As The Register reports, a Plymouth child was kidnapped on Saturday by a public convenience. Go read the story.
Tag: 2004-07-11 fully recovered
Distractions Are Important For Concentration
…and so I recommend you take a break from whatever you’re doing and go play Crimson Room, an online flash puzzle game. Some infuriating bits, but if I can solve it, so can you.
Have fun.
Troma Night Makes LiveJournal’s Interest Category Lists!
Yay! Victory for I!
Take a look at the LiveJournal interest ‘Troma Night’. And if you’re a Troma Night person who uses LiveJournal, add it to your interests list, too!
Futurama’s Coming Back
Okay, it’s not certain yet, but Wired News reports that it, and Family Guy (also killed by Fox) will make a comeback on Cartoon Network, with new episodes sponsored by the channel.
Yay. And, indeed, hey.
And in other news, to celebrate the change of name from Lindows to Linspire, Lindows.com are giving away copies of Linspire. All you have to do is try to buy a copy of the BitTorrent ISOs from their online store and enter LINDOWS as a coupon code.
Dead Badger Linux
Anyone with a pair of pliers can install Red Hat on a toaster or a motorcycle… it takes a real (sick) geek to install Linux on a dead badger.
Girl, 15, Charged With Child Porn Offences And Sexual Abuse Of Childen
Not the usual kind of story I link from my ‘blog, but this particular case is of interest because the girl in question is both the perpetrator and the victim, so to speak: she posted pictures of herself online, performing sexual acts. From what we can gather, she did this of her own free will and consent.
Read more on The Register. No word from the BBC yet.
Plug ‘N’ Pray
Looking to change your religion using an easy, clean interface? Try Plug ‘n’ Pray from Holy Corporation.
A site well-worth reading.
My New Work Computer… Won’t Be Delivered Today…
It turns out that there’s been a huge fire in a BT service tunnel, knocking out 130,000 phone lines and numerous data links in the Manchester area.
This, in turn, has caused Microland UK to be unable to process our credit card details and deliver me my new work PC, a swanky-looking Athlon 64 3GHz box.
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Free Parking Jackpot
Am I the only purist here?
I am, of course, referring to Monopoly. Pretty much everybody I know doesn’t play Monopoly by the correct rules, as laid down by Waddingtons. And how many arguments does this cause? It’s unbelievable!
What’s even scarier is the number of people that honestly believe that their particular variation of the rules is actually correct – be it “£400 for landing on Go” to “free parking jackpot” to “capital punishment”… I’ve seen so many of them (and studied many more popular variations)…
…but one thing that is particularly common to these variations is that they usually exist to increase the bias of luck to a game which, ultimately, in my opinion, already has too much luck in it! But why? Are people scared of thinking or something?
Leave a comment: how do you play? What variations do you play by? Or are you a fellow purist?
Windows XP Box
This is scary. This guy’s managed to build a mini-ITX Windows XP box… inside a Windows XP box (by which I mean one of those boxes in which they ship copies of Windows XP). It’s a full working computer (well, it runs Windows, but you know what I mean) inside the box that originally contained the copy of Windows which is installed upon it.
Click here to see pictures and a how-to guide, in case you want to do it yourself.
Nightmare!!!
A (1) nightmare and a (2) just-plain-freaky dream last night. My brain’s playing up:
1. Claire and I, older, are in a train. She has a heart attack; I try to get and then, failing that, provide, help, but fail to and she dies. Then I woke up.
2. Strange semi-futuristic post-apocalyptic world, reminiscent of The Postman or Dark Future (anybody else ever play that?). I, among with many others, are slaves of a desert-dwelling tribe, having been kidnapped by them. We are beaten and mistreated to keep us under control. Don’t remember much more than that.
Liz had a nightmare last night, too. Maybe it’s something in the water?
PHP 5 RC1
Terribly geeky I know, but I find it awfully exciting: PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 was released today. PHP 5 can now be considered feature-complete, and mostly stable. If only the program I’m writing with it could be considered the same…
I Want One Of These
Some professor has invented a device that uses on-the-fly destructive sound wave interference to cancel out the whine of computer fans. Wow! Toy! Want! Estimates suggest fans with these could be made available for just $20 more than the price of regular fans.
In other news, does anybody else find it scary that this site selling pregnancy tests has a picture labelled ‘for illustration only’. What else are you going to use it for, other than as an illustration? Are women trying to get away with a ‘freebie’ by urinating on their computer screens or something?
Sliding Doors, My High School Crush, And Wierd Dreams
Last night I had a weird dream which I’ve therefore decided to share with you. As usual, written first-person and present-tense:
I’m 16 and back and high school in some kind of ‘sliding doors’-esque alternate reality in which things went somewhat differently. In this one, I actually ask out Marguerite, a girl at school who I fancied the pants off. We get together, and make a fab couple. After high school, I go to Preston College and she goes to Runshaw (as actually happened), but all’s still well. But then, after college, I decide to come to University at Aberystwyth. She doesn’t want me to leave Preston to go to University, as she wants to study here. As we start to argue about this, I wake up.
Fuckin’ weird, and no mistake.
Haven’t seen Marguerite… pretty much since high school (interestingly, her older sister, Rosemary, studied here in Aberystwyth). However, a quick trawl of the World Wide Web found this (not terribly good) photograph of her at Victoria Falls:
[picture missing]
I shouldn’t mix Guinness, red wine, and real ale before sleeping.
The Volume of a Sexually Dimorphic Nucleus in the Ovine Medial Preoptic Area/Anterior Hypothalamus Varies with Sexual Partner Preference
A study has just been released (click here for the abstract) about the biochemical differences between ‘straight’ and ‘gay’ rams.
Just a thought: what do you have to do to get a research grant for that… “Hi… I’d like you to give me thousands of pounds to chop up the brains of gay sheep.”
And on a more amusing note, somebody’s spliced together chunks of President Bush’s address, last month, to make a hilarious (and terrifyingly, more accurate) speech [QuickTime MOV]. I love it! “Saddam Hussien was trying to acquire… six billion hydrogen-powered doctors!” Wonderful. Take a look!
I really ought to tell you what I’ve been up to this last week, but I can’t be bothered yet.