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Sunday, July 31, 2005 - "Why'm I fatter than her? We both had Bulimia, but she forgot to tell me about the throwing up part."

> Humour

Humour, but also a serious problem. Also - OUCH. [Details]
The g*damn crazy frog. Neuter it then kill it. Ahhh. Much better. [Details] [Destroy]
Things always seem so obvious until a scientist starts explaining. Cynical scientist though - very funny when you read between the lines. [Details]
A 'what xxx are you' webtest of scary reality. [Details]
> Politics

Documentaries (background to current bombing situation, plus some slanted conclusions) still seem the best way to persuade. The net needs more of this sort of thing. Though I fear bloggers trying to be directors... [Destroy]
Whoops! US PR people have been lying all along and got caught in a left-hand right-hand lack-of-communication scenario. (Hey! I've been taking courses at work, does it show?) [Details]
Bah - one step forwards, two steps back. People are incredulous and stupid - one way or another. [Details]
> Stuff

Poetic justice? More likely late with the mob payments. [Details]
The loonie toy box (like a bin, but plushier) has a new arrival. [Destroy]
Have a story. The moral is simple and clear. The context all too plausible. Also, it's pretty good. [Details]
Inkscape. A vector graphics tool which allegedly crashes rather a lot. [Download]
Have a strangely cute wallpaper. From psychonauts, which is allegedly fun. [Display]
Nine inch nails music video. [Destroy]
Lots and lots (and LOTS) of audio for you. Mostly talking books, but also radio plays. For once slashdot does something useful! [Download]
Broken gears. (Tabletop) RPG. With airships. [Download]
> Comics

Disassemblance. Important information from whiny teenager. [Display] [Display]
Snap-o-mania. Signs of the times. (Pun from prehistory.) [Display]
The halflife and death of gordon frohman. Machima. [Display]
Count your sheep. Still warm, still funny. [Display] [Display]
Bruno the bandit. I've not linked this (or read it) in so so very long. Still following the same predictable punning path - but passive aggressive pirates are SUCH a funny concept. [Display]
C'est la vie. Mopey french girl. Self confessed "I want to be THIS centuries Cathy". She has a pet stuffed rabbit and some sensible views on life... [Display]
Radioactive panda. Finally with pandas. [Display]

Posted by Vitenka at 8:18 PM GMT [Link]

Sunday, July 17, 2005 - "Whoops! There goes another hyperbolic geometry"

Welcome to quite possibly my largest post ever. I've been collecting links for weeks, but not got around to linking them. So here they all are, in no semblence of order. Enjoy! It's all good stuff, honest.
> Quotes

It's not vapourware until it doesn't arrive.
I know thee not, ye young hoodies!
> Stuff

Lunatics! You're all lunatics! [Details]
> Techie

Block 81.222.131.59 We mean it. [Details]
Oh, to be a flag, and all the world my constant paramour!
Hello modo [Details]
Gmax - thingy editor for 3ds. [Details]
They ransomed the meatbot. [Details]
They said we could never build a space-station in neutral territory, and they were right. But we showed them, we built a second one - and that got blown up too. But we weren't gonna be put off, so we built a THIRD spacestation - and that blew up. So we built a fourth spacestration - an that one, ah that one - that one ghot attacked by aliens blown up and stolen through time. [Details]
Supreme bowling? Commercially? [Details]
Make your games suck less, plzkthx. [Details]
A whle bunch of little flash and java games. [Details]
Starwars in sixty seconds. [Details]
A video of a prophet summoning a UFO. [Details]
That knife dopeyness. [Details]
Deanimator is busy right now, please take de number and he'll animate right back. [Details]
A metaphorical bit of brain? Actually a cheescake or something? [Details]
Bhunnny. [Details]
Now that's just wrong. [Details]
Here, have a modified version of quake. [Details]
Upcoming Grandia (YAY!) may be mmo. (Booo!) [Details]
Bad-taste elimination virus. We'll be seeing more of these. [Details]
Hey! Fancy sending alllll your browsing data to a commons so that you can find sites liked by people who like sites ythat you like? Thought not. (Note - it DOES work for music, with iRate) [Details]
Boppin! Odd little game. Odd I say. [Details]
We crush you, puny patent lobby! Sadly, now they can try again AND each country can make them legal. Grrrr. [Details]
Have some propoganda. Some incoherent propoganda. In Korean. [Details]
Shinru / Veronica. A game. Of onlineness. [Details]
Annnd another free mmo trial thing. Remind me why anyone ever pays money for games? [Details]
Rubies of eventide - uinlike the above two links, some other people have actually HEARD of this one :) It's quite good. [Details]
Soldat. 2d shooter game. [Details]
Puzzle game. With blocks. Will someone please make a puzzle game without blocks? [Details]
A mess of Daleks. [Details]
Nero. Roman empire game, not burning rom. [Details]
Why the internet sorta works the way it sorta does. [Details]
Nvu! It's a wyswyg html editor nvu! Download it nvu! [Details]
A whole bunch of cyberpunk type novels. [Details]
And rants about technology from the same source. [Details]
Enigma. another puzzle game. Blocky. [Details]
Facade. Huuuuuuuge drama game - interactive movie that actually works? [Details]
Quotes from around the net about how we handled the bombing. (Before we started talking about yet more drastic reductions in civil liberties) [Details]
The final countdown - assume ftl and see where logic takes you. To a scary place. [Details]
VG Cats vote down a general - but I bet they dend up following his plans anyway. Eww! That headline was LAME! Luckily it's buried deep in this post. [Details]
Friends are just enemies you've not yet killed. [Details] [Details] [Details] [Details] [Details] [Details] [Details] [Details] [Details]
There is no money crisis, just a slight long term funding issue.
"I've had WAAAAAAY too much sugar tonight...it worked to get rid of my headache, but now I'm insane!"
You'll be hearing from my rules lawyer!
You've gotta get up pretty early in the afternoon, to get the jump on me.
> Gaming

Some kind of old-style mmorpg - but it's been slashdotted for almost a week now so I can say no more. [Download]
Ok, fine. Leroy. [Destroy]
Stargunner. Dunno what it is, except for old and free. [Download]
Shroooooooooms [Details]
Vexed - irritating little puzzle game [Destroy]
Resonata - gangsta playa wid da springs and tings mon! [Details]
> Politics

Patents. Again. Argh. [Details]
Web cartoonists face up to copyright. Hah. Eight bit theatre, bob and george? I'm looking at you. Seriously though - they deserve to do what they like, but you technically need a licence to send them fan art? [Details]
Iraq is tricksy? Never. [Details]
And slightly worrying, I didn't pass this. Or it would be worrying, if it wasn't yet another bullshit 'cram the text book' test. [Details]
> Stuff

Web designers - please to be being less crappy. (You can start by only using html2 and no client-sde scripting) [Details]
And while we're at it - EVERYONE make your stuff less crap, please. [Details]
I am only four [Details]
Blender. 3d modelling package of freeness. [Download]
Turning DVDs into something singularly less crappy. [Download]
> Comics

If you water your master-system, it'll grow up into a megadrive. (We'd feel guilty, but luckily it was really funny.) [Display]
The order of the stick - cheesy but good. [Display]
Surgical Doggy Bag
Engrish Second Ranglauge [Details]
Panties of the devil [Details]
Chess. By Blizzard. [Details]
Worlds best epitath. [Details]
Bikini suicide doll! [Details]
Unaris. I did know what this was - but who cares, you can download it and it's free. [Details]
Java. Good or suck? Good does not agree with type suck. [Details]
Simplify. [Details]
Not just engrish needs it [Details]
Have some classical roman campaign speeches. Because the internet CAN. [Details] [Details]
Some free science. Yay. [Details]
I'm sure you've all been reading the silly papers, but does anyone think that NASA could make a killing out of stupid people this way? [Details]
Annoying little evil game. Ratsnest the damn thing until it's planar. [Details]
Make video less suck. [Details]
Some stories. Children of the new forest. [Details]
Ownzored. [Details]
Lobsters. [Details]
Someone comes to town - someone leaves town. [Details]
Accelerando. [Details]
End stories. Grannies versus hoodies. I say again - the clothing isn't the problem. But it is obnoxious. Is this why grannies wear hats? [Details]
Sellafield. Nuclear power plant (in a 'nuclear free zone' whatever the heck THAT is) - birthday parties. Brain hurts now. [Details]
Patent bill shot down. Yay. [Details]
Starcluster. RPG. [Details]
GM hold music. Wonderous. Slightly geeky. [Details]
Area 51 tape - I've not seen this before, though I'm sure it's been doing the rounds forever. [Details]
Loony laws! Part... I've lost count. Better sue somoene for my memory loss. I think we need an explicit law: "You do NOT a divine right to make a profit by your existing practices and may NOT sue just because someone comes up with something better." [Details]
Retread. Flamewar. With ROFL-copters. [Details]
Are you a zebra?
> Quotes

Does the terrain favour the enemy? Change it. Smash a hole in the earth and push enemies in - you now have high ground. Enemy fortresses are there to be torn down. A river is a weapon waiting to be diverted onto foes. On flammable ground, burn it. --SunTsu
A swat team, hunting down scout girls, with cookies.
Anything france can do, we can do better - we can do anything better than france.
> Humour

Well. My brain now hurts. [Display]
Cambridge dictionary. Only the headline is funny, and even that is an in-joke. [Details]
High turnover in spam phone call centers? (On that mark never ever ever go to debenhams, fackin spammers) [Details]
If they really just don't get it... [Details]
Small ads. Most are probably faked - but you do see some odd ones there sometimes. [Details]
Ah, but did they determine its motive? [Details]
> Stuff

Power toys. For the mid life crisis. [Download]
Build your own (non functional) Nazi Nuke! (Plutonium not included) [Details]
Is anyone else fed up of not knowing where the heck they're actually going? [Display]
Some music. No idea whether it's any good. [Destroy]
Beep. Destroy. Kill. And Stuff. [Download]
> Serious

This could be very bad. Though it will probably only end up as bad as Rolyphenol. [Details]
Ah - but for every good show (and that is hugely debatable here, popular would be a better term) there are a thousand terirble ones that people nab an episode of and then say "Never again" - and that's a huge loss to the industry. But not to culture. [Details]
Not a particularly novel solution. Fairly workable too, though it'd put the cinemas out of business. [Details]
Electric cars... in Wales. Do they have electricity in Wales? Do they have cars? [Details]
> Gaming

A sim city clone. Because they CAN. [Download]
Yeah - another damned trashy RTS. Stop it people. Make good games again please. [Download]
Uhh.. wasn't this AGES ago? Now that Pixars contract is expiring, do we expect another sequel? [Destroy]
Sword and romance and Bronte. RPG. Tabletop RPG. The real kind. Not your fancy beeping thing. [Download]
Point and click adventure game that sinks ships with its mighty beak and devours sailors whole. Now free to roam the seas. [Download]
> Comics

Ah, crispy fried vampire. Clan of the cats. [Details]

Posted by Vitenka at 11:07 PM GMT [Link]

Sunday, July 10, 2005 - "The Colour is Out & About"

Thanks to the many friends, offline and on, who got in contact the day of the London bombings to check that I was okay - it was touching that myself and Londoners in general were in so many people's thoughts. My family, friends and I were unaffected, thankfully.
> Science/Tech

The Mars rover Opportunity ran into some problems a while back, getting stuck in a dust dune for over a month, but has now broken free - see some animations. [Details]
In fact, Opportunity and its sister rover Spirit have now been running for a year and a half now. Their initial mission brief was for three months. Not bad, eh?
More possible Earth-annihilation scenarios - this time it's a comet. Ho hum. [Details]
Curiousity created the dog. [Details]
Some overpaid waste of space at Hitachi's marketing department thought it would be a good use of time and resources to create this ghastly animation, supposedly explaining the concept behind the company's latest idea for increasing the storage density of hard drives. Someone needs to get fired. [Destroy]
> Geek

"Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV". A great article on how "hyperdistribution" will revolutionise the media - and how it's already happening. [Details]
This goon mods Xboxes. Pretty! [Details]
Sadly, the BBC are closing down their Cult website - despite 700,000 users last month and second place after News in a recent major BBC online survey. They'd already cut it back pretty heavily in the last year. [Details]
Geek social fallacies: actually, these apply to any social groups, not just geeks. Pretty true. I'm probably guilty of GSF4 and maybe a bit of GSF5, but I counter that by completely subverting GSF1. [Details]
New version of PeerGuardian (PG2 beta 6). You'll be wanting to grab that. [Download]
I'm getting a hell of a lot of hits referred from various bits of myspace.com in the last month or so - enough to make a noticable increase on my bandwidth usage, actually, which is probably going to push me over my threshhold and cost me another hosting account upgrade - but can't trace the links. Any ideas? Did you get here from MySpace? Let me know what the deal is (email address on the left).
Wikiquote is fun. Original title for this post, before this week's bombings: "Let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they'll beg us to save them." Obviously now inappropriate.
> Stuff

Mark Steyn's right, of course, yet again. About everything, actually, but specifically in his thoughts about the London bombings, Live8 and the whole lefty anti-capitalist, politically correct namby-pamby state of Western society today. A lot of his good articles are in the subscribers-only section of the Spectator website, but read what you can on his website and the links to his Telegraph articles. [Details]
Whatever you say about Live8, though, the music was fantastic. Pink Floyd were worth the wait, of course, but I actually think The Who stole the show with a flawless set just before.
Banksy is brilliant. [Display]
Oliver Stone is set to make the first major film about 911, starring Nicholas Cage. Is that really such a good idea, or will he distort and lefty it up as he's done in the past? [Details]
Google Maps is fun. Here, have hundreds of U.S. Air Force planes. [Display]
The Lawnchairs are an amateur band offering all their music for (free, legal) download on their website. Go listen! "An Asteroid At Any Time" is my favourite track. [Details]
Joel Veitch of rathergood.com is the lead singer of an exciting new band! See a couple of their (unique) music videos on the website. [Details]
Some wonderful people made Spongmonkey costumes! This is from last Halloween but I missed them then. [Display]
While I'm at it: Goon bands worth listening to: The Colour (hence post title) and The Miasmics (ska!).
...But not quite as good a ska band as 360, the University of Birmingham favourite band - official! [Details]
Finally, someone is trying to shut the Crazy Frog down. Maybe there is justice in this world... [Details]

Posted by Stormcaller at 5:39 PM GMT [Link]