The Marvelous Intaweb Thinger: June 2007

Friday, 29 June 2007

Amy quote of the year

That cant be a rhino egg...its too small

My Cup Tower ;-)

My goal at NXP is to make it taller than I

Early mornings and cross compiling qtopia suck

That is all

Thursday, 28 June 2007

Tiny very efficient engine

http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/06/12/myt-the-internal-combustion-engine-gets-an-overhaul/

Wednesday, 27 June 2007

NXP: Day 3

It wasn't my fault! woo! I still feel really lost though :-s

Spent most of the Morning trying to get Synergy CM working. Apparently its a good version control system, seems a bit convoluted to me. Flakey as hell too. Give me SVN! Now I've finally got it working and checked out the source it wont build! grrr

Welcome to NXP

I've decided to keep track of the stuff I'm doing here on the blog. Just ignore the NXP posts as I doubt they'll be very interesting.

Day 1
Nothing too exciting here. Turned up an hour early! I guess I was overcompensating for always being late.
Didn't get a account for network all day. ISD messed up.

Day 2
Spent all day rebuilding Linux box. Redhat 4 sucks balls. Did finally get account though.
I also have first go of Lotus Notes... I really cannot believe how bad it is. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it. Stayed late to finish setting up Linux Box.

Sunday, 24 June 2007

Steven Fry is a god

I admire him greatly. We could all do with being a little more like him.

VideoJug: Stephen Fry: The Internet

Me and Amy at Thorpe park

just scanned in these shots

Friday, 22 June 2007

Decent quick guide to makefiles

http://palantir.swarthmore.edu/maxwell/classes/tutorials/maketutor/

Very good refresher on Makefiles

I just had a surprisingly good test journey...

to work. Nice change from the journey I used to do through London.

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Cool code highlighter perfect for blogs like these

Google Syntax Highlighter

See below for an example. Ignore the code its rubbish I found lying around.

See in own window

Handy hack to embed image in hyperlink

RFC 2397 - Embed image data inside a URL

I discovered a URI called "data:" today which allows you to encode any amount of file data into a URL. This data could be an image, ascii text, xml data, you name it. You'll have to read the details, but you use it like this:
data:image/jpeg;base64,base_64_encoded_jpeg_goes_here

from http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2006/11/rfc_2397_embed_image_data_insi.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558

Correcting Sexual Ignorance in Our Society

Great rant! by this fella http://www.snipeme.com/rants.php?rant=correcting_sexual_ignorance

Correcting Sexual Ignorance in Our Society
June 5, 2007

I have, frankly, had enough of this bullshit. I can't even properly explain to you the level of frustration I feel when thinking about how ignorant our society is about sexuality. This is a subject that I've often been hesitant to write about because of the high emotions it evokes from people. The purpose of this site is to make you THINK, and while I do relish in making you angry at the same time, I guess I've always felt that any attempt by me on this site to correct the mind-numbing sexual stupidity so many people have would do nothing but make you angry, without making you think at all.

At this point, I don't care. Sexuality is a subject that simply cannot be discussed rationally with people, because it's so emotional on the face of it. But here we go anyway.

I have said before that people who get offended are fucking pussies and are insecure about their own beliefs. I stand by that and nothing offends me, but if there's on thing that comes very close to offending me, it's sexual ignorance. I'm not offending by differing beliefs, no, but I come very close to being offended by the unbelievable stupidity displayed by so many people (in some cases, the vast majority of people).

I want to start off by throwing out what will not be a part of this rant. Religion. If you base your sexual decision on relgion, stop reading now. I'm not interested in even attempting to break through the wall of crap surrounding your sexual "beliefs" and your bullshit is not welcome on this page. When it comes to sexuality, I reject the religious point of view out-of-hand as hysterical supersititious nonsense. Period. You're nowhere near being ready to hear what I have to say, so fuck off right now. Go pray about it or something.

Another disclaimer I wish to make. There is one and only one tenet that I subscribe to as "sexual morality" and that is the Wiccan Reed: An ye harm none, do what ye will. If you don't harm someone, you have done nothing wrong. That's all there is to it. If a man fucks 2,000 women outside of wedlock and he harmed not a single one of them, he has done nothing wrong. If a homosexual man takes it in the ass 20 times a day, as long as he harmed no one, he has done not a fucking thing wrong. If a zoophile likes jacking off her pitt bull and the pitt bull fuckin' likes it too, she's done nothing wrong. If a pedophile sits at home dropping loads all over the kids' swimwear section of the JC Penny catalogue, and he harms nobody, he has done nothing wrong. If a man likes getting whipped before the dominatrix shits on his chest and rubs his face in it, provided there was mutual consent, then he has done nothing wrong. If a brother and sister are mutually consenting sexual partners, they have done nothing wrong. Harm (either physical, mental, or emotional) is the only creteria for whether or not something is "sexually moral." You're uncomfortable with it? Too bad. It disgusts you? Choke on it.

These two disclaimers I've made are the key elements to all of society's problems regarding sex and it all boils down to just one concept. Many people in this world have the idea that their personal feelings should dictate what is "right." It doesn't matter if those feelings come from the Bible or from having a psychology degree. They're still *your* feelings, therefore *your* life is the only thing they should be dictating.

Personally, I find homosexuality to be disgusting. The idea of two guys having sex? ICK! Yet, in spite of this, I am 10 times as disgusted by the way homosexuals are treated in this country. I support their rights - ALL of their rights - including the right to marry, to adopt, etc. Why do I support them when their sexual behavior grosses me out? Simple. Because my personal tastes should only dictate my own life, not theirs. I find homosexual acts gross and not at all appealing, therefore *I* do not partake in them! That's very simple and it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with anyone else in the world! Likewise, if sucking a cock isn't for you, then DON'T DO IT! But leave people the fuck alone if THEY want to do it!

IT IS NONE OF YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS!

If Jesus told you not to fucking do it, then DON'T! Nobody's forcing you to do a fucking thing! If mommy and daddy beat it into your head growing up that "queers are bad, m'kay" then DON'T BE QUEER, ya fuckin' asshole! It's none of your concern what other people do and you have NO RIGHT making it your concern! They're all gonna burn in Hell? FUCKING LET THEM! God gave free will and you're a cocksucking douchebag for trying to take it away! Who the fuck are YOU? Hmm?! Just who the fuck are you to tell anyone other than yourself what they should be doing with their lives when their actions harm NOBODY!

And I fucking mean that, right down to my core. If no one is harmed, it's not "bad." There is no "moral" or "immoral" beyond that. Harmfulness is the ONLY standard; there is no other. What YOU think about it, isn't a standard at all. It's just you and you are worthless.

What about "morality?" Fuck morality! Harming people isn't "immoral" it's just plain fucking WRONG. See, I don't need ambigious weasel-words like "immoral." If something's wrong, i call it wrong and that's the motherfucking end of the discussion! It doesn't need to be categorized or discussed. Anyone with a brain in their fucking head knows that it's wrong to hurt people. I don't have to explain that, I don't have to campaign for it, I don't have to spend hours every Sunday trying to convince people it's true. It simply IS! I don't need a ton of quotes from badly (mis)translated ancient texts to back me up. I don't need a mountain of research to justify what I'm saying. I don't need to convince you that God is on my side for you to see this very simple truth: Hurting people is wrong; if you're not hurting people, you're not doing anything wrong. That's all. That's the ENTIRE morality of sex, as it should be. It's clear, concise, simple, and most of all, it's CORRECT.

I'll no doubt get a ton of e-mails since I used beastiality, pedophilia, and incest as examples above. People will comment on them and throw in even more off-the-wall sexual perversions as well. Save yourself the time. Just ask one question: Is [insert sexual act here] harmful? If someone is harmed by the act, then it's wrong. If no harm comes to anybody, then it's not wrong. Period! That's as far as your thoughts need to go. Not "but what if this, or what if that..." NO! It's simple and it doesn't require over-thinking! It's a very clear-cut black and white issue.

But this truth isn't really what I'm here to rant about, now is it? No, what drives me almost to the brink of insanity with frustration is the stubborn refusal of most people to grasp this truth! It's not that they're incapable; oh no, they "get it." It's that they're stubborn as hell! Far too many people in this world feel so strongly that they're "right" and it's their personal mission in life to force the rest of the world to be "right" along with them. Well, fuck off! Nobody asked for your "help" and nobody fucking wants it!

Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can. Most of the things that are society labels as "perversions" are present in the general population. As Alfred Kinsey said, "Everyone's sin is no one's sin!" If you could suddenly read the minds of everyone in the world, what would you see? You'd be knocked on your ass by the sexual truths you'd find, for one. See, people tell me shit cuz they know I won't reveal their "dirty little secrets." I don't need to. I have the knowledge and here's what I know about human sexuality.

A lot of people have had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex. A lot of people have sexually experimented with an animal, or at least been aroused by one. A lot of people are turned on by children (and most men are attracted to teenage girls). A lot of people have at least fantasized about fucking a dead person. A lot of people do and/or think a lot of things that we as a society consider reprehensible! Sexual perversion is not perversion at all; it is NORMAL. That's right, you fucking read that correctly. There is no such thing as "perversion." As long as no harm is caused, it's not wrong. I'll fucking say it again: As long as nobody gets hurt, then nothing wrong has been done!

Am I saying it's ok to fuck animals? Well, would it cause them harm? So, what's the answer then? Am I saying it's acceptable to molest children? Uh, wouldn't that harm them? Then, what's the fucking answer, idiot?! Am I saying rape is ok? Isn't rape harmful to the victim? Then is it ok? What's the fucking answer?! You tell ME! The formula for answering these questions is simple, yet you all make it so motherfucking complicated! We don't need an assload of laws against beastiality or child sexual assualt or rape or necrophilia or any of that. We need only ONE law to cover all sexual acts: "If your sexual act hurt your partner, you are guilty." If the vet says the dog was harmed by being fucked, then the owner is guilty. If you ask a child "Did this man hurt you?" and she answers "yes" then that man is guilty as hell!

One law. That's it.

Y'know, I've covered sexual topics so far that are considered "out there" in our society. Naturally, I went for the more shocking stuff first, but to be truthful that shit's not even a big concern of mine. The real frustration comes from the large portion of fucking asshats roaming the planet who still feel that mainstream sexuality is wrong! People are against petting, oral sex, anal sex, masturbation, and pretty much anything that isn't the missionary position between a husband and wife. They're the genuine idiots. Yeah, I throw in bullshit about incest, necrophilia, pedophilia, rape, etc. for shock value, but it occurs to me that it isn't even neccesary to do that. There are dumbfucks out there who think that getting a blow job from your prom date is "immoral." And to them I ask the same question as I asked for that crazy shit: Does it cause harm?

The answer, of course, is no. Sex is not "bad." It's not "dirty." It's not "nasty." It's not "naughty." Sex is not ANY of the adverbs we use to describe fucking. It's a normal biological function, like walking or breathing. We don't call breathing "evil" although a mass murderer was certainly breathing while committing his crimes. His breathing allowed him to commit those crimes and since he harmed someone, he did wrong. But that's an absurd comparison because breathing had nothing to do with the harm caused; not directly, at least. The same is true of sex. Rapists don't rape because of sex, they rape because of the power and control it allows them to have over another person. The sexual aspect is incidental. The exact same is true of people who force themselves on children or animals. It's not about the sex, it's about the power. Sex was merely a means to an end, not the end itself. By itself, sex is no more "good" or "evil" than breathing.

It's time, people. It's seriously fucking time to throw out the antiquated beliefs that someone's sexual interests define who they are. I am attracted to females, but why should I be labeled "heterosexual?" If a guy is attracted to men, why should he be labeled "homosexual?" WHY do you people feel such a deep need to fit others into some bullshit little category where you define their entire being based on who they're attracted to? A homosexual man isn't a "homosexual man" - he's just a man, period. Where he likes to stick his dick is only a small percentage of the person he is. It means nothing. Sure, we might think it's "gross" but so what? Lots of people have gross fucking habits. If you sit across the table from me and chew with your mouth open, I'm gonna think you're just as fucking gross as some dude sticking his tongue in another dude's ass! But I'm certainly not gong to define your entire being by the one gross thing you do that's so fucking insignifcant by comparison to the rest of you!

Sex is not important. It simply isn't. What makes your dick hard is insignificant. If you get hard thinking about dogs, cats, fish, babies, dead bodies, ant eaters, or fuckin' trees, it doesn't matter. That makes you a "sicko" in my eyes, but so what? As long as you're not CAUSING HARM to dogs, cats, fish, babies, dead bodies, ant eaters, or trees, I don't give a flying fuck in the dark about what turns your crank!

"First, do no harm." That's the number one rule of medicine and it's the only rule of sex. The only one that fucking matters, at least. Think about it.

In closing, I'd like to say to all of the people who will be pissed off by this rant and think all manner of horrible things about me: Go fuck yourself! A member of my forum here said recently that anybody who tries to challenge the profound ignorance surrounding sexuality in our culture gets labelled a "pervert" for their trouble. You can label me whatever the fuck you want, but rest assured that *I* am the one with a healthy sexual mindset. YOU are the ones who are sick. YOU are the perverts. And, shit, considering all of the great men that you morons have labeled "perverts" in the past, I think I'll be in damn good company.

We love dave

Monday, 18 June 2007

More bad physics jokes

Freaking Hilarious

well pretty bloody funny anyway. Spot on.

Scorched Earth

I'm getting more and more pissed off with the old guard tech firms trying their evil upmost to prevent new companies coming up with new competitive ideas (that benefit customers, and if they were smart companies) using scorched earth tactics.

Big offenders are;
+ Telephony companies nuking Voip ( see this interesting article about T-Mobile being evil bastards ) [ It should however be noted that BT are being very smart and are playing nice by evolving rather than trying to unfairly extinguish the opposition ].

+ Media corps squashing non-DRM'd online stores [ The best way to get people to P2P instead ].

+ Microsoft trying to kill...well everyone... but lets not even go there.

+ The automotive industry scrapping electric cars [ see "Who Killed the electric car?" for the tale of a wonderful car that could have revolutionised travel, that were partially released and people loved, until it was assassinated* !WOHAHAHAH! ]

*Assassinated has an incredible number of s's in it.

hehe

Some interesting [funny?] programming articles

for us geeks;
This first one discusses commenting in code; in particular some funnies found in Google code. I'm interested to find out that some programmers are fired due to some ...ere... informal comments. It'll make me think twice next time I code.

Here we have an interesting analysis of the leaked Win2000 source; again discussing commenting, and some interesting points on decent code layout.

//If anything makes bad code bad... its shitty commenting and bad layout.

Interesting article on the new Mac-Inclusive Bareknuckle Browser Brawl

See here > http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9024799&pageNumber=1

Makes some interesting points.

Sunday, 17 June 2007

Damn those sea cows

I love anime

I'm currently watching an episode of Grenadier where our big breasted heroin gunslinger blond is running around in a non-existent skirt fighting a clockwork gun robot while her samurai partner runs to get her new panties (as hers were unfortunately destroyed in the fight [oh noes!])

Interesting stuff

Ikea

Chong ch-chong chong chong

lol awesome

Thursday, 14 June 2007

Decent strategy

This scares me more than you can know

Belly Whistle Pregnant lady can make her belly whistle.

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

Jenga

Heheh

Touch this

Gummy Murder

Monday, 11 June 2007

Rate your school teachers

I've dropped this link before but here it is again;
http://www.ratemyteachers.co.uk/

Rate my teachers is a great site. It lets pupils and parents rate their teachers on various qualities and allows teachers to respond. Comments are moderated before being posted so there is very little abuse potential and from what I've seen most of the ratings are about right.

Some schools (including mine) have blocked the site on their intranet which is a great shame, and is pretty petty and unethical in my book.

Schools (and indeed all educational institutions) need far more transparency, as those being educated often haven't the power to make people aware of problems, and certainly don't have any way to get changes when they're needed. The result is that often educational institutions have teachers or lecturers that really are awful but slip through the net.

I'd love to see a similar thing done for Universities.

firefox pretending to be windows

general.useragent.override
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)

Sunday, 10 June 2007

Kittens, Kittens, Kittens

You have no idea how much trouble that was.. but hey they're kittens its fun.

Video Editing on Linux

Mostly sucks for the casual user... until I found kdenlive.. Its really very good, if a bit bugger.

Run on all files BASH

Multiple files, BASH,

for i in *.phtml;
do mv $i ${i%.phtml}.php;
done

Cinelerra CV Video Editor Review

+
+ Its better than nothing
+ It seems to have plenty of features.
+ Its prolly better with experience

-
- Horrible interface. yuK!
- Buggy as fuck
- Doesn't seem to cope well with errors
- Horrible interface [Its so bad Ill mention it twice]

Mencoder line for Cinelerra vid editor

mencoder original_video.xyz -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:\
vhq:vbitrate=6000 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=256:vol=1 \
-ffourcc DIVX -o converted_video.avi

Do the evolution by Pearl Jam

Check out this question on Yedda

Where can I find a good version of the video of Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam?
I'm looking for a high resolution version of the music video Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam. I can't find it anywhere in DVD, or on that intaweb!? Id love to get some decent screen caps from it. Does anyone know where I can get a copy physical or otherwise?
Topics: animation, music, dvd, rock, media, pearl jam, torrent
Asked by cursedbeast on June 10, 2007
View the entire discussion on Yedda

A Sound Way to Turn Heat into Electricity

Interesting stuff. Energy scavenging from heat via sound. More energy we can save the better.

http://www.physics.utah.edu/news/y07m06d04.html

I love you Dave!

In the same theme as this snaztastic shot of the wonderfulness that is Dave;

Hitler gets his Xbox Live account banned

Wuh?

Random pics off my phone

Excitement! It's just a shame camera phones suck monkey.

http://soton.facebook.com/album.php?aid=62234&l=4364c&id=286106929

to convert 3gp to avi mpeg whatever

mencoder $1 -ovc copy -oac pcm -o output
mencoder output -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o $2
rm output

Arch Linux

Prod the kitty

Amy and co are looking after these cute bastards. Even I'm cooing.

Saturday, 9 June 2007

(( litefeeds )) mobile RSS

It works! Read feeds and post to your blog while mobile.

www.litefeeds.com

Bluetooth on Arch Linux notes

1) hciconfig hci0 piscan

2) kbluetoothd

3) pair with device

Friday, 8 June 2007

Girl Genius

Comics are great. Once you get past all the fluff you find a beautiful art form,and a great way to tell a story. IMHO we don't give them enough credit. Anyhoo I digress.

Girl Genius is a absolutely snaztastical comic from Studio Foglio.
The story is about a young woman "spark" [think mad scientist engineer, but genetic] named Agatha Clay and her adventures [< this a is a cop out, mostly cos the story is too complicated for me to explain]. The steampunk world that Studio Foglio have conceived is beautifully detailed and unique. The story manages to stay good fun, light-hearted [while maintaining a dark tone] and gripping throughout.

Girl Genius particularly appeals to the engineer in me. I love the idea of a world where engineers are famed and looked up to. Also I can't help but relate to Agatha's wonderful moments of mad science where her "spark" leads her to go mad with inventive fury. I think all engineers have been there although I'll happily admit she seems to have much more success with her mad science than I do.

Girl Genius Is released Monday, Wednesday and Friday in free webcomic form [its worth catching up from the beginning]. Its also available to download the first three books in digital format from DriveThruComics for under $5 each which is an absolute bargain you'd be mad to miss, and is a wonderful thing to own. Once you've caught up with the books (The books you can buy are ahead of the main webcomic) you can continue to keep up to date with the Girl Genius Advance class webcomic.

Please do give it a chance, you'll love yourself for it.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/

Also did I mention that I love steam punk. Check out this steam punk RSS reader that sounds and acts like a telegraph http://steampunkworkshop.com/telegraph.shtml

Thursday, 7 June 2007

Hot!

F*&CKING MICROSOFT

http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/pages/microsoft-lawyers-chapter-3.aspx

The could make a series out of this

http://up.kupatrix.com/f/73/SageGaiGar%20animation.swf

29 years

http://www.lowbright.com/Comics/10Commandments/10Commandments.htm

Wednesday, 6 June 2007

Parsnip

I like parsnips.. .they're great

Jesus Lol

Tuesday, 5 June 2007

This picture sums up my mood

just before comms.

Boy was I worried.

I think this image is appropriate for my friends

Well that was interesting

Just came back from Comms exam. Blatent flunk; I predict between 10-30 marks. More likely at the low end of that. Assuming that I did do the coursework (and I can't remember for life of me if I did) that should mean I get between 35-55% marks overall.. so its not a total loss.

I've got no one to blame but myself though, the questions weren't that tough.Just didn't start revising comms soon enough, and didn't work hard enough when I did.

Not a winge though, I'm comfortable enough with a fail on comms, as I'm quite chuffed with how well the maths went. Hell I could do with spreading the exams out a little.

Boy do I look rough in my webcam this morning

That's what comms will do to you

Why i fired my secretary

Why I fired my secretary
Last week was my birthday
and I didn't feel very well
waking up on that morning.

I went downstairs for breakfast
hoping my wife would be pleasant
and say, "Happy Birthday!", and
possibly have a small present for me

As it turned out,
she barely said good morning,
let alone "Happy Birthday."

I thought...
Well, that's marriage for you,
but the kids....
They will remember.

My kids came bounding down stairs to
breakfast and didn't say a word.
So when I left for the office,
I felt pretty low and somewhat despondent.

As I walked into my office,
my secretary Jane said,
"Good Morning Boss,
and by the way Happy Birthday! "
It felt a little better that at least someone had remembered.

I worked until one o'clock,
when Jane
knocked on my door
and said, "You know,
It's such a beautiful day outside,
and it is your Birthday,
what do you say we go out to lunch,
just you and me."
I said, "Thanks, Jane,
that's the greatest thing
I've heard all day.
Let's go!"

We went to lunch.
But we didn't go
where we normally would go.
She chose instead a quiet bistro
with a private table.
We had two martinis each
and I enjoyed the meal tremendously.
On the way back to the office,
Jane said, "You know,
It's such a beautiful day...
We don't need to go straight back to the office, Do We ?"

I responded,
"I guess not. What do you have in mind?"
She said, "Let's drop by my apartment,
it's just around the corner."

After arriving at her apartment,
Jane turned to me and said,
" Boss, if you don't mind,
I'm going to step into the bedroom
for just a moment.
I'll be right back."
"Ok," I
nervously replied.

She went into the bedroom and,
after a couple of minutes,
she came out carrying a huge birthday cake .
Followed by my wife, my kids,
and dozens of my friends and co-workers, all singing "Happy
Birthday.

And I just sat there...

On the couch...

Naked.

Lolcopter

http://www.vwho.net/player.php?VE_Path=selfserve1.download.videoegg.com/gid356/cid1161/NL/37/1159663725KgLehP6Vl6skI4GOMNJp

Monday, 4 June 2007

Very impressive cybernetic hand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Hand

If this article above is legit this really is a wonderful step forward in robotics. Think of the possibilities in both automation and robotics. I'd love to get my hands on it and have a play!

Track of the day - The Goons - The Ying Tong Song

Tenor: There's a song that I recall
My mother sang to me.
Spriggs (off): Oh! (a sigh)
Tenor: She sang it as she tucked me in
When I was ninety-three.

(harp plays a rising chord...)

Spriggs: I diddle, I. Who was that bum?

Bluebottle + Spriggs:

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po,
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong (bluebottle drops behind)
Ying tong iddle I po
Spriggs: Keep lad up. Keep.
Bluebottle: Keep up lad up.

Both: Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Spriggs: lad
Both: Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po (lad)
Iddle I po (lad)

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong (Spriggs: iddle) (Bluebottle: ying tong)
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong iddle

Bluebottle (spoken):
Ying tong iddle I po!
(short raspberry, Secombe)

Both: Oh!
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po!

(trumpet bit)

Bluebottle:
Ying. Ying tongy tongy.
Ying tong iddle I po.
Ying tong iddle I po.
(Secombe under this: What a lovely lovely boy!)
(or Secombe under this: What a lovely melody devine!)
Ying ying ying tongy tongy.
(Milligan: Get out the rifle, sir.)
(or Milligan: Get off the record.)
Yeeeng.
Ying tong ying tong d'gy-n'o.
Ying tong d'ga.
(Secombe: Get away.)
D'g d'g d'ga.
Ying tong iddle I po.

Seagoon:Hear that crazy rhythm
Driving me insane.
Strike your partner on the bonce (bonk?).
(thump)
Eccles: Ooh. I felt no pain.
(Seagoon screeches)

Seagoon, Bluebottle and Eccles:
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying...

(harp chord rises)

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna....

(Raspberry section, probably Milligan)

Bloodnok: Ohhhhh!
Eccles: Oh!

(harp chord)

Soprano: Take me back to Vienna, where the....

(crash!)

Seagoon, Spriggs and Bluebottle (far off):
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

(mad dash to foreground)

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
(Spriggs: where's he going lad?)
(BB: I don't know)
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

Seagoon: LOOK OUT!
(cry from Bluebottle)

(mad dash to distance)

(hastily)
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po

(dash to foreground)

Ying tong...

(whine of bomb dropping, explosion)

Double speed, but same tempo, Goons:

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

One: Ying! Tongy tongy tongy.
Yiddy diddy diddy da daaa. Ying diddy.
Ying tong diddle. Yiddada boo.
(rhythmic thigh slapping, raspberry)

All Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle
Ying tong iddle I po
Ying tong ying tong
Ying tong iddle I po
Iddle I po.

Eccles: Whoooooh!

Track of the day - ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace

She's really upset with me again,
I didn't give her what she likes.
I don't know what to tell her,
Don't know what to say.
Everything got funky last night.

She Was Really Bombed,
And I was really blown away,
Until I asked her what she wanted,
And this is what she had to say:
A pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.

She gets a charge out of bein' so weird,
Digs gettin' downright strange.
But I can keep a handle on anything,
Just this side of deranged.

She was gettin' bombed,
And I was gettin' blown away,
And she held it in her hand
And this is what she had to say:
A pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.

She is so tough, as pure as the driven slush.
And that's not true what she's talkin' about, [see notes]
It really don't cost that much.

She was gettin' bombed,
And I was gettin' blown away,
And she took it in her hand,
And this is what she had to say:
A pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.
She wanna pearl necklace.

Good man

An apology?! Thats surprisingly decent of you.. good man (< no sarcasm)

From: John Carter
Subject: Incomplete marks

Apologies to Digital System Engineers, the system dosnt flag you so
you look like missing marks,

Sorry to annoy you,

John Carter

Sunday, 3 June 2007

Stein's Algorithm

RE: Just who the fuck is Stein?
We found the answer in a book. Here's the pdf-ed algorithm.

Ill write it up proper for a wikipedia article soon, if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Just who the fuck is Stein?

and what's his algorithm!

I think I found a clue. It seems that Stein's algorithm is a name only used by my University's Maths Department (I'm at the University of Southampton in UK). Looking at the Wikipedia article for the Greatest common divisor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_common_divisor ) I noticed that one of the references is;

"Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition. MIT Press and McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN 0-262-03293-7. Section 31.2: Greatest common divisor, pp.856–862."

Clifford Stein eh? Curiouser and curiouser. Has anyone got a copy of this book they can have a flick through for me?

and I hate the Maths department....unless one of you solves this conundrum.

I've also tried this question on yedda;

Check out this question on Yedda

What's Stein's Alogorthm?
Topics: programming, maths, algorithm
Asked by cursedbeast on June 01, 2007
View the entire discussion on Yedda

Saturday, 2 June 2007

Quantum Box

Updated and more polite complaint

Dear Lecturer, You've made our lives very difficult with this ridiculous vendetta to keep your notes off the net. With some of the coursework commitments we've had this year its impossible to be there for all the lectures. Plus some of us find it difficult to take notes in lectures so we prefer to listen and take it in. Sure there's the text book but not all of us want to shell out £40 for a text book only useful for this course, not to mention your syllabus is out of date, hard to trust and mostly useless.

This post has been updated... please see the coming post for why

CNN

Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays

I look ponderish

Me and Amy working together on Maths... I think she's better than me

Its good to see some rock stars aren't dicks

The guy sounds like he has the right idea
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21741980-5006024,00.html

Track of the day

Dum de de dum inspector gadget

Vendetta online

Check this game.. it looks pretty interesting. I'm thinking Eve but more exciting, cheapish and a Linux client!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendetta_Online

What do ya all think? Shall we try the 30 day trial over summer?

Worth a shot

To Pandemic Studios

I'm a third year Computer Systems Engineer studying at the University of Southampton, UK. This is a long shot but I thought I'd ask. Battlezone 2 is a great game, and still a unique concept. In most ways its stood the test of time with graphics that still look good, and some great ideas. There's even still a great community for a game of its age. As far as I know the game isn't being sold, so here's my suggestion Open Source the game, or at least the engine. Here's why;
* Great publicity for you guys.
* It means the game will get a new lease of life. I have no doubt the community will grow fantastically.
* We hackers would love to get the chance to build on the engine, play with the AI, brush up the graphics etc. We could have all kinds of fun, and we'd love ya for it.
* It'd be a shame just to let the game disappear into history.

I'd love to hear your response, positive or negative.

Thanks for your time

Awesome Zombie Game

psst its not revision;
http://www.armorgames.com/games/thelaststand_popup.html

Oh I have been there

Pop culture translator

I particularly like the ozzbourn and sean paul one.. i can never work out what there on about.
http://www.poptranslator.com/

On another note.. I hate Sharon Ozbourne. She may have saved Ozzys life, but is that such a good thing.. he could have died and be preserved forever at his best (like Hendrix) *sigh* shame.