Where Cursors Come From

Millions of computers are made each year and still no one talks about sustainability in the cursor industry. We should, because according to this poster they’re being cut down at an alarming rate. We’re in luck that Nathan W Pyle has designed this poster informing us about the massive cursor deforestation going on.

 Source

Yahoo answers.

Yahoo answers fail. Click to enlarge.

Annoying things about the internet.

Viruses, scams and spam
Obviously.

PDFs
The information could usually have been presented much more accessibly on a web page. 

WrItInG In A MiXtUrE Of UpPEr CaSe AnD LoWeR CaSe
It's not useful, attractive or funny. How on earth did it take off?

Patently absurd abbreviations
While it's perfectly conceivable that the other person may indeed have LOL'd at your joke, one struggles to picture them ROFLMAOing, given that there was no break in their typing.

Websites that don't support a browser's back and forward features
We have become so accustomed to navigating with the two buttons, that it's difficult to manage without them.

Annoying things about the internet.

Password stipulations
One site demands eight characters, another a mix of letters and numbers, and a third says that the term you've been using for years is now too weak.

Auto-run videos
In fact any audio that plays without the explicit consent of the user. Who hasn't scrabbled to shut down a browser window as colleagues look round for the source of that shame song?

Get-rich-quick schemes
If the foolproof share picking formula actually worked, why are its inventors hawking CDs and books online for £19.99 a pop rather than sunning themselves in Bermuda?

Buffering
Tick, tock. 

Annoying things about the internet.

Hard-to-find login buttons
Some websites are so keen to make themselves appealing to new users that they forget about their existing members, hiding the login buttons in tiny fonts at the extremities of the screen. Only logout buttons are given less prominence.

National restrictions
There are compelling legal reasons why some online content - such as Olympics footage, which is sold on different terms to many national broadcasters - has to be nation-specific. But in an era of free-flowing information, it comes as a shock to be told that you cannot watch a video because of where you live.

Fake viral clips
They wouldn't be annoying if they weren't so effective. Two particularly infuriating examples are the video that purported to show mobile phones popping pop corn, which was subsequently exposed as a stunt by a bluetooth headset retailer Cardo, and another claiming to show an onion charging an iPod.

The smell of e-books just got better.

Does your Kindle leave you feeling like there’s something missing from your reading experience?
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Smell of Books™ is compatible with a wide range of e-reading devices and e-book formats and is 100% DRM-compatible. Whether you read your e-books on a Kindle or an iPhone using Stanza, Smell of Books™ will bring back that real book smell you miss so much.

www.SmellOfBooks.com

Gina I ♥ U.

Whoever was trying to woo Gina went to quite a lot of effort with this enormous, multi-coloured shout-out. It can (or could - we're not sure) be found on a couple of ghost ramps on State Route 520 in Seattle and was hopefully greeted with a positive reaction. 

 Click here to feel the love on Google Maps.

The dullest blog in the world.

Drumming my fingers on the arm of the chair

April 12th, 2004

I was sitting down on one of the chairs in my house. My hand was resting on the arm of the chair. I started to drum my fingers on the arm, thereby making a barely audible sound.

Thinking about putting on some music…

February 22nd, 2004

I was in a room carrying out some routine activities. I began to consider playing some music on the stereo system. I looked at some compact discs for a while, but didn’t put one on.

It's a shame http://www.dullestblog.com/ doesn't update often.

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?.

Well you can find the answer at www.HowManyPeopleAreInSpaceRightNow.com
yes.

Annoying things about the internet.

Lazy activism
Joining a Facebook group is the new going on a march, just substantially less effective. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime did not buckle under the onslaught of green-tinted Twitter avatars.

Pop-up adverts
Websites need to make money and static adverts don't bring in enough revenue. But that knowledge doesn't make invasive pop-ups - particularly those that hide their close buttons - any less annoying.

Everything has been done before
Had an idea? Well someone in San Jose had it last year, got VC-funding and has already launched Beta testing.

MySpace and Bebo
Far too hard on the eyes.

Pet Fish Soap.

This may look just like the bag that you carry home from the pet store, but don't be fooled…this plastic goldfish is not swimming in water, it's embedded in clear, glycerin soap shaped like "water in a bag". Tied with an orange ribbon. Tangerine-grapefruit scent.
Here is the link: http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=100&Product_Code=48201

Critical thinking.

Typical internet black-framed photo with text.

Yahoo Answers fun: CAPS LOCK.

Last Meals Delivery Service: delivers a surprise meal chosen by a death row prisoner.

Last Meals Delivery Service in Toronto will bring you a last meal (only for Toronto residents). Not your last meal, but the meal someone on Death Row chose as his last. They all cost $20 and must be ordered a couple of days ahead of delivery. You don't get to pick it out, but when it's delivered it comes with a DVD to watch and a paper mask ofthe convict who selected it.

Link: http://www.pauljkneale.com/lastmeals.html

FUCK YOU.

Yahoo Answers Fun: Common sense, some people have it.

BOINC: Use the idle time on your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars...

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a non-commercial system for volunteer and grid computing. You can donate computer time (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy.

More information: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.php

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