Bonus: Explainer

I have no idea how many people have actually been reading this blog. Literally tens possibly! But as I've made a habit of dropping esoteric references into the titles (can you tell I'm an Alan Moore fan?) I figured it might be kind to at least explain some of them before I sign off. Some are just a lark, some have some connection to what I was posting about. But enough pretext. Here we go.

Thing 6: Or How I stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Diigo - A reference to Stanley Kubrick's classic movie Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Thing 7: Death Rides a Pale Otter - Obviously a reference to Death Rides a Pale Horse...but with an Otter!

Thing 9: The Tragedy of the Commons - Reference to a famous and influential article in the magazine Science by Garrett Hardin.

Thing 10: A Nation Turns its Lonely Eyes to Flikr: Snippet of the Simon & Garfunkel song "Ms. Robinson" with Flikr replacing Joe Dimaggio.

Thing 11: Come and See The Violence Inherent in the System: A line from the famous Peasant:Government scene in Monty Python's The Holy Grail.

Thing 12: The Nameless Dread - The title of a short story by legendary horror/SciFi novelist H.P. Lovecraft.

Thing 13: I try to Leave but They Pull me Right Back In: Slightly reworded line from the Godfather part III.

Thing 14: Opiates for the Masses...Like that's a bad thing - Reference to Karl Marx's statement that Religion was the "Opiate of the Masses."

Thing 15: Abandon Hope all Ye Who Enter Here - The Plaque above the entrance to Hell in Dante's Inferno.

Thing 16: Fear and Loathing in Professional Networking - Reference to many of Hunter S. Thompson's books.

Thing 17: The World as Will and Representation...and Twitter - Title (minus the twitter part) of famous philosophical treatise of Arthur Schoepenhaer.

Thing 18: Quite Exciting, this Computer Magic - Line from This is Spinal Tap.

Thing 19: Take Your Protein Pills and Put Your Helmet On - Line from David Bowie's "Space Oddity".

Thing 20: Hominem te Momento - Latin for "remember you are a man", a line that slaves in ancient Rome were instructed to chant to generals to remind them of the fleeting nature of life.

Thing 21: In Vino Veritas - Latin for "in wine truth."

Thing 23: The End of Laughter and Soft Lies: Line from The End by the Doors.