Archive for March, 2004

Like a hole in the head

Posted at 9:43am on Thursday, March 18th, 2004 by

No. Really. Like a hole in the head. They’re currently looking for volunteers to support a longer term study into the effects of trepanation… Having your head used as a bowling ball would be one, I’d guess…

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iThing

Posted at 9:36am on Thursday, March 18th, 2004 by

10,000 parodies
On your screen

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Matt and Trey make nasty

Posted at 9:11am on Thursday, March 18th, 2004 by

Apparently the Southpark creators’ new cartoon Princess was way too offensive for Shockwave.com to host.

It is.

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Just in case they can’t find you quick enough

Posted at 8:58am on Thursday, March 18th, 2004 by

The US Government has just invested in a 2.5TB RAM disk… What for? Well, the only thing that really needs that much RAM is querying very big, very complex databases, so you decide who’ll be using it…

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Yeti Sports part 3

Posted at 10:05pm on Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 by

They’ve just released the third installment of Yeti Sports (previously known as penguin bashing or whatever). This time you have to lob the penguin as high as you can…

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But Elmo intercepted no transmissions

Posted at 9:31am on Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 by

StarWars caption competition (archive here)
Found at Waxy.org

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Acrobat speed up

Posted at 9:17am on Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 by

If the link to old version a few days ago was of use to you because most modern applications are overblown and slow to load on your older machines you’ll like Acrobat SpeedUp. It degubbinses (and yes, that is a word) Acrobat, giving massively reduced loading times. Definitely worthwhile for slower machines.

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Bush campaign pays actors to pose as journalists…

Posted at 9:07am on Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 by

praising the benefits of the new Medicare law. He will try anything, won’t he?

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IM Question Answerer

Posted at 8:53am on Wednesday, March 17th, 2004 by

Sylloge just happens to be number 1 on Google for instant message question answerer and so people have (I guess rather unsurprisingly) started IMing him for help… Nice

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The name’s Bond, James Bond

Posted at 10:16am on Tuesday, March 16th, 2004 by

The only thing this phone is missing is a laser beam for cutting your way out of space age prison cells.

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