h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have a four day weekend (of which I am on day 2) and it is ever so much nicer than school. Ah...

However Internet Explorer is dead right now and Netscape is kind of weird and it is very difficult to use H2G2.

Well, I'm in the middle of a *counts quickly* 5 week weekend. So neh.

Netscape's been playing up all afternoon. It's that damned "Eyestorm" thing at the top of the page slowing everything down, I'm sure of it.

If I never see the thing again I'll be happy. Look at that guy in the third photograph along - smug git, slowing h2g2 down to a snail's pace and loving it.

Bring back the Mountain Gorillas thing. It was informative and had a good, kind heart. And a quote from Douglas Adams.

You must be 4 hours behind me. I'm on the west coast of the USA, where are you?

I only have a three day weekend... ************************.

Not only does it slow down the system, the ad is distracting. The last ad just had cycling pictures, but this one has spinning things, abrupt changes, and I followed it once and they have a picture of a topless woman. Sad.

Tell me about the mountain gorillas thing. I've only seen these two ads in the time I've been here.

Wait - don't everybody go clicking on it! I'm just saying that her... ahem... were not exactly well concealed.

The Mountain Gorillas thing was basically a picture of a mountain gorilla's face, with a qoute from Douglas Adams saying something along the lines of "Mountain Gorillas are our nearest relatives and they will die if we don't save them."

Then there was Amnesty International as well...I haven't been here all that long so I can't remember all that much...it also doesn't help that my brain is, in fact, mush.

I'm in Kent, in Britain. So surely there's more than a 4 hour time difference? Unless the space-time continuum is playing tricks with me again. I told it last time - next time it messes around with me I'll really give it something to think about.

I'm resisting clicking on the Eyestorm thing. It's my form of nonviolent protest. Rampant commercialism is....er....rampant. At the moment.

I don't know, you probably posted an hour or two after me. That would screw things up.

In my opinion, ads that are mostly static are best. That way they aren't distracting and don't drain much bandwidth.

You're right.

"Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds for the things that die before their time"

Who was it that said that?

Adam Duritz. King of whiney introspective country/folk/blues/rock.

Did you notice the ad for amazon.com at the bottom of today's front page article on scottish dancing? Oh, rampant capitalism. Yuck.

Not necessarily an ad, but certainly a blatant plug.

It needs to be stopped!

Blatant capitalism - a vile, putrid cancer on the innocent lungs of this world.

Blatant capitalism is annoying, but it powers the internet. The internet is good. I think we can tolerate the dark cloud for the sake of the silver lining.

Possum I see you're a Green? Yay... another one...

Yep. Why, are you? What is a Green in America, then? Same thing as in Britain? (stupid question - you're not British, so how would you know? But, hey, I'm tired)

Presumably a member of the green party - http://www.greenparty.org

Although not yet being voting age I ain't actually a member.

Yeah - it's the same thing.

Like I said - the only political party with any common sense whatsoever.

Good call.

I've had too much to drink and I'm sunburnt - yay!

Now I'm going to bed...

Sweet dreams.