I saw this in the cornershop:

Also, next muffin!

I think that this is one of the coolest music-related pranks I've ever seen.

Two of my team mates are not here today. (One of them is not here all week, but that's not really relevant.) For various reasons, they have given me Administrator access to their machines. Clearly, pranks must be performed. The current plan is to install the BSOD screensaver on one of them, and to switch the X and Z keys (with a well-placed registry entry) on the other. Can you, oh Lazyweb, think of any other subtle, non-damaging pranks that can be easily performed without wasting the whole day on writing a remote control for the mouse cursor?

Also, I don't like Swing all that much, and the Look & Feel stuff is fairly cracktastic. However, the Napkin Look & Feel is awesome. It almost makes me wish all my software were written in Java! ;-)

"Farmers create the cube-shaped watermelons by placing the fruit in a transparent box as they grow."

14 is considered an evil number among the Fourteen USF chapter of Facebook.

I found this while thinking too hard and missing the point over here.

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k0hlrabi has a habit of finding amazing stuff on Wikipedia:

Some forums and MMORPGs have banned some of the more common spelling variations ("newb", "knob" , "nub", "noob", "no0b", "n00b", "nib", "nibblins", "Frodo Nibblins","fruity noob", "newblet(s)", "nub sauce", "nubz", "nubcakes", "nublich", "nubzorz", "Niblit", "nob", "nab", "naab", and "nublets") in an attempt to reduce flame wars. This has, of course, led to more variations, such as "s00b", "ch00b", "fr00b" and "gl00b". It has also led to numerous character-swap versions such as "n()()b" and "n|_|b", both of which are used to bypass a swear filter.

There is no hope for humankind.

He also mentioned that "any computer related article on wikipedia is ridiculous".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_humanoid:

On September 12, 2003, during the provincial election campaign in Ontario, Canada, a press release disseminated by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party contained a line at the end that referred to rival Ontario Liberal Party leader Dalton McGuinty as an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet. Presumably, the release was not intended seriously, but did no good for the Conservative party campaign.

Presumably. Yes, thank you for clearing that detail up, Wikipedia.

Also, the bad guys in Taxi are tall, blonde, blue-eyed Germans who cackle manaically.

"God-damned cheap monkeys."

I like tea with lemon juice in it. About the most awesome bit of preparing a cup of this delicious beverage is when you actually squeeze the slice of lemon. See, the moment the juice touches the tea, the colour changes from a murky brown to a clear golden shine. It's ace.

Yeah, the Mail on Sunday is a bad thing, but they've had at least one fantastic story. If you have any way to play WMV9, the video is equally good.

< fuzzix> resiak: The shock on his face as he's introduced...

< jat> I thought I'd google for "man slay" (since you often get man page results).
< jat> Doesn't work so good in this case.

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16:42 <rlaager> This is probably somewhat your style: http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57

IBM had a song book.

The name of T. J. Watson means a courage none can stem,
And we feel honored to be here to toast the I. B. M.

(via timgoh0)

Also, I'm going to IBM on the 8th May:

Please prepare a 10 minute presentation that addresses the following:-

'Information Technology: What it means to me' and 'Why I believe I have the aptitude for a career in IT'

... as a means of demonstrating your interest in, and awareness of, the IT industry.

[snip snip]

You will need to save the presentation onto a CD or memory stick. Please save your presentation in either Powerpoint or Freelance Graphics.

to which I think I should reply:

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:37:02PM +0100, graduate_assessment@uk.ibm.com wrote:
> You will need to save the presentation onto a CD or memory stick.

I'm sorely tempted to follow these instructions to the letter and save
it to my camera's memory stick.

> Please save your presentation in either Powerpoint or Freelance
> Graphics.

I don't own either software package. Could you provide me with a copy of
either one for my Debian system, to demonstrate your interest in, and
awareness of, the IT industry? (Couldn't resist.) I could save my
presentation as a PDF, which strikes me as an entirely reasonable
format.

I wonder if I would lose the internship.

Accessible

Does this remind you of anything?

Brides

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Russian

I saw Night Watch (Ночной Дозор) last night with eak_d at the Phoenix. Interesting. They had a lot of good ideas, and the filming was excellent, but they fell down a bit by being bad at tying up plot lines without resorting to cop-outs, and not really making there be a coherent plot. Still, worth seeing, if you like films about vampires and such like.

Flaming

Got myself a copy of The Flaming Lips' Yohimi Battles The Pink Robots from eBay, who don't get a link. It's much lighter than I had expected, but is awesome. Highly recommended.

Explaining flour and water. Via Phated.

Do you know what goatse is? If not: it's a shock site. I won't tell you more, because I want to get more first impressions. If you really, really, really want to see it for yourself, goatse dot ragingfist dot net has it, but do not blame me for you being overly curious. That's deliberately not a link so that you have to go out of your way to go to it, hence you can't claim to have clicked accidentally. :-)

Dave2 showed me a project to collect photos of people's initial reactions to goatse. I realised that designergall had not seen goatse, and so decided to subject her to it and join the campaign. The results: 1, 2. \o/

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you tetris1d.org.