Just found this guy via Boingboing: This one I like a lot. He also has a nastier side. Enjoy.
Just found this guy via Boingboing: This one I like a lot. He also has a nastier side. Enjoy.
Japanese crows fight dirty: in Tokyo they're taking down (pole-strung) fiber cables because the stuff apparently makes good nesting material. Result: loads of people without Internet access.
Propaganda idiots at work: Dear Captain Copyright, it is with great pleasure that I hereby violate your absolutely moronic IP disclaimer, which shows that you have no clue whatsoever about technology or anything else for that matter.
In short: you are total wankers. Now, please stop linking to yourself and do vanish in a puff of logic as your own site is very much "damaging or cause(ing) harm to the reputation of, Access Copyright".
The disadventure hits it spot on. sigh
From worth1000.com comes this contest entry titled "an early art project by young MC Escher".
Goddam, it feels like the Endless September all over again: hordes of clueless, reckless, dumb twits invade a world. Again, the fools themselves are not the guiltiest party but rather the provider of the sucky service (who didn't bash them with the netiquette first) should rot in hell.
I'm a "mischievous webmaster"! (Thomas Scott says so, so
it must be true.) As a matter of fact, I'm a non-compromising utter bastard. Therefore I do my best
to make the experience of looking at (a number of) myspace user pages a...memorable one.
(naturally I don't discriminate against normal people: having no referrer header is fine by me. Copying
images onto your own machine and serving it from there is fine by me as it's unavoidable.)
A short reminder from your friendly webmaster: DO NOT HOTLINK TO ANY OF MY IMAGES, OR ELSE. The "else" part can be seen at these places, brought to you by the magic of
perl -ne 's/&/&/g; m!"(http://[^.]+\.myspace.com/[^\"]*)"! || next; $seen{$1}||=1 && print qq|<a href="$1">|.++$i.qq|</a>\n|;' </var/log/apache/access.log
(Note that not all links work as I'm too lazy to strip the ephemeral gunk from the urls.)
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There are people who just don't deserve to be alive. Responding to spammers is stupid, but dragging thousands of other recipients into it makes it a capital offense. A recent email to the debian-security list supports my assertion:
Subject: Re: Sell Your Organs Online! From: "kwd" <kwdowse@mts.net> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:57:20 -0700 (Fri 10:57 EST) To: <jkeon@rcn.com> Cc: <debian-security@lists.debian.org> so what's this all about? get back to me with a list of what's worth what.
"Brain: $0.1 (as yours is too small)
Fat and skin: $0.5/kg (let's make some soap, shall we?)
Eyes: $10/pair (please gouge them out with a clean teaspoon only and pack
them in dry ice straight away before couriering them over.)"
I'm in a bad mood, therefore I think I'll make the non-accessible logo image you like so much into a redirect to a big tubgirl image, it'll make your site look much better. (Now my friends know what kind of mood I'm in.)
You may find it TMI that bloody Google spits out tubgirls galore without even disabling the evil "SafeSearch" crap.
...10 minutes later...
Done. Enjoy! <sfx: evil laugh>
Looks like she didn't like the 1278x956 tubgirl image, but I really can't understand why... Now she has even put an email address on her website, so the Big Hammer treatment must have helped a bit. 10 brownie points for me! (I really do enjoy being evil, sometimes.)
The occasional spam titled thus always cracks me up so badly. (Sometimes I'm easily amused.) A replica of what? (And what woman, anyway?)
But the content...my, these spammers apparently believe in Truth In Advertising more than normal marketing assholes! (how that works out when selling fake Rolexes I don't know, but extrapolating from election results I infer that there are gazillions of sufficiently stupid fools)
The spam goes on like this:
Get the Finest Rolex Watch Replica
...in a combo with the "Yes, I'm that stupid!" T-shirt.
"We only sell premium watches. There's no battery in these replicas just like the real ones since they charge themselves as you move. The second hand moves JUST like the real ones, too. These original watches sell in stores for thousands of dollars. We sell them for much less."
Amazing! A watch with a second hand that ACTUALLY MOVES!
"- Replicated to the Smallest Detail
- 98% Perfectly Accurate Markings
- Signature Green Sticker w/ Serial Number on Watch Back
- Magnified Quickset Date
- Includes all Proper Markings"
I love the part about the 98% and the Signature Green Sticker...suppose without that it wouldn't be a Genuine Fake Rolex Replica Premium Watch my nonexistent woman should drool over.
If you read this in a debian package announcement, would you think of work-safe occupations or guba-style activity?
sextractor -- Source extractor for astronomical images.
Thought so. The author is proudly getting his rocks off with those super asstronomical pictures.
Hehe. Two of this year's IgNobel prizes have been awarded to Australian academics: one team got the biology prize for figuring out that stressed frogs stink differently from normal frogs. (But hey, they also found an pigeon-be-gone smell that seems to work.)
What I found way more fun, was what the ABC news nicely headed "Watching paint dry": two guys from UQ in Brisbane devoted their entire life to an experiment as exciting as, drum roll, watching pitch drops drop. Which. doesn't. happen. very. often. The experiment started in 1927, and one of the fellows already died - of boredom, I assume. The IgNobel fellows thought this commitment worth the physics prize.
Some MS weenie tries to recruit Eric Raymond. Much hilarity ensues, including his response (where this entrie's title comes from).
The "Australian International University" is a brilliant spoof by some pissed-off Oz academic. (Not me!) He made it into a variety of papers already (owing to newspeople without brains, humour and/or the necessary academic cynicism).
Some pearls to follow:
"The Australian International University website is produced by an organisation called Academic Jihad. Academic Jihad has sleeper cells spread throughout the Australian university system and is poised to unleash a merciless firestorm of pedagogy on unsuspecting students, both local and international."
"Here at the Australian International University we have rationalised the normal system of different university faculties into a single faculty. We realised that most of the other faculties were not generating sufficient income and were having a negative effect on the overall marketing plan of the university. As a result, the Australian International University only has one faculty - the Faculty of Business."
Cynical, me? No way!
Source: the ever-brilliant samizdata blog
Kiwis are cool, and this kiwi and his kids are no exception. The embedded content sucks, however, so here's a link to the actual movie.
Evolve On!
(Not a surprise for anybody with a shred of common sense; but this instance at least is funny.)
On Friday, Ms Robertson sent a letter to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, near Los Angeles, asking directors to take fish off the cafeteria lunch menu, adding: "Serving fish at an aquarium is like serving poodle burgers at a dog show."
Now what's wrong with that? I guess if poodles tasted any good...
I hope the members of this "Fish Empathy Project for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" (Judean People's Front, anyone?) show their empathy with the fish by not breathing any more air. Soon, please.
Link to the news article
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This is "Bad Table", a piece of real-world furniture made and sold by a Vancouver Company (fittingly called "Straight Line Designs"). (To the designers of their flash eye cancer webshite: here's a nickle, kids, get yourself a real editor and a copy of the relevant RFCs.)
If only I had the money for such practical jokes...dream
Subject: Re: a sad host From: Brian Kantor Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 05:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Garrett Wollman ... wrote: >Yeah, it is kind of sad when machines have to be rebooted weekly. > 4:15PM up 409 days, 22:02, 1 user, load averages: 12.34, 9.87, 8.01 >-GAWollman Or yearly, even: >Last login: Wed Apr 20 15:56:09 2005 from karoshi.ucsd.edu >10:26PM up 1453 days, 18:20, 3 users, load averages: 0.35, 0.17, 0.15 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >[brian] 1 :
hehe
MS UK, transatlantic offspring of the Evil Empire is sponsoring a short film competition, titled "Thought Thieves".
"The theme of your film should be about how intellectual property theft affects both individuals and society."
The entry form clearly shows its origins:
"...Should I be selected as a finalist in this competition, I confirm the following: 7. I will formally license on terms acceptable to Microsoft, all intellectual property rights in my film and agree to waive all moral rights in relation to my film if requested to do so..."
Pot. Kettle. Black. Assholes.
Link to the boingboing article
"It's made out of poo, but also it's so Aussie."
say Joanna Gair of Creative Paper Tasmania who is the manufacturer of a paper made from roo dung.
Which seems to be a solid seller despite looking like, well, shite.
King Midas would be impressed.
Link to
the ABC's story
Google Maps helps us to identify the greatest liar.
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sagt die Bayreuther Polizei. Gut so, das wär ja noch schöner!
Meine Hochachtung für den Scheiße-verzierer; viel stinkige Arbeit aber
eine schöne Idee.
Link zu einem von vielen Artikeln
This is about as silly
as the arguments the Content Cartel wants us to swallow.
Source: Cigarro & Cerveja
"A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor", published by the AMS. Contains pretty cool silly things like this:
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: Fermat: It did not fit on the margin on this side.
How about this OZ gem? An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces. That one won one of the Ignobel Prices last year.
The engineering winner, and IMHO highlight this year, is US patent 4,022,227: the comb-over baldy man hairstyle. greed and stupidity, a mind-boggling combination.
"Being a maintenance programmer is such a privileged joy and honor. I get to spend anywhere from eight to twelve, sometimes as many as sixteen straight hours a day locked in an eight by eight cube grinding my ass out writing code that you freaks don't appreciate."
What a beautiful rant, make sure to read this while it's still there.
Link to the rant
I like the Go Faster Wheels in particular.
This thing is a photoshopped fake, by the way.
This spam just came in via Tiscali UK. Apparently the spammers have
discovered the magics of Babelfish. But true to form they botched it:
the babblefish mangles (apparently) reasonable English into
hilarious stuff quite totally unlike German...
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