About neOnbubble.com
This site is classified as E/N - short for everything and nothing - although, to be fair, the classification is by the site owner and is not official. It contains stories, rants, guides, musings, ponderings, and all stops inbetween. It is not a blog. Do not call it a blog.
About Mark
Mark - when he isn't referring to himself annoyingly in the third person, and, indeed, when he is too - is a professional software and web developer for a small company in the south of England. He lives in Portsmouth; what a wonderful city it is! He supports Portsmouth Football Club (a football team!) and the New England Patriots (an American football team) and has done so since the 1980s before anyone accuses him of just picking the two greatest teams in the two greatest sports and supporting them because it's fashionable. He also enjoys watching BAFL games (that's British American Football to you) and will quite happily watch the Southern Sundevils, Sussex Thunder, and Farnham MH Knights because they're all just about within watching distance. Mark dislikes idiocy except for his own which is loved and cared for and comforted after storms by cooing at it and stroking it between its middle legs. Mark is an atheist because he has a brain and he's not afraid to use it.
About Math
Nobody knows much about Math yet. But they will. Oh yes, they will. Right about now seems appropriate. Math is a shortened form of Matthew, losing in the process of shortening one 't', one 'e', and one 'w'. Rearranging those letters gives us the word 'wet', hence we can conclude that Math is less wet than Matthew. Math is a dry individual. Positively dessicated sometimes. Like coconut. Also, he has his own website with music! Music I tells ya! It's here: Plexigon.
About Ira
Ira likes satire and it's his speciality. He also likes rubbing his back up against doorframes. He's not a bear if that's what you're thinking.
Disclaimer
Everything on this site is 100% true and accurate with the exception of this sentence.
This site is not to be taken seriously. By looking at the semi-colon within the square brackets here [;] you agree not to take this site seriously. Furthermore, you agree not to complain about anything. If you find you are unable to agree to these agreements then you agree to leave this site immediately; no link is provided for you to do this. You agree to use any method at your disposal to leave this site including, but not limited to, closing the window, switching off the computer, and leaving the country of your residence.
By catching a glimpse of this ampersand character within parentheses (&) you agree that offense is a subjective matter and that what one person finds offensive may not be offensive to someone else. Subsequently, finding yourself offended by something, you agree that the best and only course of action for you is to leave the site and never come back. You agree that complaining about how offensive something is is a meaningless exercise and will be ignored/exploited as seems fit at the time. You agree that if someone you are responsible for finds something offensive on or through this site then clearly you are not taking your responsibilities seriously and that it's really all your fault. You agree that any complaints contrary to this agreement are an admission that you should have been chemically neutered at birth and kept in a hole rather than being let out in the world where people have intellects and moralities that may differ from your own very, very, very limited ones.
If you've just spotted the 'c' in the word effluence then you agree that you understand that all the comments on this site are the thoughts of their respective owners expressed as typed words and not something that the owner of this site has any control over. Yet. You agree that if you have an issue over them you should take the matter up with that person unless that person has a disclaimer about their person somewhat similar to this disclaimer in which case you could try arguing the point or letting the matter go. Racism in comments will not be tolerated and any abuse pointed towards the owner of this site, friends of the owner of this site, fluffy animals, half-eaten biscuits, Super Space Pope Eric VIII, or anything else I think of may be subject to amendment in order to make the commenter look a tit. The commenter will already be a tit, of course, but some other visitors may not instantly realise that and may need assistance in tit-identification. I'm happy to help.
By accessing this site using any of your senses other than taste you acknowledge that this disclaimer may change at any time to cover unforeseen eventualities and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Safe For Work Mode
Long, long ago there was naughtiness aplenty on this site. Foul and wicked things they were! Nude things! And other associated whatnots! These days there are fewer naughty references and less naughty content but that doesn't stop numerous content filter systems such as you would find installed at numerous workplaces in numerous countries from still seeing this site as pornographic in some way. How fortunate that companies making money from protecting naughty data from reaching pure eyes don't actually have to maintain accurate records!
This means that there is some content still around that is less-than-wholesome; links from websites that are not as holy as this one; and so on. I'm not removing any of it. But, because you're you and I'm me I do allow the adding of "?sfw" to any page on this site in order to render it without as much naughtiness as possible. Can I say fairer than that? Yes. But that's all you get.
So, by way of an example, the home page of this site is:
And a rendering of that same page without adult links would be this:
http://www.neonbubble.com/?sfw
And that's your lot. Anyone clicks a link to another page and they get the normal page. It's because I don't care, in case you're wondering. Also, there's a world out there with naughtiness in it. Get used to it.
I know what you're thinking though: this still doesn't help the site get through internet filters does it? Nope. They're all run by swine. But it does allow you to share a link with someone who faints at the thought of a man's calf showing in public. Or sites with terms and conditions that specify no adult links. Even though they'll permit links to search engines. Because they're all run by swine too. Aarghh! Swine everywhere! I need a good lie down now.
Creative Commons License
Are you one of the hundreds of millions of people who want to know whether you can copy anything on this site and whether you need to be a non-commercial entity (or hive-mind) or otherwise to do so? Well, you're in luck because this page explains all!
Okay, so what does that mean in layman's terms?
Well, in the absence of a layman (and I looked! I really, really looked!) I'll give my best "you-speak" interpretation of the license (yes, I know it should be 'licence' but Americans, eh!? They're everywhere).
You can copy anything I do on this site and you can display it yourself whether you are a lowly goatherd from Albania or a super global mega corporation such as Albanian Goatherds International Corp. There are only a few conditions that must be met when doing so:
- you may copy whatever you like and display it in its entirety however you please but you must notify me about it,
- you may not create another piece of work based on my work without letting me know about it and receiving my permission first,
- you can send my work onto whoever you like but you must provide them with details of this license so that they are aware of their own restrictions of usage.
What could be plainer than that?
Images
Where possible, and unless original, images on this site are obtained from stock sources such as the excellent stock.xchng.
Original image creations such as those photoshopped or created from scratch and photos such as those found in the image galleries in the pictures section of this site are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 3.0 License.
