Links

This is another experiment to show that I know exactly what I’m doing. Links are fun. More fun than you might think. If you’ve ever come across the Encyclopaedia Dramatica then you’ll have some idea what I mean. Don’t, however, go there unless you are particularly brave and not easily offended as it chronicles some of the more bizarre and unnecessarily offensive customs on Internet message boards. Some articles are hilarious. Some aren’t…. Anywho, one of the main traits of their articles is that hyperlinks don’t necessarily point where you might expect, for example:

“…George W. Bush was a great leader who presided over an era of peace and prosperity.”

[Popularised in this meme]

…which I think is an utterly fantastic way of demonstrating one’s cutting sarcasm and I intend to carry on that great tradition here. So, go forth, appreciate my stupid links and mouse over text. The links without the little hand pointer are just mouse over and the ones with it actually go somewhere. If it isn’t immediately obvious where that might be, your status bar at the bottom of your browser window will tell you.

First things first, why aren’t you running these? You are? Great. Let’s be friends.

Free software which is more customisable, more reliable, more friendly and more exciting than expensive software which is…not free? Winner. So you should clearly use these:

[Web browser] Firefox
[E-mail client] Thunderbird
[Calendar] Lightning (for Thunderbird)
[Music] Songbird
[IM client] Pidgin
[Web Video] Miro

So those are the basics and I’m sure I’ll add to them because I’m just discovering this whole new world. For a good starting point, check OSalt which suggests open source alternatives to propriety software. Good work, people!

What makes open source stuff actually awesome is that anyone can write add-ons for them. Way more discussion about this later when I shall bore you with which ones I use.

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