In order to promote accessibility and web standards Dustin Diaz is trying to strip the Internet of stylesheets on 5th April 2007 by declaring it Get Naked day. This blog shall be showing its support by being laid bare, has your website got the <tags>??!
According to this report, we will be able to smell websites by 2017 via a fragrance box sitting next to our computer! The report, produced by the S.Korean government, also predicted that by 2012, mobile phone batteries will last 2 months between charges…now that, is music to my ears!
As regards the smelly vision, considering the amount of unsavoury sites on the internet, I think you can keep it!
Ever wonder where exactly the ‘sample pictures’ that come on your spanking new Windows XP machine are actually taken? No, me neither…but this guy did and made it one of his life goals to discover the exact origin of his desktop image…interesting story!
A man has sued IBM, who dismissed him for visiting adult chatrooms, for sacking him claiming he is an Internet addict and needs help, not a dismissal.
On this note, I wonder if I could sue the University of Ulster for the ridiculous amount of time I’ve been sat in front on a screen on the Internet in recent months, and the worst has yet to come…
Just a thought!
The jury is in and apparently the most watched viral video in the history of the Internet is the Star Wars Kid…unbelievably its has been viewed over 900 million times, for those who like things to be broken down, that’s one in every seven people on earth has watched this poor guy try to be a Jedi Knight in his garage…I must admit I had seen it a few years ago but had forgot all about it.
However, despite his cult status on the Internet, this fame has been entirely rebuked by the man himself, Ghyslain Raza, who has reportedly suffered a mental breakdown as a result and now resides in an asylum. He is also reported to have sued his classmates,who found the secret vid and unleashed it on the world, for approximately $250,000. One would have thought that would have softened the acute humiliation caused but apparently not.
On a more serious note, I’m sure there can be parallels drawn to today’s growing culture of cyber-bullying on social networking sites such as Bebo and MySpace and this story should offer a stark warning of the consequences, however unintentional, that such a public invasion of privacy can cause…
