Picture of Blair is not offensive…
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Well, the one with a barcode on his upper lip isn’t:
I just caught this article on the Register about an ASA complaint about a Guardian advertisement against the usage of ID cards. This one:
The Register article states that, apparently, the ..
NO2ID made clear they had worked hard to make Blair look like Hitler.
Worked hard [...]
Quote Of The Week #36
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I was listening to this Everlast tune called Today (Watch Me Shine) noticing the following lines:
You can’t always get the things you want, love.
Get what you deserve or maybe what you need.
Incidentally, I think the “Whitey Ford Sings The Blues” album is one of his better albums, in that particular style…
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
To sit upright or to not sit upright…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In my profession, I have always sat behind a computer — I have never done any work that didn’t involve one.
People always noted my sitting position: I was either hanging backwards in my chair (hey the monitor is at eye-height then, too), or I’m sitting behind a desk at a slight angle (i.e. my [...]
I guess the truth really, really is inconvenient…
I have just caught this article here and it sickens me how, the ‘free world that the terrorist envy‘, is all run by money. I just hope some of the parents are wise enough to teach their kids, though… I mean, yeah, they’re American, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all morons, even a retard [...]
“Minority report” slowly becoming a reality…
I just read this article about psychologists [that] are putting together a list of the 100 most dangerous murderers and rapists before they have committed any such crimes.
That’s pretty scary — especially if mix that news with a little bit of this and a little bit of that…
NG-BASIC 0.2.16, as Firefox-extension
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Recently I was browsing through this sites’ statistics and noticed a link from this fellow who discovered my basic interpreter-project after reading the Salon article ‘Why Johnny Can’t Code‘. An article that, by the way, makes a very solid point.
So that, combined with realising that I haven’t done anything with my BASIC interpreter for almost [...]
Force feedback: did I see prior art in `The Incredible Hulk’?
I don’t know where exactly that I read it, but some time the previous year I read this bit about a boat that sunk, in the 1960’s or 70’s, and that it was recovered by transferring ping-pong balls into it. Yeah, it made me think of the Discovery programma MythBusters as well, but it seems [...]
Hot-linking not allowed..
| by in General, Random Rantings |
As I noticed a lot of the bandwidth of this website is going to ‘waste’ because some people like to use images stored on this server in their signatures or posts on other forums, I tinkered around a bit with PHP and Apache’s Rewrite Engine and cooked up a configuration that ought to reduce this [...]
So I just voted….
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In the Netherlands it is ‘that’ time again to do our ‘duty’: we have to elect the lesser of all evils today.
As the comedian who commented on the so-called ‘debate’ that was televised last-night said, I made a tactical vote today: I went to the voting station between 10 and 11 am, so it wasn’t [...]
Quote Of the Week #35
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So it is Tuesday as I type this — I was just reading this post and comments on connecting*the*dots noticing a part of Steve Martin’s Non-Conformist Oath (not even being sure if the guy that posted it was actually aware of that fact).
Anyway, reading that line really brought some memories back from the early eighties…. [...]
Am I the only one… ?
| by in Random Rantings, Visions |
Am I the only one here that sees the potential for abuse here by creative, corrupt, cops aspiring to be movie-directors?
On the anti-smoking lobby and so-called ‘experts’
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
I’m an person avidly against the anti-smoking lobby. It’s unfair.
I’ve always defended the position of the smoker, and have always doubted research into this field because, hell, cancer could just as well come from another source, not specifically second-hand smoke (it could be farts, or fuck, this is one of my latest gems: cancer could [...]
White-supremacist butt-fuckers messing wit’ MLK…
I just love this initiative to Googlebomb a white-supremacist website (found it while connecting*the*dots).
The content of the site really is sickening and vile. Of course, such a site should be taken down, but denial of service attacks are childish. And, everybody has a right to express themselves, even a white supremacist.
But… this isn’t expression… [...]
And in a couple of years, Linux users are terrorists, undermining our freedoms…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Visions |
So, Microsoft has made the bold claim that their intellectual property is in it.
Oh my fucking god. This is serious because there are plenty of stupid people in this world to believe that crap. Fuck, the critical majority, in each and every issue, is dumber than a horses ass and knows just enough to [...]
Oooooh a student got abused and tazed by police — so now what?
I just caught this sick shit through The Register…. Guy gets tazed by cops because he couldn’t show an ID card.
“Stand up or you will get tazed again?”
What the frigging fuck? Of course, everybody says it’s a bad thing. Sure, I’m not saying that it isn’t….
But, I don’t know what upsets me more here. The [...]
Heh
In case you missed it, I just read on The Register about the Sun reporting on 2 guys showing up at the UN’s London headquarters to demand recognition for their religion…
I’m waiting for the frigging pope to start yapping about looking and acting like a Jedi is a threat to integration…
Lucht (Air)
| by in Arts & Poetry, Random Rantings |
Some lines of poetry were playing through my head trying to get to sleep last night, and I was surprised that I remembered them this morning after. So obviously, I quickly logged-on to scribble them down before I’d forget.
Update: Last night (16th today), it happened again — so I changed a few lines and also [...]
The dark nature of capitalism…
| by in Belegana, Random Rantings |
I couldn’t resist to use the same title for this post as the one I recently read on connecting*the*dots — because, hey, the following is also the dark nature of capitalism…
This morning, there was some news on TV (can’t help it — my girlfriend always turns the damn thing on in the morning), that earlier [...]
Quote Of The Week #34
I was listening some old-school music the other day (because I love to reminisce) and couldn’t resist using it as this weeks QOTW…It was Ice-T’s Power album, the song Radio Suckers I was listening to, hearing the following line again (which doesn’t even apply to rap-music only):
We shouldn’t sell out,we should just yell out
And get [...]
Forget the PS3 ! I want a Nedap voting machine
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
It can play games too! I was just reading this relatively old dissection of these voting machines that coincidentally we will vote on in the upcoming elections.
It started with what we thought was a very obvious statement. We claimed on our website that
the Nedap was just another computer, and that as such it could just [...]
