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Humpday Quickies
Nothing like some quality quickies to survive humpday.
Magus311X sent us linkage to an awesome web site that has the plans for nearly every set of legos. If you still have your big bucket, you'll love it. I always got bored half way through the plans tho. Started putting guns on my castles and plants on my spaceships wings.
HP LoveJet (I like that one) sent us a webpage that will compute your Wu-Tang name ('Rob Malda' = 'Grand Moff Puppeteer')
Blaxthos sent us a photo of the most amazing toilet mankind has developed thus far.
Looking for some new comics?
Bob Barker pointed us to Tug House
and
Cecil noticed EtherLife v1.5.. I dig EL15.
And now the pointless violence and stupidity portion of the quickies:
DragonHawk
sent us some nice pictures of people ignoring the warning labels on spray cans, and also building a potato gun capable of firing spuds at 550 MPH. Then we have a guy who builds "sparkler bombs" by setting off 1000 sparklers at a time.
Jura sent us pictures of computers that he apparently shot the hell out of.
Elwood sent us linkage to another license, this one is the
BPL or
The "Bastard Public License"
Next, random Slashdot references from around the net:
Raps sent us
writes Alfdot, a Slashdot parody weblog about everyone's favorite lame 80s sitcom (cancelled no doubt do to government conspiracy).
Slashdot Man earned a special place on my list of 'people to get a restraining order for' his fan page. Eeeek
rebrane sent us a Slashdot drinking game.
And the perfect quickie to get some closure on the day:
McAdder sent us Final Thoughts which is a website that spams your friends and family upon your death to send them your, well, final thoughts from beyond the grave. Wierd.
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The Mach1 Potato gun was impressive. I even went so far as to download some of the movies and check them out. The watermelons didn't last long.
I still have a copy of that Amazing Toilet picture on my drive. It's been there for months. I've been wanting to post it somewhere and submit it to Slashdot, but I never got around to it. Looks like someone else discovered it.
As for the dude who shot up his computer, Please let me shoot HIM. For anyone to decide one day "HEY! I think I'm going to take this computer out back and SHOOT IT!" is totally idiotic. There was almost a guaranteed use for that computer, and I don't mean as a target.
The Slashdot drinking game just seems like all Anonymous Coward complaints rolled into a text document. I was hoping to be a bit more impressed, but if you're looking for a quick way to get really really drunk....
Final thoughts was a bit creepy, but It's something I'd do anyway because, well, that's something that would be expected from me. My family knows I'm a bit of an off-normal person, so getting an E-Mail from me after I die wouldn't be totally unexpected. And you know, I'd make it goofy. "Hey! How is everyone? I'm fine, but this box i'm in is small, and hot. Can you bring me a Pepsi? OH, and bring me my Laptop. This Beyond-the-Grave E-mail shit sucks ass."
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
holy SHIT!
/wallops They're in the walls!
I blew fucking coke all over the place when I first read:
Agent_Smith sets mode +m ne0
That was the most hilarious thing. Well that and the:
This is some funny funny shit. Whoever did it OBVIOUSLY got the caps from a screener but still. I'm still laffin hard as hell.
Way to go!
"Fighting the underpants gnomes since 1998!" "Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat"
I clicked through to get my Wu-Tang name and got the following
/www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755
Pretty cool huh. I bet your jelous that yours is just 'Grand Moff Puppeteer'!
Yep, that one's pretty good. But my personal favorite in this vein is Slashnull.
Shadowrun fans, go to town!
"Somebody exploded a letter-bomb today
My WuName turns out to be...
awww, rats, you guys done beat it to death already:
CGIwrap Error: Script is not executable. Issue chmod 755 /www/home/recordstore.com/cgi-bin/wuname/wuname.pl
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
I'm slightly intrigued by the Final Thoughts.com site...
me too. but they limit the concept. i'm thinking more along the lines of youbastards.com®, a site that allows you to keep a secure, online diary of every little slight and grievance you have against your boss/coworkers/neighbors, etc. just trigger the email after you quit/get fired/move away...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
The ultimate toilet has leather padded seats, what appears to be broadband, a phone, a fax, and a computer, but where the hell is the TP?
Silly Linux Wonk. The workstation has Micro$oft Asswipe2000 installed. The toilet runs CE. Using DCOM and M$XML-embedded M$HTML documents, it's a fairly trivial thing to implement a thorough wipe cycle. (Oh, and nevermind all the hyperbole about macro viruses - just install SP11b and disable scripting and your testicles are in absolutely no danger whatsoever.)
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Allow me to mention the best parody of /. that I know of out there.
:-)
/., and it got rejected every time...which is why I am posting like this.
It may make more sense if you read the associated cartoon. Even if you don't like the parody, read a few cartoons anyways...they are good.
Cheers,
Ben
PS I know several people who submitted this to
My usual seat in the cluetrain is at A HREF="http://pub4.ezboard.com/biwethey.ht
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Help me switch to Linux!
Stupid people will be persecuted to the fullest extent allowed by law.
(I think Rob hacked into the server to erase this once, but ha! I had a backup!)
My matrix site was posted by another surfer above, but he linked to one of the pages inside my frames! I know frames aren't "chic", but you miss out on a lot in this case. The correct link is: http://www.luminanet.com/matrix/index.html Thanks for the "surfage".
There's a very cool Matrix Spoof in progress at http://www.luminanet.com/matrix/main.html -- I am kinda sad it didn't get added to this list!
-krs