LMAO! Minister must explain how a guy, with Joker-style make-up job, got a passport an ID-card
My girlfriend just called me about this hilarious bit about a guy that had gotten a passport with his picture made while he looked like The Joker from the Batman series.
Apparently, after stating that ‘this was his way of life’, the municipal office didn’t see no problem with it, and issued a passport an ID-card.
This [...]
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 [...]
Defining ‘to google’…
| by in Humour, Random Rantings |
to google (/ˈguËgÉ™l/): To constantly nag about ones trademark being used in the wrong context.
Example usage
“If Bayer googled then we wouldn’t use the word ‘Aspirin’ for generic pain-killers.”.
Definitions, Humour
Homeland Security Scare System
Reading all the stuff about the recent ‘foiled’ terrorist attack, I GIMP’d together this thingy. I present to you, the Homeland Security Scare System:
It should be obvious when what level should apply.
Humour, Homeland Security, War On Truth, Propaganda, Fear
Web2DNA: Convert your website to a ‘DNA-like’ image.
| by in Arts & Poetry, Humour, Interesting Links, Software |
Through Sean’s site, I discovered this neat thingy that converts your websites’ HTML to a DNA-like sequence:
WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of [...]
The irony: Windows broken before shipped…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
So, while a Microsoft spokesman was trying to relay its wet-dream to listeners (i.e. was intellectually masturbating) on the security in Window Vista, a Polish female researcher was demonstrating how the ’security’ can be bypassed, thus resulting in exactly the same unsafe situation as with earlier Windows variants.
Real funny, that.
Safe computing is impossible if the [...]
Knowing Microsoft, their iPod-killer will probably be released “too zune”… :P
…and I couldn’t withhold this User Friendly cartoon:
Humour, Zune, iPod
3 year old child gets fine for peeing in public
| by in Humour, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
I just read this (Dutch) news about a three-year-old kid getting a €75 fine for peeing in public here in the Netherlands.
Apparently, the kid was with its mother and it badly needed to ‘go’. As there was no public toilet in sight, she let ‘m pee in the bushes. Meanwhile, a cop saw all this [...]
I really wonder what’s in US marihuana…
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I just discovered this news through ShaolinTiger: apparently, some guy broke into a tomb to cut off a bodies head in order to use it as a bong. WTF?!
Now I really wonder what they put in United States marihuana because, hell, I want some of that too!
Marihuana, Drugs, US, Funny
The security implications of this exceed those of Google Earth!
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
So, I received this link from a colleague, explaining how one can build their own Airbus A380 airplane. (Well, a paper model of it, anyway.)
Me, with my nasty ways, couldn’t resist saying `So, where’s the foldable model of the Twin Towers to go with it?‘.
After further Googling I realised that, hell, the security implications [...]
Web 1.0 vs 2.0
| by in Humour, Internet & Technology |
I just found this thing right here that show the differences between Web 1.0 and 2.0 — and how stuff has changed.
Stupid buzzwords.
They forgot to put an extra 0 (zero) in front of those version numbers…
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Humour
Wimps and Wankers…
What has happened to Microsoft’s naming scheme?
Usually they just used generic English terms to name a product (think of things like ‘Windows’, ‘Word’, ‘Office’, etcetera).
But lately this seems to have changed:
Microsoft’s XBugs, err Xbox, the toy with which they hope to conquer all house-holds.
Microsoft’s Wimp, errr, WMP, the supposed (proprietary) JPEG killer. Sure.
Microsoft’s [...]
The broken laptop Amir sold…
A colleague pointed me to this site about a guy that bought a laptop over the internet through eBay, finally received a broken laptop.
The fun thing is, although broken, the laptop contains a gem of personal information. Information that this new owner now has happily posted on the internet as a form of pay-back.
The seems [...]
The obvious flaw in Biometrics…
I just discovered this advisory on the Full-Disclosure mailing-list which warns for one of the many obvious flaws in those biometric authentication schemes that everybody wants to roll out, everywhere.
Yeah it’s funny.
And yeah — it’s oh-so true…
Biometrics, Vulnerability, Security
Let’s Bomb Iran (an anti-war song)
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I just discovered their funny animation on Google Video and hit the anti-war song site Let’s Bomb Iran and just wanted to share that.
Anti-War, Middle-East, Iran, Humour
Dutch Texting Championship WTF?! — HOW TO CHEAT
OK I just read this hilarious insane of an initiative to make lots of money.
Telfort, one of the many local mobile communications companies in the Netherlands, together with Radio 538 radio station, are organising this stupid championship.
Wow.
See, the whole idea here is that, somebody on the radio, reads out loud a Dutch sentence, and [...]
Kill Bills Browser
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Software |
A colleague pointed out this site and this one, in order to convince more and more people to switch from the bug-ridden and vendor-lock-in-causing Internet Explorer browser.
If you know me in real life, you must have heard me say that I have always thought ‘Mozilla‘ to be the ‘Explora Killa‘.
Any self-respecting technician, which ought not [...]
The curious origin of Mah Na Mah Na…
| by in Arts & Poetry, History, Humour, Interesting Links, Music |
You might already know this, but I only just found out today that the Muppets famous Mah Na Mah Na-song is actually a cover — a cover of a same-named 1969 song by Piero Umiliani. (Check here for more information about the composer.)
Now, of course, that alone isn’t all that interesting, but did you know [...]
A Boot Camp you can’t get out of…
| by in Computers & Hardware, Humour, Software |
I noticed this news on Mac users being stuck with Windows XP after installing the Boot Camp boot-loader that allows Mac users to boot an alternative operating system. Incidentally, I have seen this running on a friends’ laptop yesterday.
Honestly, other than compatibility or inoperability issues I can see no real reason why one would want [...]
Don’t forget!
| by in Belegana, Humour, Random Rantings |
Tomorrow is Burn The US-Flag Day!
(Artwork blatantly stolen from Sean Coon)
Got flag? Got gasoline? Have fun!
Burn The US-Flag Day, Protest, Activism
When things get too complex to comprehend…
| by in Humour, Internet & Technology, Software |
…stuff like this happens. This was already posted on The Register last friday — but in case you missed this excellent act of stupidity, here is a quote:
This tale kicked off yesterday when Tuttle’s city manager Jerry Taylor fired off an angry message to the CentOS staff. Taylor had popped onto the city’s web site [...]
Another fine non-working solution to a non-issue
| by in Animals & Nature, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, The Netherlands |
The Dutch local government in Limburg has decided, some time ago, that all the people that illegally grow marijuana will be publicly ‘burned at the stake’ by posting their name and address on an internet website.
The name of the website is ‘www.hetgroenegoud.info’ (tr: www.thegreengold.info). Yeh, as if that is really going to work. Can these [...]
Hilarious: Mississippi outlaws sex toys
According to MSNBC, the state of Mississippi outlaws sex toys. This has pretty interesting consequences if you ask me.
First, what can be labelled a ‘sex-toy‘? If one shoves a pencil up his arse, can the person who sold him the pen be prosecuted?
Oh well, I guess dildos and vibrators will probably be sold as [...]
“You are a donkey, Mr. Bush!”
Heh quite funny news from Reuters today:
“You are a donkey, Mr. Bush,” said Chavez, speaking in English on his weekly Sunday broadcast.
“You’re an alcoholic Mr. Danger, or rather, you’re a drunkard,” Chavez said, referring to Bush by a nickname he frequently uses to describe the U.S. president.
A White House report released last week on pre-emptive [...]
Prostitutes want GTA banned
| by in Consoles & Games, Humour, Random Rantings |
Speaking of bans, Slashdot also reports on prostitutes wanting the game GTA banned:
In the games, players can solicit “services” from prostitutes by driving their cars slowly near them. No sexual acts are in clear visible view, but during the “transaction,” the player regains health and loses money. Though the player cannot actively rape prostitutes in [...]
Hahaha — MS Anti-Spyware removes Norton
| by in Humour, Random Rantings, Software |
Just read this blurb about Microsoft’s latest experimental piece-of-shit anti-spyware software accidentally removing Norton’s Anti-Virus software.
I won’t even rant here and I’ll just let that news do all the speaking for itself..
Microsoft coders are idiots, Norton, Spyware, AntiVirus
Why wasn’t it the other way around… And….. fatal?
| by in Conspiracies, Humour, Interesting Links |
Hehehe — I was waiting for an opportunity to do this (peruse the latest 2600’s letters section to find out why): a certain maniac accidentally shoots fellow hunter, CNN reports:
“The vice president didn’t see him,” she continued. “The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And [...]
The Boondocks
| by in Humour |
An oldie, but couldn’t resist to share it anyways:
The Boondocks, Funny Stuff
2600 Secrets
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
Speaking of 2600 — I just discovered 2600 Secrets that highlights the ‘hidden messages’ in the 2600 magazines.
I hit that page because I wondered what happened to page 33:
Winter 2004/Page 33: The phrase “enough already“
I missed that — that explains all…
2600, Hidden Messages
Funny ‘disclaimer’…
| by in Humour |
Now that’s the most hilarious ‘disclaimer’ I have ever seen. I hit the 2600 site because, today the new issue arrived and usually I head over to the back cover photo’s, payphone and puzzle section.
The puzzle section this time had a link posted next to it. As I couldn’t remember seeing that in earlier issues [...]
Why you shouldn’t shove your penis through the slit of a letterbox
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, The Netherlands |
In Ede, The Netherlands, some guy inserted his penis through the slit in a letterbox. The woman living in that house, reacted quickly, and used some piece of iron to hit on it.
When she opened the door, she saw a 30-year old man running away.
Now that’s hilarious, and possibly a good reason never to ever [...]
Are we really that civilised?
I just read this post showing the following ‘cartoon’:
Translated
Top Right: “This is Anti-Semitic!â€
Top Left: “And this is Racism!â€
Bottom: “And this is Freedom of Speech!!â€
Nice find, Sean. It’s spot on…
Freedom of Speech, Cartoons, Propaganda, Politics, Media
Dshield is famous!
I visited Dshield.org today and noticed this diary entry:
Super-secret spy agency sensor grid - $Billions
Security for a visit from the President of the United States - $Millions
Showing the President that your prime source of information is a bunch of volunteers - PRICELESS!
Where would this world be without volunteers?
Volunteers, NSA, DShield, SANS
Nice Greenpeace commercial (2003)
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour, Interesting Links |
Last weekend I was watching John Culshaw’s Commercial Breakdown on BBC television where I saw this commercial by Greenpeace and I couldn’t resist to go and look for it on the web.
Although being an oldie (about 3 years old now), its topic is still current so it’s fun to watch. Really.
You can download it right [...]
Harvey the Herder
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, History, Humour, Interesting Links |
I today discovered this story about a rabbit called Harvey the Herder. Check out the link to find out why.
Rabbits, Animals
Burn the US-flag day!
Celibrate Burn the US Flag Day — oh — and your silly god doesn’t even fucking exist.
No-weed-smoking-signs already stolen
| by in Health, Humour, The Netherlands |
As reported last month, new signs were going to be placed in the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands in order to prevent that people are smoking marijuana in public, as the smell of it may be a nuisance to some people:
They were placed yesterday, but already stolen. Now that doesn’t really come as a surprise [...]
For your daily dose of ‘cute’
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour, Interesting Links |
In these hard times something soft can brighten up your day.
C|Net reports on the site Cute Overload being…
[...] nominated for four Bloggie awards, including Best American Weblog, Best Topical Weblog, Best New Weblog and Weblog of the Year.
I just love bunnies.
Animals, Pets, Bunnies, Cute
Sue that Mofo Picture Association of America!
Hahaha, that’s some bad publicity. The Register reports on the MPAA making an ass of itself. I quote:
But on Monday the MPAA admitted it had made a copy of the film but claimed, because their staff were the subject of the film, they were not breaking copyright law. An MPAA spokeswoman said: “We made [...]
This is most probably piracy…
| by in Humour, Music Industry & DRM |
A buddy of mine just sent me a link to this picture:
Now that is either someone that creates really popular home-made DVDs, or this is definately piracy…
Piracy, Funny
Author’s sales jump after Osama mentions book
| by in Humour, Media, Religion & Politics |
Also in the Oddly Enough section at Reuters — Author’s sales jump after Osama mentions book. According to the article:
An unexpected endorsement from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has resulted in a huge jump in sales for a book by a critic of U.S. foreign policy. William Blum’s “Rogue State: A Guide to [...]
Digital clock: PONG style
Nice retro clock. A bit expensive though.
Tom Cruise kills South Park episode
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
As reported on The Register, Tom Cruise threatens to sue anyone that re-airs the South Park episode that makes fun of Tom Cruise and John Travolta’s silly sect called Scientology (link to Xenu.net, an excellent resource that exposes those Scientology-freaks for what they really are).
The series disclaimer is clear about stuff. Not anyone should watch [...]
Cat saves people from fire
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Humour |
Reported yesterday, an article about a grandmother and baby being saved from a fire because the cat started meowing:
Jean Poole and her nine-month-old granddaughter were dozing yesterday in Poole’s mobile home in York County, Pennsylvania, when Poole’s seven-year-old cat, Princess, woke them up, meowing loudly.
Poole got up, smelled smoke and heard the crackling of flames. [...]
How talking parrot spilled beans on owner’s cheating girlfriend
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour |
An interesting article in the Guardian, on how a talking parrot spilled the beans on owner’s cheating girlfriend.
Somewhere in Yorkshire, there lurks a proverbially nauseous parrot. Ziggy, an eight-year-old African Grey, had provided Chris Taylor with years of companionship until the fateful day when he opened his beak to mimic his owner’s girlfriend and squawked [...]
No smoking weed here, please…
| by in Humour, The Netherlands |
New, though unofficial, traffic sign disallows the smoking of weed in the area.
Dutch National IQ-test shows marijuana use positively affects IQ
| by in Humour, The Netherlands |
Yesterday evening, apart from the 99 cable-channels with nothing on it, there was a National IQ-test on Dutch TV. Of course, these tests are only an indication, but I thought it would be fun doing it anyway.
The TV show had different ‘groups’ from society, like garbage-disposer and inventors, but the most noteworthy group was the [...]
MS’s WMF patch could be plagiarized
According to the post here, the patch released by Microsoft to guard against the WMF vulnerability, seems plagiarized from the ‘home-brew’ patch originally written by Ilfak Guilfanov:
Microsoft disallowed SETABORT. Same as Ilfak’s… rearranged a bit. See for yourselves below. If that is the best solution, we see no harm in that either. It just seems [...]
Excellent Microsoft rant
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I think this Microsoft rant on the Internet Storm Center is worth a read, as it contains 2 important aspects: it’s funny and on-point.
Even now, the Oompa Loompas are hard at work out in Redmond, simultaneously regression-testing and translating Microsoft’s WMF patch into Swahili and Urdu. And, somehow, as if by magic, all of [...]
Smuggling Drugs?
| by in Humour |
According to this CNN article, Crash investigators find crack in plane’s wing.
Smuggling drugs, eh?
Drugs, Planes, Funny
Microsoft Hit Creator: The R&B Edition
| by in Humour, Music Industry & DRM, Software |
While perusing the Public Enemy Board I just found this hilarous image:
Haha!
Funny Images, RnB
Man woos mother on the internet
| by in Humour |
It sounds like the plot of a very bad romantic comedy, but the Register reports of a Frenchman chatting up to a girl for 6 months to find out it was his own mother:
When the proto-Romeo asked for a snap of Sweet Juliette, she sent him a “curvy, half-clad cutie she’d scanned from a men’s [...]
ValuHack 1.2 ported to NG-BASIC
I just finished porting the 1337 hacking tool ValuHack (version 1.2) to NG-BASIC, my Javascript BASIC interpreter.
F*ck Xmas!
| by in Humour, Random Rantings |
I hate this period of the year.
Xbugs 360 part II
| by in Consoles & Games, Humour, Random Rantings |
Microsoft knew about Xbugs 360 instability problems before-hand.
Jesus The Anointed One
From EbaumsWorld I visited this page going into the possible usage of Marijuana by Jesus Christ. I have read articles like ‘Jesus was a pothead‘ and similar before, but it’s always nice to read about facts that the ‘believers’ will always try to disregard as bullshit.
Some noteworthy quotes:
The ancient recipe for this anointing oil, recorded [...]
Nice Javascript ‘animation’
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I found an old Javascript animation that I used to redirect malicious requests too.
Xbugs 360
| by in Consoles & Games, |