Random Stuff
Another Derren Brown clip today, this time he’s using NLP (neuro linguistic programming) to make people forget the stop they want to get off at.
Engineering notes from the sharp end
Practical writing about software, systems, delivery, and things that behave strangely under pressure.
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Hardware, Random Stuff
For all you people wishing you were at Hogwarts, here’s the first step in the right direction (no actual magic, but I guarantee for people who don’t know about this product, they’ll stare at you in amazement, or maybe fear). It’s called the Kymera Magic Wand. The Kymera magic wand is actually a universal remote … Read More “The Magic Wand” »
Random Stuff
This thing is great for random crap, euphemisms to brighten your day from the random euphemism generator. Great lines such as: I couldn’t believe my best friend was actually cranking the tiny lower wave.
News, Random Stuff
A New York prisoner has come up with a much easier way to break out of jail: ask the guards for the exit. The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the … Read More “Prisoner flees after asking guard way out” »
Hardware
Finally upgraded to a GTX 260 896MB graphics card so I’m getting rid of my old card, it’s a Geforce 8800 GTS, with 640MB RAM and a clock speed set to 575Mhz (overclocked.) And yes, it can run Crysis! (Not at max details of course, but at 1680×1050 with settings at a mix of High/Very … Read More “ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP GeForce 8800GTS (640 MB) For Sale!” »
News, Random Stuff
Swedish fertility clinics are suffering a backlog due to demand from lesbian couples. As a result of the law change, waiting time has jumped from 3 to 18 months. Back on July 1st, 2005, female same-sex couples were granted the right to artificial insemination at Swedish hospitals. Before that, lesbians had to seek help abroad … Read More “Swedish Sperm Banks Running Dry Due to Lesbians” »
Ego-centric, Gaming
Yes, yes it can! And by that I mean my new Geforce GTX 260, new OTT MSI motherboard and new 42″ Viera Plasma TV can. I maxed out all the settings, put it on my TV and hit “Play” and it worked a charm, if not a little disorientating when the screen shakes and blurs. … Read More “Ah…but can it play Crysis?” »
Random Stuff, SEO
In the latest of a string of weird keywords my site shows up for, “dutch penis” has to be the weirdest. I actually managed to rank 16th for this term! Not much else to say really, although if you were searching for dutch penis and have ended up here, take a look around and then … Read More “Google Search – Dutch Penis?” »
Random Stuff
See those black bits scattered around this Boeing? It’s just part of a massive flock of starlings hitting its fuselage and engine as it was taking off at 200mph. About two hundred birds were sucked into the turbine. The photographer, Juergen Kienast, said the sound of the engine as it sucked the birds was defeaning: … Read More “Starling Purée Anyone? Airplane hits a flock of birds” »
News, Software
PeerBlock was a “spin off” from PeerGuardian, a program that completely blocks access to certain IP addresses at the network level making it completely impossible to connect to them (or from people on those IP addresses to connect to you.) The reason I love this program so much is it blocks access to known spyware … Read More “PeerBlock 1.0 Released – Now with signed driver” »