This is not Facebook
by Niel | Internet | February 16, 2010

I just found this unintentionally hilarious article. ReadWriteWeb reported on some Facebook login yadda yadda blah blah, but what happened is, somehow people don’t remember url’s so they Google “Facebook Login”. They then ended up on that ReadWriteWeb article and signed in via Facebook (comment section). They then complained about the new Facebook “changes”. I quote: “I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!!!”

“This is such a mess I can’t do a thing on my facebook .The changes you have made are ridiculous,I can’t even login!!!!!I am very upset!!!”

It’s really funny. I can’t believe there are still some people that realize they are reading an article, and are not actually on Facebook. Makes me kinda scared of how easily people can get caught by phishing. Silly people. Gosh.

(via @constantlm)

MUBA – Made Up Blog Awards
by Niel | Internet | January 9, 2010

Recently, I’ve been wondering. I often spot awards and/or nominations on other people’s sites. They somehow did something right, have the right amount of peeps following their blog and then entered a nomination and then won some award. Yay! This got me thinking, it makes that person’s blog look more awesome. So, why not do it with your own blog, with some arbitrary award?

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Sex Sells
by Niel | Internet | November 4, 2009

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I’ve stumbled onto an extreme case of boobie/babe promotion. Apart from the ridiculous Evony ads, this pretty much takes the cake. Head on over to Sandpit.co.za and enjoy… if you can. The pics even switch! AMAZING! MONUMENTAL EVEN! Unheard of in the construction business. She’s got this horrible sideboob going in one of the pics though. Really odd!

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(thanks to @ramperkash, @nickjackson & @jaseyacey24)

Facebook Fat and Farmville
by Niel | Internet | October 18, 2009

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Sometimes articles like these I really like to take literally and exclude all maxims. It’s like that one time during primary school computer class, when we had to make a “website” in Powerpoint [yeah, wtf?] and one kid had an option to download a dolphin. Shyeah! That’d be so awesome. Wonder where it will come out though? Probably through your CD/DVD/BLU-RAY drive.

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Google Wave Invite Competition
by Niel | Internet | October 13, 2009

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After my plea for a Google Wave invite, one brave soul has answered me. I need to write him a song about “Boris the eccentric Bolivian botanist who inexplicably loses his beloved wife Beatrice during a game of Hide and Seek and after years of mourning this loss eventually finds solace in goat farming”. This is currently in the works, however, the awesome dude has been so kind to sponsor Twindie.net with another Google Wave invite! So if you want one, here’s the dealio.

Update: Changed cli.gs short url. Old one had problems, however this changes nothing. You can still enter with old link if you have already. Also you don’t actually have to do what you’re saying in your tweet. This is merely to boggle the creative juices!

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kids

2009 seems to be the year of celebrity deaths: MJ, Keith Floyd, DJ AM, Patrick Swayze etc, but I guess the effect of their deaths had been multiplied with the onset of Twitter’s insane popularity. Nothing is sacred anymore. Death has become a popularity contest!

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2012

A while back I posted on people to step up as future leaders for the IHC site. This concerns the post-2012 apocalypse scenario. Now, however the candidates have been chosen. The world is ready to choose the best of the best to represent us as a new world leader. To create a new community. To help us strive as a new civilization. 2012 is now… or wait what? These people are going to be our leaders. Oh, hell no!

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wave

Ok, so I’m desperate for the next big thing! Google Wave has sent out the first 100 000 invites and I want an invite. Hopefully someone out there is willing to share an invite. I’m desperate for one. Thus I will write a song for you about you, or on any topic you give. You can provide the lyrics or I’ll provide the lyrics. I’ll even record it and put it on Youtube. JUST for an invite! Please? Contact me at nieldlr (at) gmail.com

Why Upload This?
by Niel | Internet | September 17, 2009

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Me and Simon have started another web project: Why Upload This?

I quote:

20 Hours of video gets uploaded to Youtube every minute. Many of these videos can only garner the response, “Why Upload This?”

Why Upload This? trawls Youtube finding those really idiotic lame ridiculous videos (yeah that many adjectives!) that people waste their time on.

Ensuring many facepalms, laughters of ridiculousness, frowns of confusion and embarassment. WUT? brings you the worst of the web.

It is updated daily! So head on over for some serious laughter!

Vodacom Fail
by Niel | Internet | September 16, 2009

Simon just tipped me off to this. If you go to Player 23, Vodacom’s campaign for rugby supporters and go to the Mobi section, you will find this primary school error:

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I before E except after C! There’s a joke in here somewhere about rugby jocks being dumb.