{"id":22,"date":"2004-04-13T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=22"},"modified":"2004-04-13T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T22:47:00","slug":"scotsman-com-news-lazy-guide-to-net-culture-dotcom-boom-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Scotsman.com News – Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Dotcom Boom II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stewart Kirkpatrick <\/em>
\n
skirkpatrick at scotsman dot com <\/p>\n

By the time you read this I will be a very very rich man. <\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

(If you want to appear like you\u2019re at the cutting edge of net culture but can\u2019t be bothered to spend hours online, then never fear. Scotsman.com\u2019s 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\u2019s lazy guide to net culture.<\/em>) Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Scotsman.com News – Lazy Guide to Net Culture: Dotcom Boom II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=58","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":0},"title":"Today’s Fortune","author":"Jorah","date":"June 30, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. -=- Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dictionary'","rel":"","context":"In "Post"","block_context":{"text":"Post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=30"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=205","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":1},"title":"Good Morning Silicon Valley","author":"Jorah","date":"October 27, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I admit it, a lot of the things I post here, I first read on GMSV. 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