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Instead of starting a new thread for all the fun stuff we encounter (are you paying attention, Salti?), why not post them in one thread and reduce the clutter?

Here's a fun one from the Beeb. Shame it's too late to order one for Christmas, but I suppose a cardboard tube from wrapping paper would do.

*cough*

Scientists discover 250 teaspoons are needed to guarantee a "float" of 70:

today.reuters.co.uk/news/Ne...

Holy fuck, these scientists get paid for that?

There are 12 Films hidden in this tree.
Can you find them (I have 10)?

Cos there are 2 shreks and 2 bridget jones's diaries(I presume hers) are they "shrek 2" and "BJD 2" or 2 films each?

10 - cant get the judge wig or the yellow and black stripe one.

make your own snowman!

www.kilogramme.co.uk/snowga...

WH; genius! (this thread .. haven't been to the link..)

Sul - you've got the same ones left as me.

Not too sure about the crucifix if I'm honest - I've put The Passion down.

Me too.

I went to see the movie Narnia this afternoon. Really nice. I read the books as a child and they really took me to faraway places.

That snowman one is cute..
Haha warhead, I have a Didgeridoo (sp) I can't play it though!

similarly, singing reduces sleep apnoeia

THUH HEEELS ahr ALIIIIIVE with (the sound of) MUUUUUUSIC

flickr fun
www.jonathancoulton.com/vid...

bah.this old conker wont open that.

good god that was awesome

a christmas plea for more creativity in advertising:
www.bmf.com.au/xmas

Someone buy me a house like this...

(Make sure you check out page 5)

nice curtains

Is that now Cal's week end hide-away?

keithschofield.com/pi/std.html

WARNING: do NOT have a mouthful of anything when the robot starts to sing

I ignore your warning, and continue to eat my baguette whilst clicking on your link.

I will let you know what happens...

Nearly lost it, but managed to swallow.
That's as funny as hell!

I figured that it's not a real kiddie program (because it contains the word 'shit'), but it can't be a real song... Right?
And it seems a bit 'good' to just be a pisstake...

www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2...

Serves the posers right =]

"i ignore your warning" and substitute my own

yay for mythbusters

bizarre

www.curiousmath.com

A nice site for geeky maths tips.

What, like, er ... don't forget to carry the tens?

eh? its not about camping

Oh, I thought you said maths trips.

i can't see ANY greek tips on that site, sul

just ran across an old printout from June 25, 1997...

(title: "Advanced HTML Tips"
"HTML is still very immature and lacks the design sophistication of PageMaker or XPress."
neat linespacing trick by wrapping P tags in FONT tags.)


i had COMPLETELY forgotten this:

open netscape, press control-option-f (probably control-alt-f on a PCripple)

observe!

life is SO unfair

www.theregister.co.uk/2005/...

"Those readers who have ever wondered in an idle moment how a couple of Daleks would respond to the presence of three naked lesbians romping in their Mothership might recently have found the answer in the shape of a sci-fi smutfest entitled "Abducted by the Daleks".

Sadly, however, you'll have to wonder on because the BBC and the estate of Dalek creator Terry Nation have moved swiftly to pull the plug on the the trundling salt-cellars' intergalactic rumpy-pumpy."

Doctor WTF?

/waits for the torrent

/dev/urandom will produce lower quality output if the entropy pool drains

what a cool phrase. "quick! to the entropy pool! i only hope we're in time!"

Addditional entropy is fed to the generator regularly by the SecurityServer daemon from random jitter measurements of the kernel.

so my kernel either:
• drinks too much coffee, or
• is a clandestine 50s-style dancing fiend.

How hard is Chuck Norris?

Chuck Norris sleeps with a night light. Not because Chuck Norris is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.

www.chucknorrisfacts.com

heh

Weird.

"The Scout Retriever is an e-newsletter for dog owners who want to be "in the know" about the latest news in dog fashion and events in NYC.

So why has this person got lots of pretty girls in lots of poses, dressed up in the same top/jeans and bikini? Why are all the photos taken in a strange looking room with furniture piled up? Is it the old 'I can get you a career in modelling if you just come into this room and get your kit off' scam? Or is it entirely innocent?

It's almost like a load of pictures were uploaded to the wrong account. That load of pics (all uploaded today) look like screentest style shots to me - the same outfits for 6-7 or so girls.

Totally out of keeping with the rest of the shots.

I reckon two people share a house (and computer) and have got the flickr uploader. One person went to upload their images without checking that it was their account that the uploader was using.

Ding fucking dong =]

You people are so boring. I reckon he's a serial pornographer and these are the 'getting them used to the idea' shots before he plies them with Rohypnol and does unspeakable things to them while videoing it.

And he has a fixation with those clothes. I reckon the love of his life used to wear them when they were making their home porn movies, and he accidentally killed her one day while doing a spectacular Italian Chandelier that went horribly wrong. Now he has to get all his 'models' to wear the same clothes or else he can't perform.

>Totally out of keeping with the rest of the shots.

i'm not complaining

It also recognizes good dog deeds and features dog model casting calls

perhaps in the last casting call advertisements there was a printing error and "dog" got left out. so instead of the usual dogs he got a bunch of glamours.

Oooh. What's an Italian Chandelier? I know : he's having an affair with that girl and she's tired of his excuses for not leaving his wife, so she posted pics all over his account.

i like the contrast between the last 2 rolls-taken/uploads.

from this:

Comments
michelle: Great!! love the pug.

Sheryl - Yes, Gallery

to this:

Yuck ^ she's ematiated. Not nice. Belsen ramp. No, really - why has muscle tone gone out of fashion?

tits ++;

-- from The Scout Retriever - (?)

Winner. Eyes ++

Awesome. Yes please, and I wouldn't leave the house except for food for a month.

that's one hell of a lot of wax

Hey! Some of us might be at work!

(Bit of an unlikely thing on my account, unless Real Ale Pubs start setting up Internet terminals on the back of the pump clips...)

Awesome. Yes please, and I wouldn't leave the house except for food for a month

You're assuming that she wouldn't have left after five minutes..... or sooner.

Oh, and an Italian Chandelier is similar to a Reverse Cowgirl. I think the difference is the positioning of the feet. Brock will know.

Methinks you know too. Tell me.

I want a body like her ^^^

me too

probably not the same way you meant it, though

No, since neither of us is gay. Brock is another matter, though.

Less of the nakedness, please =/

You're assuming that she wouldn't have left after five minutes..... or sooner.

Does that include the time it takes for Brockles to smoke a cigarette?

it's not MY fault she waxed

"Let's face it why would anyone squeeze into coach when they could ease into first class."

Now that's somthing that should be on that Dragon's Den (Lair?) thing.
It's a really good idea.

at the other end of the market, for bulimics you could just have a stool and a bucket.

or maybe a pizza box.

number TWO, baby!!

girls farting on rubber balls


i ask you, how do people who feel the need to try to find these things, cope with breathing AND typing queries at the same time?

baby's first goatse.cx

images of people seeing the image for the very first time:
www.flickr.com/photos/tags/...

hehe cool :)

Mock the Stupid

This happened to my husband the other day. He’s a sales rep for a national food distribution company and sells mostly to restaurants. He had the following conversation with one of his customers.

Joe – my husband
Bob – customer

Bob: Hey Joe, I ordered enchiladas and you sent me taquitos!
Joe: Oh, I’m sorry…what does the invoice say?
Bob: Enchiladas. But I opened the box and they’re taquitos.
Joe: Well, they come without the sauce. You need to buy a can of sauce and pour it over the enchiladas and bake them. That’s how we sell them.
Bob: No man, these are taquitos.
Joe: What does the box say?
Bob: Enchiladas.
Joe: (after a minute) Bob, how do you make a taquito?
Bob: You put some meat in a tortilla, roll it up and fry it.
Joe: Ok, how do you make an enchilada?
Bob: You put some meat in a tortilla, roll it up and cook it.
Joe: So all you need to do is put the sauce on the enchiladas and cook them!
Bob: No man, these are taquitos.
Joe: (Getting frustrated) Ok, fine…I’ll issue you a credit and pick up the box.
Bob: Thanks…so can you sell me some enchiladas?
Joe: Apparently not.

lol!!

Guy #1: Well, you know, I am a Mets fan.
Guy #2: Dude, then you're okay in my book. You could murder puppies and that's okay so long as you're a Mets fan!
Guy #3: Um, he does.
Guy #2: Exactly! You can totally murder puppies if you're a Mets fan!
Guy #3: No, he really does.
Guy #2: Totally!
Guy #3: He's a vet.
Guy #1: I am.

Hehe. They had guns.

RE: the Christmas tree, Grim..., are you now able to locate the answers?

Hmmm. Not sure I like having to do that. Ok we're a pretty small user-base and I understand the clutter factor of small-life threads but having a single place is madness. It's not like me to be one for organising organisation but If I could be so bold as to suggest a monthly thread for crap...

...well it'd be nice wouldn't it? It'd make me feel all important and stuff.

Not to say that everything in this thread is crap. Some isn't.

Just noticed that this thread doesnt even stretch a month yet but I stand that it'll be difficult to navigate when it does.

Oh and I also agree that genuinely thought conversation starters shouldn't be jumped on as crap if posted as a new thread. Lets face it, they drop off the discussion list pretty quickly never to be seen again.

...well it'd be nice wouldn't it? It'd make me feel all important and stuff.

I think you'll just have to make do with feeling stuff.

this thread is getting too full of random crap

That was why I started it. Random crap of transitional interest posted in one thread instead of a new thread each time.

It's just getting a bit loooooooong, though. My old conker battles to load it.

Only 78 replies.
There have been much longer threads than this.

Sul: Nope. Can you?

one for cal: www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/20...
"We had to patch Apache to get around that one."

I just wanted to take a moment to register my delayed disgust at this comment...

Yuck ^ she's ematiated. Not nice. Belsen ramp. No, really - why has muscle tone gone out of fashion?

Until it's acceptable to walk up to a fat person and tell them how grotesque they look then this sort of thing is just wrong dammit.

that's all.

Eep. Sorry. (I'm just jealous because I'm not slim.) But I'm sure if there was a fatso on here, there would be comments about that, too.

no group is more vicious about how women look than women. even as each protests that they are violently against particular "requirements", each enforces it. because they thought they had to show other women.

men, interestingly, typically find what women demand as the ideal woman shape to be much less attractive than what women scream that men should find attractive.

the fashion "industry" is not driven by men. and its models' standard shapes are not imposed top-down but bottom-up by the market. and the "market" is individual women.

You mean it isn't acceptable?

You are right, Salty.

As a would-be feminist, I gravely apologise for that remark. Feel free to call me fatty if you should so wish. ;)

However, fatty would like to point out that it's not the same both ways, since it is the current fashion to be skinny.

/slaps own wrist

Alas, it will never be fashionable to be fat.

err, syl, going from beating other people up about it to beating yourself up about it, is not the same as doing something different.

and it IS "fashionable" to be fat in many cultures, and was in european culture a few hundred years ago.

Yeah, yeah. I know that. What I meant to say was, it will never be fashionable again. In my humble opinion.

"What I meant to say was, it will never be fashionable again"

Wow. South Africans really do know fuck all about Black people. Try learning about other cultures. Large size is still (TODAY, that is) considered a very attractive feature in more than one African culture that I know of without even looking into it at all.

No, that is rapidly disappearing. More and more black women are going towards a western view of this. When I was in the hospital, one of the units was for anorexics and bulemics and the nurses said they are getting more and more black patients. The western stress to be thin is definitely moving to their culture.

as you point out: "black women"

a huge proportion of african black men are "chubby chasers"

ie, you say "western stress", but are inadvertently emphasising that it's not "western" society, but just a shift in goalposts for the girl fights.

How the fuck can it be attributed to 'Western' Society when Africa is due South of pretty much all of Europe?

and it's a bloody globe, innit. EVERYTHING's west.

Western culture is dominant in the media here.

Clever Firefox XUL that searches Amazon:
www.faser.net/mab/chrome/co...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4619...

^hahahahaha!

Web 2.0 Mashup Enabler Feedcast

Pong Clock!

(Portfolio / Browse / Misc. / Pong Clock)

COOL little web-interface

Gah!
Marathon Trilogy!

good for those running their own forums and such: AJAX password checker:
evolt.org/ajax_login_system
"Notice how I haven't discussed the presentation issues, as in reality they have little to do with the problem. When I moved from my barebones ugly example to the somewhat more aesthetically pleasing one that I've linked to today, I didn't change any of the backend, nor the login_controller.js file. In designing the system this way, it can be applied to any number of applications, such as a blog comment, a forum, etc.

Also notice that this is seemingly more secure than a traditional login system since the password is never transmitted in plain text."

gaaaahhhH!!! marathon!!! the BEST ever fps!!! evil evil evil EVIL waste of time

fantastic, grim…

Also notice that this is seemingly more secure than a traditional login system since the password is never transmitted in plain text.

Er... That's not true, surely?

Aha, as some nice man has pointed out in his comments:

When you use AJAX from a page which was accessed on a non-SSL connection, the subsequent XMLHttpRequest calls are also not SSL encryped. Therefore, the login data is traversing the wire in clear text. As such, there is at least one attack that will break this, and another that probably would depending on what happens next on the page.

umm... i thought only the md5 hash was sent, not the pwd. sure the hash is sent in clear but even if you know the seed you still have moderately prodigious time required to bruteforce-guess the pwd, no?

the seed IS sent in clear but varies per attempt, so as long as a login attempt autotimes out within a reasonable timeframe you're fine.

this sounds like someone kneejerking at a keyword without bothering to read anything more.

:) or is it me who's cocked it up?

poor ole dean's not getting any

or IS he????



(Fruit&Veg Aisle Goatse, per boingboing)

salti - that's how i read it too

iamcal (if you have javascript enabled) sends an md5 of your password over the wire rather than your actual password. not sure if it's salted or not.

i promise you all, i didn't touch your passwords

cal: for the iamcal hashes to match, both ends must have the same seed, no? so for my javascript-enabled browser to login, surely it can't be salted- must be using default seed?

hurrah!
which polish bastard stole pauls sausage

search engines are the vigilantes' friend


(oh, bloody hell:
famous hackney guy who's obsessed with tunneling)

WELL rockin'

Fucking WOW!

www.clickhereyouidiot.com

Maybe you clicked the link above, then came back. Thankfully! It means you're a strong prospect. Strong is good. Prospect is good too. Together, they're explosive! And that qualifies you for bullet points.

* Because short lines are easier to read and
* Most visitors are lazy readers who like
* The page broken up for
* Effortless reading and
* Better inhalation of sales fumes!
* But bullets are not to be overdone
* Seven is considered the absolute maximum to maintain interest

Learn extra MATH!!!

warning:
do NOT have any food or drink in mouth, nor any hot food or drink in hand, when operating this video. operators with knowledge of both subject (as topic) and presenters (as sub-group) may suffer excessive wibblification.


when even one of the presenters has trouble not laughing at the other one, you KNOW you're on a winner.

but i have to say i agree with Sul re the "WELL rockin'" headsup

www.hedonistica.com/media.p...

HAHAHAAHAA

for sul

origami

I'm so buying that book. Two of my hobbies rolled (and folded I suppose) into one. Awesome.

I will update when I get drunk and acheive my first papercut from a rather nasty paper fanny.

Sul, that floating dog has to be the funniest thing I've seen EVAH!!

a1583.g.akamai.net/7/1583/9...

alas, can't see what you've linked to, sul

Salti - thanks for that one, the guys in the office have all injured themselves with violent laughing.

Interview with Ren&Stimpy's creator

"Where's my bloody flying car?"

One for Sul.

:)

Cool as!

Galaxy Crash simulator

set # stars to 2,000, set Friction ON, and set 1 galaxy's Phi+Theta to ~90°. maybe also set RedGalaxy mass to 0.2 or 3 or 5 or something. then shift-drag zoom out, and watch these gorgeous fountains: loops of stars torn out and constantly showering back round. click-drag around to change the 3d view same as QTVR: it makes what's happening HUGELY clearer/more fascinating.

It coudl really fuck some people's holidays though. What with suddenly being so far from the sun, and then being so close. Especially with all the other plantets twatting into you.

I'm sure they'll blame the Bush/Blair combo, though.

or the Bin Laden Happy Meal

One to watch, if you're in the UK.

I think this might be terribly painful for me, yet compelling viewing.

Ive seen the clips and was horribly disappointed at the "highlights".

"Oh a plan, let me put on my slightly bigger glasses"

Urgh.

Has it got Chris Morris in it?

i read he's associated w/it in some way but can't rmember what connection -- producer or something like that, i seem to recall

"Special appearances" from that link.

Got a recent mac laptop? Want to save $1 on a carpenter's level? Your prayers have been answered!

Re: The IT Crowd - it's obviously going to be stereotyped to fuck, with the IT guys not having lives etc.
So WHY THE FUCK is one of the IT geeks a woman?

Its not. Its just a man pretending to be a woman ;)

that's the IRONIC WITTINESS OF IT!!!!

It's bullshit. Apparently it's alright to suggest that all IT workers are fucking dicks, but to suggest that a woman isn't capable of being in IT is simply unthinkable.

Anyway, I best stop working myself up about this, for all I know the IT guys are going to be cooler than the Fonz...

bwahahahaha!

You seem to be in a remarkable good mood today, Brockles.
Did you finally get to use that two year old condom last night?

I have made some considerable progress with a 'certain young lady' who has intrigued me for a while, actually. But nothing last night, no.

I may have some income (pending the second wage negotiation phone call I am expecting in a minute) which will make my life immeasurably more relaxed...

I find it creepy that they even make condoms for 2 year olds.

hahahaaa

I think this might be terribly painful for me, yet compelling viewing.

Posted by Sul, 5 hours ago:

Ive seen the clips and was horribly disappointed at the "highlights".

It may be the IT equivalent of Hyperdrive then.

Did I ever tell you the story about my friend at school who told us that sometimes he liked to steal a condom from his dad's bedside cabinet and have "a posh wank"?

:D

No.

Go on then.

I had a friend at at school who told us that sometimes he liked to steal a condom from his dad's bedside cabinet and have "a posh wank".

Classic.

I laughed until I stopped.

(heh)

here's a nice thing for codey types, esp those doing it intermittently rather than continuously: hispeed web lookup of various syntaxes: ql.aonic.net

The IT Crowd - it's obviously going to be stereotyped to fuck, with the IT guys not having lives etc.
So WHY THE FUCK is one of the IT geeks a woman?.. Anyway, I best stop working myself up about this, for all I know the IT guys are going to be cooler than the Fonz...

Turns out the woman isn't an IT woman, she's some sort of HR chick.
So fair enough.

you've probably seen it already but this is the banned xbox 360 ad, it's brilliant..

snipurl.com/lx3g

What, this banned xbox 360 ad?

=]

yep that one. its not my fault i dont have the time to lurk properly ok? It's a good job i didnt bother wasting time talking about spaced as well then isn't it.

pfft.

look out brock, your social life's at risk

HA ha ha ha HAAAA, it's all just good fun, right? right?
It's TRADITIONAL!
right?
hello?

Sue me :)

[:O

Jedi Squirrels!



if grim… gets a lightscythe he can join in

i quite like this: the website interface is mac os x - click on the menus and things

(the app will convert a windows XP box to use a mac os x-alike interface)

osx.portraitofakite.com/ind...

i'm 36

www.blogthings.com/whatageq...

odd that it's at portrait of a katie - that's an old-old-old blog i used to read. wonder what she's up to these days...

# An acquaintance tells you a very juicy secret about your best friend? Can you keep the secret?

* Ummm, you can keep the secret for a few days... but that's it.
* Nope, but not on purpose. You just tend to spill the beans.
* No way, you tell everyone what you just found out about your friend.
* If you told anyone, it would be your best friend... who deserves to know the gossip firsthand.
* You would probably share the secret with a mutual friend, but that's it.


I refuse to carry on. Where's my option to lie and actually keep the secret from everyone?

old-old-old blog i used to read. wonder what she's up to these days...

Surely you can read her recent-recent-recent entries?

I'm 27 .... ha, ha, ha, haaaaaa, in my scruddy dreams.

Eye yam THWEEEE!!!

OK, actually 21 per that quiz

27

25

Sul: the blog is no longer there. the apple thing is at a subdomain. the main domain redirects to the apple thing. she's dissapeared

creepy

24

one for sul!

Origamitecture

I like those teeny buildings.

Let's all sing the Fujitsu song.

Here are the words, so there's no excuse for not joining in...

Verse 1:
Let's run out now, to greener fields, where shines a splendid Sun.
We have a dream, a wondrous dream, that gets the best things done.
A wide blue sky is in our heart now,
Open-ness in our soul,
We'll run together going onwards now,
On towards our goal.

Chorus:
Ahhhh Fujitsuuuuu, oh tomorrow is our goal.
.
Verse 2:
Lets join our hands, with everyone, and smile at each new hour.
We have a dream, an endless dream, of youthful love and power.
We want to use all our skill now,
All the strengths unfurled,
We plan uniting all our new techniques,
Over all the world.

Chorus:
Ahhhhh Fujitsuuuuu, forges links all over the world.

Verse 3:
Let's make a bond, from heart to heart, throughout the human race.
An unseen power, now in our grasp, can even conquer space.
We want to find a new harmony,
Both in work and play,
We'll share the fresh things we discover now,
Building a new day.

Chorus:
Ahhhhh Fujitsuuuuuu, GIVES A JOY WITH EVERY NEW DAY!

DIY automatic Dave Barry column:
www.peacefire.org/staff/ben...

Recently in Boonville (motto: "Avaunt, ye reeking toadsucker"), residents reported an outbreak of penguins. Perhaps you think there are no penguins in Boonville. Perhaps you are an idiot.

As the French say, au contraire (literally: "My mother sucks dick better than you do.!"). I have here in my hands a copy of an Associated Press article sent in by alert reader Cathy, whose name can be rearranged to spell "CYAHT", although that is not my main point. "Cathy", by the way, only has the letters "Cay" in in common with "Monica Lewinsky", so there is no other reason to mention Monica Lewinsky in this column.

According to a quote which I am not making up, from Boonville Mayor Aloysius (formally "Mayor Aloysius" and informally "Davo"), penguins ranks as a major crisis just behind cheese, toast and tomato (insert your "pepper" joke here), as evidenced by the following conversation between Boonville government employees:

FIRST BOONVILLE EMPLOYEE: "Dear sir: fuck off."

SECOND BOONVILLE EMPLOYEE: "You. Will. Die."

FIRST BOONVILLE EMPLOYEE: "Ha ha! Prepare to die!"

Fortunately I have a suggestion for Mayor Davo, and that is: lick George Steinbrenner's penis.

No, seriously, my suggestion does not involve George Steinbrenner's penis, although it might involve grinding between gnarled and notched rocks Tobacco Institute scientists. My suggestion is more along the lines of a coup de grace, from the French coup, meaning "partaking", and de grace, meaning "of boat drinks". The procedure (you may want to write this down):

1. eat our garbage
2. I insert the family pet, dipped in flaming gasoline, to the depth of his collar

But instead the Boonville city council (motto: "We'll eat shit and die. when you pry the shrivelled lifestyle out of our cold, dead fingers") thinks that they (the penguins) will flap underwater soon, sending this message to the public, and to the world: "Honk if you hate me.".

Speaking of which, "The Boonville Penguins Outbreak" would be a great name for a rock band.

www.csmonitor.com/2006/0209...

i'm mostly confused as to why they publicised it. they're already scanning most email traffic in the states plus the UK plus i believe oz/nz.

did you know every sms message you send in the uk gets neuralnet scanned for naughty words?


EDIT: wikipedia says: "take THAT, nasty ole congress. you're BANNED, innit"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip...

Description

This RFC is being opened in order to further a centralized discussion concerning actions to be taken against US Congressional staffers and possibly other federal employees who have engaged in unethical and possibly libelous behavior in violation of Wikipedia policies (WP:NPOV, WP:CIV). The editors from these IP ranges have been rude, abrasive, immature, and show disregard for Wikipedia policy. The editors have frequently tried to censor the history of elected officials, often replacing community articles with censored biographies despite other users' attempts to dispute these violations. They also violate Wikipedia:Verifiability, by deleting verified reports, while adding flattering things about members of Congress that are unverified.

The offending editors have been blocked.

nyeeeerrrrrrrwweeooowwwwwwwkerPOW

My favourite bit of that old clip is the wing tips that carry on past the edges of the wall, as if nothing had happened :D

you talking about this one or that WTC one?

Fashion Freak by Naked Ape

It makes me laugh anyway...

www.cakeonrails.co.uk

I did a mashup of Cake On Rails:

AlcoCakeMash: noasla.coconia.net/index.php

Trompe l'oeilcd

transparent screens

best. computer. EVAH.

Whisky PC



sul? can you do a little parallel grid running in a 6 pack of stella?

I think Cal has blogged those transparent screens before.

Yeah sul did those screens before, they rule.
And that whiskey bottle was on engadget a few days ago but I didn't care enough to post it here.

*tsk* i am so off the pace it's embarrassing.

how 'bout this then:

"oddly, there was no resistance"

That's a bit rude.

Kudos on the "Trompe l'oeilcd" though, unless that was a phrase used on the flickr group.

500,000 volt switch opening



i think the _sound_ is probably the best bit

cal is hip

Number 9

That's some awesome artwork.

Check out the video for Creep - that's some quality animation...

(I imagine Alfie will get quite moist)
(Or go rather green)

excellent

heh. on the musical theme du jour:

a Holla-back girl parody: Curry'N'Rice girl

(MC Vikram and Ludakrishna)

Neatness: mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch

Grim...

I saw it right after i watched the JCB song for the first time.
And yes, there may have been some staining.

Grim... cheers for that last link. i was watching that multi touch thing on engadget the other day but i didnt realise they had so many video examples. They just had linked to the basic demo before.

Damn it I want my Minority Report computer right now!

That thing where he is scaling the photos just by making the approprate motion, and also messing with the lava lamp. Awesome!

Holy freaking christ. when he is animating the rabbit thing. o god that cool.

I'm sorry for the running commentary. I'll just clean myself up and be on my way.

:)

if you like that, here's something to think about. when i was working on the 3D holo screen, we had contact with a number of eye-tracking systems, as they're necessary for normal 3D systems (tho not necessary for ours). they usually require only a pinhole size camera, usually embedded in the top of the screen. one of them in particular had rejigged his to track the whole body, plus respond differently to particular gestures, plus provide graphical on-screen feedback. he did one pseudo-dance demo where the dancer's gestures would change the over-drawn graphics, so that the left hand would trail a twisting fading transparent cloud of swirling colour then a gesture would change the right hand to suddenly throwing little fireworks when it moved.


imagine all the interface of this linked video, but without needing a touch screen, plus showing teh result in actual float-above-your-desk 3D.
say those bits of this video, where he's stretching photos & windows on his desktop by putting two fingers on them and moving his fingers apart or together. a 3D equivalent might be to reach into a bucket of images, with them all swirling around or say the layer you've reached being de-transparented, then bringing it physically toward you by grabbing with your hand and bringing your hand to where you want it. then stretching it by grabbing both sides and pulling it to the size you want. and it's actually floating in space right in front of you.

me, i reckon that would be pretty bloody awesome, both in terms of "emotional" impact, and in terms of actually useful changes being possible in how people interact with computers (and each other, in the sense that the mobile phone has changed how people can talk to each other, manage their social lives, their security, etc.)

prototype Android Chicken!

Salty - 3D thing sounds ace.

I assume the first virus that chicken gets will be some kind of BurdFlooo

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The kid's 17 and does outstanding videos to boot.

somebody hire the fucker

Re - the holo things: I don't think they are much good. The simple fact is, you use less effort with a mouse and keyboard than one of those things - swinging your arms all over the place and stuff. Think of the desk space you'd need...

well, if you're "physically" just grabbing the images, your arms will be confined to the image space, which is essentially the size of the screen plus about 2/3 of its width towards you and 1/3 away.

hmm, there's a thought. you'd need some sort of image feedback/discouragement to stop people poking their fingers into the part of the image that's "actually" behind the screen. ardent graphic artists could swap mouse-RSI for holo-brokenfinger :)

hey sul, check yer mail

it's the new ipod tie!



shoot me now

MA moozik machine is well 'ard, innit.
coz it have a proper ipod hoodie, foo'.



me am down wit ma nedders, yo.

syl made a new one of these threads Sal
I like the tie

why don't people invent bluetooth earphones? THAT's the most annoying cable or rather bitofMP3player remaining

They're out, (I'm sure I've seen a couple more instances of them but this is the first one that sprung to my google searches mind).

www.ilounge.com/index.php/r...

But I like to have my cable because I can sling the headphones over my shoulder when quickly talking to folk. I have used such neck braced headphones before and they would sit around the neck comfortably but I, personally, find even slightly-tight things around my neck to be too restricting.

unless, of course, you mean in-ear phones which I'd imagine will be a bit bulky and a pain in the arse to charge individually or find after you've no-doubt lost them.

Actually that reminds me of an idea I had for a gadget. I may email a couple of you engineering/electrical type folk about the feasibility of it.

The tiePod is rather upsetting. But then musical ties usually are, as are ties in general.

Do bone vibrating earphones use more or less power than the normal "tiny speaker in your ear" type?

these are bone vibrating earphones:


i don't know for sure, but i personally suspect they draw more current than standard ipod headphones.

i wonder how long a AAA battery would last?

(a terabyte a SECOND. ffs.)

Salt, use the other thread man!
The OTHER THREAD!

oh yeah.

hang on, feb's nearly over. let's cut to the chase. or rather, teh march!