Back in the old days, we used to play a game on the internet called “web that smut”.

The basic idea was that you’d pick a page – say, the home page of Nike – and your opponent would say “I can web that smut in 12″ . Then you’d bid down in the manner of “Name That Tune”.

• I can web that smut in 11
• I can web that smut in 8
• Web that Smut!!

The challengee would then be obliged to – just by clicking, no typing – get from the Nike home page to a porn site in 8 clicks. The basic strategy was that if you could get to the yahoo home page it was Society ->People and Places -> Sexuality -> Magazines then you were looking at naked bodies.

It was pretty easy in the old days because every page had a list of “Links” and everyone linked to Yahoo. It’s harder now because no-one wants to link to Other Sites.

But now there is We Heart It and clicking to porn is a feasible activity again and I hereby challenge you.

I can web that smut in 12:

http://weheartit.com/entry/912969

We live less than 1/2 a mile and two tiny streets away from the 9 year old’s school and she asked if it would be OK for her to walk to school on her own. I asked The Google what is the current thinking on 9 year olds walking to school? and was shocked by what it told me.

I expected to find mixed opinions – a few people fondly remembering how they walked a couple of miles across a field when they were five; some others wondering whether it may be too dangerous in this day and age; a pragmatic smattering suggesting that it depend on the maturity of your child but…nope. The People on the Internet were unamimous.

IF YOU LET A NINE YEAR WALK TO SCHOOL SHE WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE MURDERED AND IT WILL BE ALL YOUR FAULT YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!!! PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE LOCKED UP!!!

When I haven’t blogged for a while I get a pent up desire to blog something of significance. The more thought I put into that significant blog the less likely I am to actually write it. Which makes me less likely to blog for a while.

Blogs that I have not written in the last couple of weeks:

• My evolving political worldview
• My time on a nuclear submarine
• Who are conservatives?
• Some kind of analogy between local maxima in evolution and local maxima in political systems (like democracy, capitalism)
• (related to previous) zero-tolerance of knives/fighting/etc in schools

It’s a shame. They would’ve been excellent. Ask me about them over beer.