Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Some random trivia living rent-free in my head:

The Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Game & Learn Controller knows the Konami code.

This video thumbnail image passed through my stream. To me, it looks like two cartoon race cars competing with each other over who can make better race car noises with their mouths. #FacesInThings #Pareidolia

Boxing Day
AKA
Christmas for Cats

Cookies *are* enabled, you daffy box of scrap metal! What I have blocked are *cross-site* cookies!

Why do you need me to save and send cookies to every random corner of the Web *except* the one I'm trying to read, just to prove my humanity to a bot? Why, especially, when the site you're blocking *doesn't* need cross-site cookies.

Related, the best movie website design is still online, having migrated slightly over the decades:

from spacejam.com/index.cgi

to spacejam.com/jam.htm

to warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

to spacejam.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

before finally moving into its retirement home today at www.spacejam.com/1996

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

/usr/ports/games/sl/

The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

Today it's Microsoft's turn to be the somebody else's computer that goes down worldwide. News is saying Azure and 365 were down and are starting to come back up, but Microsoft's support website (support.microsoft.com) is still down for me as I post.

Tonight, an era ends.

After 32 years, you can no longer try AOL dial-up for any hours free.

AOL Help, captured by the Internet Archive, 2025-09-30, "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued": https://web.archive.org/web/20250930230532/https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued