Category: Nice and curious

Via Popbitch. Link not safe for work.

Hardware Pornography – girls with network equipment. Not safe for work (though not actually pornographic). Also bizarre. Via the Register.

Two council workers use CCTV to spy on a naked woman, but are caught by a CCTV camera in their CCTV control room. The BBC reports.

Some funny fake signs mentioned at the BBC News website.

I’m still intrigued by the internet slang word teh. Not being a gamer, it’s hard to see how it’s used more generally, but in the places I go, it’s turning from a typo via a joke into quite a useful word.

Wikipedia’s entry is not a great description, but shows some of the history. In terms of meaning, I think it’s an interesting intensifier, something like ‘the absolute’ or ‘the most’, but implying a sort of (sorry for being a poncey philosopher) Platonic form of the modified word, unifying the example with the concept itself.

For example, a MetaFilter post was deleted for being content-free and stroppy, and the moderator posted:

This post was deleted for the following reason: inflammatory one-link post to a house.gov page w/ extra handwaving = teh lame

See? Teh lame = the quintessence of lameness. Interesting, I thought.

(this post is teh sad).

The Virtual Stoa – the site whose masthead date is still in the French Revolutionary calendar – notes that November 9th is a recurrent theme in German history, being the date on which the Kaiser abdicated, the Beer Hall Putsch failed, and the Berlin Wall fell. It is also the date of Kristallnacht.

A touching follow-up to an earlier post.

The Brighton Argus reports on a more-than-usually public marriage break-up:

Drivers saw the start of the drama last week when a banner was hung over a bridge over the A27 in Brighton bearing the initials JBS and the words: “Wendy, I want a divorce”.
Now it seems Wendy has taken her revenge.
A new banner went up yesterday saying: “No way – you are the cheat! Wendy”.

Picture of the second banner at the Argus’s site.

Metafilter discusses, disturbingly.