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Quickies Knows Quickies. Quickies is Quickies.
We'll start this off with
Ant's submission -- a hilarious story about The Endor Holocaust which no doubt follows the destruction of the 2nd Death
Star. After reading something so clear, confuse your mind
confuse your mind (thanks to
The Musician). Now that you are adequately confused,
cardoso sent us a ridiculous
flash app where you can control dancers. This will put you in the mood to enjoy
the most retro homepage
ever, sent in by mvw
Got some money to burn? Check out the Spinal
Tap Guitar which features among other things, chrome exhaust pipes
and a tachometer that (of course) goes to 11. If you're not a musician,
maybe you'd be interested in Randy
Rathbun's link to personalized
action figures: I could send in my mugshot and be immortalized in
plastic, standing forever atop my monitors with Darth, Goku, and
Trinity! Or maybe you wanna buy
a Dalek? If you're on more of a budget, Jay Novak sent us a great t-shirt
from
copyleft considering all the layoffs around the net companies.
With all of these great things to waste cash on, you might need some
cash:
geekguy sent in a funny list of ways to cash in on Doom without wasting time making a game (like
for example, Doom breakfast serial! Free BFG inside!) Just get id to
license ya!
For you do-it-yourselfers,
mr100percent submitted what
might be the most impressive automotive MP3 player ever. The Pathintosh is a beautifully integrated
Mac complete w/ steering wheel controls, and a custom bezel.
And finally, the eycandy. First up is
davco9200's link to Daily Astronomy Astropix which is actually pretty sweet: today is
Mars Dunes. Second and last of all, the pr0n:
Jeff K sent in
Unix-Sex which features sysadmins getting it on w/ Sun Hardware. Thats why we don't let them work 3rd shift.
Captain: What happen?
Operator: Somebody set up us the time cube!
Captain: Main screen turn on
Gene Ray: Hello Teachers!
Captain: What you say?
Gene Ray: It is useless to resist squared truth! God-Men no longer dispute me!!!
Gene Ray: False teachers on their way to hanging!
Captain: What you say?
Gene Ray: You have no chance to survive in false time.
Captain: All teachers, take off every 'zig'
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
All BSA reddot gunsights go to 11.
If you have more, post 'em.
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cardoso sent us a ridiculous flash app where you can control dancers
On the same note, yerricde hereby sends you another ridiculous shockwave app where you can control dancers.
All your hallucinogen are belong to us.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Here's the history beginning from Early 2000:
:)
http://hubert.retrogames.com/history.htm
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
http://theforce.net/swtc/ds.html#dimensions
http://theforce.net/swtc/ds.html#summary
(The whole SWTC site is fun to read, BTW.)
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..!!in an intastella burst i am back to save the universe!!
I saw this a while ago, probably in the earlier Quickie people posted about, and I decided to reply to the guy. I took his (obviously highly scientific) diagram with Jesus, the Clintons, Socrates, and Einstein, and threw in Nomar Garciaparra, and "proved" that there really were five days in every "day." It was something really basic, since I just had to respond to the tripe he was spewing. The guy writes back (using my real name; kinda scary) and points me to more drivel he's written, mentioning also that he tried to speak at my university (Georgia Tech) but the "stupid uneducated anti-truth educators" refused to let him. He then writes back again, and asks me if I want to have a debate with him, since I was obviously interested in his wonderful theories. Crazy...
P.S.: would this Quickie subject have anything to do with some random troll posting big hunks of the timecube home page a couple of days ago? The timing is just kinda weird.
the coolest club on
The trouble with analyzing fiction is that it is all made up. You can just say anything you want.
Death Star II was constructed from unknown materials. Specifically, the density of the materials was unknown.
Asteroids such as caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction on Earth are not simply hanging in orbit and then drop. They impact while moving at celestial speeds. Death Star II would have started it's descent at nearly zero velocity compared to an asteroid. Depending upon the materials used, inertial mass may have been low enough that the atmosphere would slow even multi-kilometer wide pieces to the point that secondary disasters such as global earthquakes and nuclear winter would not occur. Think what would happend if DSII were constructed of cardboard. Pieces would hit the air and then sort of float to the ground. Yeah, it would be a big mess, but not something that could destroy a world.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Quick! Turing Test it! Let it submit those a few a day, let's see how many make it. What? You already did that?
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Does that timecube guy realize that there are 8 corners in a cube? Guess not.
Ok, what this dumbass is saying, in between rants about god and the education system (which undoubtedly kicked him out), is that he thinks each actual day is really four days. He wants one day each for midnight-dawn, dawn-noon, noon-dusk, and dusk-midnight. (Despite the fact that these are not all the same length of time.) He clearly isn't smart enough to realize that it would simply be another, much stupider way of saying the same thing. Oh well, at least I had fun laughing at his horrible site.
I made a slashdot version! Check it out:
/ slashdot_aybabtu.gif
http://members.optushome.com.au/geoffebb/misc/ayb
--Enoch Root, both nerd and hip
Congratulations, you're the 1,000,000th person to post that swf document this week. I'm sure that all slashdot readers are enlightened by now.
The assumption that the DS II could not have been in a free orbit, but instead was supported by a field generated on the moon is unwarrented. If you were to assume the forest moon was tidally locked with Endor, the construction of the station could have taken place at the L2 point Endor/forest moon system.
Such a configuration would have kept the DS-II in a free orbit, but still stationary relative to the shield generator, which could use ALL available power for shielding. Only minimal manuvering power would be needed to maintain postion at L2.
Attempting to support the station from the moon has addition problems. First, the generators for any type of repulsion field would themselves bear the full weight of the DS-II and would themselves need to be supported in some way, lest they be shoved through the moons crust. Also they would be a tempting target for sabotage, allowing the destruction of the station, without requiring or risking the rebel fleet.
Good good, this guy is serious.
Hey, never mind all the problems of the world. Genocide? Ecological disaster? Risks of atomic war? Naw, none of that's important. What's really important is that (gasp) there are inconsistencies in Star Wars tie-in books! We must stamp them else, or else...
Or else what?
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Nice Cowboy Bebop reference!
This Wiki Feeds You TV and Anime - vidwiki.org
Well here they are, including the original shockwave movie.
After that, you are on your own.
All Your Base Movie
http://www.thefever.com/AYB2.swf
Start
http://www.overclocked.org/OCzerowing.htm
Stillsh tml
http://www.planetstarseige.com/allyourbase/index.
Game FAQr o_ wing.txt
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/genesis/file/ze
Now please go away. [smile]
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
how long before an action figure of the goatse.cx guy gets produced?
I do NOT want to know what accessories would come with such a figure.
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
The random slashdot story generator! It's too funny. Complete with bad grammar!l
plain text for those of you afraid of a goatse.cx link..
http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.htm
According to liner notes, it's almost french, but mostly a made-up language. I've done a lot of searching and can't find anything that explains what she's singing, so I assume it isn't anything in particular. Maybe it's some strange japanese/french hybrid.
:P
Any linguists?
Just in case anyone is out there who has the power to market such things: I would buy a CmdrTaco action figure, as I am sure a lot of other people would. I think I would also buy a Hemos and a JohnKatz.
Taco should be wearing an anime tee-shirt, and should have his face fixed in one of those crazy wide-eyed crazy-man expressiosn that only he can give.
Hemos should look responsible.
Of course, Katz would come with wearing a flak jacket.
It would be really cool if they operated like that old Transformer set where you could link them all together into some sort of uber toy...I think the ultimate would be if they linked together to form some sort of a real working web-server running Slash or something.
-AP
... the same ever again. Or patch cable for that matter. That's just wrong! Wrong, I say!
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News for Geeks in Austin, TX
In reference to the shirt at copyleft, geekshirts.sourceforge.net also has a lot of funny geek / Linux shirts. My favorites there are I Want GNU, GNUtella, and There's no place like GNOME. This site also produced a few designs that have been produced by ThinkGeek, such as the emacs/vi police design.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
I visited my brother for Christmas, and toured the Ernie Ball factory (his buddy is a salesman there)... this guitar rocks! The Tach actually moves the harder you hit the strings! it has a 'Hurst' style '8-ball' shifter, and shift boot, and has really nice chromed pipes cut into the body. I don't recall what the inlays are, but every detail was fabulous, and very over the top -- Just Spinal Tap's style!
"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. " - Revolution Books, NY
Some people have waaaaay to much time on their hands .. probably explains why I am surfing slashdot and waiting for huge flash files to download.
Some days it pays to be me.
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Jon - TheSpork
This was written by a friend of mine:
> The true Time Cube
> When the Sun Shines upon the earth there are FOUR new minor Time Points
> Sunup, Sundown, NorthPole, Southpole, stupid word man!
> there are EIGHT EQUIDISTANT time Points
> You say "The 4-equidistant Time points can be considered as Time Square
> imprinted upon the circle of Earth"
> You Believe in Time Square You are Stupid it is Time CUBE!! like 6 FACES
> of a DICE each FACE is a EIGHT POINT. YOU are right about "Life is a
> "Crapshoot" - with a femininity cube and a masculinity cube." BUT you are
> so stupid and braindirty about the CUBE.
> Each of these new minor points represents a 6 hour unchanging day, in the
> TIME CUBE there are 6 simultaneous days with 108 HOURS.
> MY 8 corners is 2 CUBED!
> you are trying to be a WEB GOD! WEB gods munch your children.
> PLUS (ARE YOU AFRAID TO GO FURTHER?)
> there are other SUB-minor points. For you IDIOTS to understand we will
> use FOUR (but you cannot understand) we will call them BRUNCH and TEA and
> SNACK and SIMPSONS
> midday*
> brunch* * tea
> sunup * *sundown
> snack* * simpsons
> * midnight
>
> as the earth rotates each point gets full 24 hour day making 8 24 HOUR
> DAYS = 192 hours in a day!! If you were not to stupid stupid are you,
> stupid. You would see that each point (YES EACH POINT) along each equator
> ALL THREE (you didnt use the vertical one on your Revelations 7.1 graph,
> why not- you are a 2 D idiot), at each point along the 3 equators there
> is A FULL DAY OR A FRACTION OF A DAY... there are AN INFINITE number of
> days in each rotation of the earth the
> INFINITE DAY= INFINITE LIFE = TIME SPHERE, = purity of circle, abstraction
> of cube.
> DOES your confirmation GRAPH not Prove this YOURSELF (go ahead add more
> people in!)
> your FOUR CORNER LIFETIME. My four Higher Order Of Life
> = Lowest = the World with WORD GODS and EVIL BABY EATING TEACHERS
> = Lower = your FALSE time cube = your TIME SQUARE = 4*4=16 = squared!
> = high =MY true TIME cube = highest attainable by pure noneaten children
> = highest = the TIME SPHERE which you can never comprehend nor can any of
> you finite faced people with finite ancestors
> YOU are sTUPID
> i am 1337
> give me 1000$ like you PROMISED
Pete: Big city, hmm? Live. Work, huh? But. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?
mmmmm slashdot, I love you. `8r)
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Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
I like this one better.
Not that star wars was ever a paragon of realism, but Ive always wondered (especially after reading that page a while back) why Lucas sidestepped the issue of what happened to Endor after the death star fell on it.
Of course I wondered even more how the ewoks beat the stormtroopers in the first place, but Im just such a cynic I guess.
Whatever happened to the Ewok Hunters pages? Mostly written by the crowd that cheered when the ewok died in ROTJ. Probably the same crowd that cheered when we thought Jar-Jar wasnt going to be able to get his hand loose from the pod-racer engine in time. What a disappointment.
Karma whoring??? For Great Justice.