Zeitgeist

Hello.

Not at WorkWork today, so feeling much better, thanks for asking.

I think I've had too much coffee.

I was wondering the other day, while re-reading "Gun, Germs and Steel" for the millionth time, what would have happened if the giant marsupials had not become extinct when humans settled Australia.

What would happen if the Aboriginal people could have fought the English on Giant Armoured Wombats?

Yep, definitely had too much coffee.

“Jamie Langridge, the 2007 Bud Light USARPS champion, made use of several well-known strategies during his Final Sixteen run, but combined and utilized them in a manner uniquely his own. His style of play can best be described as "complex adaptive," as he switched effortlessly between runs of alternating and repeated throws.” - USA Rock Paper Scissors League > Article

How to beat anyone at Rock Paper Scissors

“ITS ROCK-HARD surface can take a full- on assault from a baseball bat, yet remains flexible enough to allow you to kick, leap and roll with perfect ease. Crafted from cutting-edge science, its unique molecular structure means that while providing armoured protection against crude concrete and even barbed wire, it remains light enough to allow you to run at high speed.” - Holy Batcapes The Age Of The Superhero Suit Is Upon Us

See what I did there with the segue?

“A Millwall or Chelsea brick is an improvised weapon made of a manipulated newspaper.” - Millwall brick - Wikipedia

Oh, a rock made of paper you say?
Did you like what I did there too?

In my mind I increasingly sound like Stewie from the family guy.





Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. Not sure about some of them.

Crazy Icelandic people drive up a hill for fun:


USS Hunchback - Wikipedia. Best name for a ship ever.

“The investigators at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Cost Analysis Improvement Group say its more like $203 billion to $234 billion in inflated dollars. likely to grow, And remember, that's just for a third of the Army. So the final cost could be closer to three-quarters of a trillion dollars.” - Danger Room - Wired Blogs

“Extra-terrestrial life may well be so weird we would not immediately recognise it, space experts said yesterday.” - Aliens exist, not as we know it


This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of surface materials. The view was obtained during Cassini's close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005. (via Catalog Page for PIA07740)

Aw, cute:


Stacy, Attack of the School-Girl Zombies. OMG:


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My father just got a cat. A 12 wk old burmese kitten called Haiku.
He's slightly mental. My father, not the cat. Although the cat may well be soon.

I won first prize in a Blogging competition. Not for this blog, but for my other blog, which is so geeky you can't even have the link (even though you would then learn all about Transactional Full-Text Search in MySQL 5). I won three tech books from Apress.

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Wednesday Zeitgeist

Today's theme is, of course, love.

Ah ... love.

It's like, TOTALLY AWESOME.

One thing we don't love is Primus Telecom ... we've been billed for our new phone connection despite the fact the phone doesn't actually work. Highly unrecommended service.
And my wife (OMG!) just cracked it about Qantas. So we don't love them at the moment either.
And we also don't love Mr Abbott, do we.


- Man vs Beast. Weirdly disturbing television. I kind-of love it.
- Three things you didn't know about AIDS in Africa.
- Buy land on the moon.
- Learn a language. You never know when Esperanto will come in handy.
- This year I would love to build an arcade machine. I probably won't, but it would be bloody cool to have one.
- Non-lethal viruses to neutralise cities. I love the Cold War, don't you? Infect everyone with a virus that swells their brain!
- 18 Secret Armies of the CIA. I like the Khamba Horsemen the best.
- Taxonomy of Apocalyptic Scenarios. Ranges from Class 0 - Regional Catastrophe through to Class X - Planetary Elimination.
- BTW, Saddam is on Youtube. But you can't have the link.
- Dear John said it was heroic for the Iraqi people to uphold the rule of law despite the fact Saddam was really REALLY bad and they are not having a civil war and stuff. Funny that a tyrannical dictator can get a fair trial , but some illegal combatant poor bastard caught in Afganhistan in a civil conflict by an invading occupational force can't get one. Surely this is unheroic and possibly un-Australian? I'm looking at you, Howard. You fucker.

That's it. Work, if I can remember how to program through all this sunshine and love.