Such a great mullet on this kid from the 80’s

Jesus part of the Village people doing the YMCA dance

Via God Be Gone

Ever wanted to get tickets to see a TV show being produced? Have a look at Standing Room Only Audiences  (UK only) for free tickets -  http://www.sroaudiences.com/

Current shows include Mock the Week, Countdown, Bremner Bird and Fortune, Balls of Steel and others

Joys of being a computer programmer - easy slacking

via fark, originally - http://xkcd.com/303/

Apparently Steorn tried to demo its free energy technology but heat from lights caused problems. From the press release

Further to Steorn’s announcement yesterday (5th July) regarding the technical difficulties experienced during the installation of its “Orbo” technology at the Kinentica Museum in London, Steorn has decided to postpone the demonstration until further notice.

Sean McCarthy CEO stated that “technical problems arose during the installation of the demonstration unit in the display case on Wednesday evening. These problems were primarily due to excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area. Attempts to replace those parts affected by the heat led to further failures and as a result we have to postpone the public demonstration until a future date.”

He continued that “we apologise for the inconvenience caused to all the people who had made arrangements to visit the demonstration or were planning on viewing the demonstration online.”

Over the next few weeks the company will explore alternative dates for the public demonstration.

The UK government reply on to petition regarding the unfair use of using “Unlimited Broadband” in advertising when infact an ISP does impose a limit….. Basically the UK government say “read the small print you dumb asses and no we won’t do shit to help you”

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page12235.asp

2 July 2007

We received a petition asking:

“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Insist that OFCOM and the ASA stop Broadband Providers advertising ‘unlimited’ services that are in fact limited in the small print or by un-defined fair use policies.”

Details of Petition:

“Many ISP’s (Internet Service providers) are advertising Broadband with ‘Unlimited’ downloads. The majority of these services are not unlimited as in the providers fair usage policies they either cap the use at a defioned amount, or use an undefined criteria that only they know.”

Read the Government’s response

In general, companies are free to use whatever contractual terms and conditions they consider reasonable. If prospective customers are unhappy with these they can attempt to re-negotiate the terms in question or go elsewhere. There are, however, some legal safeguards for consumers in relation to unfair contract terms.

The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 provide protection for consumers when entering into contracts. Companies who deal with consumers and use standard form contracts must ensure they do not use unfair terms.

These regulations require that any written term of a contract is expressed in plain intelligible language. Consumers should be able to read and understand all the terms of the contract before they are bound by them. Consequently, contract terms which are hard to understand because of obscure wording or unreadable small print are more likely to be found unfair.

Advertising in the UK is controlled primarily by self-regulation and co-regulation under which the Advertising Standards Authority has responsibility for ensuring compliance with the British Code of Advertising Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing (non-broadcast advertising), the TV Advertising Standards Code, and the Radio Advertising Standards Code. It requires all forms of advertising to be legal, decent, honest and truthful and prepared with a sense of responsibility to both consumers and society.

The Government is aware of complaints by consumers to the Advertising Standards Authority that some Internet or telephone packages are being promoted as being ‘unlimited’ or ‘unrestricted’ in some way. Qualifying an ‘unlimited’ claim with a fair usage policy in the small print of an ad is allowed as long as it really is fair and not misleading. For example, if 80% of domestic customers fall well within the limit specified by a broadband provider and the remaining 20% fall outside of it, perhaps because they are using a domestic package for business use, then it may be considered a reasonable claim. The Advertising Standards Authority considers each complaint on a case-by-case basis.

Can’t get much better than a bit of retro gaming in your browser with DHTML Lemmings with all the classic levels from the original game

Scientists have apparently discovered the fat gene. A gene variant has been found in around 16% of the population and it is thought to be responsible for increasing rates of obesity.

If you happen carry two of the fat gene variants, you are 70% more likely to be obese - and are likely to be 3kgs heavier on average.

Source: Sky News

When the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov envisioned a future shared by human beings and robots, he predicted that the mechanical servants of tomorrow would be safely controlled by only three simple laws.

But when Japan’s notoriously zealous bureaucracy looks into the future, it sees robots enmeshed in miles of red tape.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1620558.ece

Asimov’s three laws:

— A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

— A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law

— A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

Any Dune 2 fans out there looking to build a base full of rows of gun turrets + rocket launchers will absolutely love this free flash game. New in version 1.2

A new Bash Tower - New Spawn creeps - New Fun Modes - New Challenge Modes and a new creep layout.

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/

One wheel skateboard / scooter that auto balances

http://www.hackaday.com/2007/03/08/balancing-one-wheel-scooter/

Never lose your remote control again with this Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler

http://www.americaninventorspot.com/lost_remotes

via いつもリモコンを探しまくってる人、必見です！

These are photos from my OpenBSD 40-current workstation/server….Its really ROCK SOLID!!!!

PS:This concrete got in the Simulation Lab of NTUA through a hole in the wall (hole for network). There was over 30cm of solid concrete all over the lab…

http://daemons.gr/photos/stable-server/ 

http://daemons.gr/photos/stable-server/12-02-07_1249.jpg

Few pictures of the Northern Lights in Oslo

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/bildeserier/article1575745.ece?start=1

Another funny movie via Dave, this time Sneaux - The Human Skateboard directed by PES from eatpes.com

http://www.eatpes.com/sneaux.html