Domain freakyness

This post and this post at The Reg are really scary. Reading them, especially the iTunes one, you would immediately think of cybersquatting. But when you learn that the iTunes.co.uk domain was registered 3 years before Apple ever released the iTunes service in the US, and the then you go the address and it now points at the Apple iTunes service, and you start to think that something has gone seriously wrong here. I can understand the claim that Apple make, but, in fairness, they simply have no claim to the domain name. They released a service after the name was already in use. What’s to say they didn’t infringe on the iTunes name – is there a case for suing them? (I have no idea when iTunes started out in the pipeline and whether the name was publically known before the .co.uk was registered, though).

But still. They take the domain away from the registrant so that they can then profit from it, when it was legitimately registered in the first place. It’s just wrong.

Tip

If you’re riding a motorbike, and you plan to stay relatively stress free and forward moving, ensure that the fuel pump on it is not a bit fucked. Trust me when I say that having your fuel pump cut out on you when you’re ragging it up a fast road overtaking everything in sight… is not a lot of fun. Period.

Coincidence shmoincidence

I work in a nightclub which traditionally does not get a lot of trouble. We only tend to get trouble when the “wrong” sort of people are out. When I say wrong, I won’t mince words. I mean the townies, the pikies, the chavs, the wankers. We don’t tend to let them in, but from time to time, on occasion, they slip through the net, and get past us.

Last Wednesday was one of the “biggest” nights we’ve had down there, with respect to the amount of trouble we had to deal with. Quite a lot of drunk people, and two big fights that resulted in us having to get physical and quite liderally throw people out the door (and at one point be involved in a fight outside). In fact, in the year or so that I’ve worked there I’d only ever have one person take an actual swing at me. On Wednesday, it happened twice. (Fortunately I was a lot quicker than them, on both occasions, and they didn’t get me).

Anyway, the link here. Big night in the club, lots of fighting, lots for us to do… on the same night as Oasis played a gig in Southampton. Big night, Oasis concert. Oasis are chavvy wankers, we had a load of chavvy wankers. Coincidence? I think not.

Futurama fans

This is quality. Reminisce thanks to Flickr. (and Anthony for finding it via Boingboing).

The state of our country

Look at this email I received from my website:

Although you say your on our side you let your brother go to a **** country and earn money for those ****s. Frankly if your brother is a ****-lover, it makes you a black **** lover and when the time come we’ll burn you with them.
No wonder Cornwall is full of ****ing immigrants you thick country bumpkins don’t know the first ****ing thing about our country. And by the way…the only flag is the flag of st George, given by god. I wipe my arse on a black flag with a white cross. Your probably a ****ing arse bandit too, shagging your ******-loving brother. Work in a **** bank? Your family are worse for this country that the ****ing ****s are cos you are paying for the mongrels to breed. Your a **** and so is you ***** mother whos probably letting a ****** **** her up the ares right now. ****S!

which is sent from “TrueBrit”. If true brits are really such illiterate inbred morons, then I can’t wait to get out of this country.