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Declaration of Revocation

Our independence from England has been revoked (by John Cleese of all people).

John Cleese shares the Declaration of Revocation:

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories.

Except Utah, which she does not fancy.

Your new Prime Minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a Minister for America without the need for further elections.

  1. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap, and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.

All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

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Today's Meme

Today’s Meme:

I am Captain James T. Kirk:

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

I miss IRC

Ah, the good old says when the interweb was young, and to chat in a group required IRC.

Fazin pointed out a quote tonight at the site Bash.org which is just filled with quotes from IRC taking me back to another time. I highly recommend spending an hour and going through their top 100. I was laughing so hard my stomach hurt.

A few favorites I saw:

#406373:

< [TN]FBMachine> i got kicked out of barnes and noble once for moving all the bibles into the fiction section

#9081:

Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west

Spin: thar be large pipes o’bandwith near ye’ol univarsety.

Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.

Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.

Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.

Pirate: Avast!

Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!

Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.

Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.

Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound.

#202477:

(Mootar) morons.

(Mootar) these people who live in my apartment complex are connected to my wireless

(Mootar) they must think they’re super-cool hackers by breaking into my completely unsecure network

(Mootar) unfortunatly, the connection works both ways

(Mootar) long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their computer

#205195:

(mortalkombat) stfu mat|t u cu.nt

* Acaila sets mode: +b MortalKombat!*@*

( @Acaila) FINISH HIM

(mat |t) rofl

(mortalkombat) omg wtf man

  • MortalKombat was kicked by Acaila (forward, forward, back, back, forward, punch)

( @Acaila) FATALITY!

Lego Star Destroyer

I remember when the Lego Star Destroyer came out in Christmas of 2002. I begged my wife for one for Christmas. At $300, it was the biggest Lego set to ever be released at over 3000 pieces. I had a vision of assembling it and never taking it apart and setting it on a pedestal…somewhere.

Alas, I never did get one.

Via Wonderland, an old blog post but a good one.

This couple did get a Lego Star Destroyer, and using their webcam at 5 second intervals, took over 4000 shots of them putting it together over 10 hours, including a dinner break. It’s a classic blog post from Jan. of ’03. Alice is right, someone desperately needs to put that to music. At just over 4 minutes, it would be a perfect music video.

Medium and large versions of the video are available here.

Lego Star Destroyer

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Smart Advertising

I live about 35 minutes from downtown Minneapolis, pretty far out in the suburbs, in a town of just under 20,000 people called Chaska.

As I’m driving back from dropping the dog off at the kennel (which is really far out there), I see a billboard just outside the Chaska limits for an upcoming GI Joe toy convention in downtown Minneapolis.

Now, I don’t know if they did any market research about who exactly lives in Chaska, or just couldn’t afford a real billboard closer to downtown, say on a busy highway, but I can’t believe that that billboard is going to be effective at all.

Just to give you an idea of how far out I live from Minneapolis:


Google Map from Chaska to Miinneapolis

Zoe is smarter than me

I came home today to my desktop looking like this (look at the top panel):

Zoe killed my desktop

You can’t even tell there is a panel there in the screenshot, click for full view.

A normal panel should look like:

Normal GNOME desktop

I unlocked the Firefox icon so I was able to move it around, I moved the panel to the side just to check, I added a new panel to the top and clicked properties, but no joy on re-adding the Applications / Places / System drop down menus. I’ve played with the menu settings, and you can add specific programs to the panel, but I haven’t found the menu settings.

I’ll have to reach out to the Ubuntu community and figure this one out. Gotta love that a 1 year old can remove it with a few clicks, and it stumps me.

Update about 5 minutes later: To reinforce the discussion Novell gave at the recent GUADEC, there are some usability issues in GNOME, this being one of them. Right click on the panel, click add to panel and choose “Menu Bar – a custom menu bar”. What’s so custom about it? It’s the default panel menu option in GNOME – it’s not custom at all.

At least it’s back.

A Gamer's Manifesto

I couldn’t agree more:

A Gamer’s Manifesto or 20 things Developers need to do now.

  1. Don’t use the online capability as an excuse to release broken games

The first time we hear the word “patch” in relation to a PS3 or XBox 360 game, we’re taking the console back to the store. Filled with our shit.

But surely the console industry, always more business savvy than their PC counterparts, will avoid making us gamers their unpaid beta testers.

Chances of that happening…

…again depends on how many turd-filled consoles they get stuck with. In other words, the consumer always gets exactly what they’ll put up with.