Author: tony

The Dull Men’s Club. You know, they made me a charter member. [cries]

InterfaceLIFT high-resolution widescreen wallpapers. These look incredibly good, and unless you’re running a multi-monitor setup they’ll probably have the resolution you’re using.

Man injured by launching firework from his bottom. Apparently this is not a joke. Some guy actually put a firework up his bum and launched it. This is exactly the sort of thing the Darwin Awards exist for.

Sometimes you buy something online, and while waiting to receive it you start gathering more information on it. Most often this is something that fills one with enthusiasm and anticipation. But then sometimes you end up with a feeling that you should have made more of an effort to find out that information before buying and — it seems — wasting your money on a turkey. Well, on Sunday I ordered a Netgear SC101 storage device, and I increasingly get the feeling that I wasted my money on a turkey.

Continue reading “Netgear SC101 — that dreaded feeling…”

Good riddance. The Talent Show gives Rummy and a former associate their proper send-off.

RumorMill: Sun will open-source Java under the GPL. If I were you I’d look for signs of hell freezing over, or cats and dogs living together.

UK airport ‘security’: it’s illegal to wear clothing that features a print of a gun on it. Even a bright pink outline. The reasoning behind this is… er… ah, fuck it, there IS no reasoning behind airport security nowadays, just largely-otherwise-unemployable, untrained or poorly-trained idiots given a list of things to watch for and discharging their duties without the risk of actual thought being involved in the process.

Man drops off Lotus Elise at Goodyear shop for a tire change. Goodyear shop drops the car off the lift. I smell a lawsuit in the shop owner’s future. Seriously though, it hurts just to see that, and I don’t even own a car…

Damn Vulnerable Linux. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Microsoft started making a linux distribution, wonder no more!

GOP says “beware exit polls!” One has to wonder why they’re going to such lengths to discredit polls they can’t possibly have seen yet. It’s hard to figure out the purpose behind these bizarre announcements. You see, usually a political party will want to downplay any lead it has in the polls because that tends to discourage voters from showing up; yet the Republicans are saying “we’re doing a lot better than you think”. Of course that doesn’t matter if real votes aren’t getting counted.