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Totally 31337 Quickies
bigstripes sent us a couple of websites that game chairs: The
RocknRide and the
Simcraft for people for whom strapping a subwoofer to your chest just isn't enough.
Curious what the MST3k guys are doing?
bill notes that most of the guys are working on a website Timmy Bighands, although
Joel is doing his own thing.
QuasEye sent us a link to a review of The Matrix: The Musical. I need footage of this, but it sounds frightening beyond measure.
Frank Martini
pointed us to a
VinylVideo who are hawking a kit that lets your old record player play video.
Sun Tzu
pointed us to a list of milestones in a programmers life, while
jamesoutlaw sent in a site that caricatures common discussion group personalities in Usenet ... and surprisingly enough Many of the stereotypes apply just as well to Slashdot.
Schmam notes that Stevie Case, one of the designers for Quake II, now working with Ion Storm, famous for being Romero's GF, and for beating him at Quake, as well as being hot ... well she's in playboy, but you're only allowed to read the article or else I'm
telling your mom.
Hey, its nice to note that Slashdot took 2 People's Voice Webby Awards one in the Print & Zines and
the other in Community. I'm not exactly sure what it proves tho (besides the fact that you guys like us enough to fill out a form)
but thanks to those who voted us. May peace and prosperity follow you (and may the Webbies not sell your e-mail address to people bent on selling you toner).
And now for the strang(er) part of the quickies,
HelLfiRe leads us towards The Stinkymeat Project
which is, well, a photo documentary of a plate of rotting meat. Read
only on a settled stomach.
Richard Stevens sent us an
Amazingly Strange cartoon strip:
This guy draws inane pictures based on the idiotic titles people send him. If you want something slightly better drawn,
mkoscica sent us plif which is really twisted, but funny.
The last link in the ring contains all the pictures from Playboy. Frankly, her breasts look so fake that I think they're ugly. Not only that, but she looks a lot like Madonna in those pics.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
While Romero's girlfriend IS hot, I can't help but wonder what her motivations were for doing a spread (no pun intended) in Playboy.
;)
A few months back, Playboy visited the U of A campus here in Tucson in search of some fresh meat. Everyone thought it was great, there were flyers in every window of every shop downtown advertising it...hooray-hooray, 10 lucky girls will end up in Playboy. Then, the shit hit the fan, and they became the laughing stocks of the whole campus..An article in the Wildcat (our school paper) managed to interview one of the representatives from Playboy. It turns out these girls were paid a measly $100-300 each to bare all in a national magazine. Poor sluts, I thought, to be taken for a ride like that.. You've gotta be pretty hard up for booze money of you'll get nekkid for that cheap. Dumb girls just don't do it for me.
Then again, this is Playboy, not Scientific American. Being smart wont exactly land you in the centerfold.
Bowie J. Poag
Bowie J. Poag
Pretty cool - I liked the SimCraft better, because he was at least offering plans - but the Rock n' Ride is a clean design (though I can't say much about the web page).
/.ers know of the source company?
c adsoftusa.com/~kls/fltsim/ .acesim.com/main.htmlb simpson/jhbc~1.html
It appears to be a German built product, so it will probably be a quality device - does any of our German
They do give assembly instructions, so it might be possible to "roll your own" from that - maybe build some PVC air cylinder's ala SimCraft, attach it to a 2x4 frame, a bucket seat and some steel - one PIC - whammo! - instant homebrew Rock n' Ride!
So, for those who would like more sim plans, etc - here are some links:
http://www.senet.com.au/~dunkleyj/
http://www.
http://www
http://mypage.direct.ca/b/
Last but not least, my favorite - Omniscience Futureneering's JoyRider Plans - a homebrew 3-axis flight simulator.
Be sure to check out their other offerings - like the radio controlled, vid-cam rocket...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
As a parallel to last week (or whatever was the last round of quickies)'s Pay Lars, now you can Sue Lars!
Fight the Man!
-- BlueCalx | http://nickd.org/
Does anybody remember the Spam Cam? These guys wanted to know whether Spam (the meat-flavored lunch product) was organic. So they opened a tin, set that Spam brick out on a plate, and posted daily pictures. I'm not entirely sure what, if anything, that they proved. Gray and green mold grew all over the thing, and it appeared to change shape somewhat. Also, according to the Spam Cam operators, it was extremely stinky.
Later they set out other food products to rot, but never again did they achieve the touching poignancy of that wonderful mold-covered brick.
--Jim
The Onion has some stunning social commentary on how mp3s can affect the recording industry. =)
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
...naked pictures of _Steve_ Case. *shudder*
=8]
Sig
There's always been a big link between nerds and enormous breasts. Haven't you ever seen Eric S. Raymond before? :)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Conforming to fucked-up beauty standards just perpetuates them further and messes up people's self esteem.
I've never gone out with a girl who regularly wears makeup. I've always found that there's an inverse relationship of intelligence to concern with looks. Sure you should get haircuts and try and dress nice, but people who look in the mirror every 5 minutes have problems.
I am thinking of getting forehead implants so I can look really brainy. I think it will give me an advantage in job interviews and will help me intimidate my chess opponets.
Scuttlemonkey is a troll
Build Your Own Brain-Wave Machine!
.- CitizenC (User Info)
No, that is not real. No way in hell. Smart, Gamer, Beautiful, and in Playboy? Come on, what kind of fools are we? Next thing you know we'll be talking to Jesus on the frozen plains of hell, commenting on the flying swine. ;)
;)
Seriously though, how rare is this combination? Oh, about as rare as handsome, gamer, intelligent geek guys who have been in Playgirl. I know one guy who has 3 (no playgirl yet, but he could be).
Geez. I hate impossibly perfect people
-- Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him? --
Theres no 31337 quickies there.. theres a max of 20 maybe less..
----------------------------------------- Fractured One
I thought Killcreek looked a lot better before the boob job, bleached hair and troweled-on make-up.
But then, I've never liked the plastic look. I like a more natural look.
--
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
There was one longwinded speech. It ran a total of six words: "Just remember, technical innovation means class war."
Obviously they were short a couple fingers or soemthing, because that sure as hell seems like seven words to me =)
-- Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be if we had eight fingers per hand.