B-Lo Bomb?

The Onion | Gigli Focus Groups Demand New Ending In Which Both Affleck And Lopez Die

We Must Go

Confirmed both at work and the website - 'Weird' Al plays the QPAC Concert Hall October 14.

huzzah

BIZKIT BROKEN

LIMP BIZKIT stormed off stage at the weekend, after being pelted with plastic bottles, boos and chants of 'Fuck off FRED DURST'.

Read more here - just in case you were wondering who rock's new version of Axel Rose was..

[Listening to: No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (04:39)]

Road Safety Promotion

Road Safety Promotion

PERSONAL T3 REVIEW

Worth seeing.

/PERSONAL T3 REVIEW

Interesting T3 Review

Long touted as the movie that would resurrect both the flagging series and its star Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' is also touted by director Jonathan Mostow (U571, The Princess Diaries, Mary Poppins 2: 'A Spoonful of Death') as taking the complicated, time-bending events of the series' fist two movies in imaginative new directions. As such, the events of T3 force the viewer to reinterpret certain events seen earlier in the series, and actually twist around the chronologically sequential storylines in a way which renders the third instalment a prequel actually set after the events of the first two movies.

A review - which I don't think actually contains any spoilers.....I think. Read the rest here.

What Sux

You know what really sucks - going to all the trouble of re-arranging the time of an indoor cricket match, then going to all the bother of ringing around to ensure that you've managed to get a full team available and ready to play and the getting everybody to the game ready to start only to find that the other team hasn't f@cking shown up. No phone-call. Nothing. [sob}

Boob Raider 2 Review

An open letter to Sherry Lansing, CEO, Paramount Pictures:

Dear Ms. Lansing,

I just witnessed the recent cinematic effort of your studio titled "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life" and would like to convey my reaction to this film with the following missive: I have never come closer to tearing my own penis off and throwing it at the screen while watching a movie. I'm really being serious here. You may already know me as somebody apt to threaten damage to his own genitals, but all those other times were strictly in jest. I was just kidding all those times before because I knew that most juveniles find genital mutilation incredibly funny and that I would benefit immensely from all the Google searches utilizing the word "penis."

Read more of this review here.

Best Batman Evar???

Batman: Dead End - a fan-made film has been doing the rounds of San Diego Comic-Con and the like. People like Kevin Smith think it's pretty good. Me - I enjoyed it quite a bit - no plastic nipples or stupid camp crap in sight. In fact it was so good I wouldn't have minded seeing a full-length movie by this guy...... right up until the whole things goes wwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeee. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.


Get it here (warning - 44mb .mov file)

Space Mailbag: More Amazing Earth Facts

Who owns Unix? Open Group seeks to clarify
Open source group files complaint against SCO

SCO has recently intorduced a licence for Linux users so that SCO won't sue them. Here are some emerging articles.
Major Japanese firms won't pay off SCO
Will Users Buy a License from SCO to Run Linux?

Interesting: 101 Amazing Earth Facts

Imperfect Estimate Claims Universe Has 70 Sextillion Stars

NaDa 0.5!

SCO stupidity:
SCO: We are not talking about BSD code
How SCO Helped Linux Go Enterprise
IBM, Industry Respond to New SCO Threats

Dark Matter Investigation Maps the Invisible

Sun-like Stars More Likely to Harbor Planets

Supernovae Spawned Universe's First Solid Particles

MUST SEE MOVIE!!!

Roamin' da Web

Sound some interesting things.

Firstly - a nice history of the stupidity of various Game Companies (Square making a rpg out of Tom Sawyer.....)

The Good Doctor is back.

Let's remake The Matrix

Finally...

Moooo. . .

That is all.

Tired of Burning Toast?...you need Intelli-Toast!

Poke the Penguin (NOT LINUX RELATED)

DOLPHIN STRESS TEST

Japanese Soy Sauce Commercial

The Demented Carton Movie
This one is very long, it is complete with trailers and stuff.
More available at Albino Black Sheep

GORRF


This site has been around for some time now, if you havent seen it then give it a burl. Quite funny.



I can believe that someone would create a product such as this, but why would you pay for it?

I seem to remember something from my childhood about strangers and gifts, someone should tell the parent involved in this: FBI questions gun-toting Teddy

Criminal Morons: Shotgun used in rubbish heist

Now this is fucking rich: SCO readies new Linux licensing program

/GORRF

Ah, the Internet

I'm sure the creators of Flash Gordon must love this.

This surreal piece of the web kindly brought to you by Trevor. . .

Pirates Enter The Information Age!

There is obviously a great demand for pirate-related peripherals, such as this. It can come in really handy for Talk Like A Pirate Day.

A BRIEF RUN DOWN OF MY DAY

After several hours of absolute frustration my intellect is reduced to the following:
Blarg farchwarz jelg norblatz
Yup, that about says it all

The Force Is Strong With This One

My mouse died - the nice shiny MS Intellimouse Explorer decided to start turning itself on and off at random - and the pretty red light kept blinking off. Not very good when you're trying to use it. Fortunately, like most MS products - it has a decent warranty on the sucker - 5 years - so back to MS it goes. In the meantime I'm forced to use my emergency back-up mouse. It feels weird...

Special Bonus - the fight you all wanted to see - Hitler Verses Stalin!

How To Make An Emergency Call

One of the things I do for a living is taking emergency calls for the police. As such, I have a bit of an insight into the workings of emergency services, and also how people tend to use them. Most people seem to get the hang of it, but there are some people that don't. So, I thought I'd do this as a kind of a rant.

First: Tell Us Where You Are.
This is important, generally the most important piece of information you can give us. Even if you don't get the chance to tell us what's happening, even if you can't give us a name, if we can find you, we can help you.
At the very least, try to give us a street and a suburb. However, don't count on talking to someone in the same locality as you - I've taken calls from Cairns, Townsville and Toowoomba, and I can tell you right now, I don't know jack about the geography there. And if you're in West End in Brisbane, talking to someone in Cairns, they might assume you're talking about West End, Cairns. Ideally, give your street number, street name, suburb name, and more general locality, and we're cooking with gas.
Some of you may wonder why this is necessary, given that we've got technology that's supposed to tell us where you are. Well, there are a few reasons. The most basic is that it's not perfect. If you're calling on a mobile, the most it can give us is the billing address. And that's when it works - sometimes, we get the number but not the address, sometimes we don't even get that.

Second: Just The Facts.
I'm sorry, but it's more important to me to find out whether or not the person that hit you is nearby and whether they're likely to hit you or anyone else again than to find out the whole sordid history of how his girlfriend threw herself at you or whatever. In a car accident, I don't care whose fault it was - that's for the insurance companies to decide. I just need to know if anyone's hurt, how badly the cars are damaged, if any third party's property got damaged as well, and if there's a traffic hazard. (That is, after finding out where you are - see above.) Stick to the concrete facts, and we'll do just fine. (Your opinion on whether someone's drunk or drug-affected is a fact, and often relevant. Your opinion on whether police are doing their job is not.)
A subset of this is to try and keep your cool. I know this isn't always easy, especially if you're having to call an emergency line, but we won't be able to find out what to do if all you can do is scream down the line. (Especially if you scream over the code the Telstra operator provides so we can find out where you are - see above.) For some reason, women seem the worst at this in general - it seems too many women are conditioned to turn into screaming ninnies at the first sign of danger. This is odd, given the majority of nurses are female, and they routinely do things that would probably make me vomit - and I'm not particularly squeamish. Men don't seem to fall into hysterics as easily, but they fall prey to the endemic disease called Fucking Stupid a bit more often.

Third: You Are Not A Beautiful And Unique Snowflake.
There are only so many police out there. This is a sad fact. As a result, police have to prioritise the calls they receive. If your house is broken into, that's a terrible thing - it also isn't going to get much worse before police can attend. If you report a break-in on a weekend night, you can expect to wait several hours for police to turn up - and that's if you're lucky. Police are not ignoring you, they're busy - a favourite sport among certain sectors of the population seems to be "Get Drunk And Bash The Ex". By all means, call and find out how things are going - but getting angry will not help you, and may well even hinder you, depending on how vindictive the comms centre personnel that shift are.

This was all inspired by a call I received today. It mainly consisted of someone screaming "They're fucking mistreating me," "Help me," and other fragments like that. He appeared to be talking to someone else, rather than me, so I ended up yelling down the line in a vain attempt to get his attention focused on helping himself. He'd screamed all over the Telstra operator, so even on listening to the recording I couldn't work out the number. He'd repeatedly not answered me when I asked him where he was. He finally gave his name, then hung up.

If you make a call like this, you will receive no help. Not through spite, but through the sheer lack of information. What we knew was someone, probably in Queensland, was in trouble. That's *all*. Mobile? Landline? No idea.

It later came out that the person in question was calling on a mobile from Toowoomba. To be precise, from the back of a paddy-wagon in Toowoomba. Sometimes, it's nice to have someone's stupidity pre-emptively punished.

PLING

Astronomers Find Most Ancient Planet Yet

TRON man shuns Gates-like fortune

Small Stony Asteroids Will Explode and Not Hit Earth, Study Shows

First Map of Cosmic Neutrinos Unveiled

/PLING

Quick Moofie Review

If you thought the first Charlie's Angels movie didn't make must sense, it's an intricate, tightly scripted, plot-driven drama compared to the sequel. Talk about going off the deep end....... wwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Still - at least it wasn't afraid in admitting what it was most people (read: guys) went to see it for.....

Sermon from the Mount

You know what is a real pain in the arse - when wankers decide to give you a hard time just because you're trying to do your job. Case in point - I'm working last Sunday at the 'Gabba (unfortunately it's the gayfl - but heck - they're paying me so I'll put up with it). This gang of twits rock up to support one of the teams in the preliminary game (hint - the one which copped a hiding from the Bears Lions reserve team. Anyhow - they've brought along a couple of signs to support their team - all well and good. The dumb thing is that they've decided to hang them right over the advertising signs - you know - the ones that companies pay alot of money to have seen at various sporting grounds. Covering them up kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it? Anyhow - being a good boy who actually tries to do the job he's paid to do I wander over and politely ask these twits to move their signs, trying to point out that they can hang them from the unadorned fence directly behind then.

Oh course I'm not even allowed to get that far. The turd with the porn-star moustache and bad mullet (not that any mullet is a good mullet mind you....) proceeds to starting spouting the line that they're within their rights to hang the signs wherever they want because the game they're currently watching isn't televised and the gAyFL signage only has to be displayed when the game is being televised. I point out that it doesn't matter whether the game is being televised or not - it's the stadium's policy to have these signs unobstructed. I'm starting to realise that mullett-man is currently not orbiting this planet as he's proceeding to get even more worked up about how he'll stick his sign wherever he wants while the game is not televised.

It's at this stage that I decide to call my supervisor - I'm not paid enough to engage in screaming matches with delusional escapees from bad 70's wana-be biker movies. My supervisor comes along and proceeds to repeat everything I've just said to this dick almost word-for-word. The Ron Jeremy-wanna-be refuses to budge from his "stance against the fascists". The situation is soon solved with the trusty Call to Security causing this twit's "courage" to wilt faster than a naked man facing Lorena Bobbitt with a hacksaw. The signs are moved - and I proceed to cop dirty looks from the Village People reject and constant comments that I'd "better not trip" and the like. Towards the end of the day the moron decides to have another chat with me - starting off by hoping that he meets me some other time to sort things out and then asking what else I do with my time. My first reaction is to tell him that I have nothing better to do with my life that to search out people who are simply doing their job and then try to give them a hard time, but quickly realise that this wanker wouldn't recognize sarcasm if it came up and smashed him square in the face. I simply responded by asking him to return to his seat because the area he was standing in needed to be kept clear for safely reasons.

The moral of this story is simple. If you're at some kind of venue, and a staff member there asks you to do something, they're not doing it because they've decided to give you a hard time. Contrary to what you believe there isn't some grand conspiracy designed to pick on you. They're asking you because they're doing their fucking job. Get over yourself and you're fucking complex and obey the rules. Do that and these staff would have no reason to talk to you. (sigh)......turds......

BTW - nice photo Grant - which crew do you work for? :)

The Hand Of A Long-Forgotten God

The universe is older, and stranger, than we can easily imagine. It exists on a level beyond the realms of our human senses. However, there is evidence of a greater intelligence, and occasionally, if we keep looking, we find a message.

FINALLY, I HAVE THE WEDDING PHOTOS

A Warning To Us All...

Especially to you, Grant. Check out Baby's Named A Bad, Bad Thing.

Ping Pong - Matrix Style

I stumbled across a WMV snippet of some Japanese TV show. It's a little annoying that I couldn't figure out how to save the thing to disk to avoid those pesky buffer delays (even on DSL... though my connection seems spotty of late, anyway.) So, anyway, here it is.

Talkin' 'Bout Stuff

[10:30:PM] *** Josh Nolan wants to establish a SecureIM session.
[10:30:PM] *** SecureIM session established with Josh Nolan.
[10:30:PM] Josh Nolan: Hyo!
[10:30:PM] James A: lo
[10:32:PM] Josh Nolan: How goes it?
[10:32:PM] James A: not too bad - yourself?
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: Not bad at all - we actually pulled over a stolen car tonight!
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: There were people driving it!
[10:33:PM] James A: you did?
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: You know how rarely that happens?
[10:33:PM] James A: what - normally the stolen cars keep driving?
[10:33:PM] Josh Nolan: Not *me*, personally, but I did the checks for the car that did, so I feel vaguely responsible.
[10:34:PM] James A: huzzah
[10:34:PM] Josh Nolan: Well, it's more that stolen cars usually turn up somewhere with the thieves long gone. *shrug* Not enough police on the road.
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: Stolen cars that get intercepted usually don't stop, true, so they often either don't get caught or wind up running into something or otherwise crashing.
[10:35:PM] James A: that's why we need apaches in the police service
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: Heheheh.
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: It'd be hell on the vehicles, though.
[10:35:PM] Josh Nolan: And I doubt you could ever quite get rid of the blood...
[10:36:PM] James A: with sidewinders - there's not enough of the car left to worry bout the blood stains :)
[10:36:PM] Josh Nolan: Fair enough.
[10:37:PM] Josh Nolan: Though the 'hell on vehicles' comment stands. :)
[10:37:PM] James A: hey - it'll teach ppl to stop stealing cars tho
[10:37:PM] Josh Nolan: Maybe so, but it isn't always easy to find said cars.
[10:38:PM] Josh Nolan: It happens in may be 5% of located stolens that I've handled that the owner only knows the car's gone when we ask them about it.
[10:39:PM] James A: pretty scary
[10:39:PM] Josh Nolan: Yah.
[10:39:PM] Josh Nolan: So Apaches wouldn't pick up nearly as many as it might be nice to think.
[10:40:PM] Josh Nolan: I'd say only 5% of stolen vehicles get seen driving by police. Or noticed, at any rate.
[10:41:PM] James A: that's why they've all got dna-encoded transponders - if the driver isn't dna-registered with the car - a transponder is triggered - alertting the apaches to an unauthorised use of a motor vehicle - the offender then is warned of the transgression and has 5 seconds to comply otherwise the 'chopper goes ED-209 on their arse
[10:42:PM] Josh Nolan: So what if it's a mate borrowing a mate's car?
[10:42:PM] James A: then they'd better remember ot authorise the use of that vehicle or they'll be ex-mates pretty quickly...
[10:43:PM] Josh Nolan: Hm...
[10:43:PM] Josh Nolan: Me, I'd give 'em a minute to comply.
[10:43:PM] Josh Nolan: Sometimes it ain't safe to pull over. Ideally, we want the vehicle intact.
[10:44:PM] James A: nah - 5 seconds is more dramatic for the real-live tv camera's that are showing this live on pay-tv - how else do we afford the infrastructure.
[10:44:PM] Josh Nolan: Aaaaah.
[10:44:PM] Josh Nolan: Forgot about that.
[10:45:PM] Josh Nolan: Disregard, then. :)
[10:45:PM] James A: this is why you should vote for me - I have all the answers and provide hours of entertainment :)
[10:46:PM] Josh Nolan: And even if they're not *good* answers, they're still answers, dammit!
[10:46:PM] James A: "entertaining answers" - and that's really all the public wants
[10:46:PM] Josh Nolan: I guess so.

Some People Are Just Plain Weird...

As far as this link goes, it won't make a lot of sense if you haven't seen The Ring (the Japanese version, at least - I don't know what Hollywood did to their version). Of course, just because you have seen it, doesn't guarantee it'll make sense anyway...

Now This Is Cool...

Some people mod their computer cases to look all bright and shiny. But I've not heard of too many other accessory mods. Except for Project Cryo!

Well, They're Not Zombies, But...

ARRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Searing Insight Into The Movie Industry

In an email, my brother hit upon the great secret of film-making. Here it is.

Perhaps the ivory-tower reviewers have realised what the public has always known, that you can't ask for anything more in a movie than zombie pirates. After all, think of all the movies that would have been improved by zombie pirates. Pretty Woman! Remains of the Day! Casablanca! (They might not have improved Water World, but there you go. At least they wouldn't have made it worse).

I think he's onto something. As are these guys. Perhaps.

Entry Criteria?

Di Another Day

Anyone who's read comic books knows that rule that a character isn't dead unless there's a body. Heck - even if there is a body, that doesn't stop characters from being brought back to life (the usual means involving cloning, alternate dimensions or some other usual everyday phenomena...). Marvel - a generally pretty shitty publisher - has been publishing a reasonable book lately called - X-Statix - think of it as the superhero-version of Big Brother - a team of super-powered freaks who are in it for all the adulation and fame they can get.

A recently announced story-line was going to be including a new character brought back from the dead "Princess" Diana. Now while her biggest contribution to many many people was raising the circulation of gossip magazines - Marvel has turned out to be a bunch of pussies, running away from a slight bit of controversy and have canned this story-line altogether. OH well - there goes a story-line which might have been interesting. I guess it's another Marvel book I won't be buying...

FRENCH MILITARY VICTORIES
A mate of mine sent this through....p*ss funny.

Go to google and type in:
"french military victories"
then press the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Follow the "did you mean...." button and read the resulting web page.
Quite funny.

FRENCH MILITARY VICTORIES
A mate of mine sent this through....p*ss funny.

Go to google and type in:
"french military victories"
then press the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Follow the "did you mean...." button and read the resulting web page.
Quite funny.

Every now and again this needs to be brought up to remind us of how trully crap some things are. SuperGreg

BLARG

In Pursuit of Simplicity, the manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra

Fuel Cells: Power Plants for Aircraft

Nanotech for New Organs

Is Linux the biggest thing since the Internet?

Just for the hell of it: The Microsoft Boycott Campaign
I rather enjoyed the quotes page.

And now for soething completely different:
.Net and the Emperor's new clothes
Straight Talk on XP Activation
Can Linux duck the Redmond death ray?

/BLARG

Quickie Update

Just a few random things.
Are you a ninja?
What a toy for the kddies - Hulk's PeePee Smash!

Pinched from Penny Arcade

SWISH

Is it just me or is there something in the title that doesnt seem right?

Sort of reminds me of my soccer days....but it never went this far.

/SWISH

STUFF

Frozen Stars: Black holes may not be bottomless pits after all

Interesting how there is only a few % difference between "Environmental Degradation" and ".NET"

/STUFF

BLAH
Now this is a complete waste of time. Look at the screenshots to see what I mean. X11-ASCII: aalib-based X server

Is one of my bizarre predictions coming true? Monkeys go on rampage

Good to see that we have not progressed to far too fast: Women burnt for being 'witches'

Our solar system has a twin

Perhaps they should all have headlights and be registered? Glow-in-the-dark camels for desert
/BLAH

Still Feeling Lucky?

Do the google thing again. Search for french military victories. Click on I'm feeling lucky. View the rest.

Take Heed Heathens

Remember - God is watching you.....

Roy And H.G. Do D&D In The RttToEE

Sometimes, a D&D adventuring party just needs the celebrity touch. Click here to begin an epic journey with the two greatest sporting legends of our time as your tour guides.

I Can't Help But Think...

...That this means something...

Here're Some Anime Adam Hasn't Seen Yet!

That's right, they're all here. Check 'em out!

Electronica

I think we're violently agreeing. . .

RIPOSTE
Nick, Joe Satriani's album Engines of Creation would almost be considered Electronica, I don't have anything against people using a PC to create music. A PC is merely a tool, they are used everywhere in the music industry. I have no problem with this. But to make music using one still requires musical talent, which all of James A's hellspawn mp3's lack.

LINKS FOR TODAY
Tungsten Crystals Could Provide More Power for Electrical Devices

'Soft walls' will keep hijacked planes at bay

VMware unveils software, plans IPO
VMware, whose software lets an Intel server run several operating systems simultaneously, is expanding both its software capabilities and business ambitions.

Microsoft open-source NT: Linux's nemesis?
Microsoft has killed off Windows NT, but it should now release its source code to the open-source community in order to fight off the challenge from Linux

Linux v Microsoft: the battle for hearts and servers
/LINKS

Music Music Music

I guess you have to say that computers are merely a tool - and no matter how good the tool, if a retard is twiddling the knobs or plucking the strings - you're still going to get crap. On the other hand - if you know what the hell you're doing - you can make some really amazing music - witness Butch Vig - a producer who actually knows what he's doing.

When it comes to covers however - need I remind you all that even with the input of the original artists - it still doesn't mean you're going to avoid more crimes against humanity.

Speaking of Rawk

I guess this is a hot blow job

Musical Challenge - time for those of you with limited tastes to expand your horizons. Shamelessly stolen from the V - complete this list.

Top five rock albums:
Top five rock tracks:
Top five soft rock, pop or ambient albums:
Top five soft rock, pop or ambient tracks:
Top five dance albums:
Top five dance tracks:
Top five hip-hop albums:
Top five hip-hop tracks:

Failure to complete may result in posting privileges being revoked [muah hah hah hah]. Either that or the Domu-kun will get you...

Do You Want To Send 'The Pain' To The Recycle Bin?

Yes. Though this being Microsoft, I'm surprised they don't have an option to send a file to Hell.

"Excuse me, O Terrifying Lord Of Darkness, we just got sent another horrible mp3."
"Excellent. Put it on continuous loop in our muzak."
"Dread Lord, coud even you be so cruel?"
"My mortal friend has taught me well..."

Oh "The Pain"

Ye gods that's truly horrible. . .

I can't agree with all of Grant's comments though. Using a computer to create good music *is* an art. The main trick being the ability to tell the difference between "Hey, that's a good sound" and "God, what a bunch of annoying, meaningless, crappy bleeps and thumps". Unfortunately, just like the rest of the music industry, there are a lot of talentless hacks that the big labels try to pass off as musicians. Computerised music just follows Sturgeon's Law, same as everything else.

And well, requiring original artist's permission before performing covers could get ugly. . . there's a reason compulsory licensing was invented ;P

Mini-Update

This and this are why you should fear Microsoft.

GOOGLE ERROR MESSAGE...WAY FUNNY
Unsure if this has been blogged before:
1. Go to google
2. Search for "weapons of mass destruction"
3. Click "I'm Feeling Lucky"
4. Read the Error message.

STUFF

Cool Little game: Crypt Raider

Prometheus: The Paradigm Buster
An article on the Nuclear Powered space probe that NASA is planning.

BS and Membrane Technology
This article really entails two things: The history of the Universal or QWERTY keyboard layout and a comparison between BS and Membrane technology used today in keyboards, one of the most used interfaces to the computer at present.

The Linux Geek Diet

Microsoft Taps New Open-Source, Linux Strategist

A Better Way to Run Windows Apps in Linux

Linux thrown at mid-market to break Windows
Linux and the mid-market were at the heart of the strategy outlined by Oracle at last week's AppsWorld event in London.

Has SCO Killed UnitedLinux?

Open-source code contains 'as many flaws' as proprietary
Apache source code is of the same quality as proprietary counterparts, according to a study

Open source trade clash

/STUFF

I AGREE COMPLETELY...
**** TRANSMISSION INITIATED ****

I an certainly with James A on this one.
* ALL CHART WHORES MUST BE PUT TO DEATH IN AN ENTERTAINING MANNER!
* If you can't play an instrument you should not be allowed to release an album, and NO A PC / MAC DOES NOT COUNT AS AN INSTRUMENT!
* Also all covers should have to be approved by the original artist before they are released. At lest this way the original artist has to take some responibility for totally fucking up a song. (I could give examples here, but all who know me know that they would be happier if I didn't, well, at least they would not be shaking their head so much).

You have just been reading another Micro Brain Fart from Grant
****TRANSMISSION TERMINATED****

Sermon from the Mount

System of a Down - a band of questionable political persuasion (yes guys - you are such non-conforming anti-capitalist rebels because you decided to release a record called "Steal This Album" - why not give it away for free on the 'net if you're not concerned with the royalties from the big evil corporate record companies.....) released a pretty decent album in 2001 - Toxicity. It had some pretty good tunes on it. I recently had the (mis)fortune to come across this musical crime against humanity recorded by one of the oh-so-kewl rebel rawk pop-tarts. I think the bitch deserves a week W.O.O. for pulling this kind of stunt. The one small mercy is that the stupid kid didn't try to cover a good song...... I mean it's not even funny in an ironic manner (and no - I don't mean in the way that Tiffany-clone/now I'm all angsty-angry-grrl-cause no-one'd buy my albums Alanis Morissette thinks is the definition of ironic).

Listen up RIAA and all the rest - it's not the internet that's killing record sales - it's the talentless hacks and whores that are releasing crap disguised as "music" which is causing sales to drop. I don't care how funkily you can mainipulate sounds using the latest version of Pro Tools (unless of course you actually do something interesting with Pro Tools) - if your songs uses a guitar, you play on in your film clips and you can't even tune one by ear - you've got no place in the business so piss off back to whatever soap you crawled out of.

What I'm listening to

\M/

Special Bonus Section - for fans of Norweigan Black Metal. From popbitch

Norwegian Satanist Watch
Guitarist beheads corpse for hash

The black metal scene in Norway is once again going mental. Last weekend, Illvastar, the guitar player in Svartharid, broke into a morgue in Skien. He chopped off the head of a dead guy with a sami-knife (a 20-40cm knife with long, sharp blade) and arranged the other bodies in various "positions".

When arrested, Ilvastar claimed that he'd done it for a bet. His prize? A lump of hash.

But Illvastar still has some work to do before joining the cream of Norwegian metal weirdos, like Euronymous and Count Grishknackh.

Euronymous ate his dead bandmate's brain (in a stew, with ham, frozen vegetables, and paprika). And Count Grishknackh? He killed Euronymous, claiming to friends that Euronymous had "cried like a girl" while being stabbed.

Survey Says...

Yes

AM I THE ONLY ONE POSTING NOW?

THINGS
Spoof Ads

DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers

Bill Gates' take on subjects from spam to Mozambique

Sinbad Hears Linux's Siren Song

Opensource Code More Refined Than Closed? Here is a poorly titled CNet atricle.
/THINGS

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NEC Unveils Methanol-Fueled Laptop

Mozilla 1.4 Released

Blizzard North Co-Founders Leave Company

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