SLOTD 31st October 2006

Silliness:

Marvellous, don’t mess with the old biddy you punk-ass merc driving git.

Like they said, way too much free time on their hands. But still, Diet Coke is awesomely powerful stuff.

And you thought you’d seen everything. Get the Scoop, on Poop.

Ok, so I’m against waste – but this is just taking it personally.

SLOTD 30th October 2006

Geekiness:

Me likey! It’s a little 3D app showing the positions of satellites. You’ll be surprised (if you are ignorant of GeoStationary orbits and how they work) at the large number really really far out on the equator.

Follow the 10 C commandments, and do not waver from the path of righteousness. (Or, use C#, F# or Ruby and chill.)

Silliness:

Proof positive that ideas rule over execution art in game design.

Geeky Silliness:

The story of why, in some versions of windows, Poland is twinned with Atlantis.

The trickery of Language

Well, I’m supposed to be working at the moment, but I’m between projects. I have been reading up the training notes, in case anyone at work reads this. (Or, indeed knows of its existance) But I’ve also purchased some chocolate cookies from the shop.

I know I’m safe in admitting this, because the only person who would tell me off for this sort of behaviour is the one who lives with me, and hence is exactly the person who will never read this.

Anyway, the point of the post, said cookies have a nice big star-shaped exclamation on the front of the box (you know the sort, the kind of thing which reads "New and Improved" – don’t even get me started on that phrase.) which reads "with 37% chocolate chips." This leaves two main questions in my head, for a chocolate chip cookie, what are the other 63% of the chips made of? Or are the chips all made of 37% chocolate? In which case what else are the chips made of?

All in all, quite alarming.

SLOTD 27th October 2006

Geekiness:

A rather good website showing how complex problems can be solved. It lays it all out rather nicely.

A stack of useful tools for Visual Studio. Groovy.

New Tags for the Web

This is pretty much a re-print of a post I made on channel9, but I thought it was funny, and no-one there seemed to notice so I’ve brought it to your attention.

Seeing as I got into a bit of a disagreement with the third most famous geek ever at the moment, I decided that XHTML needs a few extra tags put in for those of us not quite skilled enough with our mother tongues to make all meaning clear.

 

• The "Tongue in Cheek" tag, for people who take everything too seriously, you could label your text as being not serious. Thus allowing the browser to display warnings or format the text to make it clear that the content isn’t serious. (Perhaps by using circles to dot is instead of a dot.)
• The Sarcasm tag, for when the vast all-encompassing intellect of your readers misses a really subtle and incredibly nuanced use of language which indicates sarcasm.
• The Camp Tone Of Voice tag, especially useful when bitching about people’s fashion sense.
• The Teenage Girl’s Stream Of Consciousness tag. Because like I want to say something, but this guy’s all "you’re really stupid" and I’m all like "shut up" and they don’t listen to me because they’re all bitches and whenever that simone says anything I feel like "shut up bitch" and I want to strangle her but it makes me discracted and my spelling all goes wonky and the teahers are all like "you’re suptid cos you can’t spell" and I’m all like "shut up" and they never listen anyway and it’s all soooooo unfair. (Especially useful for MySpace methinks.)

I think it’s pretty explanatory, someone get onto the w3c!

SLOTD 26th October 2006

Silliness:

Marvellous picture, completely priceless reaction from the poor anchorman (run while you still can!)

This is completely friggin’ mental. But you’ve got to admire the effort which clearly went into it.

Geekiness:

Be afraid, be very very afraid. Democracy as you know it is under threat. I’m glad that last time I voted for anything it was on a real piece of paper.

SLOTD 25th October 2006

Geekiness:

Useful tips on Photography – actually this was today, not yesterday (As the title says) but I couldn’t not post yesterdays link, and it looked lonely all by itself.

Tim’s Link:

Pelicans are dangerous beasties – I’ve watched them fish in the Zoo before. But I’d not heard of one eating pidgeons, until now.

SLOTD 24th October 2006

Silliness:

The idea that won’t die… The ekranoplan. Here’s footage of the Russian beast taken from a documentary.

Why is anyone’s guess – but what happens when you microwave a CD and put it on a tesla coil? Art m’dears.

That’s your lot today, I’m a busy man.

SLOTD 23rd October 2006

Sadness:

Wow… The world’s oldest business looks like it’s gone bankrupt. Still, 1400 years of trading – they’ve lasted longer than any empire I can think of. (Pedants will point out the Roman empire lasted a hugely long time, but I don’t count the empire after Rome had been lost. Kinda spoils the Roman bit to my mind.)

Silliness:

All well and good, right up until it gets dark outside methinks. Anyway – the all glass toilet!

The longest list of whingeing I think I’ve ever seen. Strangely poetic in the concentration of bile it represents.

Ellie’s Link:

Hoorah! The age-old tradition of endangering your own life with burning tar can continue thanks to lots of help. Marvellous.

SLOTD 20th October 2006

Silliness:

The world’s fastest street car. It’s a 1970’s vauxhall, seriously – I’m not joking.

It’s amazing what you can get on a motorbike – I love the guy holding a mirror.

Who said American soldiers are dumb? Here’s a powerful insight into the trauma of returning home from war ashamed of your actions.