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Does this game have any bugs?… Nah

Weeeeeee!

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I found this old picture that I’d forgotten about on my phone. I’d taken it one night when I couldn’t sleep and had turned on the tv. I couldn’t work out then how the answer to this puzzle (riddle?) was 1928. Still can’t. Anyone?

NINE + 11 +
EIGHTY TWO + 8 x
TWO = ?

Answer: 1928.

Buh?

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It’s here, and it’s as awesome as ever! It’s shinier than before, which is nice. The controls have changed slightly from before in that you can no longer do a double-jump/in air roll and draw your lightsaber when running into battle (it immediately performs the slam manoeuvre now). Which is a shame because that was sweet and oh so satisfying.

But you can drive round in little cars…

(I was going to put a video here of the little car in the mos eisley “hub” of the little car outside, but I can’t find one on youtube)

Now I kid you not, this is one of available achievements.

There’s a trailer in the game for the next slice of Lego video game fun.

Lego Indiana Jones Grrrrreat.

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…or geeky fantastic spamtastic and other stories.

Dear Mr Chris,

We have tried on numerous occasions to block this sender already. Unfortunately, the word “Woohoo” in the subject line causes a buffer overflow in the spam filter, due to the over-excitement it conveys, and the forementioned spam filter will consequently spaz out.

We have asked Mr UAT to refrain from using the words “Woohoo”, “Yeeeeesssss!”, and “Lindsay Lohan” in order to prevent the overflow. He has so far declined. We will be pursuing the matter with a cease and desist letter.

Kind regards
Bob Turner

—– Original Message —–
From: Chris Watson
To: helpdesk List Member
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:36 PM
Subject: [helpdesk] [Fwd: Woohoo! UAT DATA TRANSFER COMPLETED]

Hello it. i keep getting this spam from mr uat. can we edit the spam filter or something to block him out?

——– Original Message ——–
Subject: [helpdesk] Woohoo! UAT DATA TRANSFER COMPLETED
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:14:15 +0100
From: UAT Data Transfer
To: helpdesk List Member

This is a system generated email. Please refer any queries to the IT Department.

Question: Can you get eight pound coins to all spin at once?

Answer: No

(And its hard work trying)

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Nick put me on to xkcd.com a while ago. One thing that’s annoyed me about it for quite some time is that to read some of the joke you have to hover over the image to read the title attribute; and if that attribute’s value is too long you end up having to view the source to read it. Boring.

Greasemonkey to the rescue! I heard about this extension for firefox before but had no need of it, it allows you to write some javascript that will get executed for a particular website. Cool.

Before

After

Script (Download xkcd.com comic title greasemonkey script)

// ==UserScript==
// @name xkcd comic title
// @namespace http://xkcd.com
// @include http://*xkcd.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

var arrObjImages = document.getElementsByTagName(”img”);

var iImg;
for(iImg = 0; iImg < arrObjImages.length; iImg++){
var objImage = arrObjImages[iImg];

var sImgTitle = objImage.getAttribute("title");
if(sImgTitle != null && sImgTitle.length > 0){
//image title
objImage.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode(sImgTitle),

objImage.nextSibling);

//two line breaks
objImage.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createElement(”br”), objImage.nextSibling);
objImage.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createElement(”br”), objImage.nextSibling);

};//end if
};//end for

Dive into Greasemonkey (Sounds a perverted don’t you think?)

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Crazed local man seen taking bottles out of new recycling bins.

Police have described the man as “mostly harmless” and have advised the public to just leave him be.

More information

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They both play the nose flute!

Caution. Clicking on the following link may cause nausea or bleeding from the ear.
Adam Wilson ft Ripper on noseflute - Lucy In The Sky (Rare) 56kbs

Folking good singing

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Last week’s European Grand Prix was… interesting. In the final minutes on the grid just before they all set off on the parade lap “Rain in 3 minutes” popped up at the bottom of the screen. This rain would start to have an effect on the first lap proper.

I’ve never laughed so hard watching a grand prix before. (I think the last rib tickler was a couple of years back when Alonso flipped the bird at Ralf Schumacher while coming backwards out of the tunnel at Monaco).

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the delightful spectacle that is Formula 1. Some things to watch out for:

• Raikkonen missing the pit entrance
• Marcus Winklehoff leading the race on his debut after starting from the pits on wet tyres
• Five cars (including Button and Hamilton) aquaplaning off the track
• Lewis Hamilton subsequently employing the Scalextric tactic of being upped and replaced on the track for another go
• The safety car driver putting his foot down to escape the Red Bull car coming flying down the track backwards towards him

Towards the end of the race when Alonso was all over the back of Massa’s car was good too, but its taken a week to get this far and I’m tired now.