Tag: 2004-07-11 fully recovered
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Killer Cyberloo Kidnaps Kiddie
As The Register reports, a Plymouth child was kidnapped on Saturday by a public convenience. Go read the story.
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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.
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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!
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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. … -
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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 … -
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 …
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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 … -
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...
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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 … -
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 … -
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 …