Discussion » News, fun links, etc (February 2006)

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Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 15th February 2006:
 
The other thread is getting so long. Can we start a new one for each month? (as Sul suggested)
Posted by Grim..., around 16th February 2006:
 
No.

Oh, wait...

=]
Posted by WarHead, around 24th February 2006:
 
Bump!

How to write like a wanker.

I think most of us know and practice this already.

What we need now is a page to tell us how to wank like a writer. We could ask Brock, as he inflicts his verbal diarrhoea on everyone in flickr central.
Posted by WarHead, around 24th February 2006:
 
Alfie: The tiePod is rather upsetting. But then musical ties usually are, as are ties in general.


But ties now have two purposes.

1. To keep soup and/or gravy and/or curry sauce off your shirt front.

2. To house you iPod/compatible sound system.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 24th February 2006:
 
heh -- oops. wh & me crossposted on two different months' linky threads at the same time. that'll teach me. something. not sure what.

hey, i reckon we should keep bumping BOTH threads all thru to end of march. just, cos, you know, it... umm
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 24th February 2006:
 
i saw this and thought it might be a laugh. plus a chance of a superfit bird!
rats. utterly unhorny.

but i nearly fell off my chair laughing at the red arrow about halfway/0.75way through - worth it for that moment
www.dailymotion.com/video/5...
[NSFW]
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 27th February 2006:
 
Hamster Sudoku
Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 28th February 2006:
 
you have got to be kidding

www.iamcal.com/discuss/topi...
Posted by Grim..., around 28th February 2006:
 
Yeah, oi, Salt!
At least set it to 'nipples' or something...
Posted by Grim..., around 28th February 2006:
 
Bah - most of them come back as men if you do that =[
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 28th February 2006:
 
bwah hah hah hah ha haaaaaaa



*cough*

bloody good memory there miki

at least i'm consistent, eh
Posted by Grim..., around 28th February 2006:
 
Homeless person's Blog.
Not a bad read.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 28th February 2006:
 
I havent read it yet but I had this idea a year or so ago. I was going to pretend to be a tramp blogging from the various public internetphone things in the waterloo area. Of course I never went through with it.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 28th February 2006:
 
(you might also like this one, in similar vein:

Survival Guide to Homelessness
"No matter where you go, there you are.")
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 28th February 2006:
 
"This is the Managing Editor!
Tell the Graphics/Layout Department they're all **FIRED**!!"


actual magazine cover, apparently:
Posted by Grim..., around 1st March 2006:
 
Link?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 1st March 2006:
 
died :(

hang on, i'll see if i can flickr it
EDIT: there ya go
Posted by Grim..., around 1st March 2006:
 
I can't see the MD bit...
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 1st March 2006:
 
that would be my suggested caption and/or consequence of that magazine cover actually hitting the shelves...
Posted by Grim..., around 1st March 2006:
 
Oh.
Posted by Grim..., around 1st March 2006:
 
Posted by Grim..., around 1st March 2006:
 


The facial expressions are just perfect =]
Posted by Grim..., around 1st March 2006:
 
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 2nd March 2006:
 
There's something rather apt and rather poignant about the fact that the ENGLISH wikipedia's !ONE MILLIONTH article is on the subject of trainspotting
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 2nd March 2006:
 
A True Love Story
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 2nd March 2006:
 
Penis-Melting Zionist Robot Combs!!
The Sudanese journalist Ja'far Abbas interjected a note of scientific rationality into the growing hysteria by making this observation in his column in the Saudi daily Al-Watan:

No doubt, this comb was a laser-controlled surgical robot that penetrates the skull [and passes] to the lower body and emasculates a man!!
I wanted to tell that man who fell victim to the electronic comb: 'You jackass, how can you put a comb from a man you don't know to your head, while even relatives avoid using the same comb?!' ... That man [i.e. the mysterious stranger], who, as it is claimed, is from West Africa, is an imperialist Zionist agent that was sent to prevent our people from procreating and multiplying.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th March 2006:
 
Unpimp my ride

go vw, go
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 13th March 2006:
 
"and the urine runs off the edge of the unsupported glass walkway to form a magnificent rainbow-starred yellow circle-curtain below you as you look down into the beautiful Grand Canyon."

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 14th March 2006:
 
check this out: SearchScapes
kinda halfway between a cyberspace flythrough and googlemaps.

essentially maps the density of Search queries to particular Manhattan addresses, represents them by height, as "buildings" constructted of the search query strings that make them up. It then lets you "fly" through the resultant model of the city.

click&drag on the plan and elevation views on Left to "fly". note you can adjust your height, and can even fly under the city.

Each person constructs his/her image of the city. This image is made out of facts, memories, experiences, stories, news - mostly invisible data, and not only of architecture, buildings and streets.
"SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN" is an attempt to create a tridimensional map of Manhattan, using existing data from the web.
The objective is to compare the city's "physical spaces" and "information spaces" (search results). This is an attempt to materialize information: to give it dimension and physicality.

"SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN" was developed as a thesis project at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 16th March 2006:
 
cats in sinks? dogs in scarves!


i didn't know so many dogs were serbian refugees
Posted by WarHead, 16th March 2006:
 
Perhaps not, but I knew that a lot of Serbian refugees were dogs.
Posted by WarHead, around 17th March 2006:
 
"and the urine runs off the edge of the unsupported glass walkway to form a magnificent rainbow-starred yellow circle-curtain below you as you look down into the beautiful Grand Canyon."


WTF are you blathering about?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 17th March 2006:
 
click through the link and read the news item
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 17th March 2006:
 
Great new movie trailer
Posted by Grim..., around 17th March 2006:
 
Why are you putting links into Febuary still?
Posted by WarHead, around 17th March 2006:
 
Because I'm living in the past.

click through the link and read the news item


I did, and could find no reference to urine.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 17th March 2006:
 
because we started the march thread in february. seems only fair.


wh: what's a renowned human reaction to extreme fear? what's a probable reaction of humans who have walked out on to an unsupported glass shelf hanging over the middle of the grand canyon? what's the water speed of a european swallow water-skiing for the first time?
Posted by WarHead, around 17th March 2006:
 
what's a renowned human reaction to extreme fear? what's a probable reaction of humans who have walked out on to an unsupported glass shelf hanging over the middle of the grand canyon?


They shit themselves.

That Jaws spoof was crap. I had a peek at the Babewatch one as well, and that was WORSE. Fucking amateurs.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 21st March 2006:
 
arstechnica.com/journals/ap...

Apple's "Mighty Mouse"'s optical sensor's lights throws a mouse shape if you lift it off the desk!

Posted by Grim..., around 21st March 2006:
 
Thank God they've got the iPod, eh?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 22nd March 2006:
 
it burns! it burns!



apple powerbooks' new "MagSafe" power connector burst into flame while this chap was out. tho, possibly catpee-related
Posted by WarHead, around 22nd March 2006:
 
Slow burning plastic often smells a bit like cat piss, iirc.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around March 2006:
 
highly cool media-centre pc intended for loungeroom use:



ceramic case, cd/dvd player, couch-friendly onscreen user interface, wall-mountable -- pretty cool
Posted by Grim..., around March 2006:
 
I'll just use a PC, cheers =]
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 26th March 2006:
 
Russian Grandpa Makes it as Porn Star at 75

that last line's a bit of a worry...
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 26th March 2006:
 
£60 second hand xbox + bit of jiggly pokery and I made a media center PC over the weekend. Currently streaming the News Quiz from the BBC. ROCK!
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 26th March 2006:
 
kewl. then you want to join this chap's campaign:
"DON'T MAKE ME GO BACK TO VINYL!!" (nsfw, needs sound)
Posted by Grim..., around 26th March 2006:
 
SQUIRRELLY WRATH!
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 26th March 2006:
 
Ace of Spades as performed by the Pish Dolls.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxf...

I like the crowd participation.
Posted by Grim..., around 26th March 2006:
 
Haha - awesome!
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 28th March 2006:
 
tired of cleaning your lady parts manually?
from the makers of Roomba, comes the new automatic Woomba
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 29th March 2006:
 
Mo-ooommmie, it followed us home, can we keep it?

cute! centipede catches, kills, and eats mouse

cuter! looks like a geiger painting!
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 30th March 2006:
 
Fractal Chandelier
This is a suspended light fixture "grown" from 31 nested twin-lamp socket adapters...
The chandelier is essentially a binary tree in 3-space. It is symmetrical, with each adapter, except the top one, being positioned at a 90-degree angle relative to the axis of its parent.




Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 31st March 2006:
 
this new board game is some crazy ass fun