21/01/05
Justin:
Flute 'n' Veg - like those tw*ts that used to come to your school to talk to you about how to treat animals or AIDS, except these ones make their own flutes out of - get this - vegetables. The fact is, kids think sh*t like this is crap.
justin: She's looking pretty old in this picture. They must only get promo pics done once every 10 years.
justin: And wow - who knew that ocorinas were real instruments?
Justin:
Swami Sananda or something. More weak minded semi-spiritual rubbish.
justin: Why does god never get decent web designers in contact with his prophets on Earth? maybe the new gneration of prophets will in fact be web designers, and not ageing new age tw*ts who have been so alienated from society and kept afloat by donations of the weak minded tw*ts they prey on, they have forgotten the basics like commerical trade as means of support. Oh, I don't even know why I'm commenting on this. no one can hear me. No one cares. I'm gonna read that Aphex Twin interview again.
Marcus: Remember the Heaven's Gate cult who all topped themselves in 1997 upon the arrival of the Hale-Bopp comet? Professional web designers.
Marcus:
Ta-da list - make to-do lists and keep them online. You can get an RSS feed of your list and share it with friends or the whole world. (Via).
Marcus: I've made a list of some Alfred Hitchc*ck movies I should watch by the end of the year as some kind of half-baked New Year's resolution. And I've shared it with the entire planet! Lucky planet!
Justin:
This idea to tag children in Swansea and sound a buzzer if they leave the playground is all very good. But why stop there? take a few more clues from the exploding collars from The Running Man and cut classroom sizes (and in the case of Swansea) benefit claims by a large percentage.
Justin:
Newsnight - List of blogs by people in Iraq.
Laura: Most interesting, I have a feeling that I shall be reading these all afternoon....
Justin:
The Onion AV club interviews Aphex Twin
Marcus: What a fascinating fellow he is.
justin: You can't get much more cool than someone who agrees to do an interview and is then uncooperative, because they, like, hate interviews.
20/01/05
Marcus:
"David Fincher, the maverick director behind Seven and Fight Club, is in talks to take on the story of a real-life serial killer [the Zodiac killer] who murdered at least 37 people in the San Francisco area in the 60s and 70s."
Marcus: I heart David Fincher.
Marcus: However, his next movie is called Benjamin Button and according to the IMDB, "an odd romance sparks between a woman of 30 and a man who, at 50, begins aging backwards."
Marcus: Although apparently that one's been scrapped. Possibly for the best - Zodiac sounds much more like safe Fincher territory.
Marcus:
I wonder if saying Free Porn really does jack up your readership stats. Free Porn? Why would that lead to so many extra search hits? What's so great about saying "Free Porn"? Look, watch me say it: Free Porn. Free Porn. Free Porn. I bet that makes no difference at all. (Via).
Marcus: If it does, of course, there will be Free Porn for all our readers.
Marcus: And we're going to need advertising. Lots of advertising.
Marcus: A great deal of it, no doubt, for Free Porn.
dave: So we're going to do free porn huh? Is that hardcore free porn?
Marcus: No, this site will never offer Free Porn. Unless I can figure out a way of making money out of Free Porn. It may, on the other hand, feature the words Free Porn a lot.
justin: Nah, you need to say sh*t like: ass, t*ts, lolita, mature, black, blonde, school girl, animal, frustrated housewife, amateur, big t*ts, t*ts, little t*ts, I bless the rains down in Africa, pussy, gaping, tight, nipples and cum.
justin: And I slipped a Toto lyric in there to catch the Toto business.
Marcus:
A prison in Bangkok is planning to broadcast live webcam footage of prisoners' daily lives, including the moments leading up to execution. (Via).
justin: Do you reckon we might see any bully-raping?
Marcus:
The voice of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy will be Stephen Fry. Yay!
Marcus: I finished watching the last episode of Jeeves and Wooster the other day - it's terrific stuff.
Justin:
US right attacks SpongeBob video - 'conservatives say it sees the video as a cunning attempt to promote homosexuality.' - and "We see the video as an insidious means by which the organisation is manipulating and potentially brainwashing kids."
justin: Why does their insane voodoo even make the news?
andy: and what does pokemon promote? (aka pocket monsters ;-) )
Dave: Who cares if it promotes homosexuality!? Does this mean they are saying the right thing to be doing is denouncing homosexuality. This truly is ignorance at its greatest. It makes me sad.
Marcus: I feel like that judge who famously said "Who are the Rolling Stones?", only I have vaguely heard of Spongbob Squarepants. But not enough to care in any shape or form.
Marcus: In fact, I care so little, I deliberately typed the name wrong. Deliberately.
Andy:
i was passed this link by a friend. have a look and see if you can make sense of it. over & out.
Marcus: That my friend is Banksy, urban guerilla grafitti artist extraordinnaire. You can find his work in London and Bristol.
Dave: Pretty cool.
Marcus:
Photographs documenting old signs for racial segregation in America. (Via).
Marcus: Compelling.
justin: This one is probably doing the Indians a favour though.
justin: Interesting, I have found another example of modern segregation. Attitudes never change eh?
Marcus:
Geocities 1996 - brilliant tongue-in-cheek retro Zen Garden CSS skinning. (Via).
Marcus: (Note to non web-geeks: the CSS Zen Garden was originally intended for web standards enthuasiasts to showcase their hyper-impressive webpage styling skillz.)
Marcus:
MoonEdit - a simultaneous multi-user text editor for real-time collaborative efforts. (Via).
Marcus: This looks like the PC version of the Mac's SubEthaEdit that I've been waiting for.
Marcus: Free, too.
Marcus: Collaborative text editing seems to have found its primary niche in transcribing speeches from tech conferences, but I'm sure it's got other uses too.
Marcus: I just can't think of any right now, ok? Leave me alone.
Dave: There's no practical use for this. None whatsoever.
Justin:
Speaking of internet radio stations - my favorite is Boombastic Radio - they play reggae, funk, 70s, gospel - just cool stuff. Look at the last ten played tracks to get a glimpse of what they play.
justin: I find stations like this are a cool way to get into music you might not have or be into - and you can always download something if you like it.
Dave: Or buy it. (The views of Justin do not necessarily represent the views of the rest of the staff).
justin: Yes, download it from one of the many music download sites that operate legally. Why on Earth would you assume I meant otherwise?
Zanna:
One of my all time favourite sites is the Gallery of Regrettable Food at the Official Institute of Cheer.
Marcus: I love the section on Big Little comic books.
Laura:
Mercus, I just want you to know that I am listening to Blind Melon - No Rain, on internet radio nonetheless, and figured that this gem of a tune would be a good opportunity to promote 90's fm, a radio station that cunningly employs a beyond varied playlist, including such artsists as Nine Inch Nails, 2 Unlimited, East 17, Vanilla Ice, Sheryl Crow, Beck, Hootie & the Blowfish, Beck and Alanis Morrisette. I should warn you, there is a fair amount of hideous early 90's dance music played on there, but on the whole it's a pretty good station. They even keep the swear words in naughty songs!
Dave: Do they play a lot of Beck? ;)
Laura: Not a lot if I'm honest. They tend to play Loser a couple of times a week. They played it about half an hour ago. Check out the now playing link on the site for a rough idea of what they play.
Dave: I only said that because you mentioned it twice. I'm feeling like a pedant today. Sorry.
Marcus: Sounds pretty awesome - although I hate the fact I am now getting old and one day 90s music will be the same as the 60s music my dad always listens to. Only not as good, generally.
Laura: No worries, I am a typo freak and bad at remembering what I have written in lists. In fact, hadn't even realised my excessive mentioning of Beck lol, and merely thought you were a big fan.
Justin:
Hey guys - no more worries The Antidote is here - a peptide extracted from a crocodile that can cure anything!
justin: Hmm, something that cures everything, extracted from a reptile... why, it's almost is if it should be called something like "Snake Oil"
Dave:
An arguement from Sitepoint as to why you should NEVER open links in new windows.
justin: Interesting... but I think people are arguing polemics... especially in debates I have had with Marcus in the past. The suggested compromise, the same compromise the Buddha would have suggested, is to offer both options. Obviously it's less off a serious consideration for those of us who use Firefox.
19/01/05
Justin:
Script excerpts! Star Wars: Episode Three: The Jedi Order Crumbles - part 1 and 2. Not a spoiler!
Dave: I think it kind of is a spoiler.
Justin:
Uday and Qusay Hussein: What are they doing now?
Dave: That's pretty nasty. Well done.
Marcus: I'd say that falls into the category of "14 year old attempting to look cool by being pointlessly f*cked up" humour.
justin: Hehehe - "Weekend at Qusay's" and a Bert & Ernie Uday and Qusay. Something Awful never ceases to amuse me.
Marcus:
Run for your lives! It's THE HASSELHOFFIAN RECURSION! (Via)
Dave: It's like The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army video.
Marcus: Sort of, except that video was cool and fun and this just makes my brain want to leap sidways out of my head while I scrub myself in bleach.
Laura: That was so wrong on so many levels.
Marcus:
Google has proposed a way of fighting comment spam: have weblogging software automatically add rel="nofollow" to any reader-contributed links. Google will simply ignore these links when indexing, which makes it pointless for the comment spammers as they won't get any Google juice. (Via).
Marcus: For one moment I thought this would break W3C validation, but no - should be fine. So generally speaking, a great idea that certainly won't make the problem worse.
Dave: Does this mean that anything we post to doesn't get google ranking from us?
Marcus:
US Airlines have no current orders for the A380 super mega jumbo jet - meanwhile, Richard Branson is promising double beds and casinos on Virgin flights.
justin: Probably because US Airlines would be part of some shady deal to buy Boening, but also because, as they say -
"When Boeing was showcasing the 747 to its clients, they talked about staterooms, theaters with tiered seating like a real movie theater," Harteveldt said. "None of that happened."
"Airplanes are designed for one of two things, either freight or passengers. You will not see an onboard Starbucks or an onboard branch of Harrods or in-flight casino, or anything else. All you will have is hundreds and hundreds of people."
Marcus:
Bang goes the British moral highground in Iraq.
Marcus: Meanwhile, it's business as usual with a new spate of car bombings.
justin: That first one looks like a Turner painting.
Laura:
Why Six Apart purchasing LiveJournal may not have been such a good idea after all.... Just a theory, but interesting none the less.
justin: Depends if everyone who works there is doing it for profit, or the art and craft of running a business.
justin: You public sector workers eh?
Marcus: Er, Laura's not a public sector worker.
Marcus: I think this idea of Yahoo buying up Six Apart is interesting, and it would certainly make an awful lot of sense given the Google>Blogger buyout.
justin: Well, I'm sure you agree with her COMMIE.
Laura: Errrr, last time I checked I was a private sector worker....? And the only reason I think it might be bad is cos I rather like not having ads on LJ.
Marcus: Don't worry - it's just one of his 'Nam flashbacks.
Laura: Birming 'nam?
justin: I'd imagine that placing adverts on your own site would be at your won discretion.
Marcus:
Bill Gates posing seductively for a teen magazine in 1983.
Marcus: Okay, this has been doing the rounds for a while now, but I thought I'd link it for the pleasure of anybody who's spent the past few days on Titan.
justin: hee hee hee
Dave: I haven't seen these. He's a real pinup.
Marcus:
Humiliate your asthmatic child with the Funhaler! (Via).
Marcus: I shudder to think what would have happened if I'd pulled one of these out at school.
Marcus: Mind you, I'd quite like one now.
justin: Need teen inhaler in the shape of a penis - now.
Dave: Let's make allergies fun!
:
SHOCK NEWS!!!!! France is on strike again!!!
tim: and you can see the reports of the last 5 strikes on the left of the page- go france!!! fight the working week!!!
tim: sorry, thats to the RIGHT of the page
18/01/05
Marcus:
How to integrate Service Pack 2 into a bootable Windows XP CD.
Marcus: Not exactly news, but I needed to do this myself tonight and it worked perfectly.
Marcus:
Beatles' album anamolies. Includes the reason that Paul sniggers during a line of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". And lots of other things. I used to be an all-out Beatles geek and this is making it come back. (Via).
justin: I was hoping for something slightly more interesting... I reckon it'd be more useful to bookmark and then access if you are listening to a song and happen to wonder what the score is.
Marcus:
Jakob Nielsen examines U.S. Air Force computer user interface guidlines from 1986 and decides that 90% of them are still highly relevant today. (Via).
Marcus:
Feeling happy? Read Armageddon Online and learn about the multitude of excitingly cataclysmic events that could destroy life on Earth at any moment.
Justin:
The president of Harvard University has caused a stir among academics by suggesting women have less "innate ability" at science and maths than men. - Several guests walked out of a conference after hearing the comments.
justin: Whether the above is true or not, I'm curious to know how many people would walk out of a lecture where it is suggested that women have better "multi tasking" skills, or are better at communicating or have better parenting skills.
Dave:
Every fortnight the UCI in Norwich does something called film TBA where they show a film that hasn't been released (in the UK usually) yet. Last night it was a film called Sideways. It is excellent. I thoroughly recommend it, especially if you liked The Station Agent which is also brilliant.
Marcus:
Japanese dancing robots.
Marcus: Check out the pictures and video of the robot in action. Impressive stuff.
Marcus: Plus, it looks like a human-sized Transformer.
Justin:
Links to that amazing parade sequence from Ghost in the Shell 2 - apparently it took a year to make. If you only download one movie clip this year, make it this.
Justin:
Completely insane UFO/religious/Kofi Annan-is-a-reptilian nuts.
Marcus: I love the weblog by the same author.
Marcus: Manages to tick all the madness boxes in one fell swoop: extreme Christian fundamentalism? Check. Alien conspiracy? Check. Satanist conspiracy? Check. Reptilian conspiracy? Check. New World Order Conspiracy? Check. Zionist conspiracy? Check.
justin: It's dangerous when people completely give over their rational minds to something that doesn't exist - This is all of Him. This is all for Him. I am nothing. Just a servant willing to do whatever He wants me to do.
justin: That's the kind of sh*t people say before they blow stuff up in the name of love.
17/01/05
Marcus:
In the world of tomorrow, planet Earth will be shaped like a tetrahedron (and men will drive to work in flying cars)! (Via).
Marcus:
ButtCandles. What?! (Via).
justin: I want one... but I'm not entirely sure why. Is it just like colonic irrigation? what if it sucks my eyeballs too far back into my head?
Dave: "insert the ButtCandle ® to a depth of no more than 3 inches. If you encounter resistance, do not shove ... rather, gently twist while applying firm and steady pressure." Yowser!
Marcus:
"Rat cells grown onto microscopic silicon chips worked as tiny robots, perhaps a first step toward a self-assembling device, researchers working in the United States reported on Sunday." (Via).
Marcus: I for one welcome our new rat cyborg overlords!
Marcus:
I'm off to New York in March, and I found this snappy guide to Manhattan rather interesting. (Via).
Justin:
The biggest crock of sh*t I have ever read. Some nutter is offering to "activate your DNA" for $400.
Laura:
Apparently our parents think us lot are akin to Bill Gates and Einstein due to our knowledge of IT
Zanna:
Speaking of people slipping things into drinks, a woman was jailed today for five years for just that.
Dave:
Sir Sean Connery has the best voice. Coincidentaly uber-c*ntw*t Ian Paisley has the worst voice.
Justin:
Ritualised Combat - the physical signs that appear if someone is about to attack you. Not including a giant ring of blue fire appearing around their fists.
justin: Focusing on Karate techniques that are more applicable to women.
justin: That is to say: techniques that are most useful to women to defend themselves, as opposed to the best Karate techniques to beat women with.
Zanna:
Frightening Orwellian idea that nightclubs will be implanting microchips into us. "By the time you walk through the door to the bar, your favourite drink is waiting for you and the bar staff can greet you by name." I'd like to see that.
justin: A silly gimmick - and since it cannot be removed I can't see it catching on. Just remember your wallet.
Laura: Hmmmmm, not interested. It would just encourage me to spend more money than I can actually afford. Plus, call me paranoid, but I'd like to oversee the making of my drink, rather than it being ready when I get in the bar or club. There's no way of knowing if there are people around waiting to slip something in your drink.
Marcus: I always regard people slipping stuff into my drink as a party-time bonus.
Zanna:
Further to interest in cats, bonsai kittens seems like an interesting new hobby.
Marcus: I've currently got a bonsai tabby in the works. In the shape of a pyramid.
justin: I cannot believe that they have blocked Bonsai kitten at work!
: This Bonsai Kitten Biosphere looks like a neat project - Since I absolutely hate dogs, and my neighbor's cat just delivered some lovely offspring, I borrowed a little kitten who got lost in my garden. I called him Michael. (Michael #1, that is, but that's another, long story.) The search for the perfect container came next. I happened to have an empty Nutella glass around, so I used that. It had that oval shape at the bottom which seemed to be just perfect for Michael's future new cranium. I will not annoy you with the various attempts and failures I had to deal with. You can always email me if you are interested in these.
16/01/05
Marcus:
Chris Morris is doing a TV series of Nathan Barley, a character from fictitious TV listings website TV Go Home. (Via).
Marcus: I'd heard rumours of this before but this is the first concrete news - starring the guys from The Mighty Boosh too! This has the potential to be the best thing ever made on television, or very very crap.
Marcus: "Nathan Barley is 26. He is a Webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and in his own words, a "self-facilitating media node". He is convinced he is the epitome of urban cool and therefore secretly terrified he might not be, which is why he reads Sugar Ape Magazine - his bible of cool."
Marcus: "The show's advance publicity also features clothing chain bumphuk..."
justin: Sounds like it will be cool.
justin: Except that Mighty Boosh guy is a pile of sh*te.
justin: As it goes - there is a small part of me that wonders if TV Go home isn't written by chris Morris under a pseudonym. Similar style - but then the work "prickbliss" is reminiscent of the kind of thing Morris might do. jJust an idea/feeling/thought.
Marcus:
Waiting For Star Wars. The blog of a guy who is currently camping out waiting for the opening night of Episode III. That's right. He's camping out in a cinema. Right now. Until May. (Via).
Marcus: You can see Jeff Tweiten, "Superfan 1138", in the intro video hosted on the blog.
Dave: Even I think this is sad.
Marcus:
Think Secret Seeks Free Lawyer: "The 19-year-old publisher of a website facing a lawsuit over an article about a top-secret $500 Apple computer said Friday he can't afford to defend himself."
Marcus:
"Gary Webb, the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who broke the story of the CIA's involvement in the importation of cocaine into the U.S., died December 10, 2004, reportedly from self-inflicted gunshots to the head."
Marcus: You can download a video interview with Gary Webb from archive.org.
Justin:
I don't post enough links from The Onion, but the latest edition focuses on race due to it coming out on Martin Luther King day.
justin: Some of their mini headlines are the best. When Bush was re-elected: God Puts His Tool Back Into Office. When Reagan died: Reagan's Body Dies.
Dave:
Who ya gonna call?
The Austrian Police apparently.
The Austrian Police apparently.
justin: Classic! when they caught her, did they take the ghost mask off and gasp "It's the groundskeeper's wife!" - "I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling Australian police!"
Justin:
Abu Ghraib ringleader jailed for ten years. - notable: An independent commission ruled in August 2004 that blame for the abuses lay almost totally with the soldiers who ran the jail, but faulted Defence Secretary Rumsfeld and colleagues for not providing adequate leadership to prevent the abuse.
justin: Although it's no excuse, I kind of believe them when they say they "were only following orders". The military is a completly strict organisation with little room for ambiguity. It's not as if soliders are given some kind of wide open brief - especially in situations like this. If they were given orders that were ambiguous and open to interpreation, then that is also a fault of their leadership.
justin: See, I can post decent and insightful comments when I am pissed.
tim: I disagree man, quite often orders ARE a bit ambiguous and focus on the results rather than the methods of carrying them out
Dave: I also Disagree. You write bollocks when you are drunk.
justin: What - so they weren't given specific orders and guidelines on the correct treatment of prisoners? Doesn't the US army regularly practice psychological torture of prisoners? Doesn't the US army actually send people to countries that have no torture laws to get information? Is Guantanamo bay not purely designed as a work around for the Geneva convention and/or local laws? And you're saying that this kind of behaviour doesn't go up further than a couple of extra brutal prison guards?
justin: Infact, your disagreeing with me now feels like a kind of torture.
dave: No I was disagreeing with "See, I can post decent and insightful comments when I am pissed."
15/01/05
Justin:
Huygens sends first Titan images from the BBC. Also, the official site.
justin: Titan might be my new favorite moon.
Justin:
There's something wildly, almost primally, attractive about a guy with four legs: the crowding of long, sculpted thigh muscle, the four calf muscles bobbing and working in rhythm with his four-legged walk, the four strong male feet supporting his powerful boytaur body. Boytaurs know this attraction well, and it is our constant joy, both to have and to share.
justin: I'd also like to add that Tim spent a great deal of time telling me how he fantasised about having four arms (as opposed to forearms) the other day. So tim, this one;s for you.
justin: There are some work unsafe images here... but not on the main page.
dave: Good God man! What is wrong with you!?
tim: yeah thats the sort of thing I would like, but not in a gay way, also having four arms you could walk on them and bend your legs over your back and look like a scorpion
Justin:
Welcome to Cuddlespice...
My name is
*Hanson*
I'm very happy to see you
but you better wipe your paws
before you come inside
or Mommy will be upset.
Woof...Woof
Dave: Honestly, what the f*ck? Needs sound. Please don't look at this without sound.
Laura: It's not normal
14/01/05
Dave:
Help Mil Millington name his book.
justin: Obviously my suggestions were better than everyone elses.
Marcus:
Where are Cassini and Huygens now? A cool Flash-based controllable timeline of the orbital path of the Cassini probe.
justin: BBC article about Cassini's descent through the atmosphere. With an even more complicated Flash timeline.
Marcus:
GameMasters - game walkthroughs for every game ever! (Via).
Marcus: (It's actually a spoof website).
Laura: Ha. Ha.
Dave:
Is it me or was this a slow news day for the BBC?
Marcus: I maintain that the day the BBC said "here are some celebrities called Jack" was the slowest news day in history.
Dave: Same day?
Marcus: No, last week.
dave: So was this. This is OLD NEWS.
Dave: Celebs called Jack was the day after.
justin: One place I try to go for new decent links is here.
Dave:
The IMDB top 250 films as voted for by us.
Dave: How the hell did LOTR - Return of the King get to 2nd?
dave: Ok I've worked out how. The only people who saw it were people who had seen and enjoyed the other two. No muppett is going to watch it if they hated the first 2. Still, there is no way that it is the 2nd best film of all time. No way.
Laura: How did Groundhog Day get in there AT ALL? I mean yeah, funny, often referred to, but one of the greatest films of all time? Pfffft.
Marcus:
The Mac mini is the perfect size to fit into a car radio compartment - which has got people thinking. (Via).
Marcus:
"Intelligence officials have confirmed the US has stopped searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." (Via).
Marcus: What the hell?! How did this one pass me by?
Marcus: Supreme evidence of the bare-faced deceit and greed that led us into that f*cking, f*cking invasion.
Dave: Did you not see this. They slipped it out quite low key on a busy news day. The papers were more interested in Germaine Greer quitting Big Brother.
Marcus: That's it. Time to initiate Project Twelve Monkeys.
Marcus:
Play With Me. Tickle a girl lying on a bed with a feather. It's not as good as the Virtual Bartender but it's diverting for a minute or two, and that's all I want in life. (Via).
Marcus:
Google Mini - Google hardware to index the content on corporate intranets. A snip at $5000. (Via).
Marcus:
Jesus oyster - because a toasted Christ Virgin Mary sandwich wasn't enough.
justin: Though for the day: They always call her "the virgin mary", why not call him "the virgin christ" - and if it's a sin to not go forth and multiply... Jesus must have sinned. He was at breeding age.
Marcus: I think it's because it's miraculous for a virgin to give birth - hence the celebratory name.
Justin:
Abu Ghraib prisoner torturer refuses to testify in court.
justin: But we have ways of making him talk!
13/01/05
Justin:
Joelogon's Foolproof Guide to Making Any Woman Your Platonic Friend and the Do's and Don'ts of Cultivating and Maintaining a Platonic Friendship with a Woman You Would Otherwise Want To Have a Relationship With and Quite Possibly Marry.
Marcus: You've gone wrong.
justin: Here's story that often reminds me of you and your often debilitating fear of the non-normal.
Marcus: You've gone wrong.
Laura: I feel I should write to the man and give some all too frequently heard lines men use that are just as sh*tty as the "I only see you as a friend" routine, normally translated as 'you're a great shag but if you think I'm dating you then you're clearly insane'. But then that would make me a whiney woman, and I refuse to bow down to stereotyping. Dammit I want to write that email. *gnashes teeth*
Marcus:
Lifaros Experimental Flash Gallery - lots of "fiddle about with them for a bit then go and do something else" Flash toys.
justin: I'm doing some cool Actionscript at work (if I told you what I'd have to kill you) - which is not as exciting as this, but, is in a way, but anyway, no, but yeah, but no... some of these thigns are well easy - and like, I did stuff like them arrows for my fake car AI in the game I wrote.
justin: Although, don't get me wrong, most of it whups my ass... like the real 3d shape.
Dave:
I urge you to check out a band called M83. They have lots of samples on this site. Check out the album called Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts . Looks like there is a new album out soon too called Before the dawn heals us.
Marcus: Quite cool ambienty stuff.
Dave:
Here are some results of a proper scientific study on penis size.
Marcus: While we're all obsessing about the size of our genitalia, here's a link to a site about penis-related vacuum pumps.
Marcus: How did that link get in here? It's not mine - honest!
Justin:
Shoe Size - Penis Size Conversion Chart
justin: That can't be true or Marcus would be walking around wearing these and I'd be walking around wearing these. And Dave would be wearing these. Because he is a nonce.
Dave: That's bollocks, now shut up before I come round and kick you to death with my size 11s.
Marcus: As somebody whose feet fall somewhere between UK size 12-13, I assure you the data in this table is 100% accurate. Justin, with his size 5 feet, can no doubt attest to this.
justin: I see what you did there, you implied that you have big feet and thus a big penis, and that I have small feet and thus a small penis - clever, but not too dissimilar to what I said in this post.
Dave:
Priest or Beast?
laura: Bah, blocked by work's firewall, oh the sadness.
Marcus: Crikey - I got full marks first time!
Laura:
A blogger by the name of Joe Gordon is fired from Waterstones after they discover his weblog. Oh, and if you want to read it, here it is.
Marcus: This idea that a company owns you out of office hours and can fire you over anything you say in a public forum is something that needs to be scotched ASAP.
laura: Well, about 11 months ago I was nearly fired by my beloved company for my Live Journal. All to do with slander and libel and stuff. The fact was, I hadn't actually sdaid anything about the company, I had ranted about being unfairly dismissed froim a different employer altogether and how I was going to send my CV to my current employer (they found that entry through looking up every reference to this company on the internet. Hence why I am not writing their name down). The powers that be took that to mean that it was only a matter of time before I slagged this company off. And, as I was a temp at the time there would have been nothing I could have done about it. I managed to make amends by deleting said material and jopurnal, however I did bring it back from an early death and simply made it friends only and made sure it was blocked from search engines, and I changed the journal name. I suppose if you were desperate to read it you'd probably find a way around, but even then, I still don't mention the company name, just in case.
justin: Surely a temp does have some employment rights? and surely the freedom to talk about 3rd parties in their own time is one of them?
Laura: Well, a temp employed by the actual company starts to gain employee rights after working for the company for 13 weeks, however, I worked through an agency, which pretty much means that you're screwed. I think you're allowed to talk about a company, trouble is with blogs and the likes, they are online diaries, and therefore people right in them like they are actual diaries, such as "gah!!!! I hate the world and everyone in it sucks!". This is where saying something libelous or slanderous comes into play. You may only be letting off steam, but the company believes you are unfairly commenting on their business practices.
Laura: And I can't believe I just wrote right instead of write. I feel like such an inadequately educated person right now.
Justin:
Quite a man american politician.
justin: "God weeps for every child slain in an abortion clinic and so do the Jedi. They feel the disturbance. They hear the voices crying out and then being silenced." - Keyes speaking at a Star Wars convention at the University of Illinois.
justin: "My opponent claims to be black, of color, claims that he can understand the plight of the African American voter in Illinois. Ladies and gentlemen, I may not speak to any issues that concern you, but just look at him. I am like five times darker skinned than him. I win the blackness in this race. He barely looks Puerto Rican!" - Keyes speaking to random passerby outside a South Side Chicago McDonalds.
justin: Keyes attended a rally of the Ku Klux Klan in July of 2004 and actually set fire to an honorary cross. Although Keyes remained hooded throughout the rally he spoke at length on the subject of sending African Americans back to Africa. His personal assistant scheduled the event as a means of "reaching out to his base".
Marcus: "I win the blackness race!". You've got to love it.
Dave:
I can't explain this story. Just read it.
Dave: This is true. This is the world we live in. Kill me.
justin: Hmm, I don't know, it could be argued that the question was ambivalent, to the extent of asking "what is a host versus a presenter?" and that in asking a question that can be interpreted either way, the quiz host was giving himself a way out of paying the money. Other than that, and that's probably what all the battle was about - generally I reckon it's obvious enough that Edmonds presented it (even if only once) and because that is what the quiz master said the only 'intepreting' going on was in the mind of the defendent. Another good round of English justice that really ought to have been done in half an hour, and if the defendant hadn't appealed so much he could have saved himself 13 grand.
Dave: Shut up.
Marcus: The horror. The horror.
Marcus:
Overcoming Procrastination. (Via).
Marcus: Something I desperately need to do right now.
justin: Like "I can't read that life changing anti-women rant (even though I love anti-women rants) because I am downloading a movie and it might by delayed for 30 seconds"
Marcus: Note: Justin doesn't understand the concept of "free will".
Dave: Marcus. The entire point of this site is procrastination. No procrastination no Linkbunnies. You have created a monster and there is nothing that can be done about it. Accept your fate or step down and allow one of your prodidgies to take the throne...
justin: "The inertia of getting started" I think that's a good term. In martial arts there is the term 'the inner enemy' that always tries to talk you out of training, making excuses for you. That is the real battle.
justin: Eh? I understand free will, I also understand lazy sh*t excuses. What kind of response was that? If you meant "I don't want to look at that article because I'm not in the mood" then why not say it?
justin: Dave: What the hell did that mean?
Marcus: Let the record show I did say: I remarked that it was my 53rd priority, right after "idly scratching myself".
justin: I would read your posts, but I am too busy being hurled through space in a comparitively miniscule collection of atoms.
Dave: I just realised that I'm procrastinating by reading this stupid article!
Justin:
Tip of the day: Go to the linkbunnies RSS feed page then copy the URL. In Firefox, click 'manage bookmarks' then 'add livemark'. In the 'name' section type 'linkbunnies' and paste the URL into the correct box. You now have a live bookmark that collects the linkbunny articles. You can do this for any site with an RSS feed. Boss.
Marcus: That's pretty damn cool!
12/01/05
Dave:
I swear, one day, Prince William is going to tw*t his little brother round the head and say, "here's another fine mess you've gotten us into".
dave: On the subject of little brothers, can I just say 21st happy birthday to mine. Happy Birthday Chris.
justin: Gay age of consent in most of the US!
Justin:
If Men Have All the Power How Come Women Make the Rules . This is basically a masculinism book, an anti feminism book. Nothing too heavy - and although it's quite light in it's prose it's not funny at all.
justin: I urge all men and women reading this site to take a look.
Dave:
Religio-tw*t quits BBC3 after BBC2 screen "blasphemous" "opera".
justin: I don't see how you can "offend" beliefs. A belief is a system of thought, and not a rational thinking being in and of itself. The only correct statement could be "I quit because the BBC showed something that portrayed something I believe in in a way I do not believe should have been done." - which sounds pretty lame when you construct it in non-victim speak.
justin: ie. No one gives a sh*t what you believe. We all "believed" we should show it, so f*ck you.
Dave:
Sloncek speaks to the Beeb about the new Exeem software, which should be available by February.