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  • Polaroid Club's Red Hot Blog

    • If you have an ounce of sanity anywhere in your body, then you my good friend, have to get yourself over to this tidy little blog run by our good friends over @ Polaroid. It's got fresher goods than your local market and you'd be hard pushed not to come away beaming like a cat that got the cream. Delights to be sampled this month include Shit Robot Live @ Polaroid and the second installment of the ever so awesome Polaroid Soundsystem mixed by Joe Morris & Nick Smith. Get it while it's hot!

    Posted by Keito 24/10/07



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  • Internet People

    • This is a great video from The Meth Minute remembering the best of the best (and worst) internet stars of the past few years.

    You'll probably recognise a few, but just in case here's a list of all of them and links too 80)~

  • Dramatic Prairie Dog
  • South Park - The Spirit of Christmas
  • Star Wars Kid
  • Numa Numa Kid
  • Back Dorm Boys
  • Napster Bad*
  • Winnebago Salesman Gets Mad
  • Evil Bert
  • Goatse (link to Wikipedia as you REALLY don't wanna see the real site)
  • JibJab’s This Land
  • GI Joe PSAs
  • You’re the Man Now Dog
  • Spongemonkies Like the Moon*
  • Andy Milonakis Sings the Super Bowl is Gay*
  • Ask a Ninja
  • Average Homeboy Denny Blaze*
  • LonelyGirl15
  • House of Cosbys
  • Chad Vader*
  • ZeFrank
  • Lazy Sunday Rap
  • Kid from Brooklyn
  • Bubb Rubb
  • George Lucas in Love
  • Racist Kramer
  • MySpace the Movie
  • Chuck Norris Facts
  • Geriatric192
  • Mahir (I Kiss You)
  • Stanley Kubrick Audition
  • Leroy Jenkins
  • Homestar Runner
  • Grape Stomping Fall
  • Paris Hilton Sex Tape
  • All Your Base Are Belong To Us
  • Diet Coke and Mentos
  • OK Go - Here It Goes Again
  • Shine (The Shining trailer remix)
  • Sneezing Panda
  • Dick in a Box
  • Rocketboom
  • Yacht Rock
  • Snakes on a Plane
  • Angry German Kid*
  • Otters Holding Hands
  • Dax Flame
  • Bride Cuts Off Hair
  • Colbert’s National Correspondents Dinner
  • Little Superstar
  • Lightning Bolt
  • Kelly Shopping for Shoes*
  • Tom Cruise on Oprah
  • White and Nerdy
  • Kevin Federline’s Popozao Interview
  • Washington Washington*
  • Ashlee Simpson Lipsynch
  • Boom Goes the Dynamite
  • Lily Tomlin Swearing from I Heart Huckabees
  • Peanut Butter Jelly Time
  • Christmas Lights
  • Captain Kirk sings Rocket Man
  • Evolution of Dance
  • Chocolate Rain
  • I Like Turtles


    • Posted by Keito 08/09/07



  • Socrates

    • Keep this philosophy in mind the next time you either hear or are about to repeat a rumour.

    In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.

    One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?" "Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test." "Triple filter?" asked the acquaintance. "That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?" "No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it." "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?" "No, on the contrary ...". "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?". The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued." You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?" "No, not really..." "Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?" The man was defeated and ashamed. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem. It also explains why he never found out that Plato was shagging his wife.

    Posted by Keito 07/09/07



  • Window's 78?

    • This converstion is taken from an IRC chatroom and is based on real-life events in a PC World type shop, it begins....

    Customer walks straight through technical, behind the till area without asking anything

    Oly: What are you doing?
    Customer: I need help, where do i go
    Oly: You can't come in here
    Customer: I need help
    Chris: Start by getting out, then go to the desk
    Customer (at desk): we're going round the courses here mate
    Chris: yes, yes you are, how can I help
    Customer: What's a modem?
    Chris: You want a modem?
    Customer: Yes, but what is it
    Chris: How do you know if you want it, if you don't know what it is?
    Customer: I need one.
    Chris: It's a thing for accessing the Internet
    Customer: What's that when it's at home
    Chris: What, the Internet?
    Customer: Yes, the modem.
    Chris: The Internet is an information service, a worldwide network
    Customer: I need a key for my modem
    Chris A what now?
    Customer: A key, it's locked
    Chris: Locked up?
    Customer: No, it's locked, i need a key, but I can't find the lock anyway
    Chris: Is there a case lock?
    Customer: Probably, it's Toshiba Sattelite
    Chris: A laptop?
    Customer: No
    Chris: A desktop?
    Customer: Probably, anyway, what does a modem look like?
    Chris: An internal or an external?
    Customer: A modem, with a key, I don't want it locking
    Chris: errr....
    Customer: Can i fit it myself?
    Chris: No, no, probably not
    Customer: What does it look like?
    Chris: One to go inside the computer, to be fitted, or one to plug in as an external box
    Customer: Yeah, that's probably the one, what does it look like...
    Chris: Ummm... What Windows have you got
    Customer: Windows 78
    Chris: No, windows 98?
    Customer: No, definitely 78
    Chris: Okay, how old is it
    Customer: I can't remember, between 3 and 10 years old (!)
    Chris: Errr... Does it have USB?
    Customer: Yeah, probably, it has plugs on the back
    Chris: But is one of those USB?
    Customer: No, I don't think so, does windows 78 have UBS?
    Chris: I doubt it
    Customer: This is confusing
    Chris: Tell me about it.
    Customer: Can I just get a key for my modem, it's locked you see?
    Chris: Yeah, I guess that's a common problems with windows 78

    Posted by Keito 07/09/07



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  • Henry Rollins on Net Neutrality

    • Information: Network Neutrality — or "Net Neutrality" for short — is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.

    Put simply, Net Neutrality means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.

    Net Neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online. It protects the consumer's right to use any equipment, content, application or service on a non-discriminatory basis without interference from the network provider. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.
    (Above info sourced from www.savetheinternet.com)

    Posted by Keito 07/09/07



  • Is Hell Exothermic?

    • The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington Chemistry mid term. The answer was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

    BONUS QUESTION: IS HELL EXOTHERMIC (GIVES OFF HEAT) OR ENDOTHERMIC (ABSORBS HEAT)?

    Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed), or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

    First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul goes to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
    As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.
    With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
    Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
    1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
    2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
    So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic, and will not freeze.

    The student received the only 'A' given.

    Posted by Keito 12/08/07

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