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 Warning: Caffiene Levels Dangerously Low.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/glennz/caf2/

Knights of the Round Table

US Economic Bailout

Star Trek Casket

 

 

 

OK, if you have to go, this is the way to do it. Just like Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.

I'm serious. 

http://www.eternalimage.net/st_page.html

Perpetual Punching Machine

 

 

 

This is from a 1932 episode of The Little Rascals. Man, I've had jobs like that.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/23/perpetually-punching.html

Dalek Sec Mask

How cool is this?

If you've been watching the new Doctor Who series, and you should, it's great -- you would have seen the Dalek-Human hybrid called "Dalek Sec".

Well, now you can dress up as him for Halloween, maybe next year -- it will be out by Christmas.

It will drive the rest of the family to distraction within minutes of being unwrapped, but a new Dalek mask made of flesh-pink ribbed plastic will be one of the must-have toys this Christmas, retailers predicted yesterday.

The mask, modelled on a one-eyed Dalek-human hybrid which appeared in the episode Daleks in Manhattan, changes the voice of the wearer to the metallic scream of the doctor's mortal enemies. Games based on films and TV characters will fill Santa's sack this year, according to toy manufacturers who made their annual prediction of Christmas best-sellers yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/retail/story/0,,2188273,00.html

Greenspan and Stewart on the Economy

A great watch... it's funny that the clearest explanation of the US Fed and economy is on a comedy show.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2007/09/19/greenspan-cracks-a-joke-and-breaks-it-down/?mod=fpa_blogs

Now That's Hands Free

 

Screw bluetooth. That's hands free.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/151811546/boing-boing-gadgets.html

Douglas Adams Interview: Is there an Artificial God?

 

In honour of Douglas' memory, Biota.org presents the transcript of his speech at Digital Biota 2, held at Magdelene College Cambridge, in September 1998. I would like to thank Steve Grand for providing this to us. Douglas presented this ''off the cuff'' which only magnifies his true genius in our eyes. -- Bruce Damer

This was originally billed as a debate only because I was a bit anxious coming here. I didn't think I was going to have time to prepare anything and also, in a room full of such luminaries, I thought 'what could I, as an amateur, possibly have to say'? So I thought I would settle for a debate. But after having been here for a couple of days, I realised you're just a bunch of guys! It's been rife with ideas and I've had so many myself through talking with and listening to people that I'd thought what I'd do was stand up and have an argument and debate with myself. I'll talk for a while and hope sufficiently to provoke and inflame opinion that there'll be an outburst of chair- throwing at the end.

Before I embark on what I want to try and tackle, may I warn you that things may get a little bit lost from time to time, because there's a lot of stuff that's just come in from what we've been hearing today, so if I occasionally sort of go… I was telling somebody earlier today that I have a four-year-old daughter and was very, very interested watching her face when she was in her first 2 or 3 weeks of life and suddenly realising what nobody would have realised in previous ages - she was rebooting!

I just want to mention one thing, which is completely meaningless, but I am terribly proud of - I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are D N A!

http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/

Asshole Driven Development

Forget Test Driven Development, XP, or Agile, I'm a fan of Asshole Driven Development. And guess who the Asshole is.

Asshole Driven development (ADD) - Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when Mr. Asshole is in the room, doing whatever idiotic, selfish thing he thinks is best. There may rules and processes, but Mr. A breaks them and people follow anyway.

Cognitive Dissonance development (CDD) - In any organization where there are two or more divergent beliefs on how software should be made. The tension between those beliefs, as it’s fought out in various meetings and individual decisions by players on both sides, defines the project more than any individual belief itself.

Cover Your Ass Engineering (CYAE) - The driving force behind most individual efforts is to make sure than when the shit hits the fan, they are not to blame.

Development By Denial (DBD) - Everybody pretends there is a method for what’s being done, and that things are going ok, when in reality, things are a mess and the process is on the floor. The worse things get, the more people depend on their denial of what’s really happening, or their isolation in their own small part of the project, to survive.

Get Me Promoted Methodology (GMPM) - People write code and design things to increase their visibility, satisfy their boss’s whims, and accelerate their path to a raise or the corner office no matter how far outside of stated goals their efforts go. This includes allowing disasters to happen so people can be heroes, writing hacks that look great in the short term but crumble after the individual has moved on, and focusing more on the surface of work than its value.

 

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/asshole-driven-development/

Brilliant Star Wars Robot Chicken

http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BBFC30C8F3869BC6466EB49C7FC9D9D87A

Brilliant Commentary On Paris Hilton

From Stephen Colbert and Tommy Chong... 

Best Essay Answers

 

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Answers_i_wish_i_thought_of

Crashes Worse Than Breakups

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/115.gif

Homestarrunner Date Night

 

 

Marzipan goes on a date with the cheat. 'Nuff said. 

http://homestarrunner.com/datenite.html

New Strongbad Email

"Sorry Strongbad, the suits had me install a firewall on your imagination!"

http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail169.html

Be Nice To America

Funny but sad bumper sticker. Because it's true. And because America isn't really a democracy any more.

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5098/127711758264244615aff8blo9.jpg

Lost Douglas Adams Interview

 

 

It's weird. I just got off a flight to Toronto and I just watched most of "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" recent movie on the plane -- like it or lump it, but Adams worked on the script and I loved it.

Anyway, what shows up when I hit the hotel room and log in? A very cool lost Douglas Adams interview...

" ...I had quite a lot of separate plots in my mind, each of which involved the end of the world, so we thought we were going to do six independent half hour stories, each ending with the end of the world. The thing was going to be called The Ends of the Earth, or something. Then I suddenly remembered what had struck me six years previously – but I hadn't done anything about it and hadn't even remembered in the intervening time – which was when I had been hitchhiking around Europe, when I was a student or just before I went up to Cambridge, I had this book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe. And I remember wandering into a campsite in Innsbruck late one night, being not entirely sober, and the stars were all out and I just remember thinking at that time 'Somebody should write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.'

"But being congenitally unable to see a good idea when it was staring me in the face, I didn't do anything about it for another six years. Anyway, then I did a treatment, describing what the show was going to be about, and it took a while for that to go through the [BBC] system. By this stage, I'd gone back and lived at home with my parents in Dorset. And then the BBC came back and said 'OK, write a first episode.' So I wrote a first episode, and that also took a while to go through, and then they came back and said 'Yes, OK. Go ahead and make it.'"

There was no practice round. That first episode was the actual first episode, complete with bulldozers, Vogons, Ford Prefect, "Lucky escape for Arsenal", and, of course, the end of the Earth. The reaction was, for a surprisingly long time, silence.

http://www.darkermatter.com/issue1/douglas_adams.php

Thar She Blows!

 

A dead 60 ton whale exploded while being transported through a major Asian city. Seems like whales blow up during decomposition as gasses release. Must've been a fun clean up... reminds me of SCTV's "Farm Film Report" -- he blowed up real good! 

What's even funnier is that this animal was being transported from a local aquarium where it died. It was a star exhibit because of it's 5 foot penis. "May the Good Lord take a likin' to ya' and blow ya' up real soon!" indeed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586