Filter Category: Mildly Amusing

Sometimes, when I'm in town and can't quite be bothered to go home yet, I come to the library, to check my e-mail, read blogs, google things before I forget them, all the usual kind of procrastinatory bits and nonsense. All of them apart from Facebook, that is. Try to go to Facebook and this is what you'll see:

CORNWALL LIBRARY SERVICE: ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

This page has been filtered because it breaches the Cornwall Library Service Acceptable Use Policy.

Filter Category: Social Networking

Hmph, I say.

But that isn't why I'm writing this post. The library blocks quite a few sites. In fact, when I first moved down here, it was blocking the discussion boards on the website for my MA course. Which, seeing as I had no internet at home at the time, cost me an awful lot in coffees at Cafe Cinnamon Girl (when I could work out when the bloody place was actually open). Apparently, though, some of their decisions are quite reasonable; amusing even.

Anyone who has an iGoogle hompage will know you can add little boxes that display feeds and content from other sites. On my page, I have one called Chimp-o-Matic (I think that link's right; it won't let me go there); it displays random George W Bush quotes. Or it does when I'm not in the library. I can't say that I usually take much notice of that particular box these days, even when it works, but today, for some reason, it occurred to me to scroll down and find out what exactly it is that Cornwall Library Service has against the world's most powerful idiot:

Filter Category: Tasteless & Offensive

Hmm...

GEORGE W BUSH TASTELESS AND OFFENSIVE, SAYS CORNWALL LIBRARY SERVICE

I can see the headlines now...