Saturday, February 02, 2002
Cheese Link! The wonderful
sport of Cheeseracing is detailed over at
www.cheeseracing.org. I've never heard of this before but it sounds fascinating.
From the Introduction:
Q: What do you think happens when you throw a slice of
processed cheese (without removing the plastic wrapping) onto a
lit barbeque?
The plastic melts giving off highly toxic
fumes and you are left with a pretty grim cheese/plastic
mess welded on to your BBQ, right?
WRONG!Unbelievably what actually happens, as
discovered by the pioneers and inventors of the sport way back in
1997 (read their account of that historic night on a campsite in Osmington
here), is that the plastic pouch
does not melt - even when the
cheese inside eventually
boils! Even more incredibly, as the cheese melts and the
strange chemicals found in processed cheese
turn to gas - the plastic
pouch inflates until eventually all four corners
lift off the BBQ and the pouch is fully inflated! Now under this
pressure you might think that the pouch would eventually
burst - but no - most of the time the seal remains intact!
I gotta try this! I can't wait for summer to to roll round and BBQ season to start!
posted by Andy Buchanan at 10:56 PM
Bad News for our North American cousins as
Punxsutawney Phil the weather-savvy Groundhog
forecasts Another Six Weeks of Winter. Bad Luck dudes!
posted by Andy Buchanan at 3:29 PM
Friday, February 01, 2002
Re: Hacking Skills. I've had a quick go. Got up to Level 4 so far, For further I don't have time just now, have to work. Maybe later..... Update 17:21 Now had a free minute to do level 4. Level 5 is a VB program - can I be arsed? Update: 18:23 Okay big compile on the go, I could be arsed after all. Level 5 vanquished. Level 6 looks a bit trickier......
posted by Andy Buchanan at 2:44 PM
OMG! I've
been caught! 
(Almost as much fun as
IsGay.com which I see has expanded considerably from last time I visited)
posted by Andy Buchanan at 2:17 PM
Fancy trying out your hacking skills? then see if you can get past this hacking 'test', personally, I failed dismally, got to level 3...
Try2Hack
posted by Mark Matheson at 1:50 PM
On a
slashdot related note go
here for the unofficial slashdot digest. Top five posts of threads only ( and in my opinion a more pleasing layout as well. )
posted by Chris Wood at 11:52 AM
A guy called David Keith, along with my Brother and a bunch of friends made an amateur movie a couple of years ago called 'The Croutons'. They won a movie competition with
Empire Magazine. If you have a spare twenty minutes, and need a laugh, watch it
here. You'll need real player. The sequel is there too. It'll give you an idea what to do if you have some spare time...
posted by Mark Matheson at 11:11 AM
Ever wondered if the stories on
slashdot were real? I know I have from time to time, I think I have found the answer.....
This page over at
BBSpot generates slashdot stories
indistinguishable from the real thing (if indeed there is such a thing). Mystery explained!
posted by Andy Buchanan at 10:46 AM
Thursday, January 31, 2002
More of the Reverends Lego Creations. Wonder what he does with his remaining 45 seconds in each day
posted by Andy Buchanan at 4:14 PM
The popularity of
Lego as a mainstream
storytelling medium seems to be growing with leaps and bounds. In addition to "Lord of The Rings", "Monty Python" and it seems dozens of others, now I see that the
"Greatest Story Ever Told" is also available in brightly coloured bricks
Click for the
Brick Testament.
posted by Andy Buchanan at 2:41 PM
Reposted Classics No #1 of #47324.
Work Well with Others. This never gets old.
posted by Andy Buchanan at 8:16 AM
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
I got this wonderful image via email this morning....
It's simply entitled
"Married Life"
posted by Andy Buchanan at 2:50 PM
What happens when you
record a bunch of quotes from your favourite movie stars and use them to
harass the unsuspecting
public? This is
what happens! BTW I'm still trying to track down the
"Shaggy phones the Supermarket" recording, if anyone has it....
posted by Andy Buchanan at 2:43 PM
The
BBC are turning the
Stanford prison experiment into a gameshow -
link hereFor a breakdown of the original experiment go
here Is it just me, or does the fact that the two psychologists developing the B-B-C show say they have safeguards in place to prevent abuse sound like they're taking all the fun out of it ?
posted by Chris Wood at 10:55 AM
Probably the most important MS Technet page ever, it explains everything, right
here.
[Andy: I see this has been removed at the request of Microsoft, so here's
another link to it!]
posted by Mark Matheson at 8:49 AM
Tuesday, January 29, 2002
Sorry about this no. 1:
A magician worked on a cruise ship. The audience was different each week so he did the same tricks over and over again. One problem: The captain's parrot saw the show each week and began to figure out how the magician did every trick.
Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show: "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table!" "Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?" The magician was furious but couldn't do anything. It was, after all, the captain's parrot.
Then, during a fierce storm, the ship sank. The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the middle of the sea with, as fate would have it, the parrot.
They stared at each other with hatred but did not utter a word. This went on for a day, and then another and then another. Finally on the fourth day, the parrot could not hold back: "OK, I give up, Where's the f**king ship?"
posted by Mark Matheson at 4:42 PM
Sorry about this no. 2:
I know that the GameCube is nice and cheap, I know that the PS2 is a reasonable price, and its back-catalogue of games is huge, but I have been persuaded to follow the route of the dark empire, yes, my XBox is ordered, it will come on March 14th, complete with Halo, DOA3, Jet Set Radio Future and Buffy the Vampire Slayer...I just heard it calling, it wanted me...
Check out Gameplay here
posted by Mark Matheson at 4:38 PM
Monday, January 28, 2002
GameCube to be launched at
£150.
Rumour at Eurogamer. Hmmmmm, GameCube is nice, almost nice enough to tempt me away from my PC.....
posted by Andy Buchanan at 11:26 AM
