Will’s Web Miscellany

Utterly wrong, but amusing.

Bourne Shell Server Pages are ordinary ASCII text files, with the special extension .shit, which denotes “Shell-Interpreted Template.” The result of invoking the page compiler on a .shit file, is, naturally, a shell script. (It occurred to me that this file extension might seem objectionable to some, but since it quite accurately—if unintentionally—conveyed my sentiments toward Web technology in general, I decided that it should be left unchanged.)

A small one this week, and I missed out last week, sorry!
Origami CD Case

Unusual Weapons

Unpleasant, but ornately so.

MXC - TOP 25 most painful eliminations

This is hilarious.

Football, Thru Binoculars

The England team at their best.

Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders

Pimp My Card: How to Skin Your Credit Card

Top 10 Most Extreme Custom Cars in the World

Supervillain Henchman Training Video

Tesla Coils Playing the Mario Bros Theme are Unsurprisingly Awesome

Nerdy pleasures.

This is hilarious:

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.

The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: “On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn’t.

The best bit however comes next:

“I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I’m not having it.”

Tina for president, I say.

A short one this month, I didn’t have the time!

Deadly finger!

Crazy laws

It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

I will do my best…

Light emitting wallpaper

Comedy drunk sketch

Wedgie proof pants

A niche market…

Toddler flintstones car

Saddest cube contest

SurveillanceSaver is awesome:

SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screensaver that shows live images of over 600 network surveillance cameras worldwide. a haunting live soap opera.

After writing about how Ashley Highfield (BBC Head of Technology) claimed that only 400-600 out of 17.1 million users of bbc.co.uk run Linux I started to wonder what the proportion of visitors to my own jokes site were using Linux. Here are screengrabs taken from my google analytics account:

Nearly 94% use windows, 5% use Mac. OK, that matches Ashley’s claims. But wait, 0.9% of my sites visitors use Linux. That is significantly more than the 0.00003% that Ashley Highfield claimed use bbc.co.uk. If we use that 0.9% figure against the 17.1 million visitors he claims visit bbc.co.uk the number of Linux users would be closer to 154,000.

Where the hell did he get his numbers from?

Just for fun, here are the browser versions. Good to see Firefox doing so well:

Bollocks. Either Ashley Highfield (BBC Head of Technology) has someone particularly stupid interpreting the stats for the site, or he is trying too hard to justify the BBC’s recent use of Microsoft client only technology.

Sign the petition to let the BBC know you use Linux. Found at PerfDave.

Edited to add: I estimate they have closer to 154,000 Linux users.

Cool AT-ST Costume

In a nerdy way.

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper

Re-enacted in Lego!

Heavy Machinery Acrobatics

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Living In Space

Is it Christmas?

A useful tool.

Thirty Illnesses, Sorted According to Whether or Not You Can Eat the Victims

Picket Fence Cable tidy

Neat!

Stupid Shit People ACTUALLY Put On Their Resumes

I am sure this is completely true. How can it not be, it’s on the internet.

The Condom Song

Catchy…

Sprout

A fun adventure game.

Driver threatens police officer for writing speeding ticket too slowly

Stupid.

Geeky Wedding Photos

Houses with a View

Computer Keypad Calculator

Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

Sugar Skull Tutorial

Tasty

Eight of the World’€™s Most Unusual Plants

Don’t know, but quite good fun