31/07/05
Marcus:
QuickTime trailer for The Aristocrats, a movie in which "One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke".
Marcus: South Park's take on The Aristocrats joke. (AUDIO EXTREMELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK).
Justin:
American comedian Carlos Mencia was offered up as the SA 'awful link of the day' but I think he's mildly amusing. Visit his site and there's some streaming recordings from some of his gigs. Lots of swearing, sexism and racially challenging humour.
Marcus:
Make a really cool paper airplane. (Via)
Marcus: Includes a section of printable PDFs to decorate your plane.
Marcus: Similar steps to the Kamikaze Water Bomber plane I used to love folding as a kid.
Marcus:
Stackopolis: Flash game with pixelart tile-stacking madness. Lots of sound, work-gamers. (Via)
Marcus:
Somebody is attempting to game populicio.us with crappy poker adverts.
Marcus: Looks like spam w*nkers are (automatically?) creating del.icio.us accounts and filling them with "poker" tagged links in order to hit the "popular" and "recent" lists.
Marcus: An ominous (if inevitable) development that could have a really annoying impact on browsing tag-based social linking sites like del.icio.us and populicio.us. Wouldn't be surprised if they figure out a way to do it to flickr next.
Marcus:
Terry Pratchett smacks down JK Rowling.
Marcus: "He expressed surprise at Rowling's comments that she only realised Harry Potter was fantasy after the first book was published."
Marcus: "'I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, hidden worlds, jumping chocolate frogs, owl mail, magic food, ghosts, broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?'"
Marcus: High five to the Pratchett-meister! Woooo!
Marcus: 
Laura: Apparently the article is complete twaddle. Pratchett's quotes were taken from the 2001 Carnegie Medal Speech. My pal Andy addresses the possibility of Pratchett going ape at the Beeb in her Live Journal.
Marcus: Er, no it isn't, and no they weren't. Whilst it could be argued that Pratchett is reprimanding lazy journalists more than JK Rowling, the BBC article contains quotes from the letter he sent to the Times. The letter is in response to a feature in the Sunday Times (sadly now archived away and irretrievable unless you pay them lots of money), so strictly speaking it should be seen as a response to that rather than the Time interview. But to be fair the BBC just reference the Time interview and don't actually imply that the quotes are in response to that.
30/07/05
Marcus:
Sensible Soccer 2 Player Plug 'n' Play.
Marcus: Also comes with Cannon Fodder and Mega-Lo-Mania - sweet!
Marcus: Only thing is these were designed for mouse play, so don't know how well that will translate to a joypad.
Justin:
Jimi Hendrix blagged his way out of the army by pretending to be gay.
justin: He said "excuse me, while I kiss this guy!"
Marcus: Tee hee hee.
Marcus:
Australia has formally banned GTA: San Andreas.
Marcus: That's appropriate!
Marcus: Here's a website devoted to listing games that Australia has banned. All of them in the 90s, including the likes of Carmageddon.
Marcus: And in the interest of flogging this subject to death, here's a summary of Australian game censorship guidelines.
Marcus:
XBox 360 will have HD-DVD rather than rival (Sony) format Blu-Ray.
Marcus: Although the first models will just have standard DVD drives. That should punish early adopters correctly.
Marcus: Oh, and it might have a QWERTY keyboard built into the controller.
Marcus:
Mini chocolate fountain. A snip at £90. (Via)
justin: How hard must that be to clean when you switch it off!
Marcus:
Planet "bigger than Pluto" found in the outer reaches of the solar system.
Marcus: Here's what NASA says (more pics on this site).
Marcus:
"Ex-chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk has quit as leader of Veritars* just five months after founding the party."
Marcus: Ha! Ha!
29/07/05
Gareth:
Grandmother who bought GTA:SA (rated 17+) for her FOURTEEN year old grandson starts a lawsuit against Take Two. Absolute garbage.
justin: I think this is one of those cases where any decent lawyer would have turned the doddering old fool away after politely declining her offer.
Gareth:
A blind gamer, who is supposedly not bad. Even though all he is doing is playing button-mashers against people who have never played before.
Dave:
Pictures of some of the bombs found by the police after the London attacks.
justin: Just goes to show that we might not even know a bomb if we saw it. It might just look like a bottle someone's put their rubbish in and left. Maybe people should stop littering as well.
Justin:
Super08 have launched their album 'ex-nihilo'. Listen to it, and enjoy. - they are the biggest show of steel in Bristol since Brunel.
Gareth:
NASA: Oh sh*t.
gareth: Well, maybe not "oh sh*t" - it is mentioned that the impact is not thought to have caused any damage to the suttle.
tim: yeah, and from what I hear they lose the odd tile most times and its not too bad
28/07/05
Justin:
EasyRGB - web designers and graphic artists should definentely bookmark this. Has lots of tools for converting colour values, finding websafe versions, colour harmonies etc.
gareth: I have to admit, their colour combination isn't the most aesthetically pleasing.
Gareth:
I thought this page on the goals of Microsoft Vista regarding technical support was very appealing.
justin: You tricked me into thinking this might be interesting.
gareth: I'm really bored at work. Wood panelling is interesting right now.
Gareth:
A fairly interesting article on Lance Armstrong's physical advantages. I say we dissect him and see how we can improve ourselves. (Via)
Gareth:
This just in: most people don't know what half the acronyms and terms used on the internet mean. Looks like they hired Captain Obvious to do a special report in this one.
Justin:
Nice look at the intro cinematic to the Ghost Reckon 3 game, from CGTalk, so there is some discussion about it as wel.
gareht: Man I love the atmosphere they have on CGtalk. Not to mention the level of skill - there are professionals from hundreds of different companies on the boards.
gareth: I also love how I can't spell my own name.
Gareth:
Windows really good edition. Has sound, but it sounds exactly like Windows so I guess that's no worry.
Marcus:
All of Michael Palin's well-known travel books (Around The World in 80 Days, Pole To Pole etc) have been put up to read for free in page-by-page HTMLised web versions, complete with seperate photo sections and so on. Really cool. (Via)
Marcus:
Idiotic hoax e-mail doing the rounds says that you can get a magic satellite signal for your phone in the London Underground in case of emergency.
Marcus: I won't bother pointing out how retarded this is as the article does a pretty good job.
gareth: In some ways it's a good thing that you cannot get signal from your cell in the Underground - otherwise, bombs detonated with cellphones would be far more feasible.
Marcus: The plan was to have service in the Underground by 2008 - wonder if the terrorist atrocities have changed that?
Marcus: Especially as in March "both the Lib Dems and the Conservatives warned the new technology could enable terrorists to carry out attacks from above ground."
gareth: It's not as if the stations aren't crowded full of people, however.
justin: Our head of HR sent that to us, but also, the link you posted was to the IRA story. Fix it before we have you 'fixed'.
Gareth:
The IRA have been listening to U2's Peace on Earth, and are pronouncing their armed campaign for sovereignty officially over. I wasn't really around to experience the pub bombings, but I have no doubt that there is a lot of feelings of relief for those who were. Of course, the completely separate London Bombings rather ruin that.
gareth: The article does mention that the IRA has issued statements in this same vein before and gone back to paramilitary methods. Hopefully they'll stick to their word this time.
Marcus: Complete the phrase: "Double ________".
gareth: Double f*ck.
justin: Double Dragon
Marcus:
Building a Lightsaber. How to make a replica prop lightsaber the way they actually made Luke Skywalker's for the first film.
Marcus: Most of the lightsaber is just an off-the-shelf "Graflex 3-Cell flash handle". Luke Skywalker's actual lightsaber (which mentions this) is being auctioned off.
Marcus: More replica Star Wars weapons.
gareth: My favourite would have to be Han Solo's blaster.
Dave:
This is a short story by Chuck 'Fight Club' Palahniuk. It's not very nice. If there were pictures it would be NSFW, but there aren't.
Marcus: That was totally f*cking sick dude. Jesus. What is wrong with Palahniuk?!
Dave: I KNOW!! Pretty well written, but eeuuu, that is naaasty.
gareth: I went to a reading of his, and four or five people passed out. Hell of a writer, I must say. He knows how to shock you to the core.
justin: I stopped reading halfway through. I may tackle it later. Jesus.
tim: mmmm.... calamari.....
liz: Had to stop too. Feel very sick
Marcus:
An industry standard for cinema digital projectors has finally been agreed on.
Marcus: Pity that the industry is in terminal decline, really.
Marcus: Well, maybe not "terminal". But you know, coughing quite a lot, and looking rather sickly.
Dave: Hey, maybe we can scapegoat it on people who download movies and music? God they are evil c*nts.
Marcus:
"MapBuilder lets you tag locations on a map and publish it on your own site. Mapping is now easier than ever. It's free." (Via)
Marcus:
Wired: The Birth of Google.
Marcus: "Larry thought Sergey was arrogant. Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious. But their obsession with backlinks just might be the start of something big."
Marcus: A day isn't a proper day unless there's a link about something to do with Google.
Marcus:
"The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (CD key) used to install Windows." (Via)
Tim:
just checking up on yesterdays posts, did anyone see this from that feminist website. thats frightening. I'd never even thought that was possible.
tim: the poetry is good too, I like this one best, especially the end
Laura: Theres a 50 billion page long thread on Pagan Network about the Mooncup, which is the same thing. Frankly, even as a woman I find it all more than a little bit frightening.
Marcus: Hippies... Hippies everywhere...
liz: "believe it your not, you may use your own sterile urine to wash it!"
justin: Bonus!
Laura:
Man dies after having sex with a horse.
Marcus: I didn't put this up when it first came out. I'm glad to see you're sicker than me.
Laura: I feel so proud.
Marcus:
Bush/Blair/Bono-pickable version of that weird Flash falling girl thing.
Marcus: Fall for eternity Bono! Hahahaha!
Marcus:
Deliberately weird Flash game for the Chemical Brother's Galvanize single. (Via)
Marcus: Involves randomly pressing the space bar.
Marcus:
"An apple tree which baffled its 94-year-old owner by apparently producing three different kinds of fruit has been revealed as a hoax."
Marcus: "Close inspection revealed that the plums and blackberries had simply been stuck on"
Marcus: Mmm, slow Welsh news day.
Dave:
Ok, I know this is probably a double post, but it makes me laugh every time and I've added a follow up.
Dave: And THIS is a superb, lego stop-motion video for the song. Including some excellent lego break dancing.
gareth: Reminds me of the Star Wars Kid.
27/07/05
Marcus:
Doom movie teaser trailer now online.
Marcus: I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings here, but it looks really crap.
gareth: Does this really come as a surprise to anyone?
Marcus: I was hoping for the new Schindler's List.
Marcus: Or maybe My Fair Lady.
gareth: I lost hope back when they mentioned that Vin Diesel was involved.
Dave: Sorry Gaz, but I'll think you'll find that's The Rock. He's an entirely different meathead actor. Actually though, this doesn't look any worse than I expected. Reckon it's going to be funny to watch.
gareth: My bad. They're about the same - lots of muscle, and with the acting ability of linoleum.
Laura: Hey, that's not fair on linoleum.
Marcus:
"A group of teens with Tourette's Syndrome is being shipped off to a summer camp for a new ITV reality series." (Via)
Marcus: This isn't a joke.
Marcus: More. Mind you, this is from the people that made it, and they say it's a one-off documentary rather than Big Brother-style antics.
Marcus: Which kind of spoils my Richard Littlejohn-esque "You couldn't make it up!" rant.
Marcus:
The Motorola RAZRWIRE. Bluetooth headset sunglasses or something. Nathan Barleys across the globe rejoice, you have a new way to look like a style w*nker. (Via)
gareth: Wasn't Lance Armstrong (Mr. Ego himself) a big promoter of something of the like?
Marcus: Ahh yes - the super naff "how would an MP3 player be designed if this was the futuristic 1980s?" Oakley Thump. Armstrong wearing 'em.
gareth: It looks like there's some sort of alien parasite on his face, with a direct link to his brain through his ears.
Marcus: That's pretty much how they work. You get the sunglasses on, and all of a sudden you're walking around as an alien zombie.
gareth: Kind of like this guy?
justin: More like this guy.
Marcus:
With post headlines like "iDJ iPod mixing decks - for tw*tS and STUDENTS", Idiot Toys is likely to become my favourite new gadgets weblog. (Via)
Marcus:
They still have analogue mobile phones in America?!
Marcus: "In rural areas where cellular towers are far apart, analog phones often work when digital models can't get a signal."
Marcus: Get a satellite phone then, you hippies.
Gareth:
Feminism planet. It's not really so much a feminist website so much as a 'girl power' website. I wonder how many people realize that feminism is not just power to the female gender, but rather stands for equality of the sexes.
Marcus: 
Gareth: I like this one better.
Laura: Eugh. I know I'm a girl and should be all for feminism, but I hate all this girl power nonsense. I've encountered more than a few women who really don't know what feminism is anymore.
Marcus:
"Was Owen Wilson the key to the Wes Anderson phenomenon?" (Via)
Marcus: I'm a massive Wes Anderson/Owen Wilson fan, and this in an interesting article - it's easy to forget that Wilson co-wrote all but the latest film. However, unlike the author, I reckon Life Aquatic was the best Anderson film yet.
Marcus:
The US iTunes store has removed the Crazy Frog's tubey genitalia (rather than just blacking it out).
Andy:
Marcus, you will appretiate this one, had me crying... :P
gareth: Hate to break it to you, but that's a double post.
Marcus: You've got to be quick in this game, etc
andy: a double post? i dont care for such matters.
Gareth:
I have found it: the best collection of photos ever. Thousands of bouncy balls released into the wild. (via)
Marcus: Even Microsoft was wacky and Google-like at one point!
gareth: Oh, I'm sure they still are wacky and zany and all that. Just also smothered by a overbearing corporate image.
Gareth:
Phong.com. Some absolutely mind boggling flash design.
Marcus: Phong was one of my favourite sites on the internet back in about 2000, and it's been ages since I've visited it - still completely awesome.
Marcus: I like the invitation to remix in the copyrigh section. That's how it should be done.
Gareth:
An interesting article about how much legal music people who download music illegally actually own. And it turns out that we own more than the average music fan, who does not download music.
Marcus:
"A British couple who headed out to sea in a dinghy for an amorous liaison sparked a major rescue operation when their cries of passion were mistaken for someone in trouble."
Marcus:
Short film where "the first-time producers raised £60,000 in donations by asking every man they met to donate their sperm and give the proceeds to the film – the story of a desperate woman who breaks into a sperm bank." (Via)
Dave:
"Scientists" in Japan have invented a female android.
Dave: She looks very realistic. I wonder how long until they make android sex toys. We are growing up in a scary world.
Marcus: I was trying to find an article about how we instinctively dislike things that look almost but not quite human, but all I could turn up was this article on a scary robot skull head.
Marcus: Created by "Kevin Warwick, a University of Reading cybernetics professor with a long record in attention-seeking."
Marcus: "Robots" left off the end of that quotation for humorous effect, just in case you've ever read about Professor Warwick's exploits in El Reg.
Marcus: And let's not forget about RealDolls (NSFW).
Marcus: Oh, and that distrust of human-like robots thing? It's known as the Uncanny Valley.
Marcus: The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend For A Robot is a pretty good article on this kind of thing.
Dave: More information on Repliee Q1.
Marcus:
Trying to get Nike to print "sweatshop" on a pair of "custom" trainers. (Via)
Dave: Brilliant. Take that Nike.
Marcus: It turns out this was one of kottke.org's links of yesteryear, but I'd never actually heard of it.
Marcus:
The free version of Konfabulator is out, and now it's owned by Yahoo! the picture frame widget links into flickr. Coooool.
Dave:
The front page of the Express today is disgusting. This makes me sick. The Sun isn't much better.
Laura: There was another paper on Breakfast news this morning.... can't remember which one... something like "His parents applied for asylum, this country granted that, provided work, education, and how does he repay us? By trying to blow us up."
Marcus: Doesn't take much for the fascist tendencies of the right-wing media to come out.
26/07/05
Marcus:
"Introducing Umbert, the world's most loveable unborn baby". (Via)
Marcus: A pro-life anti-abortion cartoon strip. Oh boy.
gareth: This is one of those things you hope is fake, but turns out to be completely real.
Gareth:
An interesting article on the changing state of public transport in the aftermath of the London bombings.
Marcus: One Greek-Cypriot guy "now wears a Make Poverty History wristband and makes a point of reading the Economist" to seem less threatening. Crazy times indeed.
tim: I read the economist, its bloody marvellous
gareth: You have to realize though - acting like you're not a terrorist is exactly what a terroist would do!
gareth: A terrorist would do it too.
Gareth:
Bullsh*t Bingo. I love it.
gareth: Agh, what was the solution to swears in a URL?
Marcus: Replace the * with an i, or try this slightly different version.
Marcus:
And the award for Most Bonkers Conspiracy News Website goes to...
gareth: I can't stand that flashy text he has on the main page. Why would you do something like that? It actually drives people away from your website. Or maybe it's all a conspiracy?
Marcus:
The Smoking Room, probably the best British comedy since The Office (to which there is a certain amount of resemblance) has a second series starting tonight at 9:30pm on BBC3.
Marcus:
Babyplane: wings for your baby's spoon, so you can do a more realistic "Neeow! Here comes the food plane!" thing. Or whatever it is these days. (Via)
Dave: It's probably more like "AAAAHHHH AAAAHHHHH there's a plane coming straight for us run for your lives!! AAAAHHH"
Dave:
Woman in LA is forced to repaint the bonnet of her car after... well, take a look.
Marcus: Probably not safe for work, if your boss has good eyesight and objects to bonnet-painted fannies.
Marcus: Pure gold on that Fun Reports website, though.
Marcus:
Make a dangerously powerful gun out of paper holding clips. (Via)
gareth: The test gallery is quite impressive.
Marcus:
Luke Skywalker's flight suit from Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Bidding starts at $60,000. (Via)
Marcus: If that doesn't strike your fancy, what about this water-going Reliant Robin?
Dave:
A Welsh football club (sic) has signed a convicted hooligan to play up front for them. However, he is banned from watching football matches for 8 years.
Marcus: Some sort of blindfold/Jedi skills training might be necessary then?
Dave:
Haven't passed your driving theory test yet? Then try an online mock theory test. Remember this is also an IQ test, fail and you should prepare for a career asking "Would you like fries with that?"
Marcus: The theory bit isn't the hard bit. I did my motorcycle theory test the other day, and now they throw stupid and confusing "hazard perception" video clips at you. That said, I did pass okay. But they're still stupid.
Dave: Having just been all brash about how only a 'tard could fail the theory test, I just scraped through with a 30. Phew.
Laura: Ha ha, have been driving for 6 years, passed my theory when I was 17 with full marks, and have just failed that one (29 out of 35). But then again, the test has changed since I did it. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ;o) Anyways, Marcus knows I'm a safe driver.
Dave: "The test has changed", hmm maybe they have rephrased the questions, but it's not like they rewrote the Highway code!! ;)
Marcus: Yes, er, "safe", that is definitely how I'd describe your driving technique. As opposed to it being a sort of car-based performance art.
tim: well the motorbike test has certainly changed, no 'hazard awareness' malarkey for me! all I had to do was know which was the pointy end
Laura: It's true, 7 years ago the test was different, new questions about car maintenance and all that jazz. That's the sort of stuff Dads are for, you're not meant to know how to look after your own car!
Laura:
I saw a shop this morning in Hull called "Breaker One Nine" which amused me greatly (so much that I started humming Convoy involuntarily), so in my amusement I looked up a list of CB slang and what it all meant, so here it is. Over and out, 10-100.
Dave:
Although we may be getting tired of the GTA SA debacle, it appears the American courts are not.
Dave: There are a number of reasons for the general public to get annoyed here, especially, "It appears that the publisher has blatantly circumvented the rules in order to peddle sexually explicit material to our youth". YOUTH!? It got an over 17 rating! You can f*ck at 16, but you can't play the video game of it until you are "an adult". This is ridiculous and it makes me 'very upset'.
Marcus: Maddox says it best.
Dave: Doesn't he always? I think we should start a sustained campaign to make Maddox an honorary Linkbunny.
Marcus: There is no doubt in my mind whatsover, not even 0.00001% of my doubting capacity, that he would love that.
Marcus:
Tom Hanks Finds New Harry Potter Book. (Not safe for people who don't want the ending spoiled, yawn.)
liz: What is the meaning of your yawning? Are you being skeptical again Marcus? I finished Hairy Pooper last night and thought it was jolly good.
Marcus: I think they're alright as books go, but I'm not that bothered about them. I went on bookspoilers.com and read the ending after it came out just so I can be in on all the knowing people that know the ending. Or something.
Marcus:
Clip from episode 4.9 of Family Guy, involving Chris and a certain 80s pop video (DivX format).
Dave:
6500 free fonts. I find this really useful for work, it stops me from having to used the dirty diseased Mac. Urgh.
Justin:
Poorer children do worse in school.
justin: I guess what they need is good teachers who don't mind rolling up their sleeves to inspire learning instead of wimps who'd rather mince about teaching Powerpoint to future middle managers in Surrey.
justin: As it goes, I was looking for an amusing class/teaching image, and found this "the hard life of the middle class" by some schoolkid.
Marcus: Speaking as somebody who taught ICT to young offenders with offences including robbery, rape and murder, and did it with the intention of giving some of the poorest and least-educated members of society a shot at a job in the outside world, I couldn't agree more.
Marcus: I guess what we need is less armchair punditry by baying Nathan Barleys in their New Media w*nker offices and more rolling up their sleeves, putting their actions where their mouth is, and volunteering in community action projects.
25/07/05
Gareth:
HTTrack - a very useful piece of software that allows you to download an entire website and preserve the hierarchy. Very useful for learning how specific HTML, etc tricks are done.
Justin:
Sony BMG (or BGM - back ground music - hahaahah) is told to stop bribing radio station employees to play it's music.
justin: So artificially affecting the pop charts by hyponotic repetition is less sleazy than someone downloading a movie. Nope, the record industries in their current format are on their way out.
Marcus:
The origin of Ctrl-Alt-Del (QuickTime video).
Marcus: Watch Bill Gates' face when the guy says "I may have invented it but Bill made it famous". Ouch!
Marcus: Wikipedia on Ctrl-Alt-Del.
justin: Wow, could he have taken it any worse?
Marcus:
Microsoft's new Virtual Earth website has erased Apple's headquarters from history, and has the Twin Towers still standing.
Marcus: It is also more of a "Virtual America" then a fair representation of the planet, too; try searching for London...
Marcus: I've just done a quick screenshot comparison of the World Trade Center site in MSN Virtual Earth and Google Earth.
Marcus:
"Dozens of stray dogs roaming around the new Walt Disney theme park in Hong Kong have been rounded up and put down as the company prepares to open the park in September."
Marcus: As the headline says: "Not exactly like the cartoons..."
Marcus:
Transformers Live is the new Dreamworks website covering the 2007-planned movie.
Marcus: It has a video of Steven Spielberg raving on about how much he loved the 80s Transformer toys; does this mean the movie will be based on the 80s Tranformers rather than the new rubbish ones?
Marcus: Shame the entire website is one big godawful Flash movie.
Marcus:
Buy a replica of Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka coat. For £95 all in.
Marcus: Quite why you'd want to be prancing around pretending to be Willy Wonka is your own business. As long as you don't get within 100m of any schools, I expect.
justin: You prance around in the Thriller Jacket.
Marcus: Marcus' replica Fight Club jacket vs. Michael Jackson's Thriller jacket: do they look anything like each other?
Marcus: 
Marcus: Another sartorial slander bites the dust.
justin: Does George w Bush really look like a chimp? or does he just have chimp like qualities?
Marcus: You're right: they do share the same quality, that of being jackets.
justin: 
"Marcus can't take it! Marcus can't take it!"
"Marcus can't take it! Marcus can't take it!"
Marcus: 
justin: I'm not cussing it down, I'm saying it's not Bad.
justin: It's worth seeing from the other side, just to get perspective
gareth: You know, I can see a little bit of the Thriller jacket in the Fight Club one. But that is because the Fight Club jacket is worn by Brad Pitt who is supposed to be an amalgamation of pop culture. The fact that the Fight Club jacket bears some similarity to the Thriller one is only because Thriller just so happens to be one bit of the pop culture being alluded to. They're not the same thing though!
Marcus: It's a leather biker jacket! Jackson's is some lurid shiny plastic affair with shoulderpads! Aaargh!
justin: I do feel Marcus' "fight club jacket" as nice as it is, has more in common with the Thriller jacketr than the actual Fight Club Jacket.
Marcus: That's the main Fight Club jacket. Mine is the second jacket seen in a few other scenes.
Marcus:
Great post on Maddox's weblog about blogs and stuff! LOL!
Marcus: If we had a blogroll, Maddox would be on it! I wonder if he'll link us back?
justin: Maddox needs a Care-Bear stare.
Dave: As usual Maddox hits the nail on the head. By his count is this a Blogroll?
Marcus: You mean weblog. A blogroll is a list of links to other weblogs. And probably.
justin: Based on your comments, I pronounce you both crap at inferring information.
Marcus: Er?
justin: Well you said "if we had a blogroll" and then Dave asked if Maddox might think Linkbunnies is a blogroll. In some ways it could be interpreted that you'd already stated Linkbunnies didn't have one (and by inference wasn't one), so Maddox wouldn't be on our case. Except we cannot really infer what Maddox would think... so I suppose ultimately, you are crap at inferring information.
You've just stated what you think Dave means: "you mean weblog", but Dave is asking specifically if someone might interpret Linkbunnies as a blogroll, thus implying he is aware enough of the meaning of the word blogroll (and by inference weblog), so there's no need to explain basic terminology to him.
I'm going to give you both null point for not being tw*ts.
You've just stated what you think Dave means: "you mean weblog", but Dave is asking specifically if someone might interpret Linkbunnies as a blogroll, thus implying he is aware enough of the meaning of the word blogroll (and by inference weblog), so there's no need to explain basic terminology to him.
I'm going to give you both null point for not being tw*ts.
Marcus: I see. Well Done.
Justin:
Most People Believe Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction, Was Supporting Al Qaeda and that U.S. Statements about Them before War Were Not Exaggerated or Misleading
justin: At the time of the poll, 35% of people believed that we had actually found WMD in Iraq.
Marcus: Terrific news from 2003 there. Any update on 2005?
justin: Those who ignore the lessons of the past are condemnded to repeat it. etc. etc.
Marcus:
Metaphysik: control the hacky sack ball thing to reach an exit whilst resisting gravity. Gets tricky once you reach level 20. (Via)
Marcus: Hacky sack keepy-uppy game.
Marcus:
"A German magazine has sold out all its copies after advertising a free sex session at a brothel in Austria." (Via)
Marcus:
"On this day, during the War of 1812, in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, British troops thwarted an invasion of Canada by a U.S. force commanded by General Jacob Brown."
Marcus: Wikipedia on the War of 1812.
justin: Not the only country the US has invaded on this day in history.
Marcus: Well obviously the 1898 invasion of Puerto Rico is a given.
Marcus:
Konfabulator bought by Yahoo! (Via)
Marcus: Cool desktop-widget program for both Windows and Mac OSX is now free.
Marcus: Download page.
Marcus: Although that's still for the shareware version. No sign of the free Yahoo! one just yet.
Marcus:
New Family Guy feature-length episode/movie leaked as DVD rip two months before release. (Via)
Marcus: If you're the sort of bad evil person that aids terrorists and paedophiles you probably want a torrent, don't you? Don't you?
Marcus: Although at the current speed of download don't expect to get it until two months after it's officially released.
Marcus: Er, so I've heard.
Gareth:
The 'hot coffee' issue is actually making the publishers of GTA:SA more money. I suppose any type of advertising (good or bad) is still advertising. Not to mention the number of 13 year olds who will be snatching it up to get their hands on the 'hot coffee'.
Marcus: Anybody would think the whole thing is just a thinly-disguised publicity stunt.
justin: All this as the Xbox and PC versions are launched? get out of town.
Gareth:
Play the original Asteroids. There are some really loud and annoying sounds in this, so adjust your sound accordingly.
Gareth:
This movie, MirrorMask, looks really awesome. Note that it's a quicktime movie, so there's sound.