Month: April 2004

Apparently, some Blogger users got invited to use gmail recently, but nothing for dear old me…

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German Web site dubbed “Pig Brother” has attracted more than a million visitors in under two weeks with its 24-hour live Webcam coverage of a family of wild boar, the site’s creators said Tuesday.

The site, launched in March by the German Hunting Protection League, offers day and night coverage of three males, three females and more than 50 offspring in an enclosure in their natural habitat of the Eifel mountains in western Germany. Read more…

Stewart Kirkpatrick

skirkpatrick at scotsman dot com

By the time you read this I will be a very very rich man.

Don’t let envy lead you to begrudge me my good fortune. (Indeed, as a committed eco-socialist I will be donating a large part of my fortune to organic Cuban cigar manufacturers in return for a small tonnage of their stock).

(If you want to appear like you’re at the cutting edge of net culture but can’t be bothered to spend hours online, then never fear. Scotsman.com’s pathetic team of geeks, freaks and gimps will do the hard work for you. While you sip wine, read a book or engage in normal social interaction, they will burn out their retinas staring at badly designed web pages and dodge creeps in chatrooms to prepare for you: Scotsman.com’s lazy guide to net culture.) Read More…