For the last remaining person on earth who hasn't seen me post this yet
Posted on 12/19/2006 8:14:31 PM PST by martin_fierro
Photolurking, blog streaking and cheesepodding: The new Internet addictions
Tue Dec 19, 1:31 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday.
They include these:
- EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.
- BLOG STREAKING: "Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody's sake would be best kept private."
- CRACKBERRY: "The curse of the modern executive: not being able to stop checking your BlackBerry, even at your grandmother's funeral." (A BlackBerry is a popular handheld device that can be used for phoning, emailing and web-browsing).
- GOOGLE-STALKING: Defined as "snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates."
- CYBERCHONDRIA: "A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer."
- PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met.
- WIKIPEDIHOLISM: Excess devotion to contributing to the online collaborative encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. (Wikipedia even has a page where you can test whether you're an addict: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are-You-a-Wikipediholic-Test)).
- CHEESEPODDING: Downloading of a song "so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter." Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s.
I've only got "Monkey on Your Back" from them. I don't think that's "cheese." "99 Luftballoons" is cheese. "Safety Dance" is cheese.
WTFD Vocabu-Ping.
Yes, that's the cheez-whiz of cheez!
these sound dirty.... ; )
sounds like you two cheesepods need to get a room and listen to your cheese in solitude! ; )
how about I LIKE KITES?
Never heard of it.
Wildflower
Skylark
She's faced the hardest times
you could imagine
and many times her eyes fought back the tears
and when her youthful world
was about to fall in
each time her slender shoulders
bore the weight of all her fears
and a sorrow no one hears
still rings in midnight silence,
in her ears
Let her cry, for she's a lady
let her dream, for she's a child
let the rain fall down upon her
She's a free and gentle flower,
growing wild
and if by chance I should hold her
let me hold her for a time
but if allowed just one possession
I would pick her from the garden,
to be mine
Be careful how you touch her,
for she'll awaken
and sleep's the only freedom that she knows
and when you walk into her eyes,
you won't believe
the way she's always paying
for a debt she never owes
and a silent wind still blows
that only she can hear and so she goes
Let her cry, for she's a lady
let her dream, for she's a child
let the rain fall down upon her
She's a free and gentle flower,
growing wild
"She ran calling 'Wiiiiiiiiildfire!'"
Thanks for the info! I certainly do some of these..but I'm careful..I think
Don't get any on you.....
8^)
Next thing I suppose they're gonna make fun of my Air Supply music I got stored on my hard drive...
GOOD STUFF!!
For the last remaining person on earth who hasn't seen me post this yet
"Billy, don't be a hero, don't be a fool with your life."
No that damn song will be stuck in my head for the remainder of the day!!!!!
MUahahahahaha!
I'd have to say you are amongst the group! Eeeegads!
Cheese forever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4QIIUBw65I
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