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Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - "Thank you for logging in"

> Humour

  • One way to get around a traffic jam [Display]
  • Must be nice sleeping through a car journey. [Details]
  • Kittygate. [Details]
  • Oh noes! Blogs per second is being used as a measure of technological progress! Quicks! Fire up the internets and spew bad pottery as quickly as you cans! And, um, give something awful their columnist back. [Details]
  • Several things you shouldn't do in an RPG either. [Details]
  • Bad film. Bad subtitles. Ha ha ha ha haa. Layer zero three... presbytarian. [Details]
  • We've had it before - we'll have it again. Skippy's list. [Details]
  • Some madness. [Destroy]
  • Engrish - your holy mission, should you choose to accept it, is to: [Details]
  • Ah, great literature. [Details]
  • Cute things. [Destroy]
  • This kind of propoganda is just sad. [Details]
  • No monkeys here. [Details]
  • Ohkay. Riiight. Teapots. [Details] [Details]
  • Kitties. Antigravity kitties. [Display]
  • There is nothing good to say about this. I mean, for proof mankind evolved from monkeys, just look at the man. Actually, maybe not the evolved part. [Details]

> Politics

  • You have the right to remain silent, but not to speak. [Details]
  • You do have the right to summary execution [Details]
  • Even if you didn't run, weren;t wearing a bulky jacket and didn't vault a turnstile. [Details]
  • Stupid Asda. Die. [Details]
  • Interestingly sensible approach to trying to quell terrorism, and an on-target rant. [Details]
  • Nazis support banning immigrants? Never! Next you'll be telling me that they are racists. (Incidentally, interesting fund raising tactic there. "Pay us or we'll turn up and support you.") [Details]
  • This kind of propoganda is what is needed. [Details]
  • And in the meantime Muslims campaign to have sermons in English. Why should the staff wielding ninja relgion get off lightly? [Details]
  • Interesting, touching - and incidentally a wonderfully funny quote. [Details]
  • Oh gods. Why are these people not given proper training on how to be a human being? [Details]
  • Wow! Our new (and our shadow) home secretary is actually MORE of a fascist than Blunkett! Who'da thought it? Bad politician. No biscuit. [Details] [Details]
  • Oh google? Reality called collect [Details]
  • Dammit - we need that green belt ot make the country not stinky - and we need more homes too. Might I suggest razing London to the ground? [Details]

> Gaming

  • Hexagems. Truly evil puzzles. [Download]
  • 'Goofy flash' allegedly. [Destroy]
  • And this kind of propoganda went 'whee whee whee' all the way home? (Actually a fairy chess) [Details]
  • Here, have some shumps. (Click the box-shots on the left to download, if it's non-obvious.) [Download]
  • And have a big fat list of good indy games. [Download]
  • Cardmaster conflict is still around and pumping out new expansions. Fun, less crashy now. [Destroy]
  • A task is boring? Make it a game. Mary Poppins comes to the aid of computer-vision researchers. [Details]
  • Some of this is coming true. The rest? Not so much. Also if jobs can be done by robots then you won't need people jacking in to do them. [Details]

> Tech

  • Where idd all the 'good' tech go? [Details]
  • Make your code less crap. PLEASE make your code less crap. I have to debug it later. [Details]
  • IE7's gonna be crappy again... [Details]

> Stuff

  • The doom soundtrack, remixed. Pretty nice. If you find yourself speedrunning levels in your head as you listen, then my best time for e1m1 is 18 seconds. [Download]
  • You may want the flac player for winamp, whilst you're at it. [Download]
  • Samzabaka does a new one. Fun and good. Look for the fish (twice) and the duck (short). (And have the old one too) [Destroy] [Destroy]
  • Let's try to make things sane on the net? [Details]
  • Some background music. [Download] [Download]
  • Maths solver. For those who can't afford a local copy of Mathematica. (ie. everyone) [Details]
  • Player for bink movies - strangely named files that come with games are often in this format, so if you want the shiny reward but not the bad game this is handy. [Download]
  • As the contributor said: A thoroughly British martial art. [Details]
  • Bits of programs, for helping. [Details]

> Comics

  • Ubersoft. It's funny and sad because it's true. The burning fox thinks it's sooo clever stealing the fat ladies ideas. [Display]
  • Zeera the space pirate. See 'Mary poppins' and 'mmorpg life' posts for details... [Display]
  • No rest for the wicked. The romp through grimm continues. [Display]
  • Commissioned. Almost as good as Bigby's spiked tentacles... [Display]

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