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Pirate modeHere's a simple meme: go up to your browser's address bar, type a single letter, and note what URL pops up first in the autofill. Repeat for each letter of the alphabet. Supposedly, this will reveal something about who you are.
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
I presume no one will be surprised to see it's a mix of academic and left-wing sites, with a few science things in there. I'm afraid, though, that the appearance of Villain Supply gives the game away and exposes my real character.
(via Alex Halavais)
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Heh heh... that reminds me of a trip we made last year to visit some somewhat distant relatives. Said relatives are very rigid fundamentalists; the father is a youth-minister and teacher at their church and church-run school, and the daughters have been kept away from public schools (both are enrolled at the church school). Even innocuous DVD titles such as "The Little Mermaid" (objection: daughter fails to "honor" her father) and the "Harry Potter" series are right out. The bookshelf in the den sports a bunch of religious titles, including a few anti-evolution tomes and some of the "Left Behind" books. The kids are not permitted to watch network television -- even "family-safe" shows -- because the parents are concerned that the kids might see some inappropriate commercials (daddy, what's Viagra?). They do have a PC hooked up to a broadband internet connection, but it's primarily dad's toy; the kids can use it only under direct adult supervision (which is a pretty sensible policy no matter what your religious persuation). More about that PC below.
Well, we ended up spending the night at their house, sleeping in the den. The next morning, I awoke before anyone else did, and noting that the PC had been left on overnight, I decided to kill a bit of time by surfing over to a few of my favorite "subversive" web-sites.
The first web-site I decided to visit was "juancole.com". But as soon as I typed the letters "ju", the browser's autocomplete feature offered up "juicyboobs.com"! I soon realized that the browser's history buffer was just chock-full of all manner of XXX web-sites. In fact, a large majority of the web-sites URL's that popped up were of the XXX variety, and some of them appeared to have embedded userid/password information. Very quickly, I realized that it would be in my interest to keep my distance from that PC, so I shut down the browser and hunted up a day-old newspaper to read instead.
So, yes, a few letters typed into a URL bar can tell you more than you'd ever want to know about the PC's owner. Needless to say, I haven't breathed so much as a word about this to anyone in my family. If dad wants to put down his Bible from time to time to visit a few racy web-sites when no one is looking, then that's his business. But I just can't help but think about the hypocrisy of it all.
It should also be noted that Larry Flynt didn't get his start in a "sinful" place like Miami Beach, Hollywood, or Las Vegas. He got his start peddling hard-core porn in rural Ohio. And I wouldn't be suprised if he sold his very first copy of Hustler to a religious fundamentalist.