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It's funny how much you can get done once you blow bureaucracy out of the way.

yeah look just how much hamster dance has grown in the past decade.

What that article didn't say is that they have recorded a CD, become celebrities, and even have a web site!

At least they didn't use these guys:
http://www.hamsterdance.com/classorig.html

HAMSTERS!? AHHHH!!!

If I see one more hamster themed product, I'm going to kill someone.

Seriously, that fuzzy little rodent species is getting way too much attention. The website and dancing musical hamsters are quite possibly the most obnoxious thing ever invented.

to the song Hamster Dance

Remember this when ICQ was in its infancy? :)

Yeah, what will they think of next?

Interestingly enough, Bush says that the nation's power grid needs to be updated, but doesn't know how or how much it will cost. Hmmm, I wonder if these means replacing the hampsters with ferrets?

This is something Linux has always needed: A theme song!

Thank god for Lindows. SCO will crap their pants now, where's their theme song?

Hey, it's even catchier than the Hampster dance. Rock-on, dude!

I've never been in a situation in school where computers were the only way to do something. The kids in my school can't look stuff up in an encyclopedia anymore, much less write a bibliography. Instead they're online, looking at hamsterdance.com, some random porn site, or checking their e-mail. There's absolutely nothing productive to be done with computers at school. Sure, there are computer graphics courses (and programming, but they don't have that here), and teachers like things to be typed, but that's a luxury. The entry-level computer classes are simple. Keyboarding is useless (someone else wrote about this): everyone here can type at least 35 wpm, which is more than enough for the illiterate bastards. They can hardly write a proper sentence anyway. I digress.

In conclusion (I love saying that), there shouldn't be computers in school...yeah. Instead of spending all this money on bullshit computer systems that aren't even secure or put together (WINNT 3.0 on a 10mbps network here...yay!) well. I'd rather have smaller class sizes, better teachers, and more books in the library. Argh. [insert witty comment here]

Mikey G.


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hamsterdance.com
Cheese!


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That's right, just when you thought that http://www.hamsterdance.com/ couldn't get anymore annoying, now it smells like a big hamster cage!

Why is one of them Hamster Dance? Don't go there with an 18 month old child on your lap. For an adult, this is funny once. For a toddler, it is funny every time the computer is on.

This is off-topic (sort of), but whattahell.

I don't whether there are any "old farts" here who remember the C64 stuff, but the Commodore 1541 was a wicked external disk drive.

The original 1541 (model I) ran hot enough to be used as a sauna stove, because of the built-in transformer. It was very noisy too. The ordinary way to access the floppy disk was to type in commands such as 'load "$",8' and "list" (for directory) in the "COMMODORE C64 ROM BASIC" interpreter, ie. the jolly blue screen which you get when you "boot" the thing.

Back then in the good old C64 days I was young and knew absolutely nothing about the power struggles going between big companies. Obviously there were those, I just wasn't aware of things. Looking back now it seems that the computing industry evolved just fine without me personally taking a stress and worrying about things.

So the bottom line is this: don't worry too much about Bill G, things probably change in another 10 years... :)

I feel like www.hamsterdance.com