30/11/05
Chris:
In case you've been out of the Universe and didn't notice, Firefox 1.5 is out.
Gareth: My only qualm is that it doesn't work with my favourite extension. Which is odd, as FF 1.5 is a back-end update, so I'm wondering how an exstension that changes things cosmetically is not compatible?
gareth: Oh wait, found a solution.
Gareth:
Another one of those dynamic images into which you can insert text, this time it's an Einstein one.
29/11/05
Gareth:
Over here in Canada, PM Paul Martin isn't having a good day. Although I think the Liberals might just win the election anyways, as that is what they do best. Win elections, I mean.
28/11/05
Justin:
Insane childless women with absolutely no concept of what constitutes life's priorities and who like to dress up their pets could do worse than to visit this site.
27/11/05
Gareth:
The Onion: Features of the Xbox 360. My favourite is "Can turn all the way around, apparantly."
26/11/05
Gareth:
Some hilarious (and no doubt true) Vin Diesel facts. Such as "Vin Diesel coined the phrase, "I could eat a Horse" after he ate every last unicorn in existence."
Aimie: They're all true, aren't they?
gareth: No doubt about it!
Aimie: If you ever suffer the misfortune of having to watch xXx, keep the pause button handy when it comes to him being yanked backwards out of the military plane. He goes from having a super-cool look on his face to a suprised poker-up-the-ars* expression. Makes it *almost* worth watching.
25/11/05
Marcus:
I was slightly vexed recently by the crashing of my motorbike and subsequent dislocation of my right thumb. Until I re-located it (Mel Gibson's shoulder trick in Lethal Weapon has nothing on me), my thumb looked a lot like this.
Marcus: Without being attached to the hand of a fingernail-painted old woman, obviously. That only happens alternate Tuesdays.
gareth: I like the nailpolish colour.
gareth: Is the bike alright?
Marcus: Scratched up on one side, the gear pedal snapped off, and an indicator casing broken. Bah.
justin: I was trying to look for a comedy bike accident pic, but instead found this, which takes some explaining.
Marcus:
The SkyscraperPage.com - not exactly new, but lots of mildly diverting information on, and comparisons of, tall buildings. (via)
Justin:
X-Box 360 BSOD
gareth: Although it should be noted that these cases are not widespread. I guess it's just a result of Microsoft pressuring developers to release on-time, so they had to cut some stuff out - that stuff being debugging?
Justin:
First touchdown attempt on asteroid was succesful - another attempt is to be made to actually collect some stuff.
justin: Excellent picture of the probe casting a shadow on the comet.
Gareth:
This son of a b*tch is selling an xbox 360 for 500k US, saying that he will give 90% of profits to the Red Cross.
Dave: LOL I didn't read that properly. $500,000. I actually hope he sells it. Go on son.
24/11/05
Tim:
and the award for best named bollywood film goes to....
tim: its on channel 4 tonight
tim: its on channel 4 tonight (UK)
tim: that was the computers fault
Justin:
Looks like George Best is entering his final hours.
justin: Ironically just long enough to see the new licensing laws come into affect.
Dave: TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE.
Marcus:
We've seen it in ten billion movies, but how hard is it to shoot a lock off in reality? (via)
Dave: "Ain't retirement great!" - f*ck yeah!!
gareth: Wow, now that's what I want to do when I retire. Play with guns and shoot things, I mean.
23/11/05
Justin:
X Factor being sued for 100 million quid over claims of copying Pop Idol - which it clearly does, but whether that is grounds for a case, who knows. Apparently though, Louis Walsh has quit.
Dave: Errr, how can there be any contention here at all they are exactly the same show aren't they? Idiots come on, sing badly, get the piss ripped. Then a few of them go through and get voted off every week.
Justin:
Cute picture of a kitten.
gareth: Cute picture of two kittens
dave: Cute picture of 3 kittens.
Aimie: Cute picture of 4 cats.
gareth: Cute picture of five cats.
Gareth:
Last: "Last is a clock that is a record of its own history. Like a familiar analogue clock, it has a second hand, a minute hand and an hour hand. The hands are arranged in concentric circles, the outermost circle being seconds, the middle circle is minutes, and the innermost circle hours. Each of the hands of Last are made from a slice of live video feed. As the hands rotate around the face of the clock they leave a trace of what has been happening in front of the camera. Once Last has been running for 12 hours, you end up with an easy-to read mandala of archived time."
It's a very astounding idea, you should most definitely watch the video.
Gareth:
The Apostrophe Protection Society. It drives me absolutely stark raving mad when people misuse apostrophes.
22/11/05
Gareth:
"Fun" usb drives. The lobster tail and finger are especially 'fun'.
Dave: I like the glowing ducks
Justin:
Callous female chauvenism rears its ugly head in the form of telling a man not to wear a vest at the Gym, which is just up the road from me, which has recently been refurbished and which I am planning on joining pretty soon.
justin: I'll walk around with my c*ck hanging out if I want to as well.
Dave: ...Shouting "Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames Brown!!"
tim: although I would like to see a pic, maybe he HAS got frighteningly hairy pits that try and engulf you when you walk past and that instructor was doing us a public service
gareth: Say, what about sportsbra tops that women wear? They give full view of the armpits. Are they allowed to wear those, because they usually shave their armpits? If so, is there going to be a maximum armpit hair length to wear armpit-baring garments?
Dave: I wonder if this is a problem in Germany...
gareth: I doubt it. They are very comfortable with body hair.
Gareth:
Zombiegrinder 60k. Not bad at all, although the music is annoying.
gareth: The raw swf, so you can play it full-screen.
21/11/05
Justin:
Trekkie tributes to James Doohan.
justin: Such as: "The laws of physics couldn't have made a more beautiful human being. Have a great flight, Scotty."
20/11/05
Marcus:
BBC News: "Door thwarts quick exit for Bush".
Marcus: 
Marcus: It's the sort of photo that makes caption competition editors cry like happy babies.
Dave: "Giant gay Dalek attacks mini-president."
gareth: "Oh sh*t, too much fibre in the All Bran this morning."
Dave:
Gary Glitter is in big trouble again.
justin: Non-UK readers might like to know some rhyming slang: Gary Glitter = sh*tter. As in "in the beast-wing of a nonce prison, he'll soon by taking it up the Gary"
justin: Blimey - he could potentially face death by firing squad!
gareth: I somehow doubt that's very likely. I'm sure someone would interfere before things go that far?
Dave: No way, I reckon the Daily (c*ntS!!!) Mail will be calling for his execution to be televised before the end of the week
gareth: Gary Glitter's eyebrows are terrifying.
justin: Why would someone interfere with the laws and justice of a sovereign nation?
Dave: Why would someone interfere with 12 year old girls!?
Aimie: Because he's a dirty great pervert. The first concert I went to was one of his (he had a house down in Somerset so he always did a Christmas concert in Shepton Mallet). He only got found out because he took his computer to PC World in Bristol.
Aimie: Speaking of which, if you had 4000 pictures of child porn, why would you take it for repair where people would find it on there? He's an idiot as well as a pervert.
18/11/05
Dave:
Inside Skywalker Ranch. Badass.
justin: Wow, a bit old - they are discussing making a scene from Howard the Duck and the possibility of there being more Star Wars films after 4,5 & 6!
Dave: I think the story is old, but the site is newer, there's a pic of Lucas on the set of ROTS.
Marcus:
Stanford University is going to republish, for free, (via PDFs) Sherlock Holmes stories as they were originally presented in The Strand magazine - as weekly serials. (via)
Marcus:
The Inquirer: "The increase in theoretical clock frequencies over the next 10 or 14 years and the constraints of power means we'll see only doubling or tripling clock frequency in the next 10 to 14 years".
Marcus: It's unclear whether that figure means that the CPU clockspeed in ten years' time will only be double what it is today, or if the article's talking about some kind of lesser reduction in Moore's Law, or something else.
Marcus: Still, on the plus side - computers won't go out of date every thirty seconds like they were doing a couple of years ago. Yay!
Marcus:
"Curator Defense is a homebrewed blend of the Real-Time-Strategy and Puzzle genres. The player must defend his museum from the hordes of modern art that attempt to raid his storeroom in hopes of being put on the main floor. Using an array of unique defensive objects, the player must stun, slow, and eventually defeat each wave of modern art." (via)
Dave:
MSN Mobile. Reckon some of you already use this (Marcus... Remember him), but the Flash on this download site made my jaw drop. WTF is that all about!? It's so inane it makes me hurt inside.
Marcus: I actually use a freeware Palm MSN client called ChitChat Lite. It's pretty cool.
DAve: You 'da man dawg.
Justin:
"Cowboy Jack Clement had a great comment. He said, 'There's two kinds of people on Earth: those that love Johnny Cash, and those that will.' "
Marcus: I said the same thing about Timmy Mallet. Godamn Clement ripped off all my best lines.
Justin:
Get the most from your sex life and relationships with these features, factsheets and tips from sex counsellors and psychosexual therapists
Gareth:
The picture of everything, What I found funny is that he's doing a version two.
chris: Pah! I used to do that sort of stuff back in the 1980s...
Dave: Yeah, but there wasn't nearly as much stuff back then :D
17/11/05
Gareth:
A good primer on customizing Windows, including links to some sites with shell replacements.
Gareth:
The Blog of a New York Doorman/Bouncer. A very punctual one, at that. All his posts are bang on the hour.
16/11/05
Dave:
In response to your quest for the internet with handles and wheels, will this do? Ful larticle here.
dave: Better picture.
Marcus:
Roll On is a cool, Monkey Ball/Marble Madness-esque Shockwave 3D rolling ball game. Fun and frustrating.
Dave: Who are you!?
Dave: Good to have you back sir. That game is indeed annoying, addictive and frustrating. Grrrreat fun.
15/11/05
Justin:
MS (multiple sclerosis, not Microsoft) sufferers will be able to get Mary Jane served up by the NHS.
Gareth:
Synesthesia is what it is referred to when people's senses mix together, in that they can hear a colour, etc. Also, the wikipedia article.
Gareth:
Dress up Steve Jobs.
gareth: Speaking of which: a very good commencement speech he gave to Stanford U's class of 2005.
gareth: Most of the Joytech comics are very unfunny, however that particular one isn't half-bad.
Tim:
by the way I don't know if anyone has wondered but I know exactly why marcus hasn't posted on here for ages. he's found something much more fun
Dave: I told him to post about his new bike but he decided he didn't want to. Let's find out everything we can about it for him...
Marcus: Sad but true, things have to have two wheels, big vroomy engines and handlebars for me to take an interest in them at the moment. If somebody can figure out how to jerry-rig the internet with these qualities, I'll be there like a shot!
14/11/05
Justin:
The Krusaders train twice per week in a private Karate class. The Eastern philosophy has been removed from the school's setting and replaced with Christian principles
Justin:
Jeus christ - prison rape story
Dave: From that same site. How the hell do you find stuff like this!?
justin: Erm, was looking for stories of male prison rape - an article was in the news today about sexual healthcare among prisoners, and Iw as going to put together something about prison rape, but started reading this story and couldn't be bothered anymore.
11/11/05
Dave:
What super hero are you... VERSION 2.0!!!
Dave: I'm Neo from The Matrix. Mostly because of my mad computer hacking and numchuk skillz.
tim: Batman! woo yeah!
justin: I was Batman as well.
justin: Although in your case Tim, I think they meant 'Batman' in a different way.
dave: Justin you are such a Batman
Aimie: How the heck am I the Terminator?????
justin: Maybe in terms of conversational skills...:)
Aimie: Probably. :)
Dave: And I hear you are made of metal...?
10/11/05
Justin:
Ever had to seperate the foreground and background of an image in Photoshop? well hold on to your face because Vertus fluid Mask looks mental.
gareth: Wow, that is very useful.
Justin:
Jesus - Kirk and Spock gay fan fiction images.
justin: Look for the one of them on a dragon. Lamest. Picture. Ever.
09/11/05
Justin:
Something Awful on Uwe Boll's shambolic work on the Alone in the Dark film of the game. Pretty exciting reading.
Justin:
Looks like we may be getting closer to discovering gravity waves - Christians needn't bother reading this as they'll only be told to disagree with it one day.
Gareth:
Some good Office Slang
gareth: There are some good ones there, such as "Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, sh*ts over everything and then leaves."
justin: I like "blamestorming" and "adminisphere"
08/11/05
Gareth:
Messiah: The NES (Famicon in Japan) redone, with wireless controller support.
justin: The name is a bit over dramatic.
Tim:
and the award for the worst use of "speech" marks (outside the guardian newspaper) goes to.... the bbc
tim: and is it me or does that pic look like they've just caught a cartoon whale?
gareth: "Congratulations". It does look like a cartooney whale - what was the name of the whale in Pinnochio? Did it even have a name? Either way, it looks like the whale from Pinnochio.
Dave: Well done to the BBC for remaining completely impartial in that "article".
justin: And thanks to "Tim"
07/11/05
Chris:
Rats. Only just heard, but William Hootkins died last month. He was in two of my favourite films - he was Porkins in Star Wars, and he was the man from the FBI at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
gareth: So long Red Six!
Dave: Oh sweet Porkins, how cursed was your luck?
Dave:
Ok what's going on!? Where the hell are you Marcus!? 2 posts in 3 weeks!? And I suspect that even they were done by someone sinister. We're worried about you. Come back.
Dave:
Something that I thought was pretty bloody cool. A bean bag tripod for cameras. Apparently they are mighty useful.
Gareth:
Notepad2: an upgraded version of Notepad. Still very lightweight, but includes line and column position, as well as syntax highlighting for a good number of different programming languages.
06/11/05
04/11/05
Gareth:
A World of Warcraft player who died after playing for several days straight receives an online funeral.
Gareth:
Sony is absolutely bonkers, in that they are not establishing a unified online gaming network for the PS3. Can you say bad move?
justin: To be honest, the opinions of one web comic and one link blog commentator can't really compete with the business minds at Sony, so lets see how this pans out.
gareth: True true. Although I quite like the interface of Xbox Live, it brings a sort of standard to the online portion of games. I wonder what the Nintendo equivalent will turn out like?
Dave:
Dante's Inferno Test. Find out which level of Hell you are going to.
Dave: "Because you lived a cruel, vindictive and hateful life, you meet your fate in the Styx."
Damn.
Dave: Be aware that if you wait longer than 10 mins the page will not submit.
justin: sh*t, I'm going to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge. Very high score!
Justin:
Paris the city of lovers is glowing this evening - true, that's because it's on fire, but still there's l'amour....
gareth: You can definitely feel the love between the riot police and the riot.
03/11/05
Justin:
Celebrity sounboards - amusing flash movies where you can trigger loads of sound clips from movies - good if you wanan do prank phonecalls (nb: there are 4 pages worth)
Aimie: More here.
Justin:
Man, you can hire a fat bearded man as a toastmaster.
Dave: I wonder how much he charges.
gareth: The red jacket really brings out his... er, obesity.
Dave:
The head of PETA is selling herself on ebay.
justin: You can hire her to nag you all bloody day.
Dave: Buy her then lock her in your house and tell her to clean it.
Gareth:
How to own the internet in your spare time
gareth: Be warned, it's really really long, and might not be very interesting to some.
02/11/05
Gareth:
Give the homeless internet access, says John Prescott. Er, what would they do with it? Learn how to make their own drugs and alcohol? Look at porn?
justin: Er, have some way of staying in contact with friends and relatives; get training and advice; use it as a means of communication and education; entertain themselves; stay abreast of current events. etc.
gareth: You're quite right. They'd use it for the same things any other person would do. I stand corrected!
justin: Well, nah, cuz if they used it for the same reasons everyone else did, then they would be looking at porn all day.
Justin:
Blunkett's resigned - jesus, he's like a f*cking yo yo.
Dave: I bet he didn't see that coming.
justin: Will he? wont he? it's third time he's been in a major scandal - it's like the blind leading the blind up there in Westminster,
justin: Best one so far by Mel: as a politician, he lacks vision.
Gareth:
Wired (the magazine) on absinthe. Not to be confused with actually being on absinth, which would be very much different than just reading that article.
Justin:
The hollywood copyright peeps have gone mental.
gareth: That sounds a bit insane to implement. I mean, how could they possibly charge someone for moving a DVD player around one's house, etc?
01/11/05
Justin:
My ars* could have written a better screenplay than I Robot
justin: I can't stand it, every new scene and new line of dialogue is worse than the last.
justin: Written by Jeff Vintar who also perpetrated Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within on us.
gareth: What a terrible person he is.
Dave: It's better than Spirited Away.
Marcus: Well done for that timely review. It's a good job you told us now, before anybody else has had the chance to see it.
Dave: Who the f*ck are you!?
justin: Speaking of Spirited Away - perhaps Marcus would like to tell us about his adventures in the fairy land where we aren't going to kick his ass for not posting.
Dave:
Marcus, this is your call to arms! This is your chance to save the world! Only you can make a difference. If only someone knew where you were.