The most valuable supply of worthlessness on the web
This is just one of those posts intended to remind you of the facts.
[tags]Chuck Norris, Facts[/tags]
There’s not much to say about this. I just spent 15 minutes reading and watching videos at askaninja.com. I’m thinking about buying one of their “I look forward to killing you soon” shirts. I’m just geeky enough to pull that off, I think.
If you do go, watch the video for Question 20 “KillaCon” especially. I like the Ninja pickup lines at the end.
And be sure to follow the link to the store and buy some of their duds.
[tags]Ninjas, Ask a Ninja[/tags]
I don’t know that there’s any better way to sum up the world than what Bill had to say:
I’ve seen stories indicating that Tom Cruise is visiting your countries and wowing you.
Please, Rest of the World, listen to us on this one: Tom Cruise may look tiny and cute like a Ken doll, but he is a gigantic, scary asshole. Please do not giggle and throw him parades. Thank you.
Now there. Doesn’t that seem to have everything covered? And check below – how often do you think you’ll find Bill Harris and Tom Cruise listed together in the tags for an article?
[tags]DubiousQuality, Bill Harris, Tom Cruise[/tags]
Well, Nick at 4-color rebellion didn’t like Silent Hill. Nor, for that matter, do the reviews at RottenTomatoes give much hope with a 25%. Oddly, the IMDB score sets at 6.9 right now. That does sound fishy (IMDB login required to see this link).
So, back to Nick’s commentary:
Worst movie ever. Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not see this movie. I kid you not, this is the worst movie I have ever watched. And I rented the Doom movie.
The movie is a trainwreck. The story makes NO SENSE whatsoever. The acting is horrendous. Characters do not stay consistent in their actions throughout the movie, let alone a single scene.
More in the story at 4CR.
[tags]Silent Hill, movie review[/tags]
This one is for my co-workers.
I must admit – sometimes I wonder what would happen if Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer were to meet.
[tags]Jack Bauer, Chuck Norris, 24 humor[/tags]
I continue to be greatly amused by xkcd.com. Here’s the latest comic to make me laugh:
[tags]Counterstrike, comic, pwned[/tags]
(via Bruce Schneier’s blog)
More about the security problem (hint: mostly, people are the problem). Humorous and sad at the same time.
Qantas chairman Margaret Jackson revealed at a Beijing Conference this week that she was briefly suspected of being a terrorist by a TSA screener during a visit last year to the United States.
. . .
See, Jackson is a woman — which, according to the wunderkind who screened her baggage and found detailed plans of new aircraft, makes it hard to believe she is also chairman of a major international airline.
“The guy said ‘Why have you got all of this?’,” Jackson told the conference, speaking of the screener’s discovery of seating diagrams in her baggage. “And I said, ‘I’m the chairman of an airline, I’m the chairman of Qantas’. “And this black guy, who was like eight foot tall, said, ‘but you’re a woman.'”
Jackson finally proved her identity to the guard… in part, by writing a note to him on her Qantas letterhead stating “Dear Bill, this is from the chairman of Qantas, who is a woman.”
See – everybody profiles. It’s not a bad thing, although sometimes it’s done poorly.
[tags]Quantas, Security, Oops[/tags]
(via Joystiq)
Wired magazine has a fun and funny article about some of the things in history which were considered a corrupting influence on children before adults had videogames to blame. Of course, we all know before videogames, it was Rock and Roll corrupting children, but did you know that the telephone, the waltz, and novels were also considered bad for children?
The Waltz
“The indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced … at the English Court on Friday last … It is quite sufficient to cast one’s eyes on the voluptuous interÂÂtwining of the limbs, and close comÂÂpressure of the bodies … to see that it is far indeed removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was conÂÂfined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is … forced on the respectable classes of society by the evil example of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion.”
– The Times of London, 1816The Telephone
“Does the telephone make men more active or more lazy? Does [it] break up home life and the old practice of visiting friends?”
– Survey conducted by the Knights of Columbus Adult Education Committee, San Francisco Bay Area, 1926
Some of the major bad-things of the past are covered in the full article.
[tags]Corrupting influences, Think of the children[/tags]
Another fine contest at Worth1000. This time, entrants are creating fake magazine covers. So many entries entertain, and so little space to give samples here. Let’s pick a couple of good ones.
[tags]Worth1000[/tags]
(via Dubious Quality)
David Berlind at ZDNet has come up with a name change suggestion for Digital Restriction Mangling (DRM – real meaning Digital Rights Management). Instead, he proposes calling it CRAP instead. A fitting name, and very accurate.
Hi, I’m David Berlind, Executive Editor at ZDNet. Today, we’re going to talk about a rather uncomfortable subject, CRAP. That’s right, CRAP. Now, CRAP stands for Content, Restriction, Annulment and Protection. It’s my catchy buzz-phrase for a technology that’s really called DRM. Now DRM technically stands for Digital Rights Management, and it’s a rather cancerous technology that technology vendors are actually building into most of the products that we’re buying today.
So for example, if you own an iPod, it’s got CRAP in it. That’s right, it’s got this technology that will restrict what you can do with your content, allows the owners of the content to annul that content-in other words, take it away from you-or protect it from being copied out onto the internet.
[tags]DRM, CRAP[/tags]
