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Recycle, recycle, recycle
I’m a big fan of recycling – I’ve been recycling the same jokes for years, as you’ve probably noticed – but home recycling’s a bit of a pain: the boxes aren’t big enough to cope with my newspaper and magazine habit, and even when I don’t manage to cram every magazine into the recycling box…
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Hell hath no fury like a woman with glue
Slaby said O’Toole waited until he fell asleep and glued his penis to his stomach, glued his testicle to his leg and glued the cheeks of his buttocks together. Then came the nail polish. Slaby claimed O’Toole dumped it all over his head. [Via Fark]
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Three to five days, my arse
My Powerbook woes continue: I put it into my local AppleCentre on 21 October, after being assured that it would take 3-5 days to diagnose the fault, 3-5 days to order the bit, and 3-5 days to fix it. It’s 3 November and so far, an engineer hasn’t even looked at it yet. Oh well,…
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New Firefox out
Firefox 1.5 RC1 is out, and it’s nice. Er, that’s it.
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More on Sony’s DRM disaster
Over at the Inquirer, Charlie Demerjan does a lovely demolition job: More happy news? These merchants are designing the next generation drives called Blu-Ray with much more DRM built into the hardware. It is bad enough to make me back the views of Bill Gates on the subject with absolute open arms. These are scary…
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“Holy f—ing shit”
Scary stuff on the Something Awful forums. From Yahoo news: William Freund, described as a loner, used a 12-gauge shotgun Saturday to kill a neighbor and her father, who lived just 100 yards away, police said. Freund then fired into a separate house and aimed his gun at another neighbor before returning home and committing…
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More DRM stupidity
It looks like Sony’s copy protection installs a “rootkit” on PCs. Quick explanation: rootkits are baaaaad. The Inquirer says: With any luck, and I can’t believe I am saying this, an ambulance chasing scumbag lawyer will take this up and sue Sony into the ground for stupidity on this level. There has to be some…
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Cracks in Web 2.0
Web 2.0 – the combination of web-based applications, social networking and user-submitted content – is getting lots of people very excited, but as Xeni Jardin writes in Wired, Web 2.0 faces the same problem as Web 1.0: people. Web 2.0 is very open, but all that openness has its downside: When you invite the whole…
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Smee!
I love this joke: A radio station was running a competition – words that weren’t in the dictionary yet could still be used in a sentence that would make logical sense. The prize was a trip to Bali. DJ: “96 FM here, what’s your name?” Caller: “Hi, my name’s Dave.” DJ: “Dave, what’s your word?”…
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Sound as a pound
Pound shops are pretty depressing sights – they tend to appear in areas where proper shops have long disappeared – but there’s one in Glasgow that’s the exception. Firstly it’s in Sauchiehall Street, one of the main shopping streets in the city; secondly, it kills me. The shop’s on a corner, which means it has…