A Worry

It's always a concern when you pull a can of drink out of the fridge and it looks like this...


I opened it - and disappointingly there was no explosion.

[Listening to: El Scorcho - Weezer - Pinkerton (4:03)]

Ryongchon - Nuclear Trigger for American Conscription? - this is why they call it the loony left

Interesting body art

Don't want to be bothered by TeleMarketing?

Scramble to beat cold-calling ban
THE Australian direct marketing industry is poised to commit to a government-regulated national do-not-call register in the face of threats to ban them from accessing phone numbers published in directories such as White Pages.

Subservient Chicken

Order your own Subservient Chicken

The Saga of South Africa's Economy

The World Game

Australia is a nation who's sport is dominated by the three oblong-ball codes who all claim they're the greatest sport ever. But I challenge anyone to come up with a two minute highlights package that comes anywhere near topping this

[Listening to: Lightning Field - Sneaker Pimps - Splinter (4:11)]

Where Storage is going

Optware unveils holographic device for up to 300GB per disc

In The Grim Dark Future...

You get cool pics like this.

[Listening to: Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin - Remasters - Disc 01 (6:26)]

Google Image search for 3dsf

UHF - My 15 Year Pilgrimage

camwyn: And now the ENTIRE THING. - The Silmarillion in one thousand words.

Creative Advertising

Now I appreciate that when you have a product that you wish to sell, one of the best ways to sell that product is to advertise it. However, I've never seen an advertising campaign like this in Australia...

Bonus Link - especially for Grant.

[Listening to: One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever Amen (3:52)]

Piss funny

The End of the World

InfoWorld: Firefox fills the IE void: March 19, 2004

Hey James, lets take a poll...

If anyone is reading this then click the comments link and leave your name.

www.tism.com.au 2004

Now This Is Cool

Me wants one.

Two for tday

Clay Kitten Shooting

This is cool

NEWS.com.au | Keating finished it over dinner (April 21, 2004) - as if anyone needed another reason as to why Keating was a bastard.

And on the 7th Day, God invented Tow Bars...

Driving along on my way to University today, a lovely fellow decided to run up the back of my car. This was the end result of damage to my vehicle.



And his vehicle.

I guess that's why God invented Tow Bars - very good at punching through radiators.

NASA Should Learn From Rosaviacosmos

**** TRANSMISSION INITIATED ****

I find it pretty rich that after the Americans f*cked up and killed another 7 astronauts that they are taking their bloody time to help fund the Russian contingent of the ISS venture, who are now doing all of the lifting of crew and supplies into orbit.

The following is an extract from an aticle on the recent launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket that lifted three austonauts (one Russian, one Dutchman, one Americn) into orbit, en route to the ISS, from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russias primary space launch facility.

The task of keeping the international space station manned, has forced Russia to put on hold construction of its own segment of the space station and some commercial projects.

Looking for ways to ease the burden, the cash-strapped Russian space agency has suggested that if the United States shared the cost of launches it could deliver more cargo and men to the station.

But Navias said NASA was not prepared to discuss the proposal.

Russia has also proposed to extend a crew mission on the space station from six months to one year to free hands to give rides to well-paying space tourists, Sergei Gorbunov, chief spokesman for the Russian space agency, said Saturday.

Gorbunov said that despite the recent improvement of government funding, due to President Vladimir Putin's `"close attention'' to the space industry, it was still on a tight ration. "`We have nowhere to take money from."

Navias said NASA "was evaluating the request."

NASA have fucked up majorly and are now relying on the Rosaviacosmos (the Russian space agency) to do a lot of the work for them until they can "unground" their fleet of Shuttles.

Perhaps NASA should get it head out of it's own arse, get rid of the morons who ignored requests for more information in order to better evaluate Columbia so that what happened would not happen, realise that on several ocasions in the past they have made complete dick heads of themselves (need I mention the lost Mars probes) and understand that the Russians (with bugger all funding) have managed time and time again to safely and reliably launch crew and cargo into orbit without incident. This is why NASA should help fund the Russians and take notes.

NASA should be learning from the Russians and having a serious look at themselves.

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

Now heres a quote i like

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook

Articles: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes, by Lucy A. Snyder

KILL BILL

Too Much Time

If Adam ever customizes a pc case like this, you know it's time to leave the house...

hehheheheheheheh

A guy at work emailed this to me

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4123685652&category=11161

This is a SCARY SELLER!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only is he selling 100 2 speed DVD-Rs for $55 more than you can buy quality 4 speed DVD-Rs but have a look at the "BONUS" in the offer.

BONUS OFFER
These disks are made with the latest technology, purple recording surface
My testing shows that you may get up to 10% errors with these disks so I add 10% FREE to allow for that

theyrecoming - Pumpkinfest 2003

Meat is GOOD FOOD - PWEETA

Once More with Hobbits: A Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Musical Adventure

Lego Volvo

images.google.com search criteria = sdfg

This is nucking futs!

sdfg returned all of these images

heh

Old but good.

What happens when you type random characters into Google's Image search


This is gotta hurt


This is bad


This is stupid


This is a condom

14MP Digital Images

These are images taken with a 14MP camera from Kodak.

The detail is as you would expect...freakin' amazing! Zoom in on the eyes and have a look at the detail, pay attention to the iris and the reflection.

Something like this does raise the question of security. If it is possible to get that much detail from a photo taken by a commercially available camera at a reasonable distance, then arn't Iris Recognition systems and other such biometrics at risk?

This is one such camera.
For more images have a look here and here.
If you look closely you can see the individual hairs on the skin. Impressive

Snowball, the Monster Cat

heh

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This is nuts

Docs Machine: Bowling Ball Mortar

New Batmobile

Very Dark Knight Returns...

Wacky News

From 411mania.com

Diamond Dallas Page is apparently up for a role in the sequel to Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. The sequel will be called The Devel's Rejects. DDP and Zombie are friends in real life and are yoga partners.

You're telling me that this guy

and this guy

are yoga partners. It just seems wrong somehow...