New Zealand bans Postal 2 game
I’m lost for words at this – Officials in New Zealand have banned the pc game Postal 2. Not only have they made it illegal to sell the game but they’ve also made it against the law to own a copy. This is, quite frankly, amazing. Not just because the game is quite old hat by now but also because it’s so poor that I can’t understand why anyone would want to play it. Making it illegal will just inspire more people to want to play this piece of poor programming. If any NZ readers want my copy then let me know.
One of these things is not like the others
It’s been a bit slow of the GIS front recently – keep those suggestions coming in. One reader submission for our ‘One of these things…’ comes from Chris who pointed us to Google Search: sphynx. (As usual – the odd one out is NSFW)
It’s amazing what you can buy from Target
Target, the US retailer, have some amazing deals on at the moment. You can get MDMA, a bl0wj0b, Mariju4na and get an an4l massage. There are many, many more of these floating around the net at the moment – let us know if you find any other classics.
The Band Aid Dilemma
20 years ago I bought the original Band Aid single. I hated it. As a music fan, it was an insult to everything I loved. What made it worse was that musicians that I respected had been involved on the recording. Fast forward 20 years and it’s happening again (although this time, there aren’t many musicians I respect involved). I don’t want to be a grouch and not do my bit though – so what’s a geek to do? BandAidDilemma.net seems the best way to keep a clear conscience. Simply buy the single from the shops then destroy it in an amusing fashion (flames, explosions, acid etc) and film/photograph the resulting havoc for everyone’s entertainment.
The Computer
Most of our readers think they know a thing or two about computers – JC, for example, considers himself to be a right old smart4rse. However, if my computer ever ceases to work I just whip out my pooter bible
The Rasterbator
This has to be classed as one of my favourite links ever. The Rasterbator isn’t rude despite the dodgy-sounding name. In fact, it’s an incredibly useful tool. Simply pick an image from the web or upload your own and it’ll rasterize it for you. For non-designers, this basically means that you can output a huge image to a printer that looks excellent from a distance. For an example, have a look at the Alistairbator that uses 352 pages. I feel another work prank coming on…
Germans crucify Jesus on mobile mast
Funny story on the Register today about German telephone masts having Jesus crucified on them. What I want to know is, do they do one for a TV antenna – if so I’m there!
Blunkett detains himself under his own laws
Home Secretary David Blunkett (left) has placed himself under house arrest on the day he was to introduce Identity (ID) Card legislation into Parliament, it has emerged. The move comes amid allegations of improper conduct by the Minister.
According to smirking Home Office sources, Mr Blunkett’s own laws have forced him to sign his arrest warrant, refuse his own Leave to Appeal and order himself to be dragged through a bramble thicket “until a confession is obtained”. The abused Minister will then face indefinite detainment without access to sunshine or a lawyer.
If only!
USB Flower Pot Speaker
More USB nuttiness (what is it with USB gadgets?). This time the Japanese (who else?) have come up with a USB-powered speaker disguised as a flower Pot.
16yr old arrested for arranging mother’s murder
Although, unfortunately, it’s not unusual to hear of children killing their parents – This case is notable because the girl implicated, Rachelle Waterman, had a livejournal (popular online diary for you newbies). Her last entry reads Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered.
There are over 4000 comments to this post since it’s become public (mostly deleted or worthless) and a link to a newspaper article can be found here. It’s an odd one which I’ll be following with interest.
I won’t have computer acess until the weekend or so because the police took my computer to go through the hard drive. I thank everyone for their thoughts and e-mails, I hope to talk to you when I get my computer back.
12 sided DIY calendar
D&D; freaks, save money on a desk calendar next year by downloading your own 12 sided calendar. Choose from a pentagon dodecahedron or a rhombic dodecahedron (big words just to please Solomon – he likes that kind of thing).
cheers Carl
Blunkett might be on the way out
I’m hoping that by the end of the day we might have heard some good news that David Blunkett might be out of a job. If so, good riddance – we can replace him with some simple code anyway and the only thing he seems to have done in the last few years is work towards what might turn out to be his legacy to the UK, the Big Brother-like id card.
This has been a non-party political broadcast from grom (my views don’t necessarily reflect any other contributors to this site but it’s my site and I’ll post what I damn well want.)
Lycos Screensaver to stamp out Spam
I do hope that the screensaver announced by Lycod to stamp out spam does actually work by annoying the spammers with high hosting bills. Assuming, of course, that the sites are actual spammers sites and that they don’t just land the hosting companies (who are innocent in the affairs) with large unpaid bills. The screensaver is available here for those unethical enough to run it.
A Tribute to Ray Harryhausen, Skeletor and the village People
We blogged this ages and ages ago but I’v ejust been sent this again and it still makes me laugh. This Tribute to Ray Harryhausen (he of Jason & the Argonauts fame) also encompasses Skeletor (of He-Man fame) and the Village People (of YMCA fame) in one stroke of genius.
Bounce-based Cranberry Sorter
Remeber a few days ago we told you about a revolutionary new system for sorting pistachios by the sound they make when they are dropped? Well, I’ve just read about an age old mechanism for sorting cranberries by the same system. Sadly, I can only find one half-assed image showing the aparatus. Cranberries are dropped down a small flight of steps where they bounce over barriers on each step. If they bounce all the way to the bottom then they pass the test and are packed. The rest fail and are probly fed to pigs or something. Strange but true (search for word the ‘bounce’ on this page.
USB Mince Pie
We’ve featured all manner of USB gadget in the past but the USB Mince Pie really takes the biscuit (or pie even!)
BalloonHead
I wasn’t expecting this to happen!
Diverse Entertainment
Ladeez and Mentalmen, we are going oldskoooool your Friday afternoon game! Sonic the Hedgehog is reborn! Enjoy.
One of these things is not like the others
Trust me i’m a doctorNSFW (but only slightly, maybe it’s more of a LSFW)
Geosense: an online world geography game
Once in a while we like to post something a little more edumacationalistic. Here is a lovely little geography game – just click where you’re told to click. In 10 rounds I got 3465 points (0 timeouts, 346.5 avg points and 446.3 avg kms off) – beat that!
Cigarette Health Warnings
Once upon a time, just telling people they were going to suffer slow painful deaths was information enough for the back of a fag packet. The EU are now urging member countries to start being a little more graphic! Groo! Good intentions, but I bet it still makes no difference though.
Mobys Dick
It’s a hard job running this site and having to find the best links for you lot so it’s often a relief when you do our job for us and send us links to post. Imagine, then the horror when I received a mail saying ‘Saw this and thought of you’. It makes me wonder exactly what our readers think of us! (NSFW)
Online hunting
Once upon a time, if you wanted to pick up a real gun and go and shoot some real animals, you needed to go somewhere that allowed that kind of behaviour, preferably where there are very few people. These days, all you need to do is visit sites like this where you can take a pop or two at some poor beasties from the comfort of your own armchair! You wont even need to spill your Bud or drop your lard-drenched triple burger with cheese. Luckily, at the moment it would seem that they are not providing the live targets yet… but they are working on it. Ooh, it gets me quite riled.
eBay item 5536392178
Another incredible grilled cheese sandwich being sold on eBay!
Mr T loves his mum
Mother! I’ll always love ‘er! Mah Mother! So treat her right! Mr T gets all gooey
Sound-based Pistachio Sorter
Scientists have been working as hard as usual. This time they’ve devised a machine to sort pistachio nuts based on the sound they make when dropped. Pointless but I’d proably still buy one.
The Imaging Resource
I’m currently trying to choose a camera. Am I the only person who doesn’t like buying technology!? Stumbled on this site which is very handy indeed! You can search for cameras and if you click ‘compare sample images’ down the left navigation you can.. um… compare sample images. Obviously. Sorry.
Synthesizer pr0n
For modern musical geeks, nothing is better than rooms and rooms full of electronic kit. If that’s your bag then have a w4nk over this collection of photos of musicians surrounded by mountains of old keyboards.
phpbb serious exploit
If you run a version of the popular open source message board system ‘phpbb’ then you really need to check this out! A serious explot has been brought to the community’s attention and they strongly urge you to patch your installation ‘as a matter of urgency’!
Build a Better Bush
At some point we’ll stop bothering with the Bush posts… no really… I mean it. However, somebody, somewhere has been having a little Photoshop Joy!
