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January 30, 2004

spear toss

507.068
526.437
526.869
529.399
531.134

Can you do any better?

(Via email from rich just as I was about to go to bed. Evil.)

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January 27, 2004

“The most complicated machine ever built got knocked out of the sky by a pound and a half of foam. I don’t know how any of us could have seen that coming.”

Columbia’s Final Minutes

“Investigators believe the module began breaking up at the beginning of that window. If any of the astronauts were still alive at that point, death would have been instantaneous, the result of blunt force trauma, including hypersonic wind blast, and lack of oxygen.”

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January 23, 2004

“Anyone disguised as a Jedi in this day and age had better have been helped into that costume by a caregiver…”

Dorkstorm: The Annihilation

“These geeks used to be called Trekkies, but now insist on the less derogatory term Trekkers, which is the image control equivalent of adding a koala bear to the Nazi flag. They tend to be unobtrusive, but for every hundred Trekkers polite enough to obsess in their own homes, there’s some bastard singing at the karaoke bar in Klingon and a computer repairman demanding that his coworkers address him by his Starfleet rank.”

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January 21, 2004

BPI makes a mockery of the Common Market

CD Wow backs down in parallel importing row

“The retailer imported cheap CDs from Asia and sold them in Western Europe. CDs are cheaper in Asia, because the music industry deploys differential pricing. Briefly, record companies charge more in Europe because they can.”

Update from Paul: This story has now hit Slashdot with one or two interesting comments.

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January 20, 2004

Martyn Lewis, Michael Buerk and Jon Snow were watching me through the TV set.

Xenophobic Persecution In The UK

“The harassment has several faces; in the broadcast and print media, people in the world of television know there is a conspiracy to spy, BBC newsreaders peek while reading the news, radio presenters interject abusive remarks in their commentary. “Set-up” situations have been organised, frequently during travel, with people briefed on what they are to say and in what manner.”

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January 17, 2004

bootlegging has never been so good

We’re thinking of a redesign, what do you think of the following layouts:

1.)
b.)
iii.)
Four

Make your own: Mix Master

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Bad! Bad monster!

“Death surrounds me. Yet, in my head I hear something that sounds like angels!
Lo, I have found the holy grail of firepower
Mine eyes can but weep as they bear witness to the majesty… the BFG 9000!”

- Doom Comic, Page 15 / 16

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January 15, 2004

Did Moz predict Diana’s death? Err, no.

The Diana-Morrissey Phenomenon

“In 1986 - eleven years before the death of Princess Diana - Morrissey and The Smiths released the album THE QUEEN IS DEAD. For the cover of this album whose title announces the death of a royal female, Morrissey chose a photo of a French man named Alain, (actor Alain Delon). The first public announcement of Princess Diana’s death was made by a French man named Alain, (Dr. Alain Pavie, head of the Cardiology department at Paris’ Hospital de la Pitie Salpetriere).”

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January 14, 2004

#6: Finish off every one of Elrond’s lines with “Mr. Anderson.”

I know, I know, this is somewhat late:

What NOT to do during “Return of the King.”

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January 12, 2004

Chavs, Neds, Townies, Kevs, Charvers, Steeks, Spides, Bazzas, Yarcos, Ratboys, Kappa Slappers, Skangers

ChavScum - A field guide to Britain’s burgeoning peasant underclass

“Nothing says ‘filthy chavster’ quite like a nice thick pair of big hoopy gold earrings! When I say big, I mean a inside diameter of at least 2 inches! If you see someone with earrings so big they rest on the wearers shoulders, you are in the presence of Chav royalty!”

(Readers who liked this link also enjoyed: As You Can See From My Name-Brand Clothing, I Am Not Poor)

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January 7, 2004

I Love Life By Jerry Frye

Dark humour

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Scrum and Slashdot

Whilst reading through a slashdot book review on Agile Software Development with Scrum I came across a pretty insightful comment about the different pressures management are under verses developers. This one line unfortunately made a lot of sense:

“One of the things that must occur when you move from a artistic/tradesman style of production to a engineer style of production is that you have to trade a little bit of quality for a lot of consistancy.”

As for the Scrum process it sounds a lot like XP without the failsafe measures that make it work (no unit testing, no pair programming, etc).

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January 6, 2004

what an effort!

It would appear that someone who got The Odd Squad’s Big Poo Handbook for Christmas has been really working their way through it. Here is a warning; do not click on the following link if you are squeamish or suffer from involuntary vomiting. Consider yourself warned.

Exhibit A m’lord. The prosecution rests…

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January 1, 2004

and that was that

Ears ringing. Wallet empty. Stomach churning.

That was NYE 2003.
Suspects: Ben, Justin, Paul.
Location: Creation, Buddies’ 24 hour cafe (x2), Wetherspoons, Greens, Travel Lodge and of course, Brighton itself.

Have a good 2004.

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Amazon the ecommerce platform company?

A link I’ve been meaning to post for a couple of days now: Reprogramming Amazon, all about how the now almost profitable company is set to make more money by selling selling services than just plain selling. A good read.

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