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Polyhedral dice for musicians

May 11, 2008 6:37pm

my guitarist friend would come up with chords from looking at number plates

say the number plate was 982
he wouldplay the 9th fret then 8th then 2nd
he came up with some cool stuff like that

RIAA says DRM is coming back -- in the future, you won't own music

May 10, 2008 4:40am

if it can be played it can be copied.

CauseCaller -- one-click to create a virtual phone-bank

May 1, 2008 3:31am

i read this a few times but have no idea what its about...

Grand Theft Are You Fcking Kidding Me

April 30, 2008 6:07pm

"I'm just saying that encouraging a scenario in which you have sex with a prostitute and then kill her to get your money back is an example of misogyny. Fin."

its not encouraging, it's enabling.
you can play the whole game through and not do that.
you can do what you want inside the game and, yes, there are consequences. if you choose to kill randomly you get thrown in jail.

now explain to me how is that a bad thing?

Paul Smith's Boombox Briefcase

April 3, 2008 1:23am

yeah $400 is ridiculous, though it does look cool.
but thats it isnt it, you're paying $399 for the "cool" factor.
if it were $50 i'd buy it.

British Airways loses 15-20,000 bags since Thursday at supremely b0rked Heathrow Terminal 5

March 30, 2008 3:23am

Waveydave....my god you speak the truth!

Scott Sigler's INFECTED -- free download, inexplicably limited

March 27, 2008 12:58am

maybe it's just a little something-something for the fans?
oh well, i still don't get this online books thing. reading a book off a screen is no fun at all.

In the age of ebooks, you don't own your library

March 24, 2008 4:57am

#47 posted by zipster , March 23, 2008 7:03 PM

name dropper!


anyway...who cares about ebooks?
man they suck
you just can't improve on a real book.
its not like music where technology can improve on the experience, the book is the perfect technology, you can't improve it!

Seth Godin gives good advice to the music industry

March 4, 2008 4:11pm

yeah that was really hard to follow

Free download of Neil Gaiman's American Gods

March 1, 2008 4:58am

you can't improve on books.
(well except making them cheaper)

Scissor mobile

March 1, 2008 4:54am

holy crap thats ugly!

Yoko sues seeks to block trademark of "Lennon" - **UPDATE**

February 13, 2008 3:20am

hmm just call yourself something different jeez...

it's like a band being called Dylan, Springsteen or Hendrix... its pretty blatant, just find another name!

although yeah... i was in a band with a guy who had been another band that had recorded an album called ABBEY ROAD. hah... he called it that because the album was mastered on the very same board as the Beatles abbey road and he was being ironic... it was funny.

Aubrey De Grey on Colbert Report

February 12, 2008 2:51pm

what an awesome beard!

but i dont know, if we stopped "ageing" it would change human society so much so quickly, i think it could be a bad thing. only the rich would have access etc, i'm not saying don't research it but if it comes to a stage were a real breakthrough seems likely i'm thinking the issue would be so explosive as to make "the abortion issue" seem insignificant.

Worst food in America: Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing

February 12, 2008 2:40pm

holy hell that looks disgusting

Video of man firing 18 rounds from a pistol in 3 seconds

February 4, 2008 10:51pm

@ 152 Beergood

you know i've never seen Mad Max... strange that.

Video of man firing 18 rounds from a pistol in 3 seconds

February 4, 2008 5:10pm

i'm glad to live in Australia without the big gun mentality. after the Port Arthur Massacre the Prime Minister brought in tough gun restrictions (and he was a right winger, friend of Dubya Bush) and we haven't been over-run with crime.

the peoples militia thing, the argument about having guns so the government doesn't oppress you... thats a valid argument but it seems rather irrelevant in today's society. i dont know, but didn't a man who was not elected steal the presidency in 2000? where were all the gun nuts overthrowing this dilettante president then?

they didn't do shit then, they won't ever... they just like shooting guns and feeling manly, it's really nothing more than that. you can adequatly defend yourself WITHOUT using a lethal weapon.

Top Nosh cafe in London (defunct)

January 15, 2008 1:53am

nosh is quite a commonly used word in Australia. i had no idea it was Yiddish however, i just thought it was another one of those words you use... like "tucker".

theres a vegetarian cafe in Katoomba (2 hours outside of Sydney) thats quite nice called "Niche Nosh"

HOWTO Make a steampunk MP3 player

December 24, 2007 12:04am

is anyone else sick of Steampunk yet or it just me?

Kim Stanley Robinson on "Comparative Planetology"

December 19, 2007 8:56pm

this guy is cool. LOVE the mars trilogy

Letter from Yoko to John - 12/8/2007

December 7, 2007 11:12pm

"Many people have the impression she was John Lennon's only wife, for example, because she omits Cynthia Lennon from any official histories. And then there's some love song that John wrote about another woman, which after his death she reedited to insert an "I love you, Yoko" into i"

haven't you ever had a girlfriend before? that's what women do.

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