Thirded - very good read and worth the patience to get through the 9 pages.

when not to leave your Outlook Out of office enabled

2 for 1 offer at Pizza Express

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Generates random band names after you put a word in.

I tried Gunther, Thuccydiddes and Badgerfest. Check it.


Band Name Maker with Badgerfest

This could have gone in either the books or music thread, but I plumped for here in the end.

for those with a wii...

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Following the recent near-shoeing of Bush, someone has actually burnt the midnight oil to bring you ...

The 'Can you hit Bush with a Shoe?' game

You've got to admire the dedication of these dudes with no girlfriends....

But wait for the punchline - love it...

Apple's Macworld announcement

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'virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit' hahaha. Sounds like a pile of poo. I don't know any aardvarks and refuse to send them emails anyway.

Bush era in Onion articles.

It's difficult to pick a favourite, but 'Bush Actually President, Nation Suddenly Realises' (May 30, 2001) stands out. Also, the articles from immediately post 9/11 are pretty special:

'American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.'
'Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell.'
'Jerry Falwell: Is That Guy A Dick Or What?'
'U.S. Urges Bin Laden To Form Nation It Can Attack.'

Dr Who Does Dubai
(not as exciting as Debbie or Dallas) but what a furore about how evil the place is - check The Guardian link. Raging journalist gets his knickers in a twist.

Dr Who in Dubai

Well if you're going to read the Grauniad then you generally get what you deserve.

There are just two good things about that newspaper:

1. Their cricket coverage
2. Charlie Brooker (see the Books thread for more on him)

While I am moaning, I can't let the grammar in that blog slide. 'The BBC have...'? 'The Guardian have...'?

There was only one BBC and only one Guardian (mercifully) last time I checked.

Technically the use of the word 'have' to refer to the collective is correct if the emphasis is on all the individual members of the collective. Since I think guardian writers are peni, I'm going to take it as bad grammar.

And in case you guys needed any more reminders of Valentine's Day here's one that I think both boys and girls will love...

Agent Provocateur's Valentine's Day reminder

From the lonely island - reminds me of Raef and Mrs Ross during English class...

J*** in my pants

Can you spot Justine Timberlake?

Addictive as feck - Dannyboy - you will love this you slag.

Fantastic Contraption

Tetris HD

This would take an hour just to make one line. I give up! My contraption thing is waayyy better.

Also on a whim - www.retarded.com seems to be blocked in Dubai. anyone know what it does?

Oh, it's total cack I agree. But in a funny way.

hahahahahaha

You worry me sometimes Gov.

Yes well I do tend to lose it sometimes.

Don't ask me how I found this, but I did and it made me laugh. Because I'm depraved.

Definition of a Donkey Punch

I do remember there being an avid debate on this subject at school. All cleared up now. Thanks MABTW.com

I expect you can amuse yourself further by dangling a carrot while administering this manouevre? Or partaking in a 99 flake ice cream? You could go a long way with this one, creating the tale of the 'ee awws by the see saww' or something? - In fact that would be an excellent name for a porn film.

just wasted an hour on Fantastic Contraption

i hate you govi.

Is is an amazing game. I didn't make this one but check it out!

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=1490991

But I did make this one which I quite like!
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=6960485

Mother of pearl, that's cool.

very slick, my boy...

Nice one. Those solutions make me feel very stupid. I kept building tractor-type solutions and then gave up when the gap got too big to jump!

Ditto. I then went onto the wiki which has various guides including a catapult guide. Definitely going to be building some of those at the weekend.

I know, but then you look at some of the design other people have made and you get more ideas about how stuff could be done. Some people are geniuses, for example one of the hardest ones, 'unpossible' can be done so simply (relatively speaking... http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=6983479), or so complex ( http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=6993940 or http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=6990240)!

MY god this game addictive. I'm going back up to the north again this saturday and suspect there might be much fantastic contraption playing...

I might actually buy it! I wish there was an Android port though, but no, iPwn only...

Oh my word. There are so many awesome solutions out there.

Here's a favourite: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=380842

My lastest and greatest, took my whole lunch break ...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=7000201

Seriously fucking amazing.

Ninja parade goes unnoticed once again.

OK this may not seem that amazing but YOU try landing a ball on another one:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=7042722

(Sorry Tart I saved a few under your profile)

Thai Firefighter saves kid by dressing up as ...Spidey!

A hero within a hero

Gaurav Dhar on www.about.com - very proud!

Gaurav Dahr is not Spiderman

What accountants like.

Quite remarkably accurate. In fact, this blog sums up my job better than I ever could.

Check out this windows desktop manipulation software. quite funky

not sure how useful it is - but it falls under the "because we can" catagory

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You'd be surprised, I was talking about Compiz to a mate of mine and how, just because my desktops are on a cube I use them more. I couldn't explain it, but he pointed out that when they are on a cube, your brain can visualise a real 3d object, rather than just instantly flicking between multiple virtual desktops which doesn't give you the same tangible feel.

The same is true of this Bump Top idea, the more we can relate to the information on screen the easier it is to work with, however this desk idea has a major drawback - my desk is usually a tip and I can't find anything. I don't want my computer to go the same way, I don't like that it doesn't line my icons up for me neatly (some I'm not going to be bothered to do myself...) and the whole "throwing" things around, thats going to lead to unexpected file copy/moving/printing/deletion because you "missed" what you were aiming for...

Still it is pretty cool and ideas like this will change the way we interact with computers eventually, just not yet...

More from your favourite news team. 10 points to anyone who can name the female star in the clip.

Daily Onion-Lying to Kids About Sex

People sneezing in ultra slow motion

First 20-30 seconds: slightly erotic.

Then I started to find it funny.

At about 55 seconds it becomes totally disgusting.

Ok, this doesn't really compare to slow motion sneezing, nor is it funny, or particularly entertaining. However I needed to rant about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8018329.stm

this story is about some woman fired because she rang in sick, too ill to use a PC and was then found to be using facebook.

The moral of the story isn't even mentioned - take the quote the woman gave in her defence:



I'm sorry. but you allowed this ficticious person to be your friend?!

I bet you wouldn't do that on the street if a stranger came up asking if they could rummage through your photo collection and what school you went to, where you work, roughly where you lived, your interests / martial status etc...

What a dick. She deserves to be fired.

They probably stuck a picture of some hot male model on the profile and she thought it was her lucky day.

I like this...
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One of the coolest things I've ever seen. Gave me goosebumps cos Im a big Beatles fan.

Beatles RockBand

Tart Tart Tart - arent you being a little harsh? What about the fact that her company (read The Man) surreptitiously befriended her on the net only to find a cheap excuse to sack her sorry and ill ass? Personal intenet security aside, I'm sure all of us at one time or another have befriended that strange MrsSinghLonelyHousewifein Delhi@hotmail persona whose profile picture oddly enough happens to be a shapely bottom in a thong, at one time or another. Ok maybe just me, but the moral here is that company bosses are wankers to catch people out like this. Next they'll sack people for crapping and talking on the phone at the same time. Tsk tsk.

Littlest Hobo vs Lily Allen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcqFztb2QnA

I'm thinking at least Jonnyboy will appreciate.

More genius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi6QDwQyLU

Pedro - better stay away from Taxi's for a while...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8112644.stm