Britain, Britain, Uber Alles (with homeopathic quantities of Ron Paul!)

Was just looking at the Wikipedia article on the BNP, Britain's premier scary fascist/white supremacist party. The talk page is particularly shocking; evidently people who can more or less string a sentence together support them these days!

I'm enormously grateful that we don't (as yet) have a comparable political group in this country. They are evil.

There is, of course, humour in every situation; just imagine the Queen's Speech under a BNP government! "My Government and I have now relocated 80% of the nasty foreigners to camps in recently reclaimed County Poland. Any of my previous speeches, where I seem to cuddle up to the darkies, were made under mind-control by executed Communists such as Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, et al., and should be disregarded." [Fade out, to Rule Britannia with montages of smiling blonde children and tanks.]



And then, there's this. A white supremacist blog, supporting the BNP, on Wordpress.com, with one of that host's trademark Scientology ads. (Yes, I know they're Google's, really.) I am, I'll confess, a little worried that Google's algorithms think that Neo-Nazis will also like Scientology; it makes that scary cult even scarier. And the author seems to be a fan of noted crazy failed presidential candidate Ron Paul! Argh, all the mad people in one!

Forget dodgy links; Ron Paul is the new SEO

For the last few months, Google has been seriously cracking down on link sale and so forth. So, how's a respectable dodgy website owner to manipulate search engines and draw visitors?

A few days ago, I mentioned Ron Paul, noted scary American presidential candidate, on this blog. Within hours, the rather boring article had about eight comments, including one from someone who seemingly thought that I was Ron Paul. In all, about 150 people visited through searching for 'Ron Paul'!

It's clear, then. This is the way to get traffic. Simply pepper everything with irrelevant references to popular weird people. As Ron Paul would say.

TinyURL in Ron Paul shocker!

You know TinyURL? The URL-shortening service? Guess whose site it links to, on its front page.

Yes, that's right. Noted dangerously insane libertarian politician Ron Paul.

Oh, dear. It's always nice to find out that major, important Internet services are run by crazy people, or at least by people who support crazy people in national elections...

I'd call for a boycott, but Ron is doomed, anyway.