two words:
AWE
SOME
opening moments are quite slow/average -- wait till the music kicks in properly.
Posted by
Grim..., around 24th February 2006:
Holy mother of fucking God he's good!
you've probably had this posted on here before but this guy is also very
AWESOME indeed.
grim- yeah bloody awesome or what.
hollywood- hadn't seen him before - ta, he's excellent
Posted by
Grim..., around 24th February 2006:
He was on tour with Sir. Jackson of Anas, I think (the juggler, not the kid)(well, actually...).
Posted by
Grim..., around 24th February 2006:
Karaoke for the deaf
two words: SU PERB.
i wonder what a perb is?
Posted by
WarHead, around 24th February 2006:
Sue's surname, of course.
that's a little disperbing
Posted by
Grim..., around 28th February 2006:
www.jaypinkerton.com/blog/a...
SPIDER MAN REMIXED!!!
"and that bear was MY FATHER!!!"
"FAPPO!"
Posted by
Grim..., around 1st March 2006:
"I'm going to punch you IN THE FACE!"
I sang "A Midnight Train to Georgia" in a pub last night with the band that they had playing there. Everybody had their mouths hanging open. Watch out Gladys Knight here I come.
Google's P-Rank explained
PigeonRank's success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. The common gray pigeon can easily distinguish among items displaying only the minutest differences, an ability that enables it to select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages.
By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.
...
Google's pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult.
the parTICularly amusing thing is this's precise fit with research: pigeons have habitually come up as far far better than humans at detecting visual patterns and differences from patterns for about a decade now. they have almost the same precision at picking out manufacturing defects on randomly tumbled parts as wildly expensive arrays of lasers+computers.
nice one, googleoids
i assume this was influenced by THIS classic:
RFC1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
replicated variously, see e.g. www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1...
Interview with the proposer re its first live test:
linux.omnipotent.net/articl...
And the OFFICIAL SITE: www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149
Snippet:
"1 April 1990
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Status of this Memo
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of
IP datagrams in avian carriers. This specification is primarily
useful in Metropolitan Area Networks. This is an experimental, not
recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Overview and Rational
Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low
altitude service. The connection topology is limited to a single
point-to-point path for each carrier, used with standard carriers,
but many carriers can be used without significant interference with
each other, outside of early spring. This is because of the 3D ether
space available to the carriers, in contrast to the 1D ether used by
IEEE802.3. The carriers have an intrinsic collision avoidance
system, which increases availability. Unlike some network
technologies, such as packet radio, communication is not limited to
line-of-sight distance. Connection oriented service is available in
some cities, usually based upon a central hub topology."
Posted by
Brock, around 6th March 2006:
Mitsubishi? What was the Mitsubishi link? Itr was a Danish Bacon rip off/tribute to a Renault ad...
Or did I miss something?
renault was it? sorry, i mentally bleep over most ads -- thought the transformer thing was mitsubishi for some reason
maybe i should relabel the link something like "Renault Eggs"?
or maybe
"THESE eggs aren't Renault"
"Carfé food"
"Break
fastdancing"
hmm. suggestions?
Posted by
ellipse, around 6th March 2006:
you favorite film loses out to a lame one at the oscars?
only one thing to do
losangeles.craigslist.org/m...
so very NSFW
they've deleted it. does anyone have a snapshot of the text?
Posted by
Grim..., around 10th March 2006:
Great advert!
Bitch-slappin' lesbians!
www.engrish.com
I'm sure you all know about this...
Re: advert
Excellent!
In related news:
French Connection Replaces Lesbian Kiss in TV Ad with Beheading
“We want our ads to be edgy, but it was never our intention to offend the British public,” explains French Connection spokersperson Janine Smitherson after the company receives 127 complaints over its new ad. “We believe the beheading will be more suitable to audiences of all ages.”
Posted by
WarHead, 13th March 2006:
Here we are; the answer to all our woes. It was all so simple, after all.
What I don't know is how they're going to get
all the residents of Manchester into the International Convention Centre. Another thing that worries me is that with Tyrone Dobbs, Jack Duckworth and Maria Sutherland kicking things off I'm not sure my intellect will be able to follow the cut and thrust of the debate.
geurrr. that's pathetic.
altho i have long argued that there is no such thing as human rights, only human responsibilities arising from living in societies. and so "bills of rights" tend only to encourage near-victimhood, whereas it makes sense to introduce a country-wide "bill of responsibilities". it just doesn't sound as self-righteous or sexy.
cheer yourself up. get a few spine-shiverig moments watching these
Hubble Space Telescope images
Posted by
WarHead, around 13th March 2006:
That's just stoopid. It looks like she caught the back of her head on the ring as she went through it. She could have broken her neck.
Posted by
WarHead, around 13th March 2006:
Re: Hubble images. Yep, they're incredible. Another good site to look at is
NASA's pic of the day .
Posted by
Grim..., around 13th March 2006:
She did hit her head, and (as I believe has been mentioned on IAmCal before) the guys were too busy congratulating themselves (because their job was really hard, obviously) to pay her any attention.
It was a pretty stupid stunt. If she had caught the ring harder (or worse still, got posted on it) she would have been in serious trouble.
Posted by
Brock, around 13th March 2006:
she had caught the ring harder
Ooooh, that'd sting.
Posted by
Grim..., around 13th March 2006:
Whoops.
Posted by
WarHead, around 14th March 2006:
What the hell happened there? I mean, apart from some guy falling off his chair?
Posted by
Brock, around 14th March 2006:
He was filming up her skirt.
Hello Brock, there you are! How are you doing?
*Sigh*
The good things never happen to me.
Posted by
WarHead, 14th March 2006:
From overheardinnewyork.com
Blind man: Excuse me ma'am, coming through...Excuse me, miss.
Woman: Damn! Watch yourself with that fucking walking stick! Shit! And how the fuck did you know I was a woman? Can that shit tell you genders too? Ha, ha!
Blind man: Not quite, but you smell like stale fish so I figured you were a woman. Have a nice day!
That doesnt sound made up at all.
i bet his name's not even 'warhead'
Posted by
WarHead, 14th March 2006:
I bet a lot of what's in overheardinnewyork.com is made up.
THIS site is not made up, all one girl overhearing/entering them:
inpassing.org/archive/2000
AND it precedes OHINY.com by about 3.5 years... plagiarizr
King Kong won best movie at the Empire awards so Peter Jackson played them a blooper reel. Quite the amusing.
www.empireonline.com/awards...
Posted by
Grim..., 15th March 2006:
He seems to be taking the piss a bit in his little speech - he basically says 'I'd rather have an oscar' - ungrateful git.
Notice how no-one is laughing at Jack Black's outtakes =[
I didnt notice actually :/
Posted by
ellipse, 16th March 2006:
is it web 2.0 or is it star wars?
www.cerado.com/web20quiz.htm
i scored 29
Since its an Open Thread, I thought I would throw out a quick Blurb about my new Blog...
goofyblog.net
Its kind of like "The Onion" but with real News. The best Goofy, Weird, and Odd news our planet has to offer, updated throughout the day.
Thanks!
- Poot
hahaha I scored 29 too and Im not a big star wars fan and I have no clue what web2.0 is :)
Posted by
WarHead, 16th March 2006:
You mustn't let Cal here you say that: he'll ban you.
Posted by
Grim..., 16th March 2006:
No no no, that's "Ebuyer" =]
Posted by
Grim..., 16th March 2006:
36 for me =]
Posted by
WarHead, 16th March 2006:
This chap seems to be taking things a little too seriously.
su- i scored 0
i opened the page and looked at the first 3 names and then thought about the fact that someone went to all the effort to type in all those names and set up a webform and a little server database and a server app and, and i cried for humanity.
i'm not very well today. white rioja bad.
Posted by
Grim..., 16th March 2006:
I think he's just talking normally for a German, isn't he?
Posted by
Grim..., 16th March 2006:
When the game is working, he is so happy... And when it crashes again... AhahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
wh: what are you talking about? seems fairly normal to me. a fairly rational approach to take to MOST computers, actually: i thought for half the clip it was a video of cal coding flickr during his blond phase.
although normally it's GIRLS i hear screaming "stronger! faster!" while beating their hands on the desk.
game? i thought he was looking up train timetables.
Haha excellent. Someone please translate
Posted by
Grim..., 16th March 2006:
"Haha formidable."
Posted by
Pauly, 16th March 2006:
(
excellente, actually)
He yells all kinds of stuff. "I want to play!", "I want to kill you!", "nooooooo".
It looks like an FPS, because he's using the WASD keys (when everything seems okay).
Alternatively, his trying to figure out why a web site he made doesn't render correctly in IE. You can tell by the ClipArt box in the background.
This chap is also taking things too seriously
Posted by
Grim..., around 17th March 2006:
Or don't - it's pretty widely believed that that was set up to collect active email addresses.
Posted by
ellipse, around 19th March 2006:
snakes on a plane - The trailer!
www.tagworld.com/snakesonap...
Posted by
Grim..., around 20th March 2006:
Dahahahaha - geek-tastic:
www.heavyflash.com/poetry/S...
further geektastic: he goes to all the trouble even BEHIND the scenes to make nice with the web-names, and he can't spell "literal"
summer.lovelyness <span class="operator">=</span> <span class="litteral">9</span>;<br />
Posted by
ellipse, around 20th March 2006:
make your own cells
www.childrenshospital.org/r...
too cool! a "pocket planetarium" -- you point it at a star and it tells you which one it is. or you choose a star, and it puts little arrows on the viewfinder telling you how to move it to find the star.
The SkyScout
Posted by
Grim..., around 21st March 2006:
What's with the blank post, Salt (2 above this)?
hmph. stupid anti-leeching bastards blocked it. stupid internet. stupid stupids. i've replicated it to flickr now
Posted by
WarHead, around 22nd March 2006:
Look what I found stuck in the hinge of the mail gateway. It must have been there for eons.
heh. spamaeolithic artefacts are the rocksor.
Posted by
WarHead, around March 2006:
Ohhhhh, shit!
*tsk*
that sign's wrong
says 'car'
gotta love a song with the line "sex tourists beware!"
www.inculto.net (choose the flash or quicktime View links)
Hello!
I started my little Blog a few weeks ago that is a daily snapshot of the odd and goofy stories that seem to happen every day around the globe...
www.goofyblog.net
Anyways thought I would share in case anyone is interested. I'm trying my best to get the word out (Which is actually quite difficult I'm discovering).
Thanks!
Posted by
Grim..., around March 2006:
No, thank you!
Posted by
WarHead, around March 2006:
Some eejit's been eating near one of the the printers again.
Posted by
WarHead, around March 2006:
Well, punk ...... are you ...
Posted by
Grim..., around March 2006:
Hahahahaha!
i loathe all politicians with an equal loathosity, and this is a nice pisstake on the supposedly righteous wing of the yanks:
movies.crooksandliars.com/T...
apparently this chap made the mistake of believing politics had anything to do with the stated objectives
Posted by
WarHead, around 29th March 2006:
Bloody hell. Pensioners in Scotland will have to carry one of these
Smartcards to get free travel. I can't see that working meself. A windy day and they'd be all over the place
the photo looks nothing like her
Consult the Contrivium!
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Saltation!
1. Saltation is actually a vegetable, not a fruit.
2. Birds do not sleep in Saltation, though they may rest in him from time to time!
3. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but Saltation can not!
4. Pacman was originally called Saltationman.
5. The eye of an ostrich is bigger than Saltation.
6. There are more than two hundred different kinds of Saltation.
7. By tradition, a girl standing under Saltation cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege!
8. All shrimp are born as Saltation, but gradually mature into females.
9. Saltation can clean his ears with his tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long.
10. Only one child in twenty will be born on the day predicted by Saltation!
that's actually frighteningly accurate
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Doc Lucid!
1. Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day, two hours more than Doc Lucid.
2. Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Doc Lucid.
3. You share your birthday with Doc Lucid.
4. Doc Lucid is actually a mammal, not a fish.
5. A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for Doc Lucid, and wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life.
6. The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed Doc Lucid would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used her to decorate their battle shields.
7. It's bad luck to whistle near Doc Lucid.
8. The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by Doc Lucid!
9. Doc Lucid is the world's tallest woman.
10. Doc Lucid was first discovered by Alexander the Great in India, and introduced to Europe on his return.
Posted by
Brock, around 31st March 2006:
Just removing (momentarily) the 'fun' from the title:
Nasty
air crash in the Ukraine. It seems that they haven't adopted the technique/requirement of NOT performing over crowds that Europe and the US did 15 years or so ago.
News report footage (scary but awesome)
here
"The Su-27 fighter is comparable to the United States F-15 Eagle,but has a superior performance in many aspects."
Meaning it can kill more people in one go?
jesus. sphincter slammed shut in the first half-second when you see the engines open up and the thrust is inadequate. hideous fuckup. the remainder was slowmotion inevitability.
was your sphincter open just prior to that clip then ;)
play my game
I didn't build the flash stuff but i designed/illustrated the whole thing..
Posted by
Brock, around 31st March 2006:
Paypal? What the fuck, frankie?
You got a real job?
Posted by
Grim..., around 31st March 2006:
Air show: On the very first angle, you see a guy just in front of the camera running away - WTF - he was easily 300m clear! Wuss!
i can see it would make sense to duck behind something heavy to avoid being hit by fuel/shrapnel (the plane's only about 50m away from him when he's running), but the idiot had his hands held over his head like a little protective shield. now THAT's just ridiculous.
scene from wartime:
"how goes the bombing, captain? vast casualties i assume."
"no, sir, NONE!"
"WHAT?"
"it seems, sir, that all the enemy soldiers had their hands over their heads when the bombs landed on them so they all survived unharmed."
"DAMN THEIR EVIL CUNNING TACTICS!!! break out the bayonets, this new-fangled stuff is as useless as i warned the ministry it would be."
i've had a real job for a while now... well if you can call messing around on the internet all day and drinking beer a job..
Posted by
Grim..., around 31st March 2006:
I do =]
any part-time work going?
come to the tea building and i'll throw some beer* on you from the window.. how does that sound?
*
beer may still be in bottle, bottle may smash, we accept no liability for loss of dignity, eyesight, tendons or life
tea building as in halfway up shoreditch high street? beer as in beer? give me 5 minutes...
just yell when you're outside...
i got bored and beerless so i am now got back
Salty, don't you want to come to South Africa? We need your skills *here* and I promise not to harass you. (Well, no more than usual)
you sound like you had something to drink...
next time i suggest the tea bar, but dont go on a sunday unless you like gay bingo
How did I miss this wonderful offer of free beer? I'm back at work but everyone who likes to drink at lunch time has fucked off. Drinking free beer that's been dropped out of an office window for free doesn't seem so sad, somehow.
Gay Bingo? Is that a sex game?
dang, i have 10 minutes to rush back up to teh tea bar, before the 5pm buzzer goes off and frankie rushes off to hollywood.
or i could just sit here
i thought gay bingo was where everyone lubed themselves up in a crowd, lay over a table, and shouted "HOUSE!!"
It's got to be some sort of sex game. If its not then my stereotypes will be truly shattered. I mean, gay bingo? Bingo, as I understand it, is played by 80 year old ladies and, from what I'm lead to believe through Mecca ads, 20 year old northern slags. Metropolitan bummers have never ventured into my thoughts as avid bingo fans. Don't they have curtains to hang and TV property shows to present?
Perhaps I'm too sheltered but it just seems a strikingly strange thing to make a gay event.
hey, gay people need bingo too.
dammit.
