May, 2009

Lack-of now mates only

To stop the spammers dead, new accounts need to be manually activated by an Admin. If you get a mate to join up, let us know and we'll switch it on. It's how we tend to use L-O anyway.

Anyone hate this?

Big Mess o’ Wires - Home made CPU

Big Mess o’ Wires 1 is an original CPU design. It does not use any commercial CPU, but instead has a custom CPU constructed from dozens of simple logic chips. Around this foundation is built a full computer with support for a keyboard, sound, video, and external peripherals.

[yt]Another Downfall remix this time By the EFF about hitler trying to stop all the downfall remixes

This clip of Downfall has been remixed loads of times and this time the EFF have had a go talking about the fair use rights that allow people to remix this clip. It's very meta I guess

here's the story behind it and the trouble they went to to make sure it was fair use to make the point that this sort of thing that should be legal and sort of is but with so many caveats it's hard to deal with

[yt]The Future of Phones from BT back in the day

This is an old BT video explaining the future of phone technology I would guess it was made sometime in the 70's maybe 60's it's real old school government information advertising

Icar novel, what should I do with it?

I want to be a writer. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. I've written a few things before. Most of you will know about Icar, a while back I wrote an unfinished story about a hit man called Tomorrow's Keeper. I tried to revisit it but my writing has moved on a long way since. Sorry to those that wanted to know how it finished. Buggered if I knew.

The Palestinian Archipelago

Interesting map where the creator has taken Palestine/Israel and replced all the bits of Israel with water. Simply to show the fragmentation of Palestine, nothing more.

[YT] Cassetteboy vs The Bloody Apprentice

The word Bloody about 200 times but otherwise SFW.

Beware the evil child

Now that's just not good.

L4D Maps

Some user generated campaigns, might be worth trying.

Kid asks is it alright to run "illegal" library of banned books at school

A kid put a post on yahoo answers asking if it was ok to run a library of books banned in their private school. It just goes to show that you try and ban something it will only make it much more popular.

That list is crazy though, I mean hitch hikers guide it's not that subversive and the witches?