John Mortell's blog » web 2.0 http://www.johnmortell.com A blog about whatever comes to mind Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:39:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 No Hero http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/20/no-hero/ http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/20/no-hero/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 19:09:24 +0000 John http://www.johnmortell.com/?p=870

]]> http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/20/no-hero/feed/ 1 Ahh … The Internet, is there anything that you can’t find on it eventually.. http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/17/ahh-the-internet-is-there-anything-that-you-cant-find-on-it-eventually/ http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/17/ahh-the-internet-is-there-anything-that-you-cant-find-on-it-eventually/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 19:15:22 +0000 John http://www.johnmortell.com/?p=864 One of my mates is big into ‘Rule 34 of the internet’ namely that ‘if you can imagine it, there’s porn of it’. Like so:

But what I was recently pointed to by another mate was ‘Porn for the blind’ which claims to be

Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.

You’d think it’d be a rather bizarre and, frankly, pointless exercise. And you’d be right. Take a sample here for example….

]]> http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/17/ahh-the-internet-is-there-anything-that-you-cant-find-on-it-eventually/feed/ 0 Stephen Colbert mocks the Bill O Reilly freaking out video http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/15/stephen-colbert-mocks-the-bill-o-reilly-freaking-out-video/ http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/15/stephen-colbert-mocks-the-bill-o-reilly-freaking-out-video/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 10:34:59 +0000 John http://www.johnmortell.com/?p=861 Good stuff:

You can find the original video of Bill O Reilly freaking out here

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]]> http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/11/wrestling-gone-wrong-act-i-vate/feed/ 0 Ze Frank at a TED conference http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/11/ze-frank-at-a-ted-conference/ http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/11/ze-frank-at-a-ted-conference/#comments Sun, 11 May 2008 09:58:41 +0000 John http://www.johnmortell.com/?p=852 Having finished the bulk of my exams I’m taking a few days off, I plan on spending today watching TED conference videos and pro wrestling. I imagine Cian would find this video good for a laugh somehow:

]]> http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/05/11/ze-frank-at-a-ted-conference/feed/ 1 Social development comes from gin and desperate housewives? http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/04/28/social-development-comes-from-gin-and-desperate-housewives/ http://www.johnmortell.com/2008/04/28/social-development-comes-from-gin-and-desperate-housewives/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:23:50 +0000 John http://www.johnmortell.com/?p=837 From Warren Ellis, a temendously interesting talk on ‘Web 2.0′, time and social development:

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