaboratively developed, non-profit online encyclopedias, Wikipedia.org is exactly that. All of Wikipedia's users are able to add to or edit the content of any of its articles. It is doing well so far, with over one million articles in one hundred languages (over 350 000 of those are in English), although it has been criticized for being biased toward the kinds of things that internet geeks like to talk about, like technology, science fiction, and the various substitutions for the painfully difficult and often humiliating process of human interaction (e.g., instant messaging, pornographic web sites, blogs).
