I’m not sure which MMORPG this is, but a mission to collect eggs turns rotten.
Author: Matt Wharton
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Doctor Who speculation
Meanwhile I’ve noticed a lot of speculation about the last few episodes and The Big Bad Wolf. I like Tom Coates theory which I’ve reprinted here.
Needless to say possibly spoilerific.
Tags: Doctor Who
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James Randi’s letter
A reader of BoingBoing is on the James Randi mailing list and received the following message from the magician.
Item #6535581498 now being offered for sale on eBay is a letter written and sent to me by Doug Henning in 1983. At that time, I lived in Rumson, New Jersey. Until I saw it on eBay a few days ago, I thought it was still in my Henning file, but it apparently was stolen from me sometime after 1995, when I last referred to it.
If any of you have heard scuttlebutt about this item, I’d like to hear from you. I cannot discover who offered it for sale, but I assure you I treasured it highly.
James Randi.
I find his statement that he cannot discover who offered it for sale puzzling. The letter is being offered for sale by a company that specializes in listing items on eBay for their clients. It seems like a reputable business from what I can gather from the information listed at eBay and their contact details are clearly listed. Has Mr. Randi tried to contact them? Would they not be concerned that they could be handling stolen goods.
Tags: eBay
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Evil Plan ™!
Your objective is simple: World Domination.
Your motive is a little bit more complex: Love (Yes, it works)
Stage One
To begin your plan, you must first traumatize a news reporter. This will cause the world to swallow nervously, confused by your arrival. Who is this evil genius? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good wearing the skin of another human?
Stage Two
Next, you must steal the Town’s Water Supply. This will all be done from a obsidian citadel, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will weep uncontrollably, as countless hordes of evil clowns hasten to do your every bidding.
Stage Three
Finally, you must reveal to the world your armies of destruction, bringing about an end to sanity. Your name shall become synonymous with dear god no, and no man will ever again dare steal your woman. Everyone will bow before your cunning intelligence, and the world will have no choice but to give you control of the planet.
Interested in an evil plan of your own? Get yours here.
Tags: humour
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Beeping house update
The beep has been found at last.
It was quite anticlimatic having read through the 1645 previous posts, I was hoping it was something hidden within the walls. At least reading through them all was a better way to spend a few hours than watching the new series of Big Brother.
I really don’t know how bigcb37 could put up with this for almost a year.
Tags: beep
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The saga of the mysterious beep
This discussion on a Tivo Community Forum is making the rounds on the internet but I thought I might as well jump on the bandwagon also.
This poor guy has been suffering with a mytserious intermittent beep that emanates from somewhere in his house for over a year now. He writes that it is definitely not any of the smoke alarms as he has disconnected and tested them all and that the beep remained even when his neighbourhood suffered a power cut.
As mysterious as the beep is the number of people replying who must have missed those crucial pieces of information in his description of his problem as quite a number are suggesting it must be one of his smoke alarms or suggest that he trip the circuit breakers one by one to track down the source of the beep.
Some people have even offered to go to his house in order to help him track down the beep and eliminate it.
Tags: beep
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Mindjack – Piracy is good?
Mindjack, the digital culture webzine, examines the impact of BitTorrent on TV shows and asks whether this distribution model should be embraced by the television companies.
Part two: The new laws of Television
Post-Script: The Swarm Manifesto
Tags: bittorrent, copyright, TV
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Da filthy
Halo 2 and the Criminal Mind
The story of how a nice family man was corrupted by the video game Halo 2 and turned into a sociopathic clan leader within a single day.“Watch the language around the boys, dear.” She’s gesturing to John’s two toddlers, now playing on the living room floor. The oldest is opening a recent birthday gift, a plastic playset in a box marked with a cartoon man with a ponytail and a goatee. The words Brett The Communal Farmer are marked in pink above his head, below it says And His Life Partner, Tim! There is not a toy gun or G.I. Joe to be found in the house.
“I’m not gonna censor myself. Dave’s doin’ an article on the mind of the average gamer and I can’t filter my thoughts. And my first unfiltered thought is that Halo 2 be da filthy.”
This early exchange with the wife didn’t bode well for the future, as we can see in this later episode.
She examines the TV, watching John stride up behind an unsuspecting opponent and blow holes in his back.
“Wait a second,” she said. “Why did you kill that guy? Isn’t he another human?”
John shook his head in frustration. “He’s wearing blue armor.”
“So… the guys in blue armor were also born evil?”
“Honey, if you would take a moment to think before you talk, you’d see that the uniform means he’s on the other side. It’s a game. Like football.”
“But… you’re blowing their guts out. So, like, in the Halo universe are you saying that it’s a normal human pasttime to-“
“-I’m trying to play here! Don’t make me get Ghraib on your ass!”
“If you talk to me like that again, I’ll never let you touch my…” she trails off into stricken silence. “John, what the hell are you doing?”
What John’s wife had just observed was the Halo custom known as “tea bagging.” This is a sort of celebration where the victor squats over the vanquished’s face to simulate dipping his testicles into the cold, dead, open mouth of the corpse much in the same way one would dip a teabag into a cup of hot water.
The article was written by David Wong and John Cheese.
John Cheese? Wasn’t that the former name of John Cleese before he changed his surname?
Tags: games
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Queen speaks words of Blair
It was the Queen’s Speech today in which she outlined what her government would be doing in this parliament.
Tony Blair has pledged to create a “culture of respect” as he put moves to tackle crime and disorder at the heart of his third term agenda.
Public service reform also figured strongly in the Queen’s Speech, setting out the government’s new programme.
A total of 44 bills and six draft bills are in the 2005 Queen’s Speech – ensuring a packed legislative schedule in the parliamentary session that follows the general election.
The 44 bills for Parliament to debate by November 2006 included ID cards and laws against religious hatred.
The Conservatives say Labour has copied much of their agenda. The Lib Dems say Mr Blair has not listened to voters.
BBC News: Queen’s Speech at-a-glance or in full.
As outlined in the speech the government has not yet given up on it’s planned National ID card scheme.
Controversial plans to introduce a compulsory identity card scheme have been unveiled in the Queen’s Speech.
The cards, which had to be dropped ahead of the election, will be linked to a National Identity Register holding information on all UK residents.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke said there had been “technical” changes to the new bill to take account of previous objections to the plans.
The Lib Dems say the plans could be defeated with Tory and Labour support.
I really wonder why they insist on pursuing this ill-conceived plan that will be both costly and inefficient, and will certainly not provide increased national security.
Further reading:
• My analysis of the scheme.
• The text of the Identity Cards Bill
• NO2ID NewsBlog