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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Robot Art

This is pure class – the best photoshop series since Something Awful merged human features onto animals. Thanks to BoingBoing for the link.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Google But were Afraid to Ask

Announcing the Google Cheatsheet – they should teach this in schools! From Googlebot’s IP addresses, to all of Google’s domains, to Google Caculator examples – this is Google in a nutshell.
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Munster!!!!!!!

I’m not going to say anything derogatory about the Leinster fans, because they’ve been getting slated enough this weekend and I think its time we give both of them a break now.
Theres a report here. Lets hope all the lads get back to Limerick before Polish is declared the official language. Biarritz must [...]

'Holiday 2006'?

Paddy linked me to Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X page the other day. I have no interest in flight simulators, but what caught my eye was the release date: ‘Holiday 2006′. Which holiday? I was in school in America in the late 80’s so I remember when Christmas was phased out and replaced [...]

Korean Mothers & MMORPGs

ClanBase link to this gem from the study group for gaming culture in Korea: many Korean mothers are power-levelling their children’s characters so that “their daughters and sons can enjoy respectable status in the virtual world without sacrificing their schooling advancement”.

As you well know, many online games require intensive time-consuming for advancing the level. The [...]

Pyramid Discovered in Bosnia

Experts Find Evidence of Bosnia Pyramid according to Yahoo today. Turns out this is old news, but the first I have heard of it.
The three hills, named the pyramids of the Sun, Moon and Dragon, come complete with ancient pre-Illyrian temple and labyrinth of tunnels.
Osmanagic believes the structure will prove to be 722 feet [...]

Major Major Major Major

“Major Major had been promoted by an I.B.M. Machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father’s.”
Joseph Heller speculates that there was only one possible career path for Major Major Major, who had been christened by his father as a cruel joke. He was definitely onto something there. I just [...]

iTG`Lun Tribute Match

I never know how to give condolences when somebody who is known on the internet dies. A frowny face on a bulletin board usually seems a little bit disrespectful to me. In the case of the late iTG`Lun, the commentator for radio iTG whose two great passions were motorcycles and Quake 3 Capture [...]

Ouch

I just paid £30 to renew a .com domain for one year. Thats €43.26 – about eight times what I usually pay with eNom. Had to renew it before they would transfer the ownership because it was already expired. And I thought it was funny when I was quoted $10 per user [...]

You See What Happens, Larry??

“Do you see what happens, Larry? Do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass??”
I noticed this article today, about a guy who was arrested on Friday after setting fire to the wrong car.

The report states Clark said he started the blaze ‘‘to pay him back for hitting me,’’ referring [...]