Breakfast Links: Irritating Web Words, Pentagon Offline & Worst. Flight. Ever.
So the good folks at YouGov have surveyed 2,091 adults to find out the most irritating words that the internets have spawned. The top two are also at the top of my list - folksonomy and blogosophere. Ugh. Lord do I dislike those words, although sadly I use them because what’s a poor blogger to do? Most of the other ones I don’t particularly mind, netiquette? Nah. Webinar - ok, I mind that a little. But coming in at #5 was “blook”, supposedly a book based on a blog. Am I totally out of the loop? Because a) I don’t think I ever heard of it and b) I didn’t thnk that this was such a phenomenon that it needed it’s own word?
And then yesterday the Defense Department took as many as 1,500 computers offline in response to a cyber attack. Some intrepid cracker penetrated the Pentagon which caused the department to turn off the computers - no more details other than that. Here’s the thing, Defense Secretary says this:
this [attack] had no adverse impact on department operations. Employees whose computers were affected could still use their handheld BlackBerries.
Is that all employees do at the Pentagon? Send emails? I’d kinda hoped that they did more.
Ok, this last one’s pretty gross. A Continental Airlines flight from Shannon, Ireland to Newark had it’s toilet system break down right after take off and sewage started flowing down the aisles. Sewage. Flowing down aisles. That’s a 7 hour flight. Apparently there was one partially operating restroom for the whole flight (more than 200 people), although I suppose you could have just gotten right to it and gone in the aisles. I can’t believe that they just kept going with that. Man.
