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Posted: **Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:08 pm**

Adam Gillard wrote:I thought you'd like that video, Ryan (I expected you to be the first to comment). Also, I think someone got a little carried away with that comment you've quoted, Charlie! Anyway, I thought it was a fun video and those of you who enjoy popular music doubtless recognise the tune that is being covered.

It was actually pretty funny and I think I prefer it to Taio Cruz's.

Posted: **Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:50 pm**

I don't know if this is posted elsewhere but I'm guessing Michael Wallace has something to do with it. Although maybe not this one: "What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone? You can't make a vita-min."

http://punraccoon.tumblr.com/

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:51 am**

Ryan Taylor wrote:I don't know if this is posted elsewhere but I'm guessing Michael Wallace has something to do with it. Although maybe not this one: "What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone? You can't make a vita-min."

http://punraccoon.tumblr.com/

Haha. I have never seen that before and I have nothing to do with it. Brilliant.

(I say brilliant, I am plastered)

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:42 am**

Michael Wallace wrote:
Ryan Taylor wrote:I don't know if this is posted elsewhere but I'm guessing Michael Wallace has something to do with it. Although maybe not this one: "What's the difference between a vitamin and a hormone? You can't make a vita-min."

http://punraccoon.tumblr.com/
Haha. I have never seen that before and I have nothing to do with it. Brilliant.

(I say brilliant, I am plastered)

Excellent, I'm glad you think it's brilliant!

There should also be a thread for a collection of drunken posts because I logged in to find drunken posts from you, Ben and Kirk this morning.

Posted: **Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:09 pm**

The story of the Nativity (worth a gander

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Posted: **Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:27 am**

http://www.documaga.com/wp-content/uplo ... iverse.swf

I thought this was pretty cool.

Posted: **Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:38 am**

Mark James wrote:http://www.documaga.com/wp-content/uplo ... iverse.swf

I thought this was pretty cool.

Yeah, that is.

Posted: **Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:14 pm**

I wrote "Krik Bevonde" on Kirk's status, just cos I felt like it. I wasn't aware he has been officially called that before.

Anyway, Heather, also for no good reason, decided to Google it.

Mental.

Posted: **Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:12 am**

I'm not sure how I've not seen this before. As a mentalist control freak when it comes to making music, this would be the perfect band for me as everyone (thing) would do exactly as I instructed. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to build one.

Posted: **Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:18 pm**

JimBentley wrote:I'm not sure how I've not seen this before. As a mentalist control freak when it comes to making music, this would be the perfect band for me as everyone (thing) would do exactly as I instructed. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to build one.

Good find.

Posted: **Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:42 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote:
JimBentley wrote:I'm not sure how I've not seen this before. As a mentalist control freak when it comes to making music, this would be the perfect band for me as everyone (thing) would do exactly as I instructed. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to build one.
Good find.

I agree. It's ace

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:29 pm**

Here's a film someone made using Grand Theft Auto 4. In lieu of the censorship discussion on the feature request thread on the apterous page I should probably point out it is for adults only.
You have been forewarned.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfhffw

Posted: **Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:11 pm**

And here's another word game people may enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/user/InecomCompa ... v97NAFKPGo

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:17 pm**

An article published today; might be of interest: Chemical processes in the deep interior of Uranus

Snigger

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:19 am**

Some fucked up shit. Fucking idiots.
Thank God America didn't get any revenge for Pearl Harbor in any way possible, by say, killing 200,000 Japanese civilians or anything like that.

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:37 pm**

Matt Morrison wrote:Some fucked up shit. Fucking idiots.
Thank God America didn't get any revenge for Pearl Harbor in any way possible, by say, killing 200,000 Japanese civilians or anything like that.

Pearl Harbour is trending on Twitter as well. The guy at the top who thinks the Japanese started WWII made me chuckle, the twit

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:43 pm**

James Doohan wrote:
Matt Morrison wrote:Some fucked up shit. Fucking idiots.
Thank God America didn't get any revenge for Pearl Harbor in any way possible, by say, killing 200,000 Japanese civilians or anything like that.
Pearl Harbour is trending on Twitter as well. The guy at the top who thinks the Japanese started WWII made me chuckle, the twit

My favourite was the guy who quoted Justin Timberlake.

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:48 pm**

I think my faith in humanity just feel out of my arse. Again.

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:55 pm**

Jack Simmering wrote:those damn krauts deserve to be hit by a earthquake tsunami for nuking pearl harbor

Krauts? They can't even get their insults right.

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:05 pm**

America makes me so angry. Its people are so arrogant and patriotic as to ignore one of the largest losses of life in human history, which they obviously caused.

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:21 pm**

Kai Laddiman wrote:America makes me so angry. Its people are so arrogant and patriotic as to ignore one of the largest losses of life in human history, which they obviously caused.

It's not the fact that they're American, it's the fact that they're retarded. I'm sure you could make a similar collage of British morons at any time.

Posted: **Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:29 pm**

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Kai Laddiman wrote:America makes me so angry. Its people are so arrogant and patriotic as to ignore one of the largest losses of life in human history, which they obviously caused.
It's not the fact that they're American, it's the fact that they're retarded. I'm sure you could make a similar collage of British morons at any time.

A quick summary for those who don't want to click the link:

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:13 pm**

Fucked up shit is fucked up. People are crazy.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:04 pm**

Whoah. What bugs me about it all is that i'm/we're not more upset about this, about the middle east uprisings, etc. I feel like we should all stop and turn our attentions to these major events, but yet, Saturday night I was back playing tunes to a room full of drunk people again. The images are icredible. Like nothing I've ever seen. Like something out of a film. Still, i'm more fascinated than horrified. For this, I feel somewhat wrong.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:55 pm**

Andy Wilson wrote:Whoah. What bugs me about it all is that i'm/we're not more upset about this, about the middle east uprisings, etc. I feel like we should all stop and turn our attentions to these major events, but yet, Saturday night I was back playing tunes to a room full of drunk people again. The images are icredible. Like nothing I've ever seen. Like something out of a film. Still, i'm more fascinated than horrified. For this, I feel somewhat wrong.

I felt like this back when the other Tsunami happened. I feel like I should feel bad, but I don't. I do feel fucking lucky though, and so should everyone in this society.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:57 pm**

I think I have no concept of death tolls and things. 20,000, 100,000, 6 million, they don't really register on any kind of scale. I've only really had one close person die in my life, and that was awful, years on I still feel bad for the people closest to that dead person and how it's changed their lives. But I can't just multiply that by 100,000 and empathise.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:43 pm**

http://www.youtube.com/user/tamtampamel ... HXziHOo_wQ

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:02 pm**

Jon O'Neill wrote:
Andy Wilson wrote:Whoah. What bugs me about it all is that i'm/we're not more upset about this, about the middle east uprisings, etc. I feel like we should all stop and turn our attentions to these major events, but yet, Saturday night I was back playing tunes to a room full of drunk people again. The images are icredible. Like nothing I've ever seen. Like something out of a film. Still, i'm more fascinated than horrified. For this, I feel somewhat wrong.
I felt like this back when the other Tsunami happened. I feel like I should feel bad, but I don't. I do feel fucking lucky though, and so should everyone in this society.

Yeah. We watched Schindler's List in history recently and everyone is sad and crying but it made me wonder how anyone can be upset when that exact thing is happening right now for third world countries. I always wondered if the way we don't care about poor people will be looked back on with the same moral indignation the people who didn't stand up to the Nazis sometimes are.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:59 pm**

Jimmy Gough wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:
Andy Wilson wrote:Whoah. What bugs me about it all is that i'm/we're not more upset about this, about the middle east uprisings, etc. I feel like we should all stop and turn our attentions to these major events, but yet, Saturday night I was back playing tunes to a room full of drunk people again. The images are icredible. Like nothing I've ever seen. Like something out of a film. Still, i'm more fascinated than horrified. For this, I feel somewhat wrong.
I felt like this back when the other Tsunami happened. I feel like I should feel bad, but I don't. I do feel fucking lucky though, and so should everyone in this society.
Yeah. We watched Schindler's List in history recently and everyone is sad and crying but it made me wonder how anyone can be upset when that exact thing is happening right now for third world countries. I always wondered if the way we don't care about poor people will be looked back on with the same moral indignation the people who didn't stand up to the Nazis sometimes are.

It depends what you mean by care though. Obviously, there is actively helping ang giving money, but when it comes to properly emotionally caring about everyone's plight, when you consider how many people in the world are in crap situations, you wouldn't be able to do anything else. There's no point in just being upset the whole time.

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:08 pm**

Someone i know posted this on facebook and another person pitched in that it is perhaps not legit and that she is a 'troll'. Then, having recently seen the Jon Cryer troll thing, thus being reminded of trolls, I noticed, holy sh!t, she looks a bit like one!

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:40 pm**

Here's a link to cheer everyone up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbAT1wzS8U

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:49 pm**

Andy, I checked her previous videos - she's been posting such stuff for 8 months or so. I decided that was enough to make her real. A real cunt.

Posted: **Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:28 pm**

Lego rules and this is amazing: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/72542

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:26 am**

Not exactly a link to dump but I've had this copy of the Economist lying around ready to scan in for quite a bit now and finally got round to it. Basically I just quite like the front cover and wondered if it would be any use as a picture quiz round i.e. picking like 10 out and showing them the outline of the state with the changed name on. But then I realised there aren't many ones that would actually stump anyone so it was just wishful thinking.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:36 pm**

This has amused quite a few people.

Posted: **Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:32 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote:This has amused quite a few people.

Ha yep, Jeff Burgin (of Countdown fame) posted it on facebook the other day, genuinely made me laugh.

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:24 am**

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:04 pm**

This is catchy. And the winner was Prii.

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:57 pm**

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... reet-party Woop woop

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:46 am**

When I heard last year that a couple of friends of mine were involved in making a 'Drink Responsibly' cinema ad for Coventry City Council, I was expecting it to be a bit lame. But it's actually not.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:59 am**

Matt Morrison wrote:

iron man 2 is one of them i think

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:32 am**

Marc Meakin wrote:iron man 2 is one of them i think

I was thinking of Cross of Iron for that one.

Is the first one simply The Matrix or is there more to it than that?

I wondered whether the second one might be classic SF fave Phase IV but not sure if that's well known enough for this kind of quiz.

Is the fourth one The Birds (i.e. the superset of all objects of type bird)? Really getting desperate now.

Matt, as none of the real mathematicians seem interested in having a go are you going to give us the answers soon?

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:44 am**

I think the second one is just "Signs" (sines).

Oh, and apparently there's been several films called "Complex", so that could be the ninth one.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:52 am**

QWiki is worth a look.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:55 pm**

Just in case people were wondering and couldn't be arsed finding them the answers to the movie thing were;

1: The Matrix (1999)
2: Signs (2002)
3: Ball Of Fire (1941)
4: Duck soup (1933)
5: Cross Of Iron (1977)
6: The Social Network (2010)
7: Sin City (2005)
8: Heat (1995)
9: Goldeneye (1995)
10: Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Not sure where people were getting Iron Man 2 from. Fe means Iron sure but where are you getting the Man from. And also, if the clue was Fe + Fe I could see where you're coming from but Fe X Fe would be iron man squared.

Posted: **Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:06 am**

What Mark said.

Posted: **Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:22 pm**

That Beauty and the Beast one - I've never got why people write e^iπ + 1 = 0 rather than just e^iπ = -1.

Posted: **Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:39 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote:That Beauty and the Beast one - I've never got why people write e^iπ + 1 = 0 rather than just e^iπ = -1.

There's something nice about having all of the Big Five constants in one expression, although depending on your field people might argue about which five those should be.

Posted: **Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:06 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:That Beauty and the Beast one - I've never got why people write e^iπ + 1 = 0 rather than just e^iπ = -1.
There's something nice about having all of the Big Five constants in one expression, although depending on your field people might argue about which five those should be.

I think it's a bit of a fudge though doing it that way.

Posted: **Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:06 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote:That Beauty and the Beast one - I've never got why people write e^iπ + 1 = 0 rather than just e^iπ = -1.

"e to the i pi plus one equals nought" has a nice rhythm to it

(I have a vague memory of a poem - possibly a rondeau - in which that is a refrain, but haven't been able to find it. Could have been in Eureka, occasional journal of the Archimedeans, but can't find my copy

)

Posted: **Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:30 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:
Gavin Chipper wrote:That Beauty and the Beast one - I've never got why people write e^iπ + 1 = 0 rather than just e^iπ = -1.
There's something nice about having all of the Big Five constants in one expression, although depending on your field people might argue about which five those should be.
I think it's a bit of a fudge though doing it that way.

Agreed, but you have to cut zero a bit of slack, since it doesn't do anything interesting with any of the basic operators so you always have to shoehorn it in.

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:35 am**

Two impressive robotic things of the day:

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:11 pm**

Continuing the robotics theme

Posted: **Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:46 pm**

Some quite impressive robot things. I'm not sure what's going on with the glorified spatula - is it anything to do with robotics, or is it just a very good spatula?

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:03 am**

http://www.pointofinquiry.org/

Some of you sciency people might be interested in the above.

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:18 am**

Phil Reynolds wrote:When I heard last year that a couple of friends of mine were involved in making a 'Drink Responsibly' cinema ad for Coventry City Council, I was expecting it to be a bit lame. But it's actually not.

Watch it with YouTube's new "1911" feature enabled. Then watch your own favourite YouTube clip the same way. You'll gag. Then watch the rest of your day disappear.

Posted: **Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:53 pm**

Works far better than it should.

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:44 am**

In future, all cars should be sold like this.

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:59 pm**

Spelling mistakes on Facebook and the way people react to them:
http://www.someecards.com/2011/04/06/th ... n-facebook

A few of these made me do good chuckles.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2011 12:35 pm**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUEcaAc6 ... e=youtu.be

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