SLOTD 28th November 2007

Silliness:

Won’t someone please think of the bunnies?

SLOTD 26th November 2007

Silliness:

In the wake of the loss of 25 million people’s personal data by government, it should appear that the ID card scheme is doomed. The government is insisting it’ll be magically alright though… Bad science deals with some of the nonsense surrounding why. Money quote: "… The leak last week wasn’t because of unauthorised access, it couldn’t have been stopped with biometrics; it happened because of authorised access which was managed with a contemptible, cavalier incompetence. The damaging repercussions for 25 million people will not be ameliorated by biometrics…"

I’ve used John’s Background Switcher for ages, and the latest version is awesome. Especially cool is the "snapshot scrapbook" feature, which liberally scatters some of my flickr images across the screen.

SLOTD 23rd November 2007

Silliness:

Seriously, I’m moving to Norway… Like, as soon as physically possible. Sorry to all my friends and family and all, but you can come and visit me.

My favourite joke of the day: (taken from reddit.) "A man is uptown at the bank when he realizes he left his accordion in his car and the car is unlocked. He rushes back to his car but it’s too late…someone put another accordion in his car."

SLOTD 19th November 2007

Silliness:

So seriously, who would win in a fight between a penguin and a lemur?

So, IQ does vary depending on race; two things before everyone gets in a huff:

1. IQ is only a measure of a particular kind of intelligence, and may or may not be an accurate predictor of someone’s ability to cope with the modern world.
2. Asians are smarter than any of us.

SLOTD 16th November 2007

Silliness:

I love this idea, imitating the Weasley’s clock from Harry Potter, just one question, why no "mortal peril" time?

These are beyond cool, but sadly to get them in from the US would be a hassle… Any UK distributers want to start selling this stuff?

SLOTD 15th November 2007

Silliness:

For anyone wondering why all those american writers are on strike, this sums up the argument quite nicely… Well, half the argument, as the other half is about DVD sales. In brief, internet content is worthless so writers don’t get paid, but somehow it’s justified suing for $1,000,000,000 over lost internet revenue (or something like that.)

Also, this surfer dude, proposed this theory of everything and scientists think it’s cool. (NB, surfer dude is a scientist too)

SLOTD 14th November 2007

Silliness:

This is the best correction to an article ever, I don’t even want to see the original article.

Copied wholesale from reddit, it should be noted that the irony is probably deliberate, but certainly eye-catching: "One-third of British adults so stupid when it comes to geography that they think Mount Everest is in Europe instead of Africa"

SLOTD 8th November 2007

Silliness:

Norwegians are all going to hell! And I want to go with them, if hell is Norway, then Christians are clearly idiots… (likely explanation is that hell and Norway have nothing in common, one – and I’ll leave it to you to decide which – clearly being non-existant.)

Also, it was my birthday yesterday… yay me!

SLOTD 6th November 2007

Silliness:

Interesting solution to encourage users to scroll down once in a while.

Darwin, on losing his faith.

SLOTD 5th November 2007

Silliness:

Colourization, a groovy technique to automatically add colour to your black and white images (or movies).