Google’s April Fool’s joke, Google Gulp. Almost as good as their Gmail Infinity+1 joke…
Author: Greg
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WordPress Theme Competition Results
The winners of the WordPress theme competition have been announced. End result? Jipped, but the real winners are the WP users who now have the proverbial crapload of themes to choose from…
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The Decline of Jason Kottke
Yes, I was a very vocal non-supporter of Jason Kottke’s “microparton” pledge drive so it gave me a great sense of satisfaction when Elliott Back shows how Jason’s output has been on the downslope in the month since he began blogging full-time…
I’m not going to say I told you so, cause I didn’t predict this would happen, but are all you “micropatrons” getting your value for money now? As it was said at How Not To Blog …
The “now-a-full-time blogger” is actually posting less than he was when he was only a part-time blogger.
As I’ve been saying all along, folks, it’s all a sham.
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Hullabaloo
Chapman: Trouble at mill.
Cleveland: Oh no – what kind of trouble?
Chapman: One on’t cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.
Cleveland: Pardon?
Chapman: One on’t cross beams gone owt askew on treadle.
Cleveland: I don’t understand what you’re saying.
Chapman: [slightly irritatedly and with exaggeratedly clear accent] One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treadle.
Cleveland: Well what on earth does that mean?
Chapman: I don’t know – Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that’s all – I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.There’s been a little “discussion” on various blogs about the shockingly shocking revelation that Matt Mullenweg might be using WordPress and it’s Google Page Rank to make some filthy lucre…
Personally I don’t care what Matt does with the WordPress site, just so long as the support forums and downloads are easy to find, so when people say “Ok, I just lost any respect I may have had for WordPress” I can’t help but say “get over yourself.”
Seriously? I’d jump at the chance to make money for doing liteally nothing, I’m sure most would… Sure, it’s an ethically grey area, but I’d agree with Jonas Luster in hardly calling it spamming, WordPress isn’t the first to manupulate Google in this way and they sure won’t be the last, so why not make a quick buck along the way? Fair fucks to them I say…
I’m sure Matt didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition… After all, NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!
EDIT (1:12pm): It looks like wordpress.org has been stripped of it’s Google Page Rank, which was 8 I believe…
So are all you rabble rousers happy now? Are you?
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Terri Schiavo Dies
Terri Schiavo dies 14 days after her feeding tube was removed. But don’t expect the court wranglings and mud slinging to be over…
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Has Belle Du Jour Been Outed?
Has the secret identity of Belle Du Jour been revealed? They base their evidence off belle de hypothesis, all of whose posts are dated Vendredi 1 Avril (Friday 1st April)… Hmmm… [via]
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FIFA Street
Yesterday I went out and got Winning Eleven 8 International Edition for the PlayStation 2 in preperation for a few visitors we’ll be having in the next couple of weeks… In the rest of the world this is known as Pro Evolution Soccer 4, to avoid any confusion. Anyways while Phil and I were out getting this game, we saw that new FIFA Street game, which is EA’s attempt at making a soccer game along the lines of NBA Street and NFL Street, all big and arcadey, and something along the lines of Nike’s old Scorpion Tournament advert campaign from 2002.
Anyways, this got us thinking about what it really should be like… And it just degraded into a farce quicker than you can say boo!
First of all… it has to be played on a real street, jumpers for goalposts and all that good stuff. Play has to be halted if a car comes by, and if the ball is kicked into a nearby garden, or if someone gets pissed off and pulls the old “it’s my ball and I’m gong home” trick… Ahh, good times. Also, the game has to be played in real time, so if you play it in the afternoon, it’ll be daylight, if you play at night it’ll be dark, only the old orange street lights illuminating your “silky” skillz.
The better you get the more you can unlock, like a patch of grass down the local park, complete with dog interference, trees and the like, then the pinnacle is an actual football pitch, complete with the goal posts that look so ratty that a hard shot off the crossbar is in danger of taking them down, not to mention that dodgy marshy area in between the halfway line and penalty box… Such great footballing meccas like the red ash pitch and indoor pitch with astroturf burns will also be available along with the ability to slam opposing players into the walls.
The weather conditions won’t be the usual rain or sun settings, it’ll be rain, snow, hail and monsoon… Cause, as everyone knows, you never played in the sun.
The rules are simple, there are none except mob justice, so look for dirty tackles, especially on skillful players, as they were just showing off anyways. If it’s a multi player game then the special “backie” or “any man any save” rules will be in effect. “Backie” means that each team assigns a players as a goalkeeper, but they can play out up to the halfway line, this is generally the fattest player on the team. “Any man any save” is as it sounds, there is no set goalkeeper, anyone can save it, can lead to madness, but very fun along the way…
Other modes of play will include the infamous “World Cup,” an elimintaion competition involving teams of one, two or even three shooting in at the same goal, teams progress once they reach a certain target of goals.
Now, that’s a much more realistic version of FIFA Street in my eyes… Who wouldn’t want to buy that?
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Durrrrr
Terri Schiavo’s Blog… Nnnngnnggh. “AHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAA. *blink*” So very wrong, but the comments are the funniest part… -
Return of the Mac
McDonald’s has offered to pay top hip hop artists to incorporate the ‘Big Mac’ into their song lyrics. “According to Advertising Age magazine, the fast food chain will pay rappers up to £2.80 ($5) every time a song namechecking the burger is played.” Big Mac’s doesn’t exactly say “bling bling” quite like driving Escalades and drinking bottles of Dom Perignon do…
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Lakers Imploding
LA Lakers guard Chucky Atkins signs his own death warrant. “I ain’t no GM,” Atkins said. “Ask Kobe. He’s the GM. It’s his team. Go ask him.” If Kobe can get rid of Shaq, Atkins doesn’t stand a chance…
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Since U Been Gone Annual Report 2005
Clarkson Industries “Since U Been Gone” Annual Report 2005. Quick Recap: Started out friends, Cool. Concerns about Integrity and Transparency… [via]
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Another Tsunami?
There are reports of another earthquake in Indonesia measuring 8.2 on the Richter Scale. I guess we’ll find out if this is another tsunami soon enough, but the wrath of god strikes the day after Christmas and Easter? Co-incidence?
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My Faces of Flickr
Flickr never ceases to amaze me… I came across a thread the in FlickrCentral group that introduced me to the buddies applet, which displays the avatars of all your buddies, assuming they have one… Then you can create your own Flickr tapestry…
So these are my 42 buddies with avatars, only 1 is missing as he doesn’t have an avatar set, most of them are from humhum, some are bloggy people, the rest are from the Atlanta group on flickr.
Originally uploaded by FLC.
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100 Movies
It’s an old meme, and I’m a sucker when it comes to showing stuff off, like what I listen to or what I’ve seen, and this is no different… I originally saw it on Neil Turner’s site, Gordon McLean has done it recently too, so now it’s my turn. The list might be a bit out of date as I copied it fron Neil’s site but limited it to 100 as opposed to 250…
The ones I’ve seen are in bold, the italics are the ones I own in one way or another…
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Star Wars (1977)
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Patent Madness
Could Sony be forced to stop selling the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 game consoles using Dualshock controllers? Another case of the patent system gone haywire… I hope they clear this up, kids might start playing outside.