Sunday Apr 12, 2009

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In response to wildswan's comment:


That's so. . . stupid. Wordle is a program the you can enter blocks of text into and it creates "word clouds." Ican' believe something so utterly innocuous is blocked.



I present a short sampling of other utterly innocuous blocked websites:
cutethingsfallingasleep.org
thisiswhyyourefat.com
wordle.net
youtube (ok, potentially not innocuous, but damnit I just want to be able to watch Eddy Grant whenever I damned well feel like it!)
vox.com (blog hosting site. Why block vox when you allow blogger?)
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fivethirtyeight
failblog

I can still access sg and fleshbot without a proxy. What the heck, Great Firewall? What's wrong with cute things falling asleep and beautiful word clouds?

If you're at all interested in accessing the interwebz through china-filtered glasses feel free to check out
the firefox China Channel add-on:


The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It's open source, free and easy.



It's also totally fickle, often arbitrary-seeming, and totally frustrating!

wildswan:
Good-bad link.

Cute stuff is highly subverting.
mrcrisp:
it's a music video. the band is called hot water music and the song is "giver".

there are 4 men: the drummer, the bassist, and then two men playing acoustic guitars. then men playing the guitars also sing and shout in unison; a guttural harmony.

here are the lyrics:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Dream wild in waves of confidence and heart

Don't underestimate the power of your part

Throw the rules away

Trust your gut and make it

On your own



Don't underestimate the glories of the road

Because when you're on your own you've got it all

Throw the rules away

To stand and deliver now.

All is yours



I don't want to sit back to slack and waste it all

Since surrounded with the "Hearts and Souls"

I'll get back on my feet, wash my hands clean

And roll back to the front to sing out

"Here we go!"

Here we go, here we go, here we go...



Throw the rules away

To stand and deliver now.

All is yours



I don't want to sit back to slack and waste it all

Since surrounded with the "Hearts and Souls"

I'll get back on my feet, wash my hands clean

And roll back to the front to sing out

"Here we go!"

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