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Aeon: "The Rise of the CreepyNet" by Rhian Sasseen [^]
"With the rise of the internet has come a popular surge in people looking to be freaked out. The genre of stories they created, known as ‘creepypasta’ – a perversion of ‘copy paste’, the keyboard commands – take as their material the frightening, the inexplicable, and the weird."
"Facebook’s official policy is to turn an account into such a memorial, where ‘people can save and share their memories of those who’ve passed’. Twitter will deactivate a deceased user’s account following a loved one’s official request, while YouTube and Gmail will allow friends and family to access the deceased’s accounts. Yahoo’s email users, though, are out of luck: in 2005, a Michigan man named John Ellsworth had to sue the company for the release of his deceased son’s emails. Apple isn’t innocent, either: a 72-year-old Canadian widow is currently battling with the company following its refusal to release her dead husband’s Apple account login details to her."
"Then there are grim forums like MyDeathSpace, its name a play on the early social networking site MySpace and its purpose the pooling of dead users’ social media accounts. The site first gained attention in 2006, shortly after its invention, and was heavily criticised; today, it still exists, and its forum members have a special predilection for compiling the profiles of the murdered, the suicidal, and overdose victims."
2nd Witch: "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 44–49"
I'm so bored by being haunted by my personalities I've embraced monadism; it's all nice and comfy syllogism between the sheets which never wind.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Users give these companies the power. Without the user, these companies are nothing.
So I would look at the user first, and Facebook second.
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It's got nowt to do with the rise of the Internet; even by the writer's own account. The freak shows, the spiritualism, the fascination with ghosts, and all the other creepy stuff have been with us pretty much as long as we've existed. It's not that long, in terms of human history, since people regularly carried around body parts of their deceased loved ones in memoriam. There was a roaring Victorian trade in making costume jewellery from dead people's hair! And what's all that Mediaeval relics business with saints' toes and fingers and beards and hearts about if not a kind of 'creepypasta'. The Internet doesn't do anything other than provide wider access to pre-existing phenomena. There really is nothing new under the sun
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You really do have a comprehensive and expert answer/comment/opinion on every conceivable subject matter and/or topic in the known and unknown universe. Simply amazing... How do you do it?
Are you a wizard?
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I think it's rather nice to have someone join in who's well-read.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Are Japanese limericks Loku?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There are no Japanese limericks so the joke's Honshu!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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At least he's trying. Take a haiku.
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japanese limericks about lollipops
claim they're better than gumdrops,
but the writers of haikus who knew
never would tell us if that's true,
or, if it's just more sexy to liku
than to get stuck in the gummy-goo
suggested listening: [^] ... starting at 5:15
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«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
modified 7-Mar-16 12:34pm.
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BillWoodruff wrote: starting at 5:15
What a con  ! They're clearly all just humming!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I was going to show your post to my wife sushi would know how I spend my time at work.
Wait just a minute - you're not OG. These "Thought of the Day" post's are something I thought only Edo for us.
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MISSING
Any takers for how the hell my brian works? 
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Any takers for how the hell my brian works?
For that one first have to find that brain!
neurological condition -> multiple sclerosis -> MS
I'm in -> MIS
with a chorister -> SING
that's absent -> MISSING
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Which means that's 3 strikes to Nagay, and @User-9037617 - you are up tomorrow (as the person who set the one Nagy got).
CCC 2nd March[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Bad Peter!
You knew it but wouldn't answer. It wasn't that obscure.
veni bibi saltavi
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I new it, but I have no time to set it up for tomorrow (I need more time than natives)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Any takers for how the hell my brian works?
I'm guessing that just like your Brian, your brain is completely missing - presumed dead from alcohol poisoning?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually it is Mrs Wife who is missing. She left me this morning...
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On a recce of where we may soon relocate; full story at 10.
veni bibi saltavi
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BONG!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We are currently flipping wildly between hopeful, apprehensive, excited, scared and blind drunk*. She was two hours late getting out this morning as someone was taken in ill before the plane even got off the ground.
This afternoon she is visiting the prospective school for the girls and a house that is available for us; only 5 bedrooms with massive garden and swimming pool. She is actually staying with her boss to be, who is also a good friend, and I am expecting a large damage to the the wine cellar of said host**. Then she has meetings with various people over the next three days to get an idea of both the work involved [similar but different to what she does now] and the what it is like to live there [+++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR +++ REDO FROM START +++].
The girls like the fact that there are stables close by where they can ride.
* That one is just me.
** It is not unheard of that a dinner's consumption with her can hit [people + 1] * [courses + 1] bottles.
veni bibi saltavi
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Are you emigrating ? - how can you leave Woking ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: Are you emigrating ?
Probably / Possibly.
pkfox wrote: how can you leave Woking ?
Easily!
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The girls like the fact that there are stables close by where they can ride.
Ah. The 456 are coming: We Want a Pony[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The two in that clip are too cute to be my girls. ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif)
veni bibi saltavi
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