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.

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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.