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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Weapons grade cupcakes!"

> Politics

  • Um - they wouldn't actually be armed, you know. Still - coolness. [Details]
  • Teach both sides of an argument? Sure, as long as you teach that one side is objectively wrong. [Details]
  • America actually needs our help - but not in the way they think. [Details]
  • Your rules truly suck. [Details]
  • But they do need help. [Details] [Details]
  • But at least they didn't shoot him, right? [Details]

> Humour

  • Where oh where has my leopard gone, oh where oh where can it be? A cross between devil and saint, far too perplexing for me. [Destroy]
  • Katrina again - weather control experiments. [Details]
  • The worst halloween costumes ever. [Display]
  • Ah, the fun of messing with peoples heads. Especially people who don't equate VoIP to computers. [Details]
  • And with those who do equate chatting to computers. [Details]
  • Touch their lives with your noodly appendage. [Destroy]
  • Comes with a free moroccan mole! [Details]
  • Petrol gone through the roof again? Shouldn't stockpile so much of it, then, should you? [Details]
  • You'll have to imagine the lyrics yourself. [Details]

> Stuff

  • Opera is free! Free! Free like a puppy! If you are still using IE then you are too stupid to continue reading this website. Leave now before I destroy your machine. If you are still using firefox, then you need to give this a try. [Details]
  • Hey look! We can, if we try, make a GUI that is both slow and painful! [Destroy]
  • Technology video shows. Like TV, but nerdy. [Destroy]
  • You want this stuff. You can't have it unless you break your back though. (Both ways.) [Details]
  • WW2 from a different perspective. [Details]
  • Write bad code badly, and maybe you'll notice that you're doing it - and stop. Oh, and don't use exceptions. [Details]
  • The missing papers of Nikoli Tesla [Details]
  • Maps. Many mad maps of unreal places. [Display]
  • Being online makes better people. [Details]
  • A sniffer for win32. [Download]
  • Cascading style sheets. Learn them. Especially learn how to degrade when they are turned off. [Details]
  • Classic books. Today, antigone. Which is 'oh knee' not 'stay'. [Details]
  • Cygwin. Why don't you ever work right? [Details]
  • BUNNIES! [Details]
  • 2d animator thing. (Does ANYONE have a decent replacement for flash designer that is free?) [Download]

> Gaming

  • Bunch of quicky games [Destroy]
  • Make things go explodey! I got 123. [Destroy]
  • Yes little buddy, you may rejoice now. I'll get the fire extinguisher. [Details]
  • Another thing to grow. [Destroy]

> Comics

Posted by Vitenka at 9:20 PM GMT [Link]

Sunday, September 11, 2005 - "Space Rangers is actually quite a good game"

> Serious

  • The neutron bomb - humane? [Details]
  • The man who came in from the cuckoos nest. [Details]
  • Best guess? Someone bumped the case, they knocked together and went home. [Details]
  • You could just let them eliminate each other, you know. (And has anyone explained WHY urban youth naturally divides into two large camps and not three or four?) [Details]
  • . . . Um. If true, and extensible, this is indeed the biggest medical discovery since 'if all the blood comes out then the patient will die' [Details]
  • It's practically free and (since it's just water) at worst harmless. The placebo effect is real - why NOT continue funding it on the NHS? [Details]
  • Slightly obvious - yet silly [Details]
  • Weren't WW2 movies praising heroism made with this plot? [Details]
  • You too can pass an A-Level exam in two weeks, if you're six years older than you should be, have been working in the field for four years - and you're not a complete dumbass. [Details]
  • Trailer parks. NO. [Details]
  • Combat in Iraq. Biased, as everything has bias, but a scary read. [Details]

> Humour

  • Leave it to Bush... it's odd. Obscene and hate filled, obviosuly - but also odd. [Destroy]
  • Hi Walmart. Meet kettle. It's black hearted too! [Details]
  • The second one especially - fantastic. [Details]
  • These films - they just don't end ther way they should. We can fix this with Flash. [Destroy]
  • Zone! Zone damn you! [Details]
  • ... ear worm. [Destroy]
  • ... Wrong. very wrong. Also being sued for copying :) [Destroy]
  • Touching. Sweet. Very very odd. With kickboxing action. [Details]
  • Sarky much? [Details]
  • K+K Mime mysteries? Wha? [Destroy]
  • Yet another argument for universal contracts. (If you sell it to him at one price, you sell it to EVERYONE. also known as 'bubblegum in class' economics) [Details]
  • Silly town. [Details]
  • Bibliomancy - cut throat business. [Details]
  • A useful adjunct to the oxford dictionary - limericks [Details]
  • Spooooky death threat village [Details]
  • Mary sue much? [Details]
  • Aint Christianity odd. Half a page of howling in hebrew. [Details]
  • When those "Oh gods, that's soooo insecure" people are yelling at you - here's what those two-syllable words mean. [Details]
  • .... No. Classic (bad) art meet postmodern idiocy in a world that is above the law. [Details]
  • Ninja nanny! (Also - OW!) [Details]
  • Sadly 'flesheater' isn't an option. [Details]
  • Because the IMPORTANT thing about a natural disaster which killed thousands is how fat your car is. [Destroy]
  • Old, but... insane. [Details]

> Gaming

  • Some basics we have come to expect. And you know we rarely get. [Details]
  • Myst five. And last. Since Uru-online broke the bank. (And as one of the few who bought it, I can see why) [Download]
  • Quakecon! Interesting speech. [Details]
  • And quake3 source. [Download]
  • Snail Mail! For kids, mainly. [Download]
  • Inner Space - nice simply 2d shooter [Download]
  • Squirrel game. (PnP RPG) [Download]
  • 'Indy' Gaming links - bunch of good shareware here [Download]
  • Shadow of Yesterday (PnP RPG) [Details] [Download]

> Stuff

  • Songs. Including a classic one about fractals. [Destroy]
  • Sunken Kittens. [Display]
  • 11:59 - Spin [Destroy]
  • New winzip. [Download]
  • Did you know that the BBC was doinbg new Doctor Who? I mean newer than that? On radio? [Destroy]
  • And while we're at it, Cartoon network are starting to put some of their stuff online. (Robot Chicken is fantastic) - not available YET though. [Destroy]
  • Some good basic techy type tips. [Details]
  • People have found a way to steal virtual cash using virtual attacks. Guess they got bored of killing each other over legendary swords. [Details]
  • Have a 3d engine. [Download]
  • New stuff to read. (And, worrying thoughts about where Nintendo got the idea for Animal corssing from) [Details]
  • Climbeth the ladder. PnP RPG [Download]
  • Clearcase. Making it less suck, 101. [Details]
  • Odd audio, yes. Eats your brain it does yes? [Destroy]
  • Google release desktop (send everything you ever type to google) and talk (everything you say) Google mindcap coming soon. [Download]

> Comics

  • The freedom stone. Like Order of the stick, but cuter. [Display]
  • Neo Dragon - Relink: Crush them! Yes! [Display]
  • Romeo and Juliet and Sylvanian families. [Display]
  • Ubersoft. Class. [Display]
  • Pawz. No matter how many times I read this, the punch line still cracks me up. And applicable in so many situations, too! [Display]
  • LotLR - stuffed tigers are always cute. But especially when they blaspheme. [Display]
  • Ozy and Millie - a scary thought [Display]
  • Say it three times fast. [Display]
  • Nodding his Wick. [Display]

Posted by Vitenka at 9:17 PM GMT [Link]

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