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Friday Link-o-Rama
Posted on August 31st, 2007 No comments
What the world would be like without us
Greener mostly.
Side-by-side diagrams of a few common espresso drinks.
Pretty
Strange.
I scored slightly above average on the Face Recognition (72nd percentile) and Object Recognition (90th percentile) tests and slightly below on the Verbal Recognition test (48th percentile). Yay!
Time to get out the vacuum cleaner…
Freaky
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Friday Link-o-Rama
Posted on August 24th, 2007 No commentsRevenge of the Asteroids, Dolphin Olympic and Pillage the Village
Three good flash games.
Interactive comic adventure
An advert for an adult TV channel that managed to promote the channel without being in anyway sexual. Very funny and work-safe if you have headphones.
Dwarf gets penis stuck to vacuum cleaner
This has to be one of the best headlines ever.
The main part of his act saw him appear on stage with a vacuum cleaner attached to his member through a special attachment.
The attachment broke before the performance and Blackner tried to fix it using extra-strong glue, but unfortunately only let it dry for 20 seconds instead of the 20 minutes required.
More penis-vacuum related incidents here.
Water tower converted into house
Some really good photos
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Reference for EVERY Character Key on a Mac
Posted on August 23rd, 2007 No comments -
Moan My IP
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 No commentsHave your IP address ‘moaned’ to you at moanmyip.com, a useful diagnostic tool. Possibly NSFW.
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The ‘Britney Bomb’
Posted on August 21st, 2007 3 commentsIn the 29degrees office we have an mp3 jukebox that is basically a mac-mini with iTunes and VNC on it, it was playing some ‘Death Cab For Cutie’ when the bomb went off. Everyone is using a Mac as their computer, I have installed RubyOSA. This sets the stage for the ‘Britney Bomb’.
I fired up an irb session and typed the following:
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'rbosa'
> itunes = OSA.app('iTunes', :machine=>'jukebox.local')
> c = OSA.app('Colloquy')
> sleep(30); v = itunes.sound_volume; itunes.sound_volume.downto(0) { |i| itunes.sound_volume = i; sleep 0.05 }; itunes.stop; itunes.sound_volume = v; c.send_message('Britney FTW!'); sleep(4); itunes.sources[2].playlists.first.search('britney').first.playThis basically:
- Sleeps for 30 seconds (I left the room, I didn’t want to be around when the bomb went off after all).
- Gets the current volume.
- Scales the volume of the current track down to zero.
- Stops playback.
- Sets the volume back to the original volume.
- Announces to the office IRC channel that Britney Spears is wonderful (in my name).
- Sleeps 4 seconds to let the news sink in.
- Plays the first Britney Spears tune it finds in Carl’s library (which the jukebox uses), this happens to be ‘Baby One More Time’
This amuses me greatly.
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Friday Link-o-Rama
Posted on August 17th, 2007 No commentsMan cuts assistant in half with a chainsaw
A very impressive magic trick
Lots of pictures
I can’t believe they didn’t think this would happen…
Whitest Kids U’ Know – Slow Jerk
Well I found it funny…
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Playing with Cameroid
Posted on August 14th, 2007 No commentsThis is a photo of me taken at cameroid.com with my iMacs built in iSight camera.
Fun! And yes, Paul, it does look like me :)
And now Carl has done one too, an improvement over the original I feel:
From the office IRC channel:
[15:16] carl: http://www.cameroid.com/9OJ-A1, me > mona lisa.
[15:16] greg: lol
[15:16] greg: is that going up on your blog?
[15:16] carl: No!Correct, it’s going up on my blog!
Greg has also been playing, though unlike Carl and I, Greg has decided to take a photo with no comedy overlay:
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Websites as Graphs
Posted on August 13th, 2007 No commentsHere’s willj.net/blog as a graph:
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Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill
Posted on August 13th, 2007 No commentsKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.
But I think the best bit of the article is this:
It wasn’t clear whether the bill was a mistake…
Really!
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Friday Link-o-Rama
Posted on August 10th, 2007 No commentsGreat flash game, I have a high score of 7.
Another good game
The Sex Change Doctor’s Referral Letter Generator
Two hilarious David Blaine take-off videos here and here
If there is an ace of clubs in my ass I’ll sue you.
How to fold a shirt really fast
Saves the furniture apparently. As does having the dirty little shit-mongers shot, but that is just my preference…
Cool…
Astrology is lame and Myers-Briggs is for losers. The omniscient Oracle of Starbucks can tell you everything about your personality by what you drink at Starbucks. Simply enter your full drink order — including size — into the field below and the all-knowing Oracle will tell you everything about your personality.
The object of the game is to get as far along a massive treadmill as possible eating all the cookies along the way, but the treadmill gets faster after each cookie.