Stormcaller.net: A weekly summary of the trouble the internet has been getting itself into

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - "A trap this good doesn't NEED treasure. It's its own bait!"

> Keetoms and Doggums

  • An old one, but an important review nonetheless [Details]
  • Hypno-Corgi! [Display]
  • No wait, the real hypno corgi is here! [Display]
  • Argh! Cute things! Die! [Display]
  • A repeat, for those who didn't cache it before it fell off the net. [Display]

> Serious

  • It's all fluffed up in the British bit, too. It always has been - but the media likes to lie to you. Does that count as an apology of sorts? [Details]
  • Be careful what you learn. [Details]
  • Science. That's that thing heretics who doubt you do, isn't it? [Details]
  • You cannot get an identity unless... you guessed it.. you can prove your identity. [Details]
  • About damn time. Let's apply this to all mail - whether it comes through your door or across your phone line. [Details]
  • Killing all the female babies is half of the solution. Come on world, go the extra mile. [Details]
  • Sit up straight! Shoulders back! Hold your wrists out so that I can hit them with this ruler! [Details]
  • Right, I'll link to laugh at SCO just once. Investors are pulling out and saying "We aren't pulling out because we don't believe that they are going to make any money, we just thought we'd rather put our money into companies that will make money." [Details]
  • Electronic voting - you destroyed voter confidence! Now I will defeat you with my kung fu! [Details]

> Humour

  • It's important to remember the good things in life. [Destroy]
  • Political campaigning finally strikes the voters where it counts. [Details]
  • Dull as ditch water. [Details]
  • Note to complainants - if you want businesses to act for society rather than in spite of it, you need to create a legislative framework which favours it. [Details]
  • Does anyone ever pay up for eBay auctions? I can't believe that they do, at those prices. So what is the level at which it is safe to bid, knowing that it is a joke now? [Details]

> Gaming

  • A new game, free, every week? More sites should be like that. I'd never have to hunt for news again. [Download]
  • Omega! [Destroy]
  • I had a good column ages ago about what cheesy tactics were and why they were (and weren't) problems. But I lost it in the great MORAT explosion. (and found an archive copy). So now you get this crap instead. [Details]
  • Watch where you shoot? Or just kill everyone. [Details]
  • Rules, settings... STUFF! [Destroy]
  • Fancy downloading a gig of client for a game of catasses and death? Thought not. Shadowbane, free trial. Whee. Look at me, so happy. [Download]

> Comics

> Stuff

  • Beep! Destroy! Kill! Stuff! Spyball! [Details]
  • Not a breed of dinosaur, but actually a terrain creation thingy. Make bad posters to sell to stoned students! [Download]
  • The pixies made me link it. [Destroy]
  • Apparantly these people inherited the code base from Tiny Personal Firewall. They added a bunch of crap (pop up blocker) to the pay version, but the free version is still free. [Download]
  • Did you know that "Normal girl is thrust into a magical world" can actually be good? With a believable magical world and realistic reactions from the heros? No? Neither did I. But then I saw it, and now I'm a believer, not a trace, of pastel sparklies anywhere. I ain't gonna sing no more no more, ain't gonna sing no more. [Details]
  • London, as non-Londoners rarely see it. Hint - London is a shit hole. [Display]
  • Pages and pages of strange links and stuff. [Details] [Details] [Details] [Details]
  • Flash, or javascript, or something similar, I assume. The link said 'Mars' but the URL says 'Snow' so I don't know. [Destroy]

Posted by Vitenka at 4:15 PM GMT [Link]

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - "What goes up must have some sort of nifty anti-gravity device attached."

> Science/Tech

  • Yet again, the Opportunity rover has made a fantastic discovery. It almost literally bumped into a unique rock, by chance, which provides the first solid evidence of rocks on Mars and Earth cross-seeding; that is, rocks from one ending up on the other, or both planets being hit by objects from another common source such as comets or meteors. [Details]
  • Liquid body armour, and not even any "Terminator II" jokes! [Details]
  • How much of your body do you actually need? Not much, really. [Details]
  • "The Core". What a silly movie. [Details]
> Geek

  • This seems to be the article of the moment. Fascinating and well-written, it's all about Google and the future on a large scale. If you have any interest in technology, read this. [Details]
  • ...Even Tim O'Reilly is referencing it, in his article debunking all the silly rumours and damnation going around regarding Google's Gmail service. [Details]
  • Sci-Fi.com hosted two Farscape chats this week, one with Ben Browder and Claudia Black and the other with Brian Henson, owner of the Jim Henson Company and director of the upcoming mini-series. To sum up the first chat:
    "( CHICKWITHGUN) It 's ok ben, it's only us in a room with four hundred other people, i feel i can say this stuff"
    "( Black†Tee) I knew we'd get her to sing" [Details] [Details]
  • This site has tons of high quality wallpapers from computer games, including some for dual screens. Unfortunately most of them aren't free, but you can download some freebies. [Display]
  • I like Komplett.co.uk, but they're uttery insane. [Details]
> Stuff

  • Cat wrote a review of Placebo's gig at the Brixton Academy, London. I saw them last time they played there about a year ago, and they were mindblowing. They finished, as they did this time, with The Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?", a fantastic track (which you might recognise from the end of "Fight Club") which is one of my all-time favourites. Excellent stuff. [Details]
  • Muse performing the awesome "Butterflies and Hurricanes" (evil mms:// link). Thanks, Rich. [Stream]
  • Another delightful game from Orsinal, a site I'm sure I've enjoyed in the past. [Details]
  • Tomsk made a cute robot movie. [Destroy]
  • This very proud father has taken photos of his kid with an impressive array of celebrities - Madonna, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, two NYC Mayors, Puff Daddy, Ringo Starr and many more. [Details]
  • The top 100 April Fools hoxes of all time - some truly brilliant ones in here. Incidentally, what's the correct way to write that - "Fools", "Fool's" or "Fools'"? Each is gramatically correct but changes the meaning. Comments? [Details]
  • Irony gets a new implement. [Details]
  • Rhino vs car - badly Photoshopped graphics rule once again. [Details]

Posted by Stormcaller at 2:53 PM GMT [Link]

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - "I refuse to commit piracy until I have a parrot"

> Serious

  • Slavery isn't even close to being crushed. [Details]
  • Kids have far too much leverage in the world, and far too little idea what that means. [Details]
  • Drunks don't always make the best decisions. [Details]
  • Right. Because we have found a new way to enjoy music, we are brain damaged? How nice. There is no possible way to reasonably manage a collection of five thousand tracks without some form of random ordering. I don't destroy 'musical integrity' - I wouldn't skip midway through a bit of mozart. My mp3 player has been on random play for about five years now. Live with it. [Details]
  • Wow. Fat rich white men don't want to pay tax? What a newsflash! The law and tax codes are too badly worded for the average genius to understand, let alone the inbred morons that pass as 'citizens'? Well, that might be an actual problem. [Details]
  • The content of your site is both the juxtaposition of links (meaningless, see 'random mp3' rant above) and the content around them explaining them. Explain your link text. Oh, and diarists can just die. [Details]
  • Did I recently call care-home abuse endemic? I was right. [Details]

> Stuff

  • Free wonderfully functional audio editor. Audacious! Now, who has the video equivalent? (win32 please.) [Download]
  • I love you, you love me, we all download em-pee-three... Maybe not. [Destroy]
  • Powerpoint is evil - but it's a magical kind of evil. [Display]
  • OpenOffice. Because I realised I didn't actually have it installed here. [Download]
  • I will edumacate you people to be literalistics, sooner or later. Through a scanner darkly. No significant relation to 'scanners' thank goodness. [Destroy]
  • Thinking in C++. For when you want to employ serious psychological tortures. (pdf/rtf) [Destroy]

> Gaming

  • A list of some games. Some of them are good. I link tsome of those. [Details] [Download]
  • I'd prefer a slightly more terse rulebook, but a good game nonetheless. (Check also the parent directory.) [Details]
  • Oh, this is fun. Whack a mole, with more raw stuff. By the people who did grow. [Destroy]
  • Some pdf for a setting that you probably don't care about. [Destroy]
  • This really annoys me, too - actually. DosBox cures most things, but not all. Still, catchup will continue to be played. Game developers - when your game is too old to sell at a profit - open it up. Let the community keep it alive. [Details]
  • Not an entirely unjustified rant, this one. It comes down to two things. Firstly, please server owners, accurately advertise your server. If you are running low gravity, instagib or penguin-only mode (or whatever) then say so. Map rotations should also be advertised (the server browsers need some improvement there) But also - sorry, if there's a small community of players then you won't usually be able to drop in and play any single mode unless other people happen to be playing it. [Details]
  • I think that the prices of games being lower may be due to everyone waiting for the inevitable price-drop anyway. I might pick up a new game at 15 or 20 quid. If it comes out at 60 quid, I'm more likely to wait until it drops to under a tenner. And by that time, I'm probably thinking about its competitors. [Details]
  • Hack'n'slash 2d thing. Sorta diabloish. Sorta massive. [Download]

> Humour

  • Christ! Can't these people even perform goodly curses? [Details]
  • As pointed out, if you promise me chocolate, I'll come up with any password you like! ch0k13s/UR5t00p1d [Details]
  • Everone thinks they're such sweet little things... soft downy feathers and nice little wings... Blimps! Blimps! (No?) [Details]
  • The most important event of WW2, re-enacted! Only this time, the Americans play the heroes. Not a film. [Details]
  • Ah little crash test dummies, what can you not do. The tragedy of life. [Destroy]
  • Girls learn stuff. But only girl stuff. [Details]

> Comics

  • There's a "24 strips in 24 hours" contest, on the 24th. (Which makes me quadruple booked.) Fancy trying for it?
  • Some people have started early. Classic line. [Display]
  • If I wasn't chaotic-neutral, I'd feel really bad about this. But fortunately, it's REALLY funny. [Display]
  • Well, this is distrubed [Display]
  • You remember groooove monkey? Well, this is his ripoff. [Display]
  • It's true! I want one of those. (In unrelated news, they're crossbreeding a young-lion sized housecat. A cat as big as a mastiff? Love!) [Display]

Posted by Vitenka at 10:22 AM GMT [Link]

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - "It was slow. Then there were zombies. Then times were good."

> Science/Tech

  • For all the publicity (good and bad), spin, claims of misleading, setbacks and problems NASA have had with the Mars Rover project, it's been a huge success - and will hopefully continue to be for far longer than anyone suspected. [Details]
  • A nice sharp image of the hole ground by the Opportunity Rover into a rock. Links on the page for bigger pictures. [Details]
  • There are no bunnies on Mars. [Details]
  • Take that, Moon! [Details]
  • Using neutrinos to carry data? Have we gone back in some kind of time warp to April Fools Day? Surely we can only just detect the damn things, never mind manipulate them. [Details]
> Geek

  • Some speculation on the future of Google, and hence the web and computers generally. [Details]
  • ...and some more, much-linked already. [Details]
  • An inside look at GMail. [Details]
  • Tweak Winamp to run smoothly and use less system resources. [Details]
  • Peter Jackson, prophet of the Geeks? [Details]
  • Anyone want a free 50p-off voucher for CD-WOW? I just bought "The Matrix: Revolutions" for £10.49 (Region 3, same features as R1/2 and longer running time). [Details]
  • Gah, spyware. Die! Mind you, I clear all the crap out of people's computers so often that I'm actually making money out of it these days. [Details]
  • Collectormania V is in Milton Keynes in a couple of weeks' time. A good guest lineup so far - Joe Pantoliano, Brad Dourif, the Doctor from "Voyager", Brian Blessed, Darth Maul, Chewbacca, Freddy Krueger... [Details]
> Stuff

  • Looks like Burger King is 'chicken out' viral marketing - and I must say, I'm impressed (ignore bad pun). Might I suggest typing in "monkey", or "toilet" for a funky (though irrelevant) dance? Sabrina suggests "basketball", "will you marry me?" or "do a headstand". [Details]
  • "Shaun of the Dead" was really good - heartily recommended. The title of this post is the entirety of Billy's review of it.
  • So much for charity. [Details]
  • They're making pretty fast Minis these days. [Details]
  • More "Family Guy". For those who like it and were pissed off that it was cancelled. Myself not included. [Details]
  • ...and maybe "Futurama", too? [Details]

Posted by Stormcaller at 4:38 PM GMT [Link]

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - "The internet echo chamber"

> WebQuotes

  • Very simple: kick the hooded kids off our street corners, lower taxes and halve the population of London. I'm going to be serious for a moment - we appear to no longer be free to wear hats in shops. Now, hats are stupid - yes, but is this truly a sane decision?
  • 'little did he know...'
  • We deal in information. We don't care what the information IS!
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul / Turtle soup for the tummy.
  • A man is quite, but not totally, unlike a fruit salad.
  • It seems there is a requirement that every villain has at least one wisecracking minion slash sidekick. I, it appears, am yours.
  • The pixels are pixelated. OH NO!
  • You're much fuzzier than you were previously.

> RPG

> Serious

  • I got threatened with physical violence on the way to work again today. At what point does it become legal to perform a drive-by firebombing? On a more serious note, what legal weaponry is easy to carry and effective against a gang of 8+ youths who may be armed (but probably are not) - I only need to break the groups ability to hurt me. If no such weapon exists, what are my safest options for acquiring an illegal weapon with such qualities.
  • Taiwan. [Details]
  • A good use for RFID? (Hint, the answer is 'no') I was actually thinking that they might mandate keys for guns. Like car keys. I can't see any way to make this reliable enough. [Details]
  • Laws are all screwed up. [Details]
  • Distracted by a little problem in a far away place? Hmmm.. there may be opportunity here. Anyone wanna fund me to invade a small bit of American province? [Details]
  • Wait, liberal minded people are supposed to want to vote conservative now? The labour party are the fascist ones? What's next, cats and dogs lying down together? [Details]
  • America, home of apartheid. [Details]
  • Why? Becuase they are new and different. Thus we fear them. Which doesn't change my opinion that they are evil and should all be destroyed. [Details]
  • Statistics. Try not to draw overly obvious conclusions. [Details]
  • Insight. What is it, really? I'm sure someone will come up with an answer soon. [Details]
  • National ID dumb. Non functional. Inneffective. Actively bad. no new info, more beating stupid people with sticks. Hmmm, I mean that in a descriptive not an imperitive way, but the imperitive sounds good too... [Details]
  • BT are illegal? We can only hope. [Details]

> Developers

> Humour

  • Viagra effective 'for 36 hours'. Umm.. I am not certain that would be a good thing. You see why schools warn you to avoid drugs? Except maybe for double bank-holidays. (Yes yes, I know that isn't actually true but it's the funniest headline I could come up with.) [Details]
  • Eeeever so slightly over the top, but in many places very funny. "If you make me leave Iraq then the French win." What better justification have you heard? What better could there be? [Details]
  • My cat likes to sit in boxes. [Details]
  • Isn't this the obvious place to advertise? I like the lame "We are clueless! We can't stop it!" protests. [Details]

> Stuff

  • Stormnews does fiction, part one. Net Assets. Free book. [Details]
  • Stormnews does fiction, part two. Doctor who fanfic. Run awayyyyyyyyyyyyy! [Details] [Details]
  • Germany decides that living in germany isn't sufficient punishment for its spammers. (Well, the URL says 'german spam jail'...) [Details]
  • Bink and smacker video compression. Wow. They got good - VERY good, whilst I wasn't looking. Has some trouble extracting compressd sound (so decompress htat seperately) and the 'mix a wav file in' function doesn't appear to work at all - but I compressed a divx in half with no perceptible loss of quality. Admittedly it was a high quality video in the first place, but wow. [Download]
  • Hmmm. Gubblement sanctioned 'this software is not scummy' labels. Would you trust 'em? Government 'no backdoors other than the ones we put there - source code audited by unemployable peon 462'? [Details]
  • Yet another note-taking thingy. [Details]

> Gaming

  • I think I'll go on a little startopia kick. Demo it. [Download]
  • Mod it. [Download]
  • Play with kittens in it. [Details]
  • The xbox emulator works! Well, it plays turok. So don't all get excited at once now... (And, um, did they release any actual unique games for xbox yet?) [Details]
  • You know, I don't think I ever actually linked red vs blue before. [Details]
  • About two years too late. HlRally. Fancy reinstalling windows to wipe out steam, reinstalling halflife, killing the autopatcher, tracking down the manual patches, installing those, running hl to setup your configs, then installing it? Thought not. Nice of them to actually finish it before hl2 comes out. Hint valve: They're done now, the bribe is no longer effective - release the damn thing already. [Details]

> Comic

Posted by Vitenka at 5:10 PM GMT [Link]

Saturday, April 10, 2004 - "Sucks to be you."

> Science/Tech

  • The Cassini probe on its way to Saturn has been snapping images. [Details]
  • Implanted jewellery - in your eye. [Details]
  • What's next for wireless technology? A lot, it would seem. [Details]
  • Ever wanted a bike with square wheels? [Details]
> Geek

  • If only this wasn't an April Fool. I'd never have to leave my desk. [Details]
  • ..actually, this would be better. [Details]
  • This was Google's real April Fool, by the way. Did I link this last week? Shrug. [Details]
  • It's about bloody time Sci-Fi officially announced the "Farscape" miniseries. It'll be called "Farscape: Peacekeeper War". [Details]
  • ...and Slashdot gets 'Scaped, too. [Details]
  • Slashdot linked an article on Microsoft's latest plans for Longhorn, the next version of Windows. [Details]
  • It's a mousemat, and it glows bright blue. I don't see a problem here. [Details]
> Stuff

  • Kamakazi has a new journal up. Except he doesn't actually use that nickname anywhere on it, deliberate misspelling or no. [Details]
  • Even as full-time Governor of California, Arnie still saves lives in his spare time. [Details]
  • VillainSupply.com got a much-needed update - for all your world domination needs. [Details]
  • Another great dithered music video from alien-zoo.com - "New York Girl In Baghdad". [Details]
  • Pandas are out, anyway - badgers seem to be the new 'in' thing. This has been around for a while, but we like Tomsk. [Destroy]
  • b3tans invent stuff. Craziness ensues. [Details]
  • Also from the b3ta newsletter this week, this video is... wow. Don't ever try this. [Download - 327KB]
  • Great quote from Thursday's Popbitch: "Political journalists who accompanied Tony Blair on his visit with Colonel Gadaffi said the Colonel farted repeatedly through the meeting." Just thought I'd share that.
  • Clever little rockets made out of paper matchsticks. [Details]
  • Mixing game - excellent flash intro. [Destroy]

Posted by Stormcaller at 3:02 PM GMT [Link]

Wednesday, April 7, 2004 - "Bubba Buddha, meet Baelzebubba! The ineffable reason. It's a sacrament, and thus imbued with deific mojo."

> Serious

  • There are few things as funny as a stoned three year old
  • Ok, this is quite hard to explain thoroughly. There is a bug in an obscure bit of code named 'mikmod', which is used by a lot of things to play .xm (modtracker) music files. You care about this because given a suitable webpage, winamp will boot up and play these files without asking you first. This ''could'' then be exploited to cause your PC to explode. The fixes are, in order of usefulness: Find in_mod.dll in Winamp's plugins directory and rename it to something other than .dll - but this disabled modfiles completely. Secondly, download a player other than Winamp. I hear Freeamp is pretty good - but be sure to kill off Winamp afterwards! Third, install the newset Winamp 5, then copy the input plugins across to your Winamp 2 and keep going. Or install and use Winamp 5 if you must. Or just, you know, don't panic or care much. [Details]
  • Hey - they didn't say no, right? [Details]
  • Compulsory ID, real soon now. Fake ID? You're wayyy too late. [Details] [Details] [Details]
  • Software should be small and designed for a local purpose. Or good. Good is good too. [Details]
  • Migration can be bad. Maybe we should ban it? That would stop the problem. (Quote funny only if you read bbc headlines) [Details]

> Comics

  • It got linked by Slashdot. But if it ever comes back up, half the net will have already seen it before you read about it here. Strange remixed humour. [Display]
  • Ah, the inner mind of kittens. [Display]
  • The little prince. He pees on the moon. [Display]

> Humour

  • So many quotes. I'll stick to "Wonderful tales from the grandmotherland" [Details]
  • The smiley. Where it came from, and when. Not particularly funny, but an important part of our history. [Details]
  • Go go Robo-blog! See, there's no social bias to this site - I link to insane ranters of all political persuasions! :) [Details]
  • Nice. I hope they add guard rails though. [Details]
  • Link appears squatted from here, I hope it's just my DNS. [Destroy]

> Gaming

  • Humm. Bastards cancelled my game. Bastards have taken the game away from the wonderful artists of cyan to the idiotic 'cancel everything and defile all that we touch' house of ubi. Bastards. But hey, look! Some unused art resources! [Display]
  • Shump shump shumpety shump. What a great word. [Download] [Download] [Download]
  • Damn Bioware. They move all the good games off the PC. [Details]
  • Games from history. Blatant advertising for their new one, but sod that. Isometricise me! [Download]
  • I thought the problem was getting people to do anything other than chase numbers. Heck, a Marisu can be handled. I'd prefer that over the robots that infest most games. [Details]

> Stuff

  • I've linked this before, I'll link it again. RealAlternative. Because Real is... SHITE. [Download]
  • Blegh. More poorly written fiction. Free though. Free is good. [Details]
  • Campaign resources. Handy stuff. [Details]

Posted by Vitenka at 4:50 PM GMT [Link]

Saturday, April 3, 2004 - "Effort with no specific end purpose."

> Science/Tech

  • Mach 7 - after many years of research, the Scramjet has arrived. [Details]
  • Lots of missions going out at the moment from the world's major space agencies. [Details]
  • The Mars terraforming debate and all that. [Details]
  • The "Flying Car"... *wavey hand movement* [Details]
  • Nose picking, declared socially unacceptable, is apparently actually good for you. Ah, the social and religious parallels we could draw... [Details]
> Geek

  • So was Google Mail an April Fool? Nobody's quite sure. Evidence points to... no? That'd be nice. [Details]
  • The U.S. Congress takes one more step away from the people and towards the corporations, with another bill aimed at locking up peer-to-peer users. [Details]
  • Courtney Love explains in detail how to music distribution system works, with the record companies making all the profit and the band none of it. She is a nutter, but this is a fantastic article that makes some great points. This is from back in June 2000 but is still just as valid. [Details]
  • Meanwhile, a big new study concludes that downloading has little or no effect on music sales. [Details]
  • Incredible - linked off one of Vitenka's links on Wednesday, this insane [redundant word?] Japanese chap has created PacMan and Space Invaders for Excel! [Download]
  • Rockstar's new cowboy shoot-'em-up looks like it could be good. [Details]
  • To ditch the white earphones, or to lose the whole iPod? [Details]
  • Bill Gates on... stuff. [Details]
> Stuff

  • Well, we managed to avoid April Fool's (mostly). Even got a £5 voucher out of it at I Want One Of Those (promotional code POLOFRAIL; runs out 7th April). All been a bit odd and confusing this year. [Details]
  • Great rock tune and lyrics at the Alien Zoo. [Destroy]
  • Unfamiliar with the word 'townie' or its meaning? Bane of this world. Pretty comprehensive definition here. [Details]
  • How many petals are there around the rose? Took me a couple of minutes to work this out; as far as I know, Matteh, who passed this on, is still scratching his head. [Destroy]
  • Ever wondered what's in a Magic 8-Ball? Me neither, but now I want to know! All is explained here. [Details]
  • Novel decoration ideas - post-it notes. [Details]
  • I dislike 'cute'. Still... [Display]
  • Avatar creator thing. Thought the "South Park" one killed off all the others. [Destroy]
  • And finally: Please take everything on my website in this spirit. [Download - 259KB]

Posted by Stormcaller at 7:24 PM GMT [Link]

Thursday, April 1, 2004 - "The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data' - it is 'unquestionable wisdom of the ages'"

> New devils dictionary. Download (verb) : Steal.

  • Why is there a headache where my expanded conciousness should be?
  • Where trousers are concerned, posession is ten tenths of the law.
  • Your well thought out argument has made me rethink my position.
  • Add this to your "101 things to do before I die" list: See a hawk from your own back garden.
  • Entrance must not be used to gain access

> Humour

  • Place the carrot on top of the box - this is used to lure a rabbit into sitting on top of your computer. [Details]
  • How to safely invade Iraq [Details]
  • After you've done laughing, read the comment. "Although the threat of nuclear war seems less prominent now than in the 1960s the danger is still very real, and our defence against attack is still near to useless." [Details]
  • Who does security squabbles? [Details]
  • Now, see, there's a reason why I can't take humanity seriously. [Details]
  • All right. I'll allow myself one April fools joke. [Destroy]

> Serious

  • What's that saying? A fool and their money are soon parted. Especially by a fad. [Details]
  • A horrible indibtment of humanity, or a wonderous fact that they've not been used? [Details]
  • "Mudering menfolk since time immemorial." Classic line. May I suggest it as a company motto? [Details]
  • Not the best thing they could have done with it, but it's a start. [Details]
  • How to fix that annoying blue screen of death. No, not the trick to change its colour - a real fix. [Details]
  • Spreadsheets considered harmful? [Details]

> Gaming

  • Which graphics card is best? Let the flames commence! Personally I thought the FX range was entirely shite and 'do not touch with a bargepole - stick with the Ti' fodder. But maybe I was misinformed, since the Ti range is now cancelled. [Details]
  • What's unreal three like? Pretty. [Details]
  • Halflife2. No new info. [Details]
  • Lineage 2. If you can get past the login server, apparantly quite a good game. (See also the comic link) But some people really hate it. And Iceman loves it, which is a bad sign. [Download] [Details]
  • Geneforge two. For those who played gene1. And those who didn't. [Download]
  • You know, in a different setting, done well, I'd probably play the interactive fiction one. [Details]
  • You are in a dusty archive. You are likely to be eaten by an old infocom game. [Download] [Destroy] [Destroy]
  • Oasis. Good miniature game. Double opt in email required. Set spamgourmet to 2. [Download]
  • Do sheep dream of invading small countries? [Download] [Download]
  • Flash games. Ebil. [Destroy] [Destroy]
  • Racing game. Yawn. [Download]
  • Did you dig DigDug Doug? [Download]
  • Bug shump. [Download]
  • Ancient. If you've never played these, then you won't want to. But if you have, "Software brought to you by bewilderbeast" will bring back memories. If not, read the history. The world of the llama [Details] [Download]
  • Annd more crappy games. [Download]

> Stuff

  • Free book. Do you care about the message? The message is "It is good to read free books" And publishing them in pdf is apparantly good too. [Destroy]
  • If they aren't morons, and they know the risk of virus, then where does the problem lie? ... I think I'll go with the "They are morons" explanation. Though I like the ambiguity of "severe personal consequences" - who wants to write the first kneecap virus? [Details]

> Comics

  • Meme wars! Brazil has decided you're cute Miracle of Science. [Display]
  • As you know, there are four elements to every spell: Activation, Containment, Copyright Protection and High Fructose Corn Syrup. Damn graphicsmash for making unlinkable comics. It's hilarious, and you can't see it. Still, they have a few good ones every day. [Display]
  • Lineage 2. Some poeople like it. /Gu Comics [Display]
  • Is there a comic that isn't shamelessly emulating Calvin and Hobbes? Would we read it, if there was? Count your sheep. [Display]
  • Quatermain based upon Quatermass? Q from Bond, Prisoner jokes... oh yes, this could be fun. Doctor devious. [Display]
  • Have you seen full metal alchemist? If not, this joke may not be quite as funny. Okashini Okashi. [Display]
  • Not sure about the plot, but the humour and art are good. TimeScapes. (Reads more) Oh I like this. [Display]
  • The hard underbelly. Buffy was never this funny. [Display]

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