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

>> My Uni blocks all kinds of things, too, mainly because they'Re afraid of right-wing sites. <<

Are left-wing sites OK, then?

RF

Seems so. I live in the town where Friedrich Engels was born, after all! I can't get into the site of one major book we need to use as one of the authors is named "Führer", and we can't access the Dutch railway at NS.nl

There's protection, and then there's overkill. At one time, the primary and secondary schools here had protections that wouldn't let kids look up words like "breast" or "woodpecker" for fear they'd land on XXX sites.

Malabarista, my school has research contracts with a lot of big name tech firms (Sony, Apple), so they're afraid of all sorts of boogeymen.

Woodpecker?

*thinks*

Oh, I see Well, er, they're not welcome on my lawn any more - filthy!

Just strikes me as eing stange that "right-wing" sites are seen as bad, but "left-wing" sites are OK.

Stalin: left wing.
Mao: left wing.

Presumably you can access historical data about these people? But not about Hitler?

RF

New photo of MoG in the gallery today.


az

Depends on how extremely left-wing they are, I suppose. The German left-wing party's site is accessible, the Neonazis' isn't.

to look at photos

My mother called this afternoon at about 12 noon to tell me that she had just heard a radio interview with me from two years ago rebroadcast.

You might still be able to catch it in the next 1/2 hour on the Western feed...
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html

I am "anonymous" but you will be able to tell you have the correct interview when I say that it was a "retail revenge story". It is in the last 10 minutes of the show or so (or was if they rebroadcas the entire show not just the segment I was in). Apparently, there were a number of letters spawned as a result of the interview, mostly supportive, but a couple negative ones......

A couple new photos of Potholer today - before and after shots of a 'slight incident' this summer in Slovenia while he was trying to open up a cave entrance. A few minutes before photo 1 was taken he had actually been lying flat out . . .


az

to look at new pics...

Az, you will be pleased to hear that after beating him into a small pulpy mass, Skanky has agreed to appear on the Rogues Gallery as soon as he gets his latest photos of zoo trip with goddaughter developed!

Has everybody put themselves on the hootoo map? A5076614 Some minor parts of the world like France & Spain appear uninhabited except by a few lonely hooters, but UK is positively overwhelmed & USA is gradually filling up. Do look out for n i g h t h o o v e r on Rockall!

zdt

I stopped in yesterday and put my marker in Michigan. So now I'm in both the gallery and the map. Is this some kind of paradimn shift do you suppose. For as long as the BBC has had hootoo they have guarded the secrecy of the researchers saying don't put in your e-mail address, you cannot have a photo of yourself in your personal space. And when aka tried to circumvent that by linking to sites outside the BBC he was savagely hacked. Now we are doing maps and galleries.

We'Re just all too outgoing. I tried to put my marker in the map, but may be off by a few towns!

So did I - I never found out how to zoom in before I set the marker, and after I had found out, I somehow lost track - can't identify anything, so no idea how far I'm off

I looked on mapquest and stuck it in about the same area

I was thinking about that the other day as well, shagbark. When I first started the photo gallery I expected more people would want to protect their 'visual anonymity' and so was pleasantly surprised when so many people wanted to be seen and also be able to put a face to the name.

And now some researchers are not only putting themselves on the map but also showing the exact location of their homes. I put our map marker only close to home on purpose - we do live near the cathedral but obviously not in the square right in front of it.


az

The map didn't even zoom close enough for that, if I put it on my house it was pure coincidence!

Next we'll be hacked into GPS satellites, updating our exact coordinates hourly...

Then I'll just tell them what my name is and how fast I'm going

My marker is on the map now.

I'll go look!