It’s election year, undoubtedly.
The moronic masses who cheer at every stupid idea a political leader comes up with absolutely astound me. I wonder how these people function in their daily lives, but more importantly – who the fuck is stupid enough to employ these idiots!?
The latest desperate vote-grabbing attempt is this:
“JOHN Howard is going to spend $189 million on “cleaning up the internet” for Australian families, blocking pornography, upgrading the search for chat-room sex predators and cutting off terror sites.”
I’m not sure if this sounds as stupid to you as it does to me, so i’ll spell it out for the simple people.
Reason: Internet censorship: Do the issues in China (and to a lesser extent, Malaysia) ring any bells? Who decides what is, or isn’t undesirable content? You don’t want a national ID card, but you’ll let the govt filter/monitor your internet access? Go take a powerdrill to your temple.
Every Australian family will be provided with a free internet filter and the federal Government will enter an unprecedented partnership with service providers to filter pornography at the source.
Communications and Australian Federal Police resources will be boosted immediately to expand checks on internet chat rooms to detect child predators, and privacy laws masking sex offenders on the net will be altered.
The Prime Minister unveiled his new net commandments last night on a webcast to more than 700 churches and thousands of churchgoers around the country.
Mr Howard and Kevin Rudd delivered the addresses on the 2007 election campaign to 770 Christian churches of all denominations.
Kevin Rudd supports this shit? Whoops, there goes my vote. He just nullified any faith I had in him. Period.
Now, spouting all this at some churchie conference is laughable in itself, proving that it’s just a vote grabbing stunt. But that doesn’t mean they’re not going to try and implement this thing..
Do they really think they can monitor EVERY communication medium/protocol/website for porn and pedophiles?
Can they guarantee there won’t be ‘false positives’ hindering a normal person’s internet experience?
Here’s a better idea: Sterilize all the stupid hicks who think this is a good idea – that way they won’t breed even stupider people.
10.Aug.07 
Controversy, What-The-Fuck 
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Much ado about doodle
On our way to a friend’s place the other day, we noticed this sign in his lift…
Yikes! Since when have we had a visit from the URINATOR?
Note the bad grammar.. firstly, heard? I regularly listen out for the sound of someone pissing as the elevator goes past down the shaft… not. And what does he need assistants for? Incase it’s that big he needs help giving it a shake? Although the first sentence is the funniest: ‘… resident(s) may be urinating’.. Like, if it looks like piss, and smells like piss, I think it’s safe to say, IT IS PISS. And residentS? as in.. plural? ‘Meet you in the lift, we’ll have a good ol piss up!’ Wakka. (and yeah, the cartooon is mine.. I suck at drawing)
I only thought those old Singaporean Uncles were the type to pee in lifts, or wherever else they might be when nature calls (I witnessed one pissing out the side of his shorts against a wall in broad daylight one day [not that there was much to see har har] when I was walking to Toa Payoh station).
My more logical suspicions are that some stupid asian bimbo bitch bought herself a fluffy widdle cutesy cute dawg, and couldn’t be fucked taking it outside for a piss – seeing as they don’t have balconies – so she let it wiss in the lift. Or maybe it’s just someone with a weak bladder seeing as the lift is so slow (I can hold it.. I can hold it.. I… nevermind. Hey, look over there.) That’s why you install cameras in lifts. Dumbass building manager.
Anyway, we decided to go have dinner in Box Hill. As we were walking up Station St, guess what I saw…
Wow, no, really? A sex shop with fags inside? How… unique?
08.Aug.07 Fun, Strange Comments (2)
Propaganda!
I was just bloghopping when I noticed an ad on someone’s sidebar, promoting Ghee.
I clicked. http://www.qbbghee.com/
Reading through the About page, I could not believe what a load of bullshit propaganda they were spouting.
For example,
… blah blah blah…
The Right Kind of Fat
It is generally recognized that some fat is essential for health. A totally fat-free diet can actually accelerate aging of the skin, nerves and brain cells. Without an adequate quantity of the right kind of fat in the diet, cell regeneration can be adversely impacted. Fats are needed for efficient absorption of crucial lipid-soluble vitamins such as A, E, D and K. The stomach lining, which protects the stomach from the acids it secretes to help break down foods, needs fat to maintain a healthy coating. Similarly, cholesterol in the body serves functions that are crucial to health, such as building cell membranes, and hormone and bile balance. It is when cholesterol is damaged by harmful free radicals that it leads to clogged arteries and heart problems. Ghee imparts the benefits of the best essential fatty acids without the problems of oxidized cholesterol, transfatty acids or hydrogenated fats. It is also resistant to free radical damage and is both salt and lactose free.… blah blah blah…
Like… hello! What kind of moron would believe all that!?
But don’t take my word for it, let’s ask Wikipedia.
… blah blah blah…
Health concerns
Like any clarified butter, ghee is composed almost entirely of saturated fat. Excessive consumption of saturated fat is linked with a variety of maladies, including coronary heart disease.It is a common misconception that Indian restaurants across the world use real cow’s ghee as a cooking ingredient, when the less-expensive vegetable “ghee” version is more common, for economic reasons. This “ghee” (misnamed) is actually polyunsaturated or monounsaturated partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, and often contains high percentages of trans fats, which are increasingly linked to serious chronic health conditions. Not only is vegetable “ghee” implicated in causing high LDL, it also lacks the health-promoting benefits claimed for “Shuddh” (Hindi for Pure) ghee. The term Shuddh Ghee, however, is not officially enforced in many regions, so partially hydrogenated oils are marketed as Pure Ghee in some areas. Where this is illegal in India, law-enforcement often cracks down on the sale of fake ghee.
(So if it’s cheaper to use some dodgy cheap shit, they’ll do it just as soon as blink!)
The American Heart Association recommends choosing dishes prepared without ghee.
… blah blah blah…
So go buy a tin and grab a spoon, lardass.
08.Jun.07 Food, Strange Comments (3)
Blog Advertising
Ever wanted to advertise your blog, or other website address on your car, with style?
No? Me neither. But this site is amusing if you do.
03.May.07 Fun, Strange Comments (0)
Is Google Homophobic? You decide..
One of my hosting clients has been having trouble with some of his sites lately – in that his Google Adsense revenue has gone down. As in, down the toilet quicker than a bad Indian Curry.
From clearing a couple of hundred few months ago, he’s barely scraping $50 for this month. That’s pretty shit.
It makes it worse that the hitrate for his site is about 5x as much as it was…
So i’ll stop rambling now, and get to the point: I wonder if Google, or someone there in charge of things, is homophobic and is blacklisting gay-themed sites.
There have been a few reports recently about Adsense’s unfairness to gay blogs and gay sites, and I fear this tune is all too similar.
Scott-O-Rama: Is Google going after Gay Blogs?
Best Gay Blogs/Gaytwogether: Is Google Adsense Antigay?
Gaytwogether seem to have removed all negative posts about their brush with google (after they complained loudly and google obviously didn’t like the noise), and the adsense is back on their site. Geez, how cheaply were you bought, boys?
There were also a couple of rumours I heard that some adsense keywords were costing some gay site upwards of $1, whereas a hetero site could get the same keywords for about 5 cents. Can’t find the link for that one, though.
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There are two parts to the www.plublogs.com site, the Topblogs section, and the Photoblogs section. The photoblogs section is the one that gets most of the traffic, but alas, is also the part that gets those stupid Public Service Announcements. The topblogs section is minor, but adsense shows up as it is supposed to. Same script, minimal differences. Strange, huh?
When I questioned Google, here’s part of their official reply on why his Adsense revenue now sucks ass, and why he gets PSA’s in the Photoblogs section:
‘Becky’: “Although the template is the same, please note that the text on the two pages are not exactly the same.
The differences in text may be causing public service ads to appear.”
Really, Becky. Is that so?
I logged into my server and decided to try a hunch: I made an alias of Plublogs’ Photoblogs directory – I called it Photoblogz. If anyone goes to this directory, it serves up exactly what is in the photoblogs directory.. but with that one letter of difference. The rest is IDENTICAL.
And oh surprise surprise, look what happened.
Hmm… was that a fluke? Let’s check a different page…
Oh, it happened again.
Lets see Google explain this with their bullshit excuse about adsense formulas..
Feel free to comment if you feel you’ve been fucked over too. The more the madder merrier.
Reply @ 23/3: Followup:
After some email ping-pong, here’s their final (evidently) reply:
Hello,
I’m Rajiv, one of AdSense’s tech specialists. Becky escalated your email to me.
We currently do not run paid Google ads on web pages that are determined to contain potentially mature or adult content by our automatic contextual advertising system — only Google ads categorized as ‘Family Safe’ by the AdWords team are available through the AdSense program at this time.
Because our system automatically classifies web pages based on the type of content, the ads appearing on the page you mentioned are public service ads, for which you do not receive earnings. At this time, we are unable to manually alter its page category in order to allow you to serve Google ads.
Apart from this I am unable to offer you more information as to how our ad targeting works and why some pages receive ads and others do not.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sincerely,
Rajiv
The Google AdSense Team
I may be slightly naive here, but surely Adsense realise HOW MANY PEOPLE are searching for not quite FAMILY FRIENDLY search terms.
22.Mar.07 Controversy, Strange Comment (1)
O-b-s-c-e-n-e-!
I was surfing around on Cheesie’s blog a minute ago, and noticed this post about some New York Chicken Hot Dog they have over there.
I saw this pic:
and immediately thought.. COCK! …shoved in something…
It’s not just me, is it?
Edit: (Louis thought the same thing, so it’s not just me!)
8 Days to go..
21.Feb.07 Random, Strange Comments (4)
Doodle!
“Hey mummy, this one’s way bigger than daddy’s!”
37 Days to go..
23.Jan.07 Random, Strange Comments (8)
Midsumma in Melbourne ‘2007
At the moment, Melbourne’s annual Gay and Lesbian festival, Midsumma, is now on. It’s not quite as grand as the Sydney Mardi Gras, in fact, it’s a fucking pathetic attempt but it’s better than nothing. (That’s debatable..)
The grand opening last evening was at Federation Square, and as per normal Melbourne weather, it was trying hard to rain.
Louis came into the city and met me after work, and we went for a look-see – we missed the opening last year.
Up on the stage there were many different acts, but all the ones I saw had one thing in common – they were pathetic.
We decided to head around the other side of Fed Square, out of the circus, where we could sit down on the steps.
People watching was slightly more fun, and there were certainly lots of people, from all corners of society, to watch.
I took a couple of photos, and Federation Square has this thing where you can SMS a short message to a number, and it is shown up on the billboard that is embedded in the side of the building.
I sent Louis a message. 
Then, the girl on stage here was screaming into the microphone, and I couldn’t quite make out what she was supposed to be singing but it was awful. I send another SMS off, and a few people sitting around noticed it, and I saw some amused laughs.
(P.S. Spot the asian guy with his ‘daddy’ in the pic on the left – and Louis got winked at by some fat ugly old guy, after which we quickly moved to another spot)
Pride march is on right now, where you stand along Fitzroy St in St Kilda, and watch a bunch of half arsed floats go down the road, and then you follow them to the beach and walk around doing nothing for half an hour. Oh, and the highlight could possibly be the ‘Dykes on bikes’ that lead the parade, some of them having their tits hanging out. Nice.
I didn’t go this year, I could name a thousand things that I could better spend that time on, least of all, sleep.
We may perhaps go to Carnival – aka ‘Picnic in the Park’, if we can get a group together to have a picnic, and also if it’s not raining. Otherwise that’d be pretty ho-hum as well.
Still 39 Days to go..
21.Jan.07 Bitching, Controversy, Fun, Strange Comments (5)
In touch with my arty side..
After having visited the National Gallery of Victoria, I can safely say i’m not one to appreciate art.
Granted, some things had a bit of effort go into them, others were quite nice, but the majority of the stuff was just crap. On the whole, it was all pretty ho-hum. I just hope all the good stuff was still stored away in the vaults.
And then, I found these online. This is the kind of art I can appreciate.
“Mr Whippy in training”
“Early asstronomer explores black hole.”
“Genie in the lantern.”
Isn’t the intricate detail just spectacular.. :swt:
42 Days to go..
18.Jan.07 Fun, Strange Comments (2)
Going where no bunny has gone before..
I love taunting the rabbit.
56 Days to go..
04.Jan.07 Fun, Strange Comments (5)
