Ashley’s Trap Hootage

I wimped out of leaping onto the 2.1 bandwagon. My iPhone shipped with 2.0.2 and I wasn’t experiencing any of the call dropping/3G performance issues so why bother? And besides, I’d jailbroken the bastard anyway and I lost patience waiting for the hackers to catch up. Then 2.2 pops up with some notable (but all-the-same [...]

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Another one of Chet’s annoyingly fascinating spams. FTA: “It’s worth sitting through the annoying “in a world…” narration to see the structure of an immense colony of ants. The scientists poured 10 tons of concrete down into anabandoned ant colony, waited for it to harden, and then spent weeks excavating the results.” Original ‘tubage here: Bloody bonkers. [...]

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Due to the bizarre lack of action (and apparent promise of continued inaction) by the UK government regarding Phorm, the EU has apparently decided to wade in with an actual threat of a good, old fashioned bout of violent legal sodomy. FTA: “The European Commission has sent a message to the British government, and it [...]

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Please take note. Just crusader against the data-raping Phorm (i.e. WebWise) infestation (herein known as Mr. G. Unit) has requested that you all digg this. Please do, it’s for a very good cause and as a web-user, it’s all for your benefit. Show your support. He’s bothering to show up to the protest himself. I [...]

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Thanks to Chet for this one… Apparently the FBI’s moles responsible for watching Islamic terrorist webbys have turned up an image, posted on such a site as proclaimed in this article. The article, entitled ‘Al-Qaeda’s terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack’ proclaims: “Washington is laid to waste. The [...]

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Things like this are always worth a look. Especially if you like things that make you think, laugh or berate yourself with silent cries of ‘fuck, wish I’d though of that’. This pages features a bunch of cleverly designed business cards, guaranteed to get their business noticed. Bloody clever stuff. My favourite aesthetically is probably [...]

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As some of you may be aware, Virgin, BT and Carphone Warehouse have signed up to a system called Phorm in order to watch your browsing habits [Google for 'Phorm' if you want to find out how this scheme of questionable legality actually works]. It seemed pretty obvious to me that eventually someone was going [...]

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Now this is cool. Basically a bunch of leather elbow-patch clad researches took the decision to start mapping network metrics to objects displayed within a version of the Quake Engine. FTA: ‘The system is called L3DGEWorld, and uses Open Arena, an open-source game based on the Quake III Arena game engine, to render system events [...]

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My boss, Director of Corporate ICT has a most unusual hobby. He makes balloon animals. I was already suitably impressed, until he mentioned one of his recent achievements through experimentation: A ballon dragon. To show my disbelief, I said ‘Wow. Now THAT I’d like to see’ – and you guessed it, he went ahead and [...]

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