Typo Negative
Clever title, huh? Thanks.
The title refers to that which some have no doubt already discovered: this freakin' site, the indoctrinating apocolypse-predicting uber-Christians who use outdated and unsubstantiated bible passages to tell you that you're going to hell. Very soon. Now, this is the internet. There are assloads of sites of this nature everywhere. What makes this one so special is the name. Blogpsot.com. Blogpsot, of course, has no pertinance to the site itself. It is simply a common typographical error for Blogspot, the site which hosts peoples Blogs. This means if one were to try to go to http://shfta.blogpsot.com, they would find themselves bombarded with Chrisitian propaganda and end times rhetoric, instead of my typical anti-blog propaganda and bullshit social theory rhetoric.
This concept is dastardly clever. Any blog site one tries to go to with "blogpsot" instead of "blogspot" will take them to this undesired site. Not only is "blogpsot" a common typo for "blogspot", but it's hardly noticable. It took me quite some time to discover why it was that my site was consistantly turning up this damned Christian site because, when looking at the word "blogpsot", it does not immedietly register in the mind that two of the letters are in the wrong place. This comes from a natural tendency to look at the word as a whole and assume based upon the arrangement of letters and previous knowledge of similar arrangements that a word is the word we think it is. I had a t-shirt that said "Coronado Lacrosse" on it, and every person who read it thought it said "Colorado". They were not familiar with the word "Coronado" and assumed based on the letters that the word was "Colorado", as this word was one the recognized.
This is not new. Web sites have known about this typo concept since the beginning, and smart (not to mention wealthy) sites buy up the names of commonly misspelled variations of their sites name. During the last election, the Bush administration even went so far as to buy up sites like Bushsucks.com and FuckBush.com so no one could use those names. But it is not Bloggers fault for not owning Blogpsot.com; it is these friggin' bible-bangers who are trying to get you to read their dogma instead of your intended Slutblog. They use sick little tactics like taking advantage of peoples (seemingly) natural desire to make typos and use it to get you to view their blasphemous religious piss-shitter. At least they're not infecting computers with little Judas-Bugs every time the site is accidentally visited... SO FAR!!!
Since the invention of the internet, people have discovered ways to fuck with people with it. Spam e-mail with links to girls being raped by horses; pop-ads that try to trick you into thinking they're contests you've won or your computer asking you something; all manner of viruses put forth by people who are so lonely and pathetic that they get off on hearing someone talk of their screen name "9_inch_kok6969" infecting peoples computers and ruining their lives; spyware that keeps track of your interests and aims specific online ads at you without your knowing; the site that,when you click on a link, it opens up 90 other endless sites telling you how to "increase your bust" or "get it up"; sites that won't allow you to click "back" or navigate away from them; the list goes on. At least it would if I could think of any more right now. (That's a commercial techinique: List everything you have, then add "An Much More!" at the end). I'm starting to hate the fucking internet. If it weren't the easiest way to get pornography and I wasn't able to ward off boredom for so long with this stupid blog thing, I would become a neo-luddite and go live in a cave. But porn is starting to bore me, and other peoples blogs make me question the validity of blogging as a whole. There is e-mail, which is easy. But maybe that's the problem. Everything becomes so fucking easy that we rely on it and cannot function outside of this ease. Then when something fucks up, which is always, we freak out and write nasty things in our blog about it. The internet is a great concept, because it brings the human race together on a singular network to share information, knowledge and entertainment. But the things that have happened through the invention of the internet gives me an impression of what mankind is: greedy, selfish, power-hungry, dogmatic, and lovers of kiddie porn. The internet has brought us all together, and man are we some sick fucks.
The title refers to that which some have no doubt already discovered: this freakin' site, the indoctrinating apocolypse-predicting uber-Christians who use outdated and unsubstantiated bible passages to tell you that you're going to hell. Very soon. Now, this is the internet. There are assloads of sites of this nature everywhere. What makes this one so special is the name. Blogpsot.com. Blogpsot, of course, has no pertinance to the site itself. It is simply a common typographical error for Blogspot, the site which hosts peoples Blogs. This means if one were to try to go to http://shfta.blogpsot.com, they would find themselves bombarded with Chrisitian propaganda and end times rhetoric, instead of my typical anti-blog propaganda and bullshit social theory rhetoric.
This concept is dastardly clever. Any blog site one tries to go to with "blogpsot" instead of "blogspot" will take them to this undesired site. Not only is "blogpsot" a common typo for "blogspot", but it's hardly noticable. It took me quite some time to discover why it was that my site was consistantly turning up this damned Christian site because, when looking at the word "blogpsot", it does not immedietly register in the mind that two of the letters are in the wrong place. This comes from a natural tendency to look at the word as a whole and assume based upon the arrangement of letters and previous knowledge of similar arrangements that a word is the word we think it is. I had a t-shirt that said "Coronado Lacrosse" on it, and every person who read it thought it said "Colorado". They were not familiar with the word "Coronado" and assumed based on the letters that the word was "Colorado", as this word was one the recognized.
This is not new. Web sites have known about this typo concept since the beginning, and smart (not to mention wealthy) sites buy up the names of commonly misspelled variations of their sites name. During the last election, the Bush administration even went so far as to buy up sites like Bushsucks.com and FuckBush.com so no one could use those names. But it is not Bloggers fault for not owning Blogpsot.com; it is these friggin' bible-bangers who are trying to get you to read their dogma instead of your intended Slutblog. They use sick little tactics like taking advantage of peoples (seemingly) natural desire to make typos and use it to get you to view their blasphemous religious piss-shitter. At least they're not infecting computers with little Judas-Bugs every time the site is accidentally visited... SO FAR!!!
Since the invention of the internet, people have discovered ways to fuck with people with it. Spam e-mail with links to girls being raped by horses; pop-ads that try to trick you into thinking they're contests you've won or your computer asking you something; all manner of viruses put forth by people who are so lonely and pathetic that they get off on hearing someone talk of their screen name "9_inch_kok6969" infecting peoples computers and ruining their lives; spyware that keeps track of your interests and aims specific online ads at you without your knowing; the site that,when you click on a link, it opens up 90 other endless sites telling you how to "increase your bust" or "get it up"; sites that won't allow you to click "back" or navigate away from them; the list goes on. At least it would if I could think of any more right now. (That's a commercial techinique: List everything you have, then add "An Much More!" at the end). I'm starting to hate the fucking internet. If it weren't the easiest way to get pornography and I wasn't able to ward off boredom for so long with this stupid blog thing, I would become a neo-luddite and go live in a cave. But porn is starting to bore me, and other peoples blogs make me question the validity of blogging as a whole. There is e-mail, which is easy. But maybe that's the problem. Everything becomes so fucking easy that we rely on it and cannot function outside of this ease. Then when something fucks up, which is always, we freak out and write nasty things in our blog about it. The internet is a great concept, because it brings the human race together on a singular network to share information, knowledge and entertainment. But the things that have happened through the invention of the internet gives me an impression of what mankind is: greedy, selfish, power-hungry, dogmatic, and lovers of kiddie porn. The internet has brought us all together, and man are we some sick fucks.
posted by MC Harv at 11:09 PM
7 Comments:
Damn straight jack, get pissed off! I went to the christian site, I can never get enough of self-righteous fundies telling me i'm going to hell because I haven't had my cup of Jesus in the morning. Fuckin A huh?
The more people change the more they stay the same.
Do you guys remember life before the inundation of the Internet? People were still mainly psycho assholes, and it was just as obvious then as it is now. I think online sex beats out phone sex any day, even when you're waiting for a slow site. No going back for me, as annoying as the whole thing is.
Naaah, I say let the fundamentalists have their fun... after all, they're all going to Hell, right?
Three Cheers for Voting Day!
I forgot to add that I highly revere and admire your use of profanity. I believe you used a swear word for every part of speech. Well done, Jack!
Love that name, too. My dog (whenever I get one) will be Jack; short for Crapperjack.
You can't spell FUNDAMENTALIST without FUN!!!
My continual concern is that we can come off just as shrill and obnoxious. Secularism is so beat upon these days that sometimes it's inevitable to come across as whiny.
-Thomas
There was no obscurage on the shirt and you know it.
Or maybe it was due to the fact that you suck and I hate you forever! Huh? Ever think of that?
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