Damien Mulley

Go read this about Weblogs and Mass Amateurisation of the web and everything else. As tools to make us more creative become cheap or free and readily available will we start using the other sid eof our brains more and will the online race and then the offline world become more expressive and free thinking ? Kinda ironic that when free speech is being smothered offline by some oprresive western regimes we are in fact becoming more expressive online.

They’re clamping down on the fiel sharers and the riaa is polluting networks like kazaa but the technology is already changing to stop them doing this with checksums and ratings on the validity of songs being downloaded. They’re suing individuals for downloading songs now and the latest is they are offering an amnesty for downloaders.

The trouble is that their remedy is crap. They have to prevent and not cure. People have gotten into the habit of downloading and sharing. So if you sour the milk in the bottle people are just going to build another way of distribution and the masses will move there. The RIAA will forever be playing catch up.

Baaaaa

We’re all fucking sheep and we’re Highly Susceptible to Erroneous Information.

I read that phrase and thought that its so true. We really do believe what we are told in the media. We don’t seem to have time to sit down and investigate what the media says to us. Do we believe everything we see and read in newspapers on radio and on television ? We seem to do the same for websites too.

Would we believe some random stranger telling us stuff though ? Seems to me just because newspapers and tvs are in the home a lot we have given them a much higher level of trust. Thats not a good thing.

I’d love to see some sort of integrity thing going where a newspaper and even a radio station would be required to put everything they publish online and there would be a commentary section for each article where people can go and comment on how accurate the information is.

Then some independent organisation can check the website and give the paper an overall integrity rating.

Might even start a pet project to go through all the main stories on the main irish newspapers and see how accurate the information is.

It’d be cool if you could bring about a voluntary code of practice for newspaper websites so that they will try their best to make sure the information is accurate but if someone posts that the info is not accurate they will make the appropriate changes.

Damn. Before I started this entry I was not thinking about that but something else. Rapid thought evolution. Heh.

More ideas and rants later.

Straight Acting. Yes the term bugs me. Its used by gay men who seem to have a problem being gay. To me when someone says they are “straight acting” I read it as “yes I’m gay but I’m not one of THEM , I’m not a fag or a queer or some girly man”

Fucks sake, its this self imposed fragmentation of the gay defintion thats doing harm. People think of gay men and think of some uber camp handbag toting hairdresser who is more feminine than your mammy and to help quash this ignorant stereotype what happens ? Gay men agree with it and try and serparate themselves from these fem boys by calling themselves straight acting.

What these beer swilling rugby playing “yeah footballs great” , crotch scratching masculine boys should be doing is not breaking away from the group but staying in the group and fucking over ignorant stereotypes.

Theres absolutely nothing wrong with fem guys at all, yet straight acting seems to imply there is. Gay people get discriminated enough already besides having gay men believe and enforce stereotypes.

Straight acting also implies ACTING.

” Wow Paul you could win an oscar there they way you walk like every other guy and your voice isn’t high pitched”

“Cheers man yeah, it was a hard task and I had a ‘straight coach’ help me on how to walk and not mince about and I never knew until I took this role that its not the norm to carry a handbag. I think I have a very good chance at the next gay oscars but my main competition was this guy who played a rugby player but who was gay. He is also in with a good chance as you know how hard and tough rugby is for someone that gets manicures”

Arghhhhh, Theres no acting in the way I walk and talk. “But you don’t look Gay” and this is said and I used to take it as a compliment. Maybe it should be rephrased to be “Jesus its great you are secure enough in your sexuality to not believe the stereotype and ‘assume the position’ so to speak and become that hairdresser and increase the pitch of your voice and turn your wrists muscles into rubber ”

Gee thanks.

Seriously lads and lassies, you are doing our community a great disservice by using the term straight acting.

Okay, its time to shut the fuck up now, but these are my views. Theres also a very good webpage I just found as I finished this rant. The webpage is also about the defintion of Straight Acting

Enjoy.

Well its topical and colourful !

As ever I have a few more website ideas. Yes I know I have enough to do evolving this Mulley website and also doing the Mulley Genealogy website AND the Gay Teenage resource website but if I manage my time wisely I can do it. One idea is going to definetly happen. Its called The Dodgy List.

I used to post a lot of links to websites which contained lots of female eye candy on the Illuminati forum on boards. I get a lot of these links from a work colleague who gets them from his friends who .. etc.

Anyyyyyyyyyyyyways I don’t post on boards anymore but I do still want to pass all these links to my friends. So I was thinking of setting up a weblog like website where people can post their links and also maybe upload some scantidly clad pics as well.

I’m thinking blog cos it automagically creates rss feeds so people can just aggregate the website. It’d be handy too thought if it could be dumped out to a mailing list as well.

Something like boingboing does.

The other idea is a Information sharing thingy with possibly an Irish Twist. A kind of “anyone know where I can find ..” “anyone know how many” etc. Its only forumulating in my head at the moment but its probably going to be another blog/webforum thingy with an rss and email feed.

Must have a look at whats out there to compare.

Ooooh another idea is something which came out of the All Things Retro forum about sweets and chocs from days go=ne by and where you can purcahse them.

It’s be cool if I could gather together a list of everyones old time fav sweets and then give them each a webpage that lists where you can buy these sweets still.

Have a pics too of the shops you can get them from. With the rise of camera phones and all that it should become more frequent to have people take the pics.

More later. Stay tuned folks !

Seems when you type in mulley into Google this site comes up first and the Mulley Genealogy website comes up in the top ten as well. I’m pretty happy with this.

I better start work on the .org website now. 🙂

Just back from Amsterdam. I’d like to go back soon. Work is busy busy busy and I’m going locking myself away into it. Starting at 7am and working until 7pm for the next few weeks.

I cut my ties with Boards.ie and the GayCork website today. I’m prioritising things and they are too wasteful of my resources right now.

So for me until Christmas its going to be work, driving test practice (test in Oct ) and studying and writing.

Forget Tommy Walsh from Ground Force Karlins the person for the job if you want them tiles done right in the Kitchen. Our own grouting grrrrrl.

Karlin is also doing an interview with Tom Murphy from boards.ie this Friday in the Irish Times. Yay boards.

Todays word is Metrosexual
‘ The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis — because that’s where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they’re pretty much everywhere.
—Mark Simpson, “Meet the metrosexual,” Salon.com, July 22, 2002 ‘

… go “guess where we are cos we are never on time”

Was talking to Antoin on the #joiito channel recently and we talked about a system for tracking buses so ypu’d know where the fig they are. Irish buses are rarely on time and it would be good to know how many stops away the bus is. A very cheap vandal proof solution would be needed too.

My suggestion was a unique number on each bus stop and a number you texted and it would text you back the location of the bus. “Four Stops Away” This technology would work with either a gps system on the bus or some very easy system on the bus where the driver pressed something to give his location.

But as Antoin said and its very true the drivers and their managers might not want their location known as it could possibly highlight how bad the service is.

So then I thought that theres no need for the buses to do it. Power tp the people ! Everyone could participate by texting the number when the bus arrives with a code of ‘now’ or something and with the bus stop id. Then the database is updated and people can txt to see is a bus arriving soon.

Might be a good application of “people power” and using technology to get around bureaucracy.