Yeah, recap rooms are rather dull.Must make it slightly harder to enjoy Mega Man. :p

So there's one place left that has one copy left of the GC version of Twilight Princess.

AND I BUY IT FOR SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME. STUPID CHRISTMAS!

I dare you to find a MIDI arrangement of a computer game with more sheer BOUNCE than this one.

So there's one place left that has one copy left of the GC version of Twilight Princess.

AND I BUY IT FOR SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME. STUPID CHRISTMAS!

We have a spare copy for Wii if that's any help. Though it's only spare until I win my Wii.

Speaking of Wii, I have to urinate. Good bye.:mad:

I got a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate for Christmas. Does anyone have any book/DVD/whatever recommendations?

I thought that said $450 then:p. And stop opening presents early;):p

It's a bit hard to with gift tokens, they're in the card.

Speaking of which, I just got a £10 book token from Amy (given she's just got back from Austria, she hasn't really had time for a proper shop).

There's a heron sitting on the roof of the house across the road...

Just saw A Scanner Darkly and Lucky # Slevin... great movies.

Okay, question.

I remember at some point in this thread, people were finding post counts including posts inside of OD. How is that done?

I think you could do it by viewing the source, the post count would actually be there, but not displayed, however all I get now is "<!-- post count disabled -->"

Yep, the postcounts have been completely removed in the source code for a few months now (previously tagged with <--! -->).

Only way to do now is by using the advanced member search options.
Posts in OD have never been countable, AFAIR.

Edit:
I'm #7 with 5701 (non-OD) posts now.

Only way to do now is by using the advanced member search options.
Posts in OD have never been countable, AFAIR.

Edit:
I'm #7 with 5701 (non-OD) posts now.

How exactly do you find that out? :confused:

Anyways...FLCL avatar! :D Glod I love that show.

How exactly do you find that out? :confused:

Anyways...FLCL avatar! :D Glod I love that show.You go to Members > Advanced Search and search for yourself with a postcount between X and Y until you finally narrow it down to the exact number there you have it, your postcount.

Example:
Search for SupSuper with less than 4000 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3500 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3900 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3800 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3700 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3750 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3740 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3745 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3744 postcount. Fail.
Thus my postcount is 3744.

And who doesn't love FLCL?

Yep, the postcounts have been completely removed in the source code for a few months now (previously tagged with <--! -->).
I knew this.
Posts in OD have never been countable, AFAIR.
I thought I saw either SargeMcCluck or M3ntal figuring out a way to do it.

I thought I saw either SargeMcCluck or M3ntal figuring out a way to do it.You can Search for your Posts in OD and add up the results, but it's rather tiresome since it's limited to 500/search.

From what I remember it was reduced to 500 when vB was upgraded. They probably introduced a new default because before I remember it was possible to show all of them at once.

You go to Members > Advanced Search and search for yourself with a postcount between X and Y until you finally narrow it down to the exact number there you have it, your postcount.

Example:
Search for SupSuper with less than 4000 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3500 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3900 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3800 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3700 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3750 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3740 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3745 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3744 postcount. Fail.
Thus my postcount is 3744.

And who doesn't love FLCL?

3937 whee.

6799.

Bwahaha.

Just saw a couple Wii's and PS3's at the black market.
$550 for the Wii and $1300 for the PS3.
Holy freakin crap. I also saw a N64 for $50, but I'll rather get a Wii when the price goes back to normal, given that it'll be able to play most of the good N64 games(or eventually, all)

I think we already had "hootenanny".

We did, but it was too late to do "The Queen's 100% Off-Topic Message".

Edit: Better now?

I just found out about Saints Row. And even if it looks like a great game, I would never get around to playing it... it would feel wrong. It's like Rockstar worked hard to make GTA an awesome game, and this guys just come around and steal most of the ideas and just improve a little over them... that's like cheating, I dunno...

Well everything is calm here. By that, I mean uneventfull. I think it's about time to start "messing" with the forumers. But let's try this time to not look like idiots.
A hoax sounds about right to me. Anyone else?

A hoax sounds about right to me. Anyone else?

absolutely but what should we say

we could work the borking of the Forum into this somehow

*sigh* Not more of this.

I've always wanted to do a fad in which our avatars interact with each other in a blue-ball-machine-type fashion.
Something like... this.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif


http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif



http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif

That might be too difficult to work out, though.
But it would be rather interesting, I think.

Except that the animations don't quite usually load at the same time and they will look de-synched.

You could use a continuous stream of water to get around that.

You write a script so all images load before they show.

I like AT's idea.

The script idea doesn't really works if you want other people to get the effect does it? It would have to be browser based, or perhaps applied to the forum but I doubt that happening...

Pity that this forum doesn't support remote avs, there's a whole bundle of tricks you can do with them.

Pity that this forum doesn't support remote avs, there's a whole bundle of tricks you can do with them.

I think that's why the forum doesn't support them.

Everytime I randomly tune into Fox, I'm faced with some sort of sex scene.

Simpsons was right!

You could also tune into FX and be faced with some sort of sex scene where everybody swears constantly.

You could also tune into FX and be faced with some sort of sex scene where everybody swears constantly.
And shoots each other as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIu3JMGxk3Q

That seriously is the least of our problems today.
People are dying from hunger over in- hey, hold on...I don't like these "video games " kids our playing. They teach violence, and they follow examples like that. -It's a good thing still go to war. What a nice example for us to teach our kids. You don't kill people in video games, unless they have oil that you need.

That seriously is the least of our problems today.
People are dying from hunger over in- hey, hold on...I don't like these "video games " kids our playing. They teach violence, and they follow examples like that. -It's a good thing still go to war. What a nice example for us to teach our kids. You don't kill people in video games, unless they have oil that you need.I have fun pointing out the bull****:

"What do you think will happen when a 9-year-old sits down and plays a videogame that rewards him for shooting cops?" - I think his parents are idiots since none of those games are rated for 9-year-olds.

Then again most of the people against videogame violence seem to completely ignore the fact that we already have ratings and it's not our fault if parents ignore them.

Oh and Microsoft helps terrorists with Flight Simulator. Can't ignore that.



On a much better note:

The Christmas Beard (http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/120381), the proud sequel of The Beard by Worm Mad!

Some pupils set the maths depertment at my old school on fire.

WOO! Go them! FIGHT THE ESTABLISHMENT! :cool:


Also, Online Orgy is over run by dipsh!ts. Just to point that out.

Some pupils set the maths depertment at my old school on fire.

Out of an entire school they choose the maths department? The chemistry store cupboard would have been a far more interesting choice!

Chemistry is in a super-duper new block with bullet proof glass and strong doors. The maths is in the old building and all you need is to pick a lock to get in. Or smash a single pane of glass.

Well I never.

Also, Online Orgy is over run by dipsh!ts. Just to point that out.

Any specific example of dip?
I tend to just skip posts that look pointless in OO.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-233844812484249985&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en Woo!

Warning, contains neck-ham. :(

Any specific example of dip?
I tend to just skip posts that look pointless in OO.

http://forum.team17.co.uk/search.php?do=finduser&u=22847

http://forum.team17.co.uk/search.php?do=finduser&u=22847
HAHAHA !

http://forum.team17.co.uk/search.php?do=finduser&u=22847
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/931/emoticeburnti9.gif

IMG tags are fun :)

What I intended to do last night:

Get some shopping done, do some concept sketches for my new project, finish a couple of things on RealVG that I've been meaning to do for ages, and get an early night.

What I actually did last night:

Got some shopping done, then, with the help of my housemate Adam, watched The Usual Suspects, completed the Sunday Times Mensa Test DVD with full marks, and gift wrapped everything in my other housemate's cupboard, as well as some of his refridgerated foodstuffs in shiny Christmas wrapping paper. also, attached gift tags saying "happy unbirthday", "happy January 9th", and "merry Tuesday".

Pictures to follow, assuming survival.

Edit: My favourite part was that as well as gift wrapping his box of Weetabix, I gift wrapped the individual "tubes" of Weetabixes inside it. It'll take him ages to have breakfast.

My favourite part was that as well as gift wrapping his box of Weetabix, I gift wrapped the individual "tubes" of Weetabixes inside it. It'll take him ages to have breakfast.
Hahaha! :D

Andrew: That's just mean.

And freakin' hilarious. Good work.

Wow. How long did that take?

Not too long. We did it while the film was on.

Is there any story about a positive mutation anywhere?

One of the things about evolution is that it's mostly common sense. If an animal has a positive mutation, then it has a greater chance of survival than it's un-advantaged kin... and so on.

I've only heard about negative mutations, though. Either we haven't observed any positive ones or I just haven't observed the observations.

Now I WANT to believe in evolution, since I think it's a nice theory that doesn't rely on extraordinary things (Intelligent Design) so if any of you could direct me to a story about something having a positive mutation (even if it's a small one), that would seal the deal for me. Possibly something other than an immunization to some disease, please.

Personally, I don't totally disbelieve the ID theory, either. Sometime, far, far into the future, our technology may advance to the point where we are able to create our own universe.
I think that could make a good movie. :p

I think we could create our own life-form, but I'm not sure about creating our own universe.
Also, Pigbuster, you bork'ed the forum for a sec there: http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5955/borkedrl5.jpg :p

I really wish that memory recall weren't part of the subconscious mind. I think I have some distant spark of relevant memory, but it's way too far gone for me to sit here and actually remember. I'll try to keep it in mind. :p

Is there any story about a positive mutation anywhere?

There are loads, yes. The thing about mutation is that if you take, say, a computer, and randomly chance bits of hardware then 99% of the time you'll make it worse, but just often enough it will be improved, just as drinking random chemicals will kill you 99% of the time, but some will make you healthier. The same is true of mutation: almost all random mutations are detrimental, but not all of them.

Setting aside all the mutations that made mankind and the other creatures, there are a few more recent cases of positive mutations, sickle-cell anaemia being a case in point: usually it's classed as a genetic disorder as it reduces your capacity to get oxygen to your muscles, but it also confers a certain degree of immunity to malaria, so in parts of Africa it is a positive mutation, and is passed on to children. Similarly, colour-blind people (paradoxically) have better perception of certain colours, and autistic people often have astonishing skills in other areas. (If autism was the norm and non-autism was uncommon then there's every chance not being autistic would be considered a disorder.)

There's very, very rarely a mutation which is unequivocally positive because so many things depend on environment; rats are pretty well evolved (i.e., lots of positive mutations), but if you put one in a desert it won't last very long.


Edit: There's a theory I heard a bit ago that's similar to what you said at the end there. it goes like this:

One day, computers will be powerful enough to simulate a whole world, right?
One day, we'll do it, right?
We'll probably do it more than once, right?
The inhabitants of this world won't know it's a simulation, right?
So logically, since there will be more simulations than there are universes, the statistical probability is that this is one of the simulations.

We also have to look at the key difference between Darwinian natural selection and saltationism as the driving force for evolution.

Saltationism is "evolution takes massive, single step positive strides", which is what you seem to be saying.

However, the majority of mutations are tiny, and this is what evolution relies on.

Let's see if I can think of a good analogy everyone here will get. Okay, take Worms Armageddon. I think we're all agreed (certainly on these forums) that it's a good game. Worms World Party is a small modification of the Worms formula, and it is also a good game (you can go on about it being unoriginal and a wate of money if you have W:A, but it's still just as much fun to play).

Worms Blast is a very large deviation from Worms Armageddon. Opinion differs on whether it's any good, but the fact remains that, because Worms Armageddon is a good game, Worms Blast is less likely to be a good game than Worms World Party.

Something similar happens with life. Your average organism is pretty good at living. A small mutation will produce offspring that is also pretty good at living. It might be slightly better, it might be slightly worse, but the difference is small enough that it becomes a question of overall population statistics rather than whether one particular animal is more successful than another. Once you're into this territory, with a large population, natural selection can have a greater effect than random chance.

Large mutations take a good thing and turn it into... no-one knows. It may possibly be good, but it's more likely to be bad, and it's certainly more likely to bad than a small mutation would be. So large mutations tend to be weeded out. Good small mutations, however, build up: after a while, courtesy of natural selection, a good small mutation will become the norm in a population, and then the stage is set for the next good small mutation. It takes time, but we seem to have plenty of that.

Speciation only occurs when a population is split. Imagine your town is split in two and from the rest of the world. You can only breed with others on your side. For a start, you're all different to begin with. Some mutations may occur now and again on your side and different ones on the other side. Over a long period of time the two populations may become different species.

It doesn't take a large pressure to make a difference because it happens over many generations. Even just a single gene causing a slight disadvantage would be gradually removed (or thereabouts) from the gene pool.

Positive mutations do occur but it's unlikely going to be very noticeable. It will probably give a very slight advantage and that person or animal wouldn't stand out as being a mutant. Most mutations don't make a difference because they will code for the same amino acid. Those that do are far more likely than not to cause a hiderance to the organism or even death because our genes have been perfected over time through natural selection.

Evolution only occurs when a population is split.No, that's speciation.

No, that's speciation.Damn straight. Not sure why I wrote that. *edits*

This is something from a new project I'm working on.

29190

Comments?

This is something from a new project I'm working on.

29190

Comments?

Looks rather nice, though I can't say much more because I've only seen one panel.

One damn clever parrot: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3430481.stm

Oh it's 2 years old :\

Looks rather nice, though I can't say much more because I've only seen one panel.


Very well, have a couple more.


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Very well, have a couple more.


29191

29192Heh. Nice.

Well I finally decided, what the hey, I've got a computer I know will run it now, I'll try out the 14-day World of Warcraft trial I got in the Diablo II Battle Chest. So I spend an hour or so installing the game because it is HUEG LIEK XBOX, go through the account creation process, and find that they require a credit card for account activation.

THIS IS A F**KING JOKE. Why do they even offer the option of store-bought time cards, then? I was under the impression this was around as an alternative for those with no access to a credit card. This... just.. buh... what the crap. See if I ever try their lousy game now.

Heh. Nice.

Drawing stuff like that is so much quicker and easier with a scanner, it really is. £40 it cost me, and it has a printer and two ink cartidges in it. The ink alone must cost almost that much.

The ink alone must cost almost that much.

You have no idea how right you are. My mom's developed a strategy around printers; whenever one of a decent brand comes on a good sale, she buys it and sets it aside until the present one runs out of ink, then ditches that one (read: offloads it to someone who has some sort of need of it) and sets up the new one.

Why? Because the ink costs more than a printer on a good sale around here.

I know, it's ludicrous. Printers are sold for a pittance like consoles and photocopiers so they can overcharge for ink later on, and the upshot of this, basically, is that HP have stupidly subsidised my scanner on the rather bizarre assumption that I'll have to buy a lot if ink for it. And I will, in theory, but that'll come from WH Smiths inside pens.

A scanner on its own would have been double or treble the price I paid.

That's why I use 3rd party ink and refill myself.

But most of the time I shamelessly abuse the color laser printer at work anyway. :D

These guys seem cheap: http://www.internet-ink.co.uk/

These guys seem cheap: http://www.internet-ink.co.uk/
And they have friendly smile.

Yes, clearly they're up to something.

Here's mre of the above:
http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html
Comments?

http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html
Comments?
Very nice. Keep going!
I really like the spy movie spoof genre.
(That's why I like the Austin powers movies and love the No One Lives Forever games.)

Hold your wee for a wii. Someone's going to get sued badly after a woman died:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6261509.stm

Hold your wee for a wii. Someone's going to get sued badly after a woman died:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6261509.stm

Oh great Nintendo, thanks a lot your lousy naming scheme has killed someone now :mad:

I honestly didn't know you could die from drinking too much water, though. :-/

I picked up an iTrip, which is a little dongle that attaches to the docking port of an iPod and broadcasts it on a local FM frequency that can be picked up by... well, anything that can pick up FM radio, such as my car radio. And, theoretically, the radio at work, but I'm not too anxious to go prancing in there with my iPod.

Oh great Nintendo, thanks a lot your lousy naming scheme has killed someone now :mad:

I honestly didn't know you could die from drinking too much water, though. :-/

Too much anything kills.

Too much anything kills.Yeah but the body disposes of excess water more easily.

Yeah but the body disposes of excess water more easily.Well exactly... she wasn't.

I just dreamt about this forum... not sure what, but people where posting stuff.

Oh, and did I hear someone say something down the line of XBOX IS HUEG?
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2593/1168691437348ya1.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1168691437348ya1.jpg)

Oh, and did I hear someone say something down the line of XBOX IS HUEG?

Yeah probably. It's almost as big as a PS3.

Oh great Nintendo, thanks a lot your lousy naming scheme has killed someone now :mad:

I hope you're joking because the alternative is that you're an idiot.

Yeah but the body disposes of excess water more easily.
Only a maximum of 1.5 liters per hour if you have 2 healthy kidneys.

What we need, then... is more kidneys. I'm going for about six. Five would probably do, but symmetry is important.

Try looking on eBay.

Paves the way quite nicely for health warnings on bottled water.

You know, there are far less stringent safety checks on bottled water than there are on tap water...

My parents insist on buying it me in pubs though, so it doesn't look like they're freeloading.

I've put another strip up at http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html (#4)

It's pretty paradigmatic of the sort of freedom I never really had with Apathy. I liked Apathy for that, in a way, because it made it unlike almost every webcomic there is, but it did make it harder to write for extended periods without repeating myself (which I did once or twice, I think).

This is partly why I've gone with a slightly scruffier font and variable panel size/number. I've not yet decided if I'm going to allow repeated (though probably usually implicit) physical violence against the characters to be immediately resolved in the next strip.

I've put another strip up at http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html (#4)
Very nice!

I guess I'll have to finally start reading the complete Apathy archive...

I picked up an iTrip, which is a little dongle that attaches to the docking port of an iPod and broadcasts it on a local FM frequency that can be picked up by... well, anything that can pick up FM radio, such as my car radio. And, theoretically, the radio at work, but I'm not too anxious to go prancing in there with my iPod.
If you're thinking of overriding a ****ty radio station, you're out of luck. It's designed to not be able to override existing radio signals.

Did a pretty good job of that, actually.

Oh them good ol' days with those radio thingamajigs.

You durn whippersnappers don't know how lucky you are to have radio, back in my day we had to bang really big sticks together from the mountaintops to broadcast in morse code mmrhugeuph where's my Penicillin

I am SO glad I got this little thing. I also decided it was worth it to bring it into work and finally hear something other than that godawful radio station that plays almost 3 different songs all the freaking time. Problem is, it eats the iPod's battery life like nobody's business, so I can listen to it for maybe half the shift, saving a little juice for the ride home.

You durn whippersnappers don't know how lucky you are to have radio, back in my day we had to bang really big sticks together from the mountaintops to broadcast in morse code mmrhugeuph where's my Penicillin

You got Penicillin? We had to make do with brown bread!

And it was mouldy!

Well I finally decided, what the hey, I've got a computer I know will run it now, I'll try out the 14-day World of Warcraft trial I got in the Diablo II Battle Chest. So I spend an hour or so installing the game because it is HUEG LIEK XBOX, go through the account creation process, and find that they require a credit card for account activation.

THIS IS A F**KING JOKE. Why do they even offer the option of store-bought time cards, then? I was under the impression this was around as an alternative for those with no access to a credit card. This... just.. buh... what the crap. See if I ever try their lousy game now.

That does seem illogical. I believe one of my friends pays with timecards, I'll ask him about it. I play World of Warcraft, and it's awesome. Although I would not recommend getting addicted to it unless you have more free time than you could shake a stick at - it's murder on homework. Taking into account that they have 6 million? subscribers, it's no surprise they haven't updated an old trial set.

Most accounts' "free trial" require a credit card anyways, so they can get you to pay as soon as the trial is over. Sad, I know. :(

dA seems to be down. Anyone else have this trouble?

None of the web sites I frequently visit have shown any signs of depression.

One more:

http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html

I might have to make a site for these. Though that would suggest also making an update schedule and that's not how I like to work. Comments from someone other than bonz would be nice.

The art's fine, the text layout correct and the writing great.

You're doing it right.

There's not much else to say.

Comments from someone other than bonz would be nice.
Why?
Do you fear that people will think you paid me for commending your work? :D

BTW, is that controlling henchman the same as the protagonist from Apathy, only older and with gray hair?

I have to finish 2 essays by tomorrow for the Wallin Scholarship.
Granted, they're about me and my aspirations, so it should flow out pretty easily, but... it's a lot of pressure. If I don't get this scholarship, I will be in a hell of a lot of debt when I get out of the college I'm looking at.

And the fact that I've become hopelessly addicted to making scripted modifier courses (Stepmania courses that make the arrows do all sorts of crazy crap like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zt2cLQN6G4)) isn't helping at all.

I'm thinking of performing a large and brutal file organizing overhaul. Well, just for MP3's, I guess. Right now I have them in folders organized according to how I recieved them, but I'm thinking it might be a better idea to organize by type/genre. Mostly because this just doesn't seem like any way to treat an iPod. I could just create different playlists in iTunes, but that'd probably be even more work.

BTW, is that controlling henchman the same as the protagonist from Apathy, only older and with gray hair?

Hmm. There are a couple of Apathy-looking people in there. The Health and Danger representative could be Gary if he gelled his hair up, and the henchman-with-hair looks like a more chiselled version of Jack. I didn't mean either to be the same character; they're just easy shapes to draw and distinguish so they're good for recurring characters. Not that I particularly know who will recur yet -- I've just been drawing whoever the strip seems to require. I can't see Health And Danger going away, though, and the guards are always useful people to have in the case.

I think I'll have to add some canteen staff and Dr Malevolex into the mix at some stage. Also the characters might acquire names. If they're lucky.

Good stuff.


- Actually, why do we keep that on the boil in an area where lots of people work?
- That is also the policy


LOL. Although wouldn't that come under "health" more than "danger"?

Sorry, I'm nitpicking.

I did think about that and decided that if anyone questioned it, long-term health risks were considered irrelevant due to the average life-expectancy of evil henchmen being what it is.

I'm thinking of performing a large and brutal file organizing overhaul. Well, just for MP3's, I guess. Right now I have them in folders organized according to how I recieved them, but I'm thinking it might be a better idea to organize by type/genre. Mostly because this just doesn't seem like any way to treat an iPod. I could just create different playlists in iTunes, but that'd probably be even more work.
I had my MP3s sorted by genre for a long time. It proved to unflexible though, as I got more and more music that isn't easily describable and I got more and more genre folders with only a handful of bands in it.

I then sorted them alphabetically, ignoring the "the" in all the "the"-bands, except for "The (International) Noise Conspiracy", with a folder for each band and chronologically sorted (year of release) subfolders for each album therein.

I also moved single, non-album songs into a "miscellaneous" subfolder and ditched all other single songs from bands that I don't have at least one album.

I usually make playlists of a band's whole chronologic discography and listen to their opus at once.
Also the characters might acquire names. If they're lucky.
I think henchmen in an evil organization must not have names. One could relate with them too much then. And as we all know evil henchmen are very replaceable and usually die like flies.

I merged all my MP3s into one MP3 so I could listen to them all simultaneously. Also, this way I can fit all my music on my decade old MP3 player.

I merged all my MP3s into one MP3 so I could listen to them all simultaneously. Also, this way I can fit all my music on my decade old MP3 player.
Nice idea.
When opened 17,195 instances of Winamp and one instance of Audiorecorder my computer crashes though.

Oh, I have one of those new 17,196-core processors, see. I think it's an AMD.

I have to finish 2 essays by tomorrow for the Wallin Scholarship.The what? I'm curious, I didn't think Wallin was a common name.

It's a good scholarship, it would give me a significant amount of money each year...
I've forgotten how much. My parents know more about this than I do. <- SAD :)

http://scrapsofcrap.com/
http://scrapsofcrap.com/a/lovepipe.gif
Little meaningless scraps uploaded often.
And you can send in your own!

At first I thought the drawing was a bit of a step down from Apathy, but now I don't mind it, and I like its rough and sketchy style. I like the way you're approaching this, by letting the characters develop naturally. Too much planning is bad. I can see Health and Danger guy popping up again, too. He'll be a good recurring punchline or target.

In response to Zeor's comment, when you're working for a mad scientist, you have to take in to account that crazy experiments may see you cloned and, if you watch enough Stargate SG-1, your concsiousness transferred to your new body. It happened in Half-Life.

Yes folks it's THAT GOOD telly that you'll literally jump out of your skin to a new body to continue to watch it.

In response to Zeor's comment, when you're working for a mad scientist, you have to take in to account that crazy experiments may see you cloned and, if you watch enough Stargate SG-1, your concsiousness transferred to your new body. It happened in Half-Life.... Huh?

So now you see how to organise your MP3s, right, Zero?

At first I thought the drawing was a bit of a step down from Apathy, but now I don't mind it, and I like its rough and sketchy style.
I'm in two minds. It's less "polished" than Apathy was because it's scanned -- so there's a few random flecks of black in coloured areas and of white in the black lines, and that also means that I can't repeatedly undo something and redraw it. But I've taken to sketching out in pencil before applying my big, chunky, variable-line-width pen, so I think generally the composition is better. Personally, I prefer the overall look this way gives me, and it's a lot more fun to draw because it's quicker and more natural and because I get to draw a bigger variety of stuff.

Edit: Also I've been doing bigger facial features, and I think that helps a lot.

I'm in two minds. It's less "polished" than Apathy was because it's scanned -- so there's a few random flecks of black in coloured areas and of white in the black lines,
That can be fixed relatively quickly through cunning use of the magic wand tool.

But that's only helpful if you're using a progrm with a magic wand tool.:p

Of course I am. What programme doesn't have magic wand these days?

But I don't know about "relatively quickly". The way I've been doing it is to scan it at high resolution, flood-fill it, then resample it down so the fills are antialiased nicely. I'm not even sure what the magic wand would do about it. Generally the flecks are odd pixels, though, which tend to vanish anyway on resizing.

What programme doesn't have magic wand these days?
cmd.exe ?

Youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xmsV9R8FsDA), youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=V_XdX9kcP3g) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=T79AIEe4mm0) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zzFYsZRpHEU) (this is really old but really funny and I haven't been linked to it ever) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=L6cK-nDd_bI) google video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7427670564634124906). Youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4qfeFqEbGUc) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZUKBCupZaA&mode=related&search=).

Of course I am. What programme doesn't have magic wand these days?

Flash.

Or at leeast it doesn't have a Magic wand tool I can work out how to use.:p

I hope Adobe put some of photoshop's tools into the next version. Flash with photoshop's line tool is something I fantasize about,
But I don't know about "relatively quickly". The way I've been doing it is to scan it at high resolution, flood-fill it, then resample it down so the fills are antialiased nicely. I'm not even sure what the magic wand would do about it. Generally the flecks are odd pixels, though, which tend to vanish anyway on resizing.

Obviously it's not a problem at the resolution you work at. It's probably not a problem at the resolution I work at either, but I can't stand having white (or even transparant) pixels dotted about.

Usualy I select all the lines I want too keep, invert selection and clear to remove the flecks of black, then I select all the areas of white, invert selection, clear then flood fill the selected area black (with the contiguous setting turned off) to get of the white flecks.

Flash.

Or at leeast it doesn't have a Magic wand tool I can work out how to use.:p

What? Flash is vector art -- surely the regular object-selection tool is the "magic wand"?

Not really.

I can't select all the items that are the same colour with that tool.

there is a magic wand, but it's function aludes me.

Sounds wanderful.

As Andrew pointed out, the Magic Wand is of no point in vector art. The Magic Wand is for imported bitmaps in Flash.

Note: the following post only really applies to British people.

I rarely read The Sun, but occasionally if there's been a certain kind of news story going on and I want a laugh I'll pop over to www.thesun.co.uk and see what they've got.

This has to be one of the most biased articles ever - it's a "great" read: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,11049-2007030346,00.html I find it quite frightening what kind of image they paint of Jade Goody - and the scary thing is a lot of people read The Sun - and believe it.


Note, for non-British viewers, The Sun is an often highly-biased tabloid newspaper giving "less than accurate" news reports. It is also the highest-circulated newspaper in the UK.

Big Brother as I'm sure most of you know is a show where members of the public (or in this case, Celebrities*) are locked in a house for a number of weeks. This is the 4th (I think) Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, and there have been 7 general-public ones, each one getting progressively worse. BB is seen (well, in my eyes) as the lowest-of-the-low of British TV


*Jade Goody is only a Celebrity due to Big Brother. She was in one of the earlier "public" shows and was known for her general stupidity and making it very well known she was severely lacking in the IQ department. She didn't win but became famous as a result.

Which part of the article is supposed to be controversial, exactly?

I wish I'd watched Big Brother now so I could have seen for myself what was said and in what context it was. I'm not content with accepting the second-hand reports of a tabloid newspaper that doesn't publish any or all real evidence.

Which part of the article is supposed to be controversial, exactly?

I wish I'd watched Big Brother now so I could have seen for myself what was said and in what context it was. I'm not content with accepting the second-hand reports of a tabloid newspaper that doesn't publish any or all real evidence.
None of that particular article - I was commenting on what kind of light it showed Jade and how biased it was.

I see what you mean now. Sorry, I'm used to ignoring all the extra unnecessary **** they throw in.

Big Brother as I'm sure most of you know is a show where members of the public (or in this case, Celebrities*) are locked in a house for a number of weeks. This is the 4th (I think) Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, and there have been 7 general-public ones, each one getting progressively worse. BB is seen (well, in my eyes) as the lowest-of-the-low of British TV

Big Brother was rather horrible in America too, when it was around.
Though I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here was even worse.
It showed me exactly why Survivor is scripted - because if it wasn't, it would be unbelievably boring.

Thing is (I haven't read the Sun's version of events; I take the Guardian), Jade has to be either racist, thick, or both to say that sort of thing.

And we already knew she was thick.

Only worthwhile reality TV show so far has been Restoration.

There's now a version of strip 4 up with a new font I made myself.

http://www.apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html

I think I prefer it. It's chunkier, like the drawings, and it's more like how I write (on account that I scanned my own writing to make it). Also, there are no copyright worries with a font I made.

Comments?

The Os look a bit odd, and it's now harder to see which text is emphasised, but other than that it's okay.

That's because I didn't put any emphasis in.

The new font looks all bold to me. You may want to make the letters a bit thinner and/or make more space between them.
And maybe remove that small dash in your Os. Your K is also one of the harder to read letters.

Other than that it's nice.
Your handwriting must be almost like block letters.

I don't mind the O or the K but the Gs look like lowercase Qs to me.

I just won't write anything that uses those letters, then.

Edit: Hang on, the Gs? They're perfectly clear.

I like the other one more.

The Ks and Os devfinitely need tweaking. The Gs are fine.

I don't mind the O or the K but the Gs look like lowercase Qs to me.Shouldn't the fact that every other letter is uppercase make people realise that they aren't lowercase Qs?

Anyway, why does red compress so horribly in JPEGs?

The J.P.E.G. supports Everton?

I agree with Bonz. It looks a bit crowded. Have you had a look at http://www.blambot.com?

The J.P.E.G. supports Everton?

I agree with Bonz. It looks a bit crowded. Have you had a look at http://www.blambot.com?

Well obviously I have, as the old font came from there, and Apathy's font came from there, and I mentioned them in the post about the sodding font!

Did you?

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Shouldn't the fact that every other letter is uppercase make people realise that they aren't lowercase Qs?

I guess my brain is just screwed up v:)v

Whenever I see the letter I only realize it's a G on the second glance, but I have no problems with any of the other letters and if I read the comic on a regular basis the Gs wouldn't bother me at all.

Just ignore me, it's not important.

Did you?

12345678910

I did in one of them. I'm crossposting across two forums.

thomasp is no fun D:
He keeps closing the threads I want to reply to.:(

:p

thomasp is no fun D:
He keeps closing the threads I want to reply to.:(

:p
:rolleyes:

Seriously, why does red compress so horribly? (Compared with blue and green)

Seriously, why does red compress so horribly? (Compared with blue and green)
It has the larger wave length of course.

But why would that affect the compression algorithm?

But why would that affect the compression algorithm?
That was a joke of course.

I have no idea.
Perhaps because JPG uses lossy compression. I always use PNG, as it is lossless, allows and transparency.

Perhaps because JPG uses lossy compression.

Thanks for that, Sherlock.

Maybe red compresses just as well as other colours, but the damage caused is simply more noticeable.

thomasp is no fun D:
He keeps closing the threads I want to reply to.:(

:p

And on that note, this thread is going nowhere


*Thread closed*If every thread that went nowhere was closed, there wouldn't be much left open :p

If every thread that went nowhere was closed, there wouldn't be much left open :p
FINE THEN. I'M SICK TO DEATH OF ALL YOUR COMPLAINING. HAVE IT YOUR WAY, SEE IF I CARE. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

*Demods self*

*Demods self*
Can I take over your place then? :D

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If every thread that went nowhere was closed, there wouldn't be much left open :p

There probably wouldn't be anything left open, because all the ones that went somewhere would be locked for going off topic. :p

I think I've caught some sort of slow-motion cold. It started setting in like 4 days ago and I'm still not quite beyond "noticably icky-feeling." Maybe it's a replay of a previous one, slowed down so I can notice all the details.

Not going into a Postive/Negative Events thread, because it may end up getting me an extra day off of work, which is always a good thing.

I look forward to your first slow-motion sneeze.

Whoa, didn't even think of that. I'll have to keep my camera handy.

Whoa, didn't even think of that. I'll have to keep my camera handy.
*Covers screen*

I tried blowing my nose without a tissue.

...

Seriously.

I tried blowing my nose without a tissue.

...

Seriously.
*Ducks*

*Surfaces*

*Removes laptop from desk*

*Ducks again*

Power to the people! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6295633.stm

I tried blowing my nose without a tissue.

...

Seriously.

I tried that once, too. Didn't work out too well.

I think I damaged my sinuses if anything. :p

It happens when you're carrying something in both hands.
Or you're outside in winter without gloves on, and you want to keep them in your pockets.

I think I absentmindedly did it once when I had a clogged nose really driving me nuts. I was just like "honk" wtf did I just do

I did it in the shower once because tissues don't work very well when you're in the shower.

I'm pretty sure I must have done it at least once in my long and illustrious noseblowing career.

This conversation is disgusting.

Blowing your nose without the use of your hands (i.e. fingers)?
I think that'll be messy most of the time, as you can build up enough pressure to blow out the ooze far enough.

Blowing your nose without the use of your hands (i.e. fingers)?
I think that'll be messy most of the time, as you can build up enough pressure to blow out the ooze far enough.
The green gooey slime made it to the mirror, yes.
I would've taken a picture if I could.

The green gooey slime made it to the mirror, yes.
I would've taken a picture if I could.

The mental image alone makes me dry heave

Fun fact: I'm eating

Any idea how to anti-aliase in GIMP?

For example, to get this looking smooth and less pixellated.

Gaussian Blur doesn't seem to do the job.

Any idea how to anti-aliase in GIMP?

For example, to get this looking smooth and less pixellated.

Gaussian Blur doesn't seem to do the job.
Save it as a low-compression JPEG?

I know it won't achieve quite the desired effect, but close enough :p

Any idea how to anti-aliase in GIMP?

For example, to get this looking smooth and less pixellated.

Gaussian Blur doesn't seem to do the job.

I used Paint Shop when I did that same effect earlier in this thread, and I used the cunning ploy of working at a higher resolution than the final image. Failing that I expect dilating and eroding an anti-aliased selection ought to work.

Oh well, I ended up using Sobel Edge Detect.

Thing is, I did resize... but I added the text and bubbles after the resize...

*tries Dilate/Erode*

No, that just leaves it unchanged...

How are you getting your selection in the first place? If that's antialiased then the eroded/dilated versions should be as well. If not, then they won't be.

I can't remember how good the GIMP is as getting selections from (presumably) text.

How are you getting your selection in the first place? If that's antialiased then the eroded/dilated versions should be as well. If not, then they won't be.

I can't remember how good the GIMP is as getting selections from (presumably) text.
Text layer to image size
Select everything that isn't text (non-AA)
Invert selection
Grow 5
New Layer - fill white
Border 1
New Layer - fill black

Never mind, finished now: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47418759/

That's roughly what I do, but I work in hi-res so I need to use much larger numbers.

Fair enough.

I used to do a lot of hi-res stuff, but then I realised that the main thing it did was give me unbelievably huge files.

Anyway:

pauldotpower: Remember in Reception when they used to make us trace out letters and numbers?
pauldotpower: WHY?
pauldotpower: I DAMN WELL KNOW WHAT A 2 LOOKS LIKE, WHY DO I NEED TO TRACE IT?
pauldotpower: *ahem*
SupSuper: ...right
Ben / S2K: Magical.
SupSuper: that's why i don't voicechat with you people. it feels like i'm in a completely different dimension


:p

جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
hi min ma3i ana boudi
Paul.Power says:
Sorry, what?
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
i am boudi you?
Paul.Power says:
Paul
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
acabei e atualiza meu novo flog, visita ae e ei
Paul.Power says:
Eh what pardon?

... what on Earth?

... what on Earth?
Seems like you haven't paid any attention in your Arabic classes back in school.

Seems like you haven't paid any attention in your Arabic classes back in school.I only ever had one, and that was during a primary school visit to a mosque.

I did wonder whether "hi min ma3i ana boudi" and "acabei e atualiza meu novo flog, visita ae e ei" was Arabic in Roman script. It looked a bit like Spanish, which of course is hybrid Latin/Arabic.

Of course.

Actually the last line is Brazilian. No, I don't get why either. The whole thing roughly translates to this:


جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
hi my name is ana boudi
Paul.Power says:
Sorry, what?
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
i am boudi you?
Paul.Power says:
Paul
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
i finished and updated my new flog (blog?), visit it eh?
Paul.Power says:
Eh what pardon?

Aside from the fact I'm not a habitual blog reader (because I'm not a habitual blogger. I'm actually bloody impressed I've managed to write 22 Peripherals articles roughly on schedule - even if it has included a few fillers)

EDIT: Damn, forgot I had a sentence to finish there. Aside from the fact I'm not a habitual blog reader, he didn't actually provide a URL for it.

EDIT 2: Sequence for y'all:

1
2
6
12
60
60
420
...

Have a guess at the next term.

Have a guess at the 16th term, if you feel so bold.

EDIT 2: Sequence for y'all:

1
2
6
12
60
60
420
...

Have a guess at the next term.

Have a guess at the 16th term, if you feel so bold.

Hmm, how about this:

Next term: 1680
16th term: 40642560000

Hmm, how about this:

Next term: 1680
16th term: 40642560000Sorry, no. Both are quite a bit smaller. In fact, you could say smallness is the object of the excercise.

We interrupt this number sequence for an important announcement:

29264

Sorry, no. Both are quite a bit smaller. In fact, you could say smallness is the object of the excercise.

There's too many possibilities for such a short sequence I guess... I was hoping there might be an easy formula to it and I found a pattern in the factors between the terms. :p

There's too many possibilities for such a short sequence I guess... I was hoping there might be an easy formula to it and I found a pattern in the factors between the terms. :pI'll give you a few more then. Terms 1 to 12

1
2
6
12
60
60
420
840
2520
2520
27720
27720

So term 8 is 840. Try for 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Actually just realised what it was before you added more.

16th term: 720720

Actually just realised what it was before you added more.

16th term: 720720

Hooray!

(For those who don't know, each number is the LCM of all the natural numbers up to and including the position of the number

1 is the LCM of 1
2 is the LCM of 1 and 2
6 is the LCM of 1, 2 and 3
12 of 1, 2, 3 and 4
60 of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 - and 6, hence the repeat

And so on.

Maths. Yum. (http://www.kellogg.com.au/DisplayPage.asp?PageID=310&brandid=22)

Everything seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator these days.

I've a good mind to slap you with something, Mr. Power :p

I've been doing too much maths, statistics and physicsy revision stuff recently to appreciate any wannabe mathemagicians.

You will be held wholly responsible when my brain explodes then implodes.


:)

We interrupt this number sequence for an important announcement:

29264Not sure about him, but I'm quite sure I'm doing the guitar solo from Free Bird. Yeah, definitely.

Why is it that when you breath in normally your stomach goes out, but when you take a deep breath, it goes in?

EDIT: This is my 999th post in 100%OT.

Did you try softening the speech bubbles?

The text is too small and soft to read easily.

"Hello SupSuper, We at Team17 Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today"

I thought the Team17 Forum server was on GMT. :confused:

"Hello SupSuper, We at Team17 Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today"

I thought the Team17 Forum server was on GMT. :confused:
Yeah, for some reason the birthday mailers get sent out at 2300 server time (either GMT or GMT+1/BST) the day before your birthday.


happy birthday for tomorrow :D (or when you read this, possibly today)

Why is it that when you breath in normally your stomach goes out, but when you take a deep breath, it goes in?

EDIT: This is my 999th post in 100%OT.
That made me curious, it did.

Paul.Power 999
Zero72 881
MtlAngelus 815
UnKnown X 626
SupSuper 608
SomePerson 569
AndrewTaylor 522
FutureWorm 511
MonkeyforaHead 447
Worm-Nut 445
KamikazeBananze 366
Star Worms 356
Blinx 267
OldSkoolCrazy 264
BetongÅsna 256
Pickleworm 251
philby4000 223
SargeMcCluck 205
K^2 200
PinkWorm 199
Pigbuster 182
War Worm 163
Slick 116
Worm Mad 104
tundraH 104
thomasp 100
worMatty 96
Vader 95
bonz 94
Test Zero 73
bloopy 64
FatWhitey 64
Splapp 56
Xinos 40
rambo_6 34
Traxada 29
Squirminator2k 28
Lex 27
ThePaladin 24
MrBunsy 21
Madmaxquinn 20
mocoworm 16
Glenn 15
kamikazeee 15
wormsfreak 13
HuntaKilla 12
Newt X 11
Kjatte 10
Run 10
Plutonic 9
Dim Worm 9
CyberShadow 6
Lawd 6
Sel 3
NZkiwi 3
Nutter 3
Error404 2
M3ntal 2
Macobsession 2
Pooka 2
svenneundulat 2
craxxor 2
Helkite 2
KRD 2
Babylon 2
PsyDome 1
Striker 1
Compudragon 1
Apollo 1

I dare someone to read the entire 100%OTT in one sitting.

Why is it that when you breath in normally your stomach goes out, but when you take a deep breath, it goes in?
If you breath normally your diaphragm extends downwards, in the process expanding your lungs for breathing and at the same time pushing away your intestines, thus your stomach goes out.

When you take a very deep breath, first the above mentioned happens, followed by an expansion of the rib cage adding additional volume to the lungs.

But you're right, sometimes if you are also stretching your shoulders back at the same time, your stomach doesn't extend much.

That made me curious, it did.


A lot of those people don't post on here anymore. (or at least in OO/OD)

"Hello SupSuper, We at Team17 Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today"

I thought the Team17 Forum server was on GMT. :confused:Yo, word up to yo b-day, Holmes.

Or something.

Cheers. :)

Happy Birthday!
Sunny, no clouds & blue sky over Graz today.

First person to reach 1000 posts in 100%OT.

*blows party streamer*

Tricky to believe I've written over one post in eleven in this thread, but there we go.

And thanks bonz. I'm particularly puzzled about when people tell you to breath in so that, e.g., they can squeeze past.

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5234/simbeavisandbuttheadsd8.png

I made these and I am a horrible person for it.

I'm particularly puzzled about when people tell you to breath in so that, e.g., they can squeeze past.
That would be a quite useless endevour.
Except maybe they are airheads and actually reroute some of the air up there.

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5234/simbeavisandbuttheadsd8.png

I made these and I am a horrible person for it.
That is awesome.

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5234/simbeavisandbuttheadsd8.png

I made these and I am a horrible person for it.

Woah, great job on those

And thanks bonz. I'm particularly puzzled about when people tell you to breath in so that, e.g., they can squeeze past.They probably think "breath in" as in "squeeze your stomach in".

Hmm. Maybe when you squeeze your stomach in, you can't breath, so it's better to have air in your lungs than the alternative...

Beavis & Butthead need a couch to sit on and a TV.

...and that's about it. :p

Not sure how I'm going to use them (if, for that matter)... I can't move them into their own place because they're Teens, meaning I'd have to have at least one adult/elder with them. I'm actually also considering recreating Ganondorf again...

Side note, I'd like to mention that their shorts were both originally khaki in color, but I was able to figure out openCanvas' color value tool. Go, me.

Lastly, I'm gonna try to work on a once-and-for-all Sim Me that's as accurate as I can get it.

Good grief, we've finally beaten Australia on this tour:

England 292/7 (50 ovs) (Joyce 107, Bell 51)
Australia 200/9 (plus one retired hurt) (38.5 ovs) (Hayden 51, Plunkett 3-24)

England win by 92 runs.

Guess what I bought the other day because I couldn't find any of my normal shampoo?

Knowing you?

A DS game? A sandwich?

Johnson's Baby Shampoo

Not quite the Lotion, but fairly close.

I wish regular shampoos were like baby shampoos. "Oh crap, the shampoo is slipping onto my eyes, OH MY GAWD OH SWEET DEAR GAWD IT BURNS, IT BURNS SO MUCH, WHY WON'T THE PAIN GO AWAY?!?!?!?"

Diamond may no longer be the hardest substance: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn11093&feedId=online-news_rss20

Not sure how I'm going to use them (if, for that matter)... I can't move them into their own place because they're Teens, meaning I'd have to have at least one adult/elder with them. I'm actually also considering recreating Ganondorf again...

What if... you move them with an adult, then get rid of the adult? :p

Anyone know what the original Monopoly pieces were? It's bugging me a little. These are the ones I can remember:

Dog, car, hat, ship, wheelbarrow, thimble erm... iron erm... cannon.... Are there any more?

Ah - shoe and horse. Although I don't remember the horse at all.

Anyone know what the original Monopoly pieces were? It's bugging me a little. These are the ones I can remember:

Dog, car, hat, ship, wheelbarrow, thimble erm... iron erm... cannon.... Are there any more?

Ah - shoe and horse. Although I don't remember the horse at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29#Equipment
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmonopoly.html

Diamond may no longer be the hardest substance: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn11093&feedId=online-news_rss20
Diamonds could be broken by a hammer, though.
They're strong against heavy pressure, but not heavy impacts.
I think.

And I'm not sure if I'm just stating the obvious here or not.

ADNRs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_diamond_nanorods) .
They don't look as shiny as diamonds though.
http://www.esrf.eu/NewsAndEvents/Spotlight/spotlight25nanorods/

Diamonds could be broken by a hammer, though.
They're strong against heavy pressure, but not heavy impacts.
I think.

And I'm not sure if I'm just stating the obvious here or not.

That's why scientists (at least, material scientists and engineers) distunguish between "hardness", "brittleness" and a few kinds of strength. Words that people use without really thinking about suddenly become very hard to define in science, so science adopts a conventional definition for each.

I wish regular shampoos were like baby shampoos. "Oh crap, the shampoo is slipping onto my eyes, OH MY GAWD OH SWEET DEAR GAWD IT BURNS, IT BURNS SO MUCH, WHY WON'T THE PAIN GO AWAY?!?!?!?"Doesn't exactly taste very nice, though.

This is awesome!

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8493/operadevzh4.png

Butthead's eyes should be further apart and slightly smaller, and his hair higher at the front.

EDIT: Dan, you sad, sad man. What is it?

What if... you move them with an adult, then get rid of the adult? :pSounds easy enough. Hell, I could probably even cheat and just delete the adult like an ordinary object. :p

Tony Vs. Paul (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7482907487503529688&q=tony+vs+paul)

The greatest stop motion video I've seen yet.

I like these a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhhfHYZa5s

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7281/woofmindsafekg0.png

That's just about as good as I can possibly get it.

This is awesome!
doesn't change the fact that Opera sucks

doesn't change the fact that Opera sucks

U SUCK! .

Tony Vs. Paul (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7482907487503529688&q=tony+vs+paul)

The greatest stop motion video I've seen yet.Awesomeness.

And not just because one of the characters was called Paul :p

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6326425.stm lolz

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6326425.stm lolz

Yet more awesomeness.

We could use one of those on the bit where Birchgrove Road (the B4291) goes through Glais.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6326425.stm lolz
Ha!
Police in Austria officially uses such police dummies in critical areas like road works.
Though I have a feeling they do that to not have to be on the road, but stay at the station to play cards.
http://static2.orf.at/vietnam2/images/site/oesterreich/200528/alu-sheriff_153x114.jpg
The one in the picture has been stolen.

H5N1 Bird flu is in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6327193.stm

H5N1 Bird flu is in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6327193.stm
Meh.
We've had it in Austria before. It's not that great.

EDIT: Dan, you sad, sad man. What is it?It's Opera 9.2's new Developer Console. It pretty much allows you to view/edit/debug a webpage during "runtime". :)