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Bill Bison has scouted the hickiest of Midwest burgs, hiked the bear-and-Dr.Pepper infested wilderness of the Appalachian Trail. He has even braved the beer monsters and shrimp roasters of Australia. Gee, he's even been to England! But in "Notes from a Superhighway", the inoffensively irreverent travel journalist boldly goes where no writer has gone before. And this time it's digital. From the cockeyed yahoos who inhabit the town of Yahoo to the cleverer-than-thou brainiacs who make Bolloxpedia their home, it's a laugh-out-loud adventure of reassuringly patronising observation upon a culture that's often more zeroes than ones. And just you wait until Bill discovers blogging...

"Funny" - Time Out
"Astoundingly Funny" - New Scientist
"Howling funny" - The Independent
"So funny it will make your spleen burst and bile come out of your nose onto your roast dinner like gravy from the backside of an incontinent horse." Charlie Brooker, The Guardian


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Things had not started well. I'd clicked my mouse three times, just as the manual advised. But I was beginning to get the uneasy sensation that I was not in Kansas anymore. Instead: I had been dumped, bags sitting indolently at my feet at the port of Google, a bewilderingly brightly-lit entry terminal where deluded know-nothings swarm, mouths agog, waiting to be shunted in the right direction by some wayward impulse from their unconscious. Later I would encounter the loathesome hordes of MySpace and the bright white androids of Facebook. But that was tomorrow. Today all I needed was a bag of Krispy Kreme donuts, a credit card and a large box of Kleenex.



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Laugh? I went funny until my tummy got runny, 11 Oct 2007 By  Wendy De'Ath (Northamptonshire, England) - See all my reviews    Bill Bison's books has helped me understand that not all Europeans are garlic-breathed capitulators with hairy underarms. In fact, only some of them are like that; there's also the nutty Spaniards, the nasty Germans and the uproarious Swiss! But seriously, I picked this up beacuse I'm new to the Internet, having been on AOL for ten years. Yet I knew I'd be in safe hands from the word go because the usual Bison humour and pages upon pages of caustic side-splitting descriptions are all here. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

Unfortunately lacking in technical accuracy, 17 Oct 2007 By  WikiPedant See all my reviews    While claiming to be a 'guided tour' of the Internet, actually Mr Bison's book is woefully short of precision. The numerous, unforgiveable errata had me guffawing for all the wrong reasons. In particular, his tale of blocking JavaScript pop-ups by using the PopBlock toolbar is clearly made up as PopBlock is Linux-native only and not Windows compatible! Plus they are based around executable server-side technologies upon which Bison would not have been able to intrude - at least not without PhD-level understanding of procedural C++ and operator overloading techniques. So, in summary, what a total moron. Was this review helpful to you?  Or did it nauseate you? (Report this)

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