31/10/07
Zanna:
How to stop your child becoming gay.
zanna: Christian Doctors at Landover Baptist Hospital's Homosexual Reparative Extreme-Psycho-Stabilization Ward have put together a handy list of preventative tips for concerned parents with newborns or toddlers.
Marcus: Excellent. Gay toddlers would prove that the terrorists have already won.
Dave:
The iPhone is sh*t.
Marcus: Maddox, and NSFW.
Dave: YOU'RE NSFW.
tim: My favourite maddox gag is that he always puts a 1 in multiple exclamation marks somewhere !!1!
Gareth:
Tourettes machine wh*re is a motherf*cker firefox foreskin extension b*tch which inserts random swears prick while damn you are typing motherf*cker in a pussy text box.
Gareth: the idea of a "firefox foreskin extension" makes me giggle like an eight year old girl
30/10/07
Chris:
Want to run Windows Vista on the fastest machine you can get? Buy a mac.
chris: "The MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows."
Marcus:
Wikipedia's entry on the word c*nt is surprisingly engrossing, particularly the section on other meanings. (Needless to say, NSFW).
29/10/07
Marcus:
JailBreakMe: webpage that, when visited with an iPhone, automatically opens the iPhone up to third-party apps with just one click. Considering jailbreaking used to be an awful lot harder, this is pretty impressive. (stolen)
Marcus:
Q. Is Missing Sync, the popular (and pricey) Mac smartphone sync software, compatible with Leopard?
Marcus: A. No, and expect to wait up to three months before it is.
Marcus: Ridiculous.
28/10/07
Gareth:
Some really bizarrely awesome animations by somebody by the name of Cyriak. Watch your volume on this one, it's got some really loud pseudo music.
Justin:
What's English for football? To most of London, the Dolphins-Giants game on Sunday, while a sellout at Wembley Stadium, is an obscure oddity.
justin: Personally I think it's time our American cousins adopted proper football.
26/10/07
Justin:
A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying and shouted "this is YouTube material" has been sentenced to three years in prison. Nice.
Dave:
Free Guitar Hero-esque game for the pc.. Involves holding your keyboard like a guitar! (thanks Rob)
Justin:
Neanderthals may have been ginger!
zanna: The guy in the picture looks kinda like you Justin. If you had long ginger hair that is.
25/10/07
Gareth:
So I've been distracted for the last little while so I haven't been posting much. Here's a gooder: Woody's World of Penis Euphemisms. Yep.
Marcus:
OS X Leopard tip: swap the reflective pseudo-3D Dock for a 2D one using a Terminal command. (stolen)
Marcus:
Step 1:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
Step 2:
killall Dock
Step 1:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
Step 2:
killall Dock
Chris:
How about that: I can post from an iPod! Currently sitting in the audience at Virtual Worlds 2007. Lots of stuff about Second Life, so more details later.
justin: Cant be that interesting then.... :)
chris: It's been pretty interesting - lots of talk about Google and their Second Life killer... Right, we're starting again!
chris: More on what was said about Google's virtual world...
Justin:
Are you one of the working dead? Those who while away each day without actually doing anything or achieving anything?
24/10/07
Justin:
Are the lyrics to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust' "It's fun to smoke marijuana"? Well? are they?
justin: If played backwards that is. Otherwise, obviously not.
Marcus:
Mac OS X Leopard - the gold retail version, build 9a581 - is out of the bag and available for download from P2P sites like The Pirate Bay. It's not supposed to be out until Friday, you naughty pirates!
Marcus:
Auto-Block Facebook Apps: Greasemonkey script to autoblock and ignore all Facebook application invites spammed your way by idiots friends.
Marcus: This is probably the most compelling mainstream reason yet for non-geeks to use Firefox and Greasemonkey. Thank you (many times over) to Gareth for pointing me to the script.
gareth: You're very welcome.
Marcus:
Charlie Brooker on walking around everywhere listening to an MP3 player: "Pounding along in a musical bubble is fantastic for the following reasons: 1) you get to ignore everybody else; 2) you feel like you're in a movie so if you, say, step on a dog turd, it seems less like the everyday misery of stepping in a dog turd and more like a magical interlude from an epic adventure; 3) you're oblivious to the car horns and screaming and volleys of gunfire that make city life seem more stressful than it need be."
Marcus:
The crappy 3D dock in the forthcoming OS X Leopard has finally been given a "turn-off" option in favour of a nice translucent grey backing. A source of much consternation to Apple geeks has finally been fixed.
Marcus:
The Register: "Facebook bug dishes out notes designated private".
Marcus: Make sure that your privacy and limited profile settings for Notes don't conflict.
Marcus:
Clever animated GIF of a window-bound guy being tormented by scrollbars and a mouse pointer. (stolen)
23/10/07
22/10/07
Justin:
Why is interstellar travel such a pain in he ars*?
justin: This picture says it all in regards to how much proppelant we need - for a normal chemical rocket there is not enough mass in the universe, and for fission nuclear jobbies it would be a billion oil tankers worth of material.
21/10/07
Zanna:
TV links is busted.
zanna: The arrest and shutdown involved staff from the Gloucestershire County Council’s trading standards, FACT “investigators” and Gloucestershire Police, says the story, failing to mention UK taxpayers funded the corporate copyright operation.
20/10/07
Marcus:
AppFresh: free Mac OS X app which scans your apps against iusethis.com to check they're up-to-date, and offers to download new versions if not.
19/10/07
Justin:
Five boys have been sentenced to two years' detention for killing a father who collapsed with a heart attack after being pelted with stones and rocks. - I don't mean to be a Daily Mail style reactionary - but 2 years? and the judge thinks that is a warning to others? Ridiculous. I wonder if the judge is aware of 'thin skull rule' as a reason why these animals should have been punished a lot more. Erith is down the road from where I used to live and has a reputation as being a hell hole. The only message this sentence sends to anyone is - once again - judges are far too lenient on the worst types of brutality.
Marcus:
2D Flash version of Portal, the puzzle game included with the new Half Life 2 Orange Box that is supposed to be extremely awesome. (stolen)
Marcus: (It only gets released in the UK today, and I naturally picked Amazon's "wait three months for delivery" Super Saver postage.)
Marcus:
The entire eight-year archive of The Daily Show is being opened up for free public viewing online by Viacom. (stolen)
Marcus:
Swearing at work boosts team spirit. Too f*cking right. (stolen)
Marcus: Ironically, my hyperactive workplace internet filter made it very difficult for me to post the above swearword. Then again, I do work in a school.
justin: That's right Marcus, you do your "work" in schools. You monster.
Dave: Balls. f*ck. sh*t. c*ck. Ass. ars*. c*nt.
Marcus: Thank goodness for the alien technology-derived linkbunnies.org Swear-B-Gone&trademark;.
Marcus: Which unfortunately doesn't work inside the entry edit on MT, and thus means I can't get rid of the above embarrassingly-wrong-HTML-entity-for-a-trademark-symbol faux pas.
Marcus: f*ck it.
18/10/07
Marcus:
The RIAA has filed a lawsuit against Usenet.com, a subscription-based Usenet and Newsgroup company. Because apparently it turns out newsgroups can be used for copyright infringement. Apparently. (stolen)
17/10/07
Marcus:
Official Apple iPhone SDK to be released in February. The ability to run decent third-party apps without hackery is now, rather unexpectedly, on the horizon. Best reason yet to get an iPhone.
Marcus:
BBC: Being Fat Not Fat People's Fault. Turns out it's that bloody government's fault!
Marcus: For years now the UK Government has had secret "Fat Squads" sneaking into people's houses at night and tranquilising citizens with special blowpipes.
Marcus: They insert cake and cheeseburgers into sleeping victims' mouths, manually move their jaws up and down to chew, and then poke the food down their gullets with a big stick. Bastards!
JUSTIN: They are saying that obesity "was an inevitable consequence of a society in which energy-dense and cheap foods, labour-saving devices, motorised transport and sedentary work were rife." - So not the govt.'s fault - yet still an area where the government could step in.
justin: Fat people can weed themselves out of of the herd all they like - except, because of their gluttony they waste taxpayers money. I say we blame fat people for every delay or instance of underfunding in the NHS. The same goes for smokers.
16/10/07
Marcus:
Star Trek tomfoolery: Captain Kirk has wind, and Daddy Cool Spock. Neither are particulary safe for work.
Marcus: See also: Stark Trek does the Knights of the Round Table song and Star Trek does White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
Marcus: Thanks to Adam for most of these.
Marcus:
Classic 90s futuristic ultraviolent sports game Speedball 2 is released on Xbox Live Arcade this week, and I for one can't wait to start smashing things up.
Justin:
This poster hangs on the wall of waiting rooms at the doctor. This way we let Dutch people know how privileged they are when it comes to medical care, and thus how appropriate it would be for them to help Doctors of the World help the less privileged.
12/10/07
Marcus:
Animated optical illusion which can tell you if you are left or right-brain dominant. For me, the dancer seems to generally be turning clockwise, then all of a sudden apparently reverses direction for brief periods. Freaky. (stolen)
11/10/07
Justin:
An Australian performer who has had an ear grafted onto his forearm in the name of art has sparked controversy.
Marcus:
GarageBuy: free Mac OS X eBay client from the makers of GarageSale. Pretty slick, although the search seems to be a bit touch and go - no results for "Speed Four" when I searched, despite the eBay UK website having tonnes of hits.
10/10/07
Tim:
interesting website- find your airport and you can see all the places that the airlines fly to... not sure if it works outside the uk though
09/10/07
Marcus:
Interpol has "untwirled" the obscured face of a suspected paedophile from child porn images and published it on the internet. The guy obviously thought using the Photoshop "twirl" filter was irreversible - whoops.
Marcus: Boing Boing has the explanation for how to "untwirl".
Marcus: Interpol page on the search for the guy in the image.
08/10/07
07/10/07
06/10/07
Marcus:
YouTube: Eddie Kidd Tribute. A brief history of the world's best motorcycle stunt rider put together by my buddy Paulo.
Marcus: Awesome collection of stunt clips here - this guy jumped huge distances, including over the Great Wall of China (shown in the video). Made Evel Knievel look like small-fry.
05/10/07
Marcus:
NME has compiled YouTube clips of Radiohead performing songs from their new album, "In Rainbows", live. Five days to go...
Marcus:
Video: Zero Punctuation reviews Halo 3. Funnee. And, coming from an identical perspective as the reviewer (not having played the previous two and having finished Bioshock before playing Halo 3), I have to say, completely and utterly true. Although the tanks are super fun.
Dave: Awesome skills.
Marcus:
"A husband banned from contacting his estranged wife was jailed after he inadvertently sent her a message on the social networking site Facebook."
04/10/07
03/10/07
Tim:
People (in the UK) who are obsessed with architecture - and what right minded person isn't? - should check this out: The BD carbuncle awards kind of like the razzies but for architecture just before the stirling prize