March 2011
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Ever notice how the entire Star Wars saga is...
Right after R2D2 gets the data from Princess Leia, he and C3PO get into an escape pod and fall to the nearby planet, Tatooine. As they’re falling, a trooper on the Star Destroyer spots the escape pod and moves to destroy it.
However, a commander orders him not to fire, “there’s no lifeforms, must have short-circuited,” he remarks. So they let it plummet to the planet....
February 2011
4 posts
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WatchJesus Test Drive is a buggy game.
Nukezilla: Nukezilla 101 →
nukezilla:
[Somebody who reblogs this post will be sent cookies* Update: there’s four packets to be won!]
Maybe RSS feeds are too mainstream for Tumblr to worry about? Either way, the RSS feed for the Nukezilla Tumblr is still not working quite right. One suggestion is that we’re not popular enough…
January 2011
3 posts
Cameron already gave Coulson a "second chance"...
July 2009, David Cameron said:
Of course I knew about that resignation before offering him the job. But I believe in giving people a second chance. As director of communications for the Conservatives he does an excellent job in a proper, upright way at all times.
Today, January 17th:
David Cameron said today he has given Andy Coulson, his director of communications, a “second...
December 2010
10 posts
It must suck to be an indie developer...
Indie Developer: Hey, I’m an indie developer and I’ve released an awesome game for really cheap and give you loads of stuff for your money!
Gamer A: That’s a great game, have my money!
Indie Developer: Wow, thank you so mch for buying it! You can have free upgrades and everything!
Gamer A: No problem, I really like supporting ind- WAIT. THERE’S A BUG IN THIS GAME.
Indie...
Wardrox's Collection of Thoughts: A short story:... →
wardrox:
[This morning, as part of my 750 Words, I decided to try to write, in one quick burst, a short story. Low on inspiration I drew from what’s directly outside my window and tried to construct something around it.
This short story is only slightly edited from its original, which took a little…
I wish I was brave enough to publish my fiction on the web. Very cool.
That's Curious: My new thing to put words in
So I spent last night setting up http://thatscurious.tumblr.com, my new place to write about politics, science, the internet and ‘stuff’. I read most of the stuff anyway and usually just chuck it on Twitter so this’ll just be a bit some substantive.
I’ll probably still use this Tumblr to post videos of cats doing hilarious things, but I want a new place to focus and...
Panorama videogame addiction show now on YouTube...
Thanks to reddit user Farlist for putting in the article’s reddit comments.
Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R83287N6kFg
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-5sm_Iqts
Poor Daily Mail writer can no longer afford to...
my partner and I started a new business four years ago, and we borrowed and borrowed and bought a country house alongside the two we owned between us in London. We practically rebuilt it while I fussed over the kitchen, oohing and aahing over Farrow & Ball paint and butler sinks. We moved to the Cotswolds and I even bought another cottage as an ‘investment’. When the recession hit, we...
November 2010
13 posts
In response to @Longreads' call for my top 5...
The Empty Chamber - The New Yorker
The Hamster Wheel - Columbia Journalism Review
The Raging Septuagenarian - New York Magazine
The Great CyberHeist - The New York Times
George Lucas Stole Chewbacca - But It’s OK - Binary Bonsai
“The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage...”
– Wikileaks documents show a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing that the Chinese government was behind the attacks.
New York Times.
Housing benefit cap to be postponed until January...
There had been reports, hotly denied, that central London councils were going to have to block book bed and breakfast accommodation due to the surge in homelessness.
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It was also clear that the government did not want a swathe of stories of pensioners being forced to leave their homes unable to pay rent due to cuts in housing benefit in the run up to the May local elections.
This housing...
Mr. Peanut Comes Out - Genius.
After that, I went on a wild sex binge, with everyone from Cap’n Crunch to Snap, Crackle, and Pop, and I’ll just say this: none of those guys gets soggy in milk. I remember waking up in a cave in the jungle, in the paws of Tony the Tiger, who roared, “You were grrrrreat! ” But it all came crashing down when I found myself in a three-way, squeezed between Ronald McDonald and Snuggle, the...
"I thought: 'That's the end of me and the baby'"
Moments after the horse charge, the video shows a pregnant woman in considerable distress.
The radio station LBC 97.3 identified the woman, named Anastasia, who said she was pushed by the horse into a corner. “I thought: ‘That’s the end of me and the baby’, that’s the idea that went through my head,” she said.
The Guardian.
"In defence of history"
History is also necessary because it helps to explain current events. How did western culture and western capitalism come to dominate the world? How do cultures rise and how do they fall? We need to know – because otherwise we will not understand the consequences of the rise of China, India and Brazil, the weakening of the United States, the political and economic decline of Europe. History will...
The General Theory of 'House'
Firstly, let me say I love House, but there’s a clear formula that almost every episode follows:
1. Patient comes in complaining of minor symptoms.
2. It gets worse, usually because House tries some crazy treatment.
3. Nobody knows what’s going on. They speculate, trying more and more things which eventually make things worse.
4. House, who’s general douchebagness gets him...
Jazz started to get a reputation as being immoral and many members of the older generations saw it as threatening the old values in culture and promoting the new decadent values of the Roaring 20s. Professor Henry Van Dyck of Princeton University wrote “…it is not music at all. It’s merely an irritation of the nerves of hearing, a sensual teasing of the strings of physical passion.”
...
"Everything’s Going to Shit. Oh Well"
Hell, Nukezilla are currently being blacklisted by Microsoft after having the audacity to ask for an update on something they publicly promised and have yet delivered on. But because it’s not Big Important Dramatic News, and because Nukezilla doesn’t attract millions of hits from Google each month, we’re just shut out and nobody gives a damn.
Wardrox’s Editor’s Choice
October 2010
2 posts
Troubleshooting with @wardrox
(11:32:27 AM) Wardrox: like I say, it’s very complex (11:32:41 AM) Wardrox: but it’s working now (11:32:53 AM) Wardrox: except it’s not (11:32:54 AM) Wardrox: fuck (11:32:55 AM) Wardrox: UHSDGFKAHLDWGFLAHSDGB;FDJLG (11:32:58 AM) Wardrox: :( (11:32:59 AM) Sam: lol
A description of the Tea Party from 1960. Things...
This is a quote from a history text book by M. A. Jones called “American Immigration”, published in 1960.
“Much more, however, has been involved in the usually short-lived but highly concentrated outbursts of mass xenophobia which have erupted in American from time to time. These have been the product of a loss of national confidence owing to internal stress of one kind or...
September 2010
9 posts
Idiocy: F1 2010 pit engineer
Engineer: “That was a pretty good laptime, Sam.”
Me: “But… I did a 1.56 on Melbourne. The average is 1.32.”
E:”But you’re fifth…?”
Me: “…Out of five…”
E: “Oh.”
Me: “…”
The Results Are In!
wirevg:
Last week a poll was put up on on the site asking “What should Wire.vg do to make money?” 79 people replied, and these are the results:
Some of the suggestions from the “Other” category:
Change the zeitgeist in a way that would positively affect wire.vg
Donations button, MERCHANDISING
Wire commision service - develop complex features or solutions for subscribers
Sell stats (ex....
Microsoft: Kinect will sell better than iPads....
I don’t understand Microsoft’s comparison here. Why the iPad? This seems like a story totally there to get clicks: “I’ll mention Apple, that’ll get everyone talking about us!”
He doesn’t even justify it by saying “this is why the comparison is valid”. Because they both play games? They both require human interaction? They’re made up of...
“It’s irrational, but almost nothing he says about Fable 3 can make me...”
– A comment by me on Fable 3 preview: A second date with co-op - wire.vg
“This review is based on the retail version of Halo: Reach played over the course...”
– Joystiq’s Halo: Reach review.
July 2010
3 posts
IF MARCY CAN BE WRONG SO CAN YOU!!! →
(via wardrox)
I just bought this new phone and it's not working... →
wardrox:
I have no idea how, but at least once a week I still get surprised at how ridicules or stupid people are. In the words of a wise man; ”It’s just a phone. Not worth it.”
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June 2010
10 posts
