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26 Dec 2005


18 Dec 2005

More Christmas-related violence
About 40 men in ill-fitting Father Christmas costumes ran around Auckland vandalising or stealing property, and throwing bottles, police say.

Two security guards were injured and three of the men were arrested.

A police spokesman described it as "fairly average behaviour" from "an organised group of idiots".
That spokesman's a keeper.

14 Dec 2005

Fuckchristmas.org
That’s right, that Yuletide cheer you’re spreading? Those “Christmas” traditions? They’re not just like Pagan rituals, they fucking are Pagan rituals. Yule? It’s the holiday celebrating the rebirth of the Sun god Mithra in . . . guess when? Go on – guess. Late December. What a weird coincidence. Practically the whole thing is ripped off from the fucking Druids. Twelve days? Check. Exchanging gifts? Check. Mistletoe? Check. And you’d better fucking believe that those decorated trees that Gibson and Co. are so bent out of shape over are as Pagan as the Rune and Crystal Shack at Pentagramfest 2005. You might as well be building miniature fucking Stonehenges in your den.

And don’t you read your own goddamn Bibles? Jesus was born when? In the middle of winter? Lot of Shepherds out watching their flocks around that time of year in Bethlehem? No, because they’d be freezing their fucking asses off. Tell you what – y’all go figure out which one of the different Bible stories about the birth of Baby Jesus® you want to believe, and then we’ll argue about whether it fucking happened like that or not.
These paragraphs chosen more or less at random. All the others are just as good.

12 Dec 2005

Sweee-eet! Samorost has a sequel.

9 Dec 2005

Said George Orwell, if you have difficulty getting up in the morning, hide your alarm clock on the far side of the room behind large heavy items of furniture, or consider the words of Marcus Aurelius:
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bed-clothes and keep myself warm? - But this is more pleasant.- Dost thou exist then to take thy pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion? Dost thou not see the little plants, the little birds, the ants, the spiders, the bees working together to put in order their several parts of the universe? And art thou unwilling to do the work of a human being, and dost thou not make haste to do that which is according to thy nature?
Well, now you can tell both George Orwell and Marcus Aurelius to go straight to Hell and burn, because someone's invented an alarm clock that flies.
Many sleepers experience that after they turn off the alarm clock they go on sleeping. One thing that sometimes wakes you up at night and prevents you from sleeping is the mosquito or blowfly when flying around your room. The Blowfly alarm clock works like a Blowfly. At the desired time it flies off from it's cage and starts flying and making sound around you. The only way to stop it is to wake up catch it and put it back in the cage.
I guess my idea for spikes that slowly grow out of the mattress is still ahead of its time.

6 Dec 2005

Go see Optical Illusions Etc Blog, which led me to Zoneflash (en Francais).

5 Dec 2005

Now, this is my kind of Christmas tradition.
Vandals have set light to a giant straw goat in Sweden - an event that has happened so frequently it has almost become a Christmas tradition.

It's the 22nd time the goat has gone up in smoke since merchants in Gavle, 150km north of Stockholm, began erecting it to mark the holiday season.

Police spokeswoman Margareta Olander said officers received a call just after 9pm to report that the goat was ablaze.

"In just a couple of minutes only a sooty wooden skeleton remained," she said.

There were no immediate suspects, but Olander said that one of two men seen running from the scene was wearing a Father Christmas mask.
Somebody notify Bill O'Reilly immediately!


Wolfram Tones
Stephen Wolfram published A New Kind of Science in 2002... the core of A New Kind of Science is the idea of exploring a new abstract universe: a "computational universe" of simple programs... Wolfram shows how remarkably simple programs in his "computational universe" capture the essence of the complexity--and beauty--of many systems in nature.

WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition.
One Red Paperclip Starting with said paperclip, this Canadian gentleman aims to trade his way up to a house. So far he's up to one famous skidoo.

Everybody's linking to Science!

And here's the Samorost game, if you've been missing it.

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