30/04/07
Marcus:
How To Be An Online A-Hole. A comprehensive guide to being the best you can be in internet multiplayer games.
Marcus: "Under no circumstances is a true a-hole supposed to complete mission objectives. If you're playing a deathmatch game with friendly-fire activated then it's incumbent upon you to kill your teammates."
Marcus:
IQ Test for stupid people. This looks like it's from the 70s or early 80s and has probably done the internet rounds ten times over, but what the hell. It's funny and it's new to me. (via)
29/04/07
Marcus:
BBC: "Iranian police have warned barbers not to give men western hair styles or use make up on them."
Marcus: 
Marcus: ARREST THIS MAN! AND HIS BARBER! INFIDEL!
justin: Behead those who insult Mullets!
Zanna:
The government is launching the citizenship test for foreigners who want to become British. If you want the passport, then you'll have to read Life in the UK, a special book, and sit a 45-minute test on society, history and culture. I scored 10. Oops.
28/04/07
Dave:
http://www.premiershipstreams.comCan't afford crazy Sky Sports prices? Watch sport through your PC! The quality isn't HD, but for free it ain't bad.
26/04/07
Marcus:
A 30-minute Robot Chicken Star Wars parody special featuring a cameo by none other than George Lucas himself) is coming in June.
25/04/07
Gareth:
"Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth: a tale of two California cipherpunks who went to Baghdad to seek their fortune, and bring the Internet to Iraq."
Marcus:
Video for Groove Armada's new single Get Down (WMV). Sort of NSFW as features people in bunny costumes pretending to shag.
gareth: The youtube version. I like it.
Marcus:
BBC: New 'super-Earth' found in space. A rocky planet 50% larger than Earth, capable of supporting water, has been found in another solar system. Models predict a probable surface temperature of 0-40 Celsius. Amazing.
Marcus: Only hitch is bigger = more gravity. So anything living might have to be a bit flat and muscular.
dave: Like a bodybuilding midget.
tim: or a tamil tiger - look at that guy!
Dave: hahaha - The BBC have an incredible habit of picking terrible photos of people for news stories.
Dave: Especially on footballers.
justin: "super earth" - I sh*t it. They are lucky it is beyond our means to fly to their planet basically.
24/04/07
Marcus:
Man chops off penis in pizza restaurant. Insert sausage topping joke here. (The Sun also mentioned that he was Polish, so insert pole/sausage joke here too). (Thanks to Lord Callum Loki)
23/04/07
Dave:
I found this story really interesting. It's about people who try and identify unknown bodies and track down missing pepole and how the internet is helping. There's a radio programme on it tomorrow at 11am on Radio 4
Marcus:
Cripes! Boris Yeltsin has died.
justin: Everyone dies, Marcus.
Marcus: No. No they don't. That's not true. That's impossible.
22/04/07
Gareth:
Hot Fuzz is very funny and without a doubt worth seeing if you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead and/or Spaced, or really if you have a sense of humour in general.
21/04/07
Justin:
Tard Blog - a blog about retards.
gareth: I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
gareth: Actually the answer is very clear: laugh, quite a bit.
Gareth:
Shoulder holster wallets make me laugh.
gareth: It reminds of that one episode of the Office where Gareth (damnit, he's shaming my good name) has a cellphone shoulder holster.
20/04/07
19/04/07
Gareth:
Darth Vader Balloon is exactly what it says it is.
dave: Far and away one of the greatest things I have ever seen.
Zanna:
This charming guy had a string of affairs and one night stands whilst his wife was dying of cancer. Then he wrote a book about it.
zanna: Ray excuses his behaviour by saying that in such a situation, people fall back on their weaknesses."I have heard from a man who, when his wife fell ill, became an obsessive stamp collector. It's a way of escaping from your situation. My inability to be faithful has always been my weakness, so I turned to that."
Judith, one imagines, must have wished her husband had liked collecting stamps.
Marcus: ...k...
Dave:
Chad Vader - day shift manager. See the videos on YouTube - episode 1 here
justin: Way to drag so far behind the curve "douche-bag."
Dave: I'm worse than the Frosties advert kid.
18/04/07
Marcus:
A Lost game is in the works.
Marcus: Ho ho to this comment: "Sounds great. We get to play a game that answers questions by either ignoring them or by asking other questions."
17/04/07
Zanna:
Further to Marcus post on the 16th October (therefore not making this a double post!!) here is the trailer for 28 weeks later.
Dave: Cool it has Stringer Bell The Wire in it.
justin: You know he is English. Fact. Dear Americans - all the cool black people in your TV shows are in fact English. God save the Queen.
Gareth:
This SA thread on stories of the life as a street sweeper is probably the best thread I have ever seen, whether it is made up or not.
16/04/07
Marcus:
Handy guide to getting the best out of using an Xbox 360 and a Mac together. Contains useful links to apps which show your friends lists and the like.
Zanna:
Chocolate beats kissing hands down when it comes to providing a long-lasting body and brain buzz.
Justin:
Internet radio may be driven out of business within weeks by a Copyright Royalty Board decision that gives record companies a royalty rate that exceeds 100% of most webcasters' total revenues...
justin: So lets all sign this petition and yanks: get off your fat ars*s and start voting.
15/04/07
Marcus:
Wired: Top 10 Most Influential Amiga Games. (via)
Marcus: As a long-time Amiga 500 (then 1200) owner, I 100% agree with this list. Although I'd make it eleven and include Populous for inventing the god game genre.
Marcus:
In the US, more women than men now use the internet. Quite a lot more, in fact. Presumably the figures don't just count how many people are using female characters in Warcraft.
Marcus:
53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without. Article is from January, and I suspect has heavily done the rounds already, but hey - new here. (via)
Gareth:
Youtube: Flying Spaghetti Monster sighting in Germany. May you be touched by his noodley appendage.
14/04/07
Gareth:
The sheer size of the wikipedia article on lightsaber combat frightens as well as embarasses me. I mean, it has 36 sources.
obi wan: that's no article, that's a space station!
dave: I thoroughly agree with you. Yet I read it. All.
gareth: I cannot lie, I did also.
13/04/07
Marcus:
Charlie Brooker: "CCTV cameras that shout at you? All very well, but I have a much scarier idea." It involves Daleks.
zanna: That is the best idea I have heard in quite sometime.
12/04/07
Tim:
This is a truly good day for me, as I popped in asda to get some milk and walked out with a dragonfly for 34 squid! "the world's first RC ornithopter" I am a happy boy...
gareth: Holy crap that looks awesome. How agile are they? Are they as "crash resistant" as described?
tim: dunno, but you get a spare set of wings with it- not bad. and its made of pretty flimsy polystyrene so its pretty light, I reckon it should be ok
dave: haha! Talk about impulse buying! Did they have a stack of them by the tills so all the kids were like "Mum I NEED one of those!!"?
gareth: That's what's so awesome about being past being twelve years old, you don't have to justify any purchases like this to your mum.
tim: I have to admit there was an element of impulse buy in there but I went back a secind time to get it. Been meaning to buy one eever since I saw the bbc report on it a month or two ago. And they had ornithopters in dune....
Marcus:
Old-ish news, but Xbox 360 is going to have MSN Messenger support added in a May system update and Microsoft is releasing a thumb board that plugs into the controller so you can play and type simultaneously. Or you can just use a USB keyboard. Will be interesting to see how this works out.
Marcus:
Will Ferrell Movie Generator. The backlash begins, or continues, I'm not quite sure which. (via)
Marcus: The feature which lets you automatically e-mail your pitch to major movie studios is a nice touch.
Zanna:
Oh and I thought I'd share with you all that I found out this afternoon that I'm having a baby boy. Here's his picture. I've decided on the name Vincent and he's due on the 16th of August.
Marcus: He's... human?
dave: Gratz! :D
gareth: He's a real beaut, looks like atleast a 16 incher.
11/04/07
Justin:
Women civil servants in India have expressed shock at new appraisal rules which require them to reveal details of their menstrual cycles.
justin: PMS can affect women's personality and attitude at certain times and has been used as a defence for crime in the past. Should we have the right to know more? 1
Marcus:
Awesome time-travelling 1970s cop show Life On Mars might have finished - but the writers are already planning a spin-off, Ashes to Ashes. Another David Bowie track title, sans Sam Tyler but with Gene Hunt & co in 1981.
Marcus: That second link contains an interview with the lead writer for the show, and explains the reasons behind the ending - interesting, but spoilerific if you haven't seen the last episode yet.
Marcus: There's also a list of all kinds of cool Easter Eggs in the series.
Marcus: Not sure what to make of the time-travel aspect of Ashes to Ashes though. The press release makes the new female Sam Tyler equivalent sound like Ally f*cking McBeal.
Marcus: Er, that's enough Life on Mars geekery.
Marcus: Oh, one more thing then. You can buy BBC promotional Gene Hunt-penned "The Rules of Modern Policing" booklets off eBay for a fiver.
09/04/07
Dave:
Movie6.net a place you can stream all sorts of movies from. Proper ones, not sh*tty homemade ones.Quality isn't always that good.
08/04/07
Zanna:
Happy Easter!!
06/04/07
05/04/07
Zanna:
I can't beleive I hadn't thought of naming my baby Metallica.
gareth: But then they'd get really crap in their later years.
Justin:
Won't Somebody Think of the Bloggers? - the other day we can a wee discussion about a blogger receiving death threats. This article by Something Awful just about puts the whole thing into perspective.
04/04/07
Marcus:
Maddox: "Mac morons can't talk without using their hands" (YouTube).
Marcus: Accompanies the article "One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't: SHUT THE f*ck UP".
Marcus: Not as well-written or witty as Brooker's notorious effort, but amusing to a point.
Marcus:
Trailer for Live Free or Die Hard, the new super-awesomely OTT Die Hard movie. (IMDB)
Marcus: "John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes on an Internet-based terrorist organization which is systematically shutting down the United States."
Marcus: This should be the plot of every movie made in 2007, including period dramas.
03/04/07
Dave:
Super hacker Gary McKinnon loses his fight against extradition to the US for 24 style torture. ars*.
02/04/07
Gareth:
The WiiHelm makes me laugh
dave: SURELY that's an April Fool?
gareth: I'm fairly certain it is, but it being the third and no updates saying it's not really real (and them having a video of it in use) kinda makes makes me lean towards it possibly being real.
Gareth:
EMI will start allowing the sale of "premium" DRM-less music via the iTunes store and other services soon.
gareth: I'm thinking the price difference will probably lead most regular Joes to buying the DRMed stuff, although apparantly the full album prices will be the same.
justin: Higher quality though. Mind you, I have noticed that girls (the only people who buy singles these days) never really care much about audio quality. You ever notice that, you go around a woman's house and they never have a decent stero system? - What's with that?
Marcus: Lordy, it seems I was wrong about Mr Jobs' disingenuity in that earlier hippy piece of writing that got all the publicity.
Marcus: And still no word on whether other people (eg indies) who want DRM-free music will have that option or whether you will have to be a big mean record company to sell your music the way you want it.