Miscellaneous Post #2
Nov. 17th, 2004 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosI'm sure y'all have seen Sorry, Everybody, an absolutely brilliant idea for personalizing the giant numbers from the last election. It's just pictures of normal people with signs that say "sorry." (This website started out with one picture, just one, and then got endless submissions and 50 million hits in the last two weeks, and you just picture the folks who started it scrambling for the resources for that website, you know?)
And Sorry, Everybody accepts picture submissions from around the world of people accepting apologies, but some folks decided that wasn't enough: Apologies Accepted, full of pictures from Netherlands and Malaysia of people who say "it's okay." The only problem is that, unlike Sorry, Everybody, they don't seem to screen the pictures, so there's a lot of little jpg notes that lack people in them, and I think the people are the most interesting part. Also, it means that there's an occasional "yah, those Kerry-voting bastards should be sorry because they want the terrorists to win" or whatever.
N.B.: There's also a hell of a mess of a site at werenotsorry.net, which features images of the Bush-supporters saying "fuck you, we're not sorry." Sometimes literally. With guns. Very large guns. Also I would like to point out that Sorry, Everybody doesn't allow hate-filled apologies; apparently We're Not Sorry could care less about people saying Michael Moore should die. Which would be bad enough, but it's also on servers of dooooooom. I mean, not to generalize or anything, but what does it say about the two sites that Sorry, Everybody has got the bandwidth for 400 GB a day, and we're not sorry can't manage to have their pictures show up within five minutes? I refuse to wait around for half an hour to be horrified. Eeeesh. Lame!
Also, I want this: Buffalo LinkStation. Wantwant. I mean, external hard drives are neat. Networked external hard drives that are also printer servers? Mmmmmm.
Also, my new favorite "hey, random!" icon, from the user-interests icon meme, by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miggy. Because llamas!
And Sorry, Everybody accepts picture submissions from around the world of people accepting apologies, but some folks decided that wasn't enough: Apologies Accepted, full of pictures from Netherlands and Malaysia of people who say "it's okay." The only problem is that, unlike Sorry, Everybody, they don't seem to screen the pictures, so there's a lot of little jpg notes that lack people in them, and I think the people are the most interesting part. Also, it means that there's an occasional "yah, those Kerry-voting bastards should be sorry because they want the terrorists to win" or whatever.
N.B.: There's also a hell of a mess of a site at werenotsorry.net, which features images of the Bush-supporters saying "fuck you, we're not sorry." Sometimes literally. With guns. Very large guns. Also I would like to point out that Sorry, Everybody doesn't allow hate-filled apologies; apparently We're Not Sorry could care less about people saying Michael Moore should die. Which would be bad enough, but it's also on servers of dooooooom. I mean, not to generalize or anything, but what does it say about the two sites that Sorry, Everybody has got the bandwidth for 400 GB a day, and we're not sorry can't manage to have their pictures show up within five minutes? I refuse to wait around for half an hour to be horrified. Eeeesh. Lame!
Also, I want this: Buffalo LinkStation. Wantwant. I mean, external hard drives are neat. Networked external hard drives that are also printer servers? Mmmmmm.
Also, my new favorite "hey, random!" icon, from the user-interests icon meme, by
miggy. Because llamas!
