They haven't smashed anything yet, but they've got a proton beam going the whole way around. I find it annoying that these guys can get a proton beam to travel around a 27,000km circle on their first go and I had to google how to pass a command line parameter into a perl script. Particle physicists make me feel really really dumb.
Friday, 12 September 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Death sentence for downloading an article (G)
BBC reporting on a journalism student in Afghanistan that was tortured and sentenced to death for downloading an article from the internet on the role of women in islam. I can't find anything that further corroborates this story though, and there are scant details on the actual offense he was convicted of other than it was "blasphemy".
Hamish and Andy at the Beijing Olympics (PG)
Hamis and Andy compete in some events of their own devise. The Mystery Penis Guessing game that starts about halfway is particularly funny.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Why I love America but am glad I don't live there
So I'm standing in line at Fry's Electronics assistance desk, and there's this old guy with white hair in a hawaiian shirt in front of me, and he's asking the assistant to chase up some RAM. While the assistant is looking through the computer, catalogs etc, the old guy starts chatting to the assistant and me.
"That's the problem with computers, you can't have just one. Computers are like guns, you can't have just one." says the old man in an easy midwest drawl.
The sales assistant and I smile. The old man continues.
"I used to have 67 guns." The sales assistant and I look at each other, then at the old man. "I see the look on your faces I used to collect them, you see, and people would always give me that look when I told them. I'd tell 'em I've been collecting guns since I was twelve, so it's really not that many, how many am I supposed to have?"
Slightly relieved, the sales assistant and I give a little laugh, and the old man gets a sad look on his face. "I don't have them any more, too old and slow, someone's liable to shoot me with one of 'em. Course the other way guns are like computers is you can't just have the gun or the computer, you've got to have all the bits and pieces to go with 'em. I had 70,000 rounds of ammunition, coz of course every gun you buy has to have a thousand rounds of ammunition to go with it. Oh, except my Ak-47, I had like 5000 rounds of ammunition for that. Remember in the 1980's when you could buy armor piercing rounds, and incendiary rounds and all that?"
I was four in 1980, and I bet the sales assistant was younger than that, but we both smiled and nodded.
"Well I had all of those, as soon as a new round came out I would go buy a thousand of 'em. I have a buddy that used to be a Navy Seal. He helped me setup this rig in the ceiling so when I was in bed if I pulled a cable a bunch of fishing hooks on nylon string would drop down from the ceiling. So then if someone's coming at me they'd get all tangled up. Give me time to get 'em with my shotgun. My wife said to me 'What, you gonna get in a gun fight with somebody?' and I said 'I hope not, but I'm gonna defend myself if I have to!'"
And then in a rehearsed manner that you know has been told in a thousand bars since he was a very young man, "I have a distant relative called John Wesley Hardin, killed 44 people, killed one of them for snoring. There's got to be some of his blood pumping through these veins. They say he killed one man for wearing too loud a shirt. Can you imagine that? I would have been killed by him on many a night back in my disco days!"
Then with a quick salute he walks off, leaving me with an image of an old man in a disco shirt firing a shotgun at a guy that's tangled up in fish hooks and nylon string with an old lady screaming at him from the bed......
My First American To-go Dinner
From the chicken fajitas I got to go from Chilis, and I think I've finally got the US food industry worked out.
- Remember to use as many natural resources as possible in preparation of the to-go meal.
- A minimum of 7 plastic containers (including styrofoam) should be used
- Try to give a minimum of 15 napkins, because the cutlery set only comes with one napkin. If the customer is nice to you, give them even more napkins. Napkins is love.
- The handles on plastic carry bags is just for looks. You need to put the plastic carry bag in another, larger paper carry bag. Paper carry bags are environmentally friendly.
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Friday, 5 September 2008
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Wired.com Readers' Best Geek Tattoos
These are terrible. Just terrible. In one season of Beauty and the Geek, the Super Mario looking fat Italian geek has a tattoo of an original NES controller on his arm. I thought that was bad, until I saw these.
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Critics bite at Hungry Jack's fat stack | NEWS.com.au
It looks like a Whopper’s abortion, left a little too late.
Play With Spider - Flash 3D - OneMotion.com
Incredible interactive virtual spider all implemented in 3D Flash. You have to try it out to understand what’s so good about it.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Plex Media Center for OS X
This one's for Ly. An Intel Mac OSX specific fork of XBMC which looks annoyingly gorgeous as most Mac apps do.
Plex Media Center for OS X
Plex Media Center for OS X
Monday, 1 September 2008
Pet Peek™ - The Window For Your Fence
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. This might save my poor little dog peering through the little gap next to the gate! Now I just have to find a couple of perspex, dog proof domes to accommodate two differently heighted doggies......Pet Peek™ - The Window For Your Fence
GutenMark Prettifies Project Gutenberg Ebooks
Gremlins Fan Film
This is brilliant, especially for children of the 80’s. In Gremlins 2, the gremlins take over a movie theatre project booth and go into the movie. This is extending that concept to more films. It’s amazingly well done, I would love to see the making of this. It’s so well done I expect it was done by a film student as a final year project or something.
Friday, 29 August 2008
Catholic church plans to exhume Cardinal from next to his lifepartner um I mean really really really really good friend
Seems like those Victorian times were very confusing. Relationships between clergy that were as close as husband and wife, but completely *ahem* celibate.
Plan to exhume cardinal is 'homophobic' - Home News, UK - The Independent
Friday, 22 August 2008
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Funny German Training Video
It doesn’t kick in until about halfway, but it’s very funny. Supposedly a “real” training video used in Germany.
Friday, 15 August 2008
Beautiful Photos of the Large Hadron Collider
The Boston Globe has an amazing photo essay on the installation of the LHC. But don’t worry, CERN says that no black holes will be created, but if they did, any black holes that are created would disintegrate instantly, and even if they didn’t, they wouldn’t be positively charged so they couldn’t suck up the Earth. So in summary even if the LHC did manage to create a stable black hole it’d be a weeny one with very small effect on the Earth. Besides, the LHC is has the same potential of making bad stuff like black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles than is being made in the universe anyway, but if it does happen, instead of it being millions of light years away, it’ll be in Switzerland where we can watch it easily. See? Safe!
Thursday, 7 August 2008
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