White Woman Black Dog

It’s time to put it to bed.

I’ve been running this website in one form or another since 1995. It began as “Tone Def’s Ultra Cool Homepage in Amazing 2D” (which looked horrible, but was hand coded with love and inexperience). Then it became “Bioland” and was hosted by the kids at freshmet.net (who forgot to renew their domain name and some Korean bitch-wad grabbed it out from under them… I think it’s still for sale if you have way too much money). Then finally, in 1999, it became White Woman Black Dog.

How the names came to be

The names “Bioland” and “White Woman Black Dog” both came from interactions with my brother, Joe.

He had hemophilia and always had sharps containers around his house (for disposing of the needles he used to inject himself with clotting factor). One day, as I walked through his house, I noted that he had about 8 of them sitting out. I said “I hereby dub your house ‘Bio-Land’!” and then did some goofy dance. It amused him, and eventually ended up being my online name.

“White Woman Black Dog”, on the other hand, comes from something slightly shadier.

There was a bachelor party, and they blind-folded the groom, took him into an adult novelty shop, and started handing him things to identify by touch (the groom didn’t know where they took him… but it didn’t take long to figure out” My brother was telling me about the various implements of destruction they had there. “Dude… that had to be a floor sculpture! No one could use that thing!!”. He also talked about the magazines they sold. “They had everything… butt sex, oral sex, white woman black dog, you name it!!”. Of course, it was much funnier with his hand gestures, but you get my drift.

Sadly, my brother passed away before the internet became available.

Why the site is going down

I haven’t actually done anything of value with this site for the past couple of years (and the few years before that I was just faking it). I’m just out of ideas for now, and posting a “I’m done” message is a lot easier than dealing with e-mails saying “why don’t you post more?”. Perhaps something will drive me to re-open things and start anew, but I’m not feeling that right now. Right now, I need a rest.

A few final words

I just wanted to take a moment to thank the millions and millions of people who came by to check the place out over the years. I’m especially thankful to the thousands and thousands of people who came here who weren’t trying to search for animal porn. Oh… and a big WWBD “Fuck You!” to the myspace, livejournal, and blogspot users who can’t seem to grasp the concept that hotlinking is bad.

Special thanks to Eve at grumpyoldwoman.net. Without her, this site would have probably died a long time ago.

I know, I’ve been very lax on posting.

I maintain another blog (which is updated pretty damn often) and moderate a fairly spiffy forum (again, posting a lot… I’m a regular chatty bitch there), but never seem to find the time to keep this site up to date.

My bad.

The idea behind this site was to fill it with my angst. Instead, it seems to be catching all my apathy.

I’ll have to do something about that… listen to some Linkin Park, read more news stories about Paris Hilton, or follow along with the crazy and wacky antics of our lovely President.

Well, the Linkin Park part doesn’t sound too bad, but reading about a skanky two dollar whore or following along with a lying moron with dreams of grandeur who’s driven our country into the dirt has just become tiresome (at least I’m still opinionated).

So.. until I think of something clever or witty (or not) to post, I leave you with this tasty news story (complete with a photo of an x-ray). Prisoners Smuggle Cell Phones (can you hear me now?)

In a recient poll published on Science.com shows just where your country stands on evolution… well, it does if your contry was one of the 34 polled.

Yay, USA… you came in 33rd out of 34. This left the country of Turkey with the title of “Most Scientifically Ignorant Country of those polled” (I know the religous right is pissed over this… they wanted that title!).

“American Protestantism is more fundamentalist than anybody except perhaps the Islamic fundamentalists, which is why Turkey and we are so close,” said study co-author Jon Miller of Michigan State University.

I think there’s a better explanation for this sad, backwater showing of our science knowledge:

Adults in each country were asked whether they thought the statement, “Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals,” was true or false, or if they were unsure.

The study found that over the past 20 years:

• The percentage of U.S. adults who accept evolution declined from 45 to 40 percent.
• The percentage overtly rejecting evolution also declined, from 48 to 39 percent.
• And the percentage of adults who were unsure increased, from 7 to 21 percent.

Of the other countries surveyed, only Turkey ranked lower, with about 25 percent of the population accepting evolution and 75 percent rejecting it.

I’m full of ire and destain for the world today, so I figured I’d make a quick list of all the things I hate (well, I hate a lot of things, so this will be the “quick list”).

1. Stupid People.  Yes, I’m sure I’m not the brightest bulb in the house, but by and large, the unwashed masses make my dog look like Einstein.
2. Stupid Huge SUV’s.  What, do you drive around singing “Cigaro” to yourself all day?  Bejesus… do you really need a vehicle that’s 8 feet wide, gets 10 mpg, and won’t ever fit in your garage?
3. Wal*Mart.  It’s a gathering place for point #1.  Most shoppers at that chain really only need 2 things: orthodontia and soap.
4. Political Parties.  The two party system in this country is a travesty.  Each side tries to push their agenda while stopping the other from doing the same.  How about putting that shit aside and doing what the voters want?
5. Organized Religion.  Ok… the can of worms is open now.  Name one truly good thing that any organized religion ever gave to humanity (I can’t).  I’m not against having faith, but the moment a religion becomes organized, it get into politics, and we see what that means in #4.
6. MySpace.  Every single MySpace site is the same special blend of calorie free mental diarrhea.  No content, no purpose.  And quit hot-linking my damn bandwidth away!!
7. DRM in Windows Vista.  I swear to you, I will never install Vista until all the DRM crap is hacked out of it.  Treating everyone like a potential criminal is wrong. 
   
8. Spinners.  Spinners are those wheels with the spinny bit in the middle.  You can also get them as plastic hub caps from Wal*Mart.  More gay than a very gay thing!  Seriously, why not get some euro tail lights and a coffee can exhaust while you’re at it and totally fag your ride out.
9. Creamed Corn.  Just ick!
10. Stupid top 10 lists.  Wow… are you that desperate for content? (Well, apparently I am).

Tune in tomorrow and listen to me call your Momma a bitch.

One look at my logs shows why I hate myspace and opendirviewer.

Take a peek at the referer list for my site. EVERY SINGLE ONE from myspace or opendirviewer is a hotlink to an image on my site.

Hotlinking to images sucks up bandwidth. With over 25% of the refer list being myspace alone, you can see why I get cranky.

So… I’ve done a little something to discourage it.

If you attempt to hotlink any of my images to your myspace page, my server replaces the requested image with the following one:

Of course, that image is what you’re seeing in the chart above. Before I started replacing images from myspace, the amount of bandwidth lost was much, MUCH worse!