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June 30, 2004MrTeam goes all textured
Apx Size: 30" x 40"
Location: *****straat, Utrecht NL
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The LOTR irc log files
[at the Council of Elrond]
Gimli: "dwarves pwn!"
Legolas: "Sif, Elves pwn!"
Boromir: "OLOLOL noobs, men pwn!"
Elrond: "STFU tards!!1!"
**Frodo puts the ring on the plinth
Gimili: "Sif ring pwns all!"
**Gimli swings his axe at it, which shatters
Elrond: "**sigh, noob"
lololol
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Copy restrictions that Music Producers put on Audio CDs is supposed to help reduce music piracy by preventing buyers from burning more than three copies, among other restrictions.
But it remains a work in progress -- songs ripped from the CD don't play on Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod digital music player.
And users loading the CD on a PC running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system can easily bypass the protection features by pressing the "shift" key.
Phoenix-based SunnComm Technologies Inc., the company behind the copy-protection features on "Contraband," says its technology is not supposed to be hacker-proof, just effective enough to reduce piracy overall.
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Last night we went to see a FREE outdoor version of The Tempest at the Dom Tower in Utrecht. They had reconstructed the central part that collapsed during a storm centuries ago, and so with this years 750th Anniversary of the Dom, it seemed quite fitting.
It started after the football (of course).. we managed to find a good spot to watch, at the back of the posh seated area, stood on the decking, about 4feet higher thsn everyone else.
It played like an scene from Towering Inferno, with firemen chucking water around and soaking everyone! But the most impressive was the lighting and the sound, for the first time in ... ooo how long the Dom tower was not lit up with the normal flood lights, but with projections of actors and theatre lights.. pretty good visuals! Cries and screams filled the small streets of Utrecht ... gpeople who didn't know about the event must have wandered WTF was happening?!
As you can see by the time on the clock, we were in town until way after midnight, but it's a friendly place... specially when Holland has just won a footy match!
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Just 'cause I had the chance while in town with camera.
YAY!
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I love these lego men pic galleries...
But the best i think have to be these 'Kubrik' characters available from jbox.com and other places.
...such detail.
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After seeing some great graffiti on T I K K Y.nl, I promised to upload a video of Futura (see pic below), chucking his paint around.
You can grab this 3 minute video of Futura, Mode 2 and Delta revamping a skate park.
Defumo- DVD_project_Futura_Mode2_Delta (right click, Save Target As...)
You can see more videos, grab pictures etc from
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A rare 'Corpse Flower' in UConn Greenhouses is about to bloom and release its naaasty decayed stench.
heres the webcam
updates every 10 seconds
LInk to Corpse Flower at the University of Connecticut
The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) is a native of the sultry equatorial rainforests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where it is known as bunga bangkai, the corpse flower. Plants grow from a potato-like underground tuber, which produces umbrella-shaped leaves 10 feet high and 15 feet across. Only a single leaf is present at any one time, but it is dissected into many smaller leaflets. The whole looks something like a palm tree with a spotted green trunk, and is rather attractive. A leaf can last for several years before it withers and is replaced, all the time quietly capturing sunlight and storing food in the tuber. Eventually, after the tuber has grown to weigh as much as an average man, the corpse flower decides to bloom. The bud on the UConn plant could grow to more than six-feet-tall before it opens.
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Bob Bemer, a computer pioneer who helped invent the ASCII coding system that is used in computers to represent text has died age 84, he also contributed the escape key and the backslash to the computer language.
On his website, he described himself as a "Computer software consultant, futurist and raconteur."
A memorial service in binary is scheduled for Saturday.
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Cooking up a storm tonight in the kitchen, (chicken curry BTW) looking over what other random stuff I can throw in with the tinned pineapple I just found, when my eye catches a name.... a familiar name.
This ones for you Stef!
If I find any more...
.. you'll know where to find 'em!
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Users of this Switzerland toilet can see out, but passers by cannot see in.
Not sure if I could go!
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Went to see Fingathing play live in Utrecht.
Two guys from Manchester (UK), one playing double bass (electric) and the other with a deck and drum machine.
We were treated to a "4th dimensional" rendition of their last album, with tracks, Head to head, Grand Central and a complete mashup of 'slop'.
Doublebass player Sneaky (Simon Houghton) played an entrancing version of 'You fly me'.. but he did mention the weed a few times, so i guess a good time was had by the band. Scratch DJ Peter Parker (Dan Baxter) slammed out some great scratches, cutting it up without mercy, with close up cameras on the decks, displaying the action overhead.
Backing up the music was VJ Chris Drury, with his characterful 'gorillaz-esque' art work of the band and their misfit friends.
It really was a gig quite out of this world, quite experimental, but warm and friendly.
Mew album out now on 'Grand Central'
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I just got mine!
Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.
1000 megabytes of free storage
No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners
Use Google search
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
HUZZAH for Google!
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Funny website with a great list of Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About.
Populated with the ever popular complaints like:
She really over-reacts whenever she catches me wearing her underwear
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yesterday.mp3 (right-click, Save Target As...)
Charles Aznavour v. Afrika Bambaataa
One-stop subway ride from the Bronx to the Champs-Elysees.
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Nice large selection of fonts from TV shows like Buffy and Care Bears awwwww.
Site also has Game, Band, Chocolate fonts..etc etc.
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Seasons Greetings!
Today the sun reaches its northernmost point in planet Earth's sky marking a season change and the first solstice of the year 2004. In celebration Astronomy Picture of the Day has a detailed, brightly colored image of the active Sun. From the EIT instrument onboard the space-based SOHO observatory, the tantalizing picture is a false-color composite of three images all made in extreme ultraviolet light. Each individual image highlights a different temperature regime in the upper solar atmosphere and was assigned a specific color; red at 2 million, green at 1.5 million, and blue at 1 million degrees C. The combined image shows bright active regions strewn across the solar disk, which would otherwise appear as dark groups of sunspots in visible light images, along with some magnificent plasma loops and an immense prominence at the right hand solar limb.
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An Indian bank, which operates what it bills as the world's highest ATM in the far-eastern state of Sikkim, is hoping the cash dispenser will bring in business once a trade route to China is reopened.
The automatic teller machine, set up at an altitude of 13,200 feet (4,023 metres) along the winding route that links the Tibetan capital Lhasa to Sikkim's capital Gangtok, has been installed by UTI Bank with the help of US-based NCR Corp., which made the special machine.
Is there anything to spend your money on once you get it out?.. .Maybe the bank should open a souvineer shop and a bar too!
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Glen from Instapundit thinks that blogs are getting far too serious for their own good and that a bit of catblogging seems to be a viable remedy.
I agree!
Purr.
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Via T I K K Y.nl
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More Photies from Egypt
Cheers Dad!
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The Thomas Pink signature shirt program for the 40th anniversary of the Pink Panther. Stripe it up!
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Satellite view released by NASA showing a brown cloud(C) over the erupting Shiveluch volcano in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula.
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Also colloquially “hot glass.” Lens glass which contains radioactive rare earth elements such as thorium (Th).
From the 1940s through to the early 60s lens makers (including Kodak/Aero Ektar, Leitz/Leica, Canon and Pentax/Takumar) sometimes included traces of thorium in certain lens elements because it lowers the refractive index of the glass. And some radioactive contaminants sometimes found their way into (usually non-radioactive) lanthanum (La) compounds used in other types of glass.
If you’re concerned about your old lens or viewfinder (though nearly all commercial lenses built since the 1960s should be free of radioactive materials) you can try putting it on a piece of high-speed film or paper in a pitch-dark place for a week. If the developed emulsion shows fogging you should have the lens tested by a professional with a Geiger counter to determine how radioactive it is.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - In a decision that will warm the hearts of fast-food fans, US authorities have classified batter-coated, frozen french fries as a fresh vegetable.
"They fall into the category of fresh because they are not processed," said agency spokesman George Chartier. "They are not transformed in the sense of being cooked."
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The French unit of the Russian security software developer Kaspersky Labs said that that virus - called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks".
According to the anti-virus software developer F-Secure, the discovery of Cabir is proof that the technologies are now available to create viruses for mobile phones and that they are now known to the writers of computer viruses.
Anti-virus experts have been warning for months that mobile phone viruses are set to multipy, given the increasingly diverse uses of mobile phones.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
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Description:
Rashid describes his table as one, "that is organic like sound, omnidirectional like sound, and that emphasizes the 'volumous' beats that irradiate from the two turntables." It is produced by Pure Design.
Price: $2900.00
Rashid obviously has his head firmly rammed up his back-side, spouting gibberish like that!
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OK so I'm 'backing up' several of my DVDs for Personal use!
I have some software I'm using and thought it'd be good to share....
Firstly I'm ripping the DVD to very high quality AVI file, this takes ages and produces a 1:1 copy of the disk.
For this I am using INTERVIDEO DVDCopy
After that I need to get the DivX compression going and make the file smaller. (thanks to jon2082 for the links)
This guide will explain how to convert an
AVI to DivX,
DV to DivX,
XVID to DivX,
DivX to DivX,
VCD(MPG/DAT) to DivX,
SVCD(MPG) to DivX,
DVD(MPG/VOB) to DivX or
ASF to DivX.
With MP3 audio. You can also use this guide to reconvert DivX 3 to DivX 4+ or convert to uncompressed AVI or XVID.
Tools required: DivX/XviD Codecs, ASF Codecs, MP3 Audio Codec and Virtualdub or Virtualdub1.3c or Virtualdub-MPEG2-AC3.
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Elvis lives in Flash Link
WARNING 1.75MB attachment
Including; Gay Spiderman, Ernie the baby eater, Homer the rasta, Strongbad and many, many more.
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FLAMINGO DRIVE
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Nice pixel animation
Click for mini movie - WARNING 1.47MB file size -
Found at moeboard.net
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I have added to my blog preferences a PING to the TECHNORATI website, for faster indexing, and hopefully some more hits...
Nice n easy to set up.. cheers 
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Enter a UK post code for a selection of funny/naughty place names that exist nearby.
Here's the list generated from my old postcode.
Penistone (map)
11.7 miles
Shatton Moor
11.7 miles
Shafton Two Gates
13.3 miles
Upperthong
18.5 miles
Jughole wood
19.0 miles
Fartown
22.5 miles
Hole in the Wall
28.4 miles
Dick Slack
28.7 miles
Dirty Gutter
30.3 miles
Camp Town
31.4 miles
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My best buddy Wally has now got his own website... HUZZAH!
He's gonna be my best man at our wedding in December.
I know he'll enlighten the world, once the site gets going!
Hasn't he got nice eyes!
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20 lectures on science fiction in MP3 format.
The University of Minnesota has posted the audio from 20 lectures from its "Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy" distance-ed course.
This is a great idea I think, really make use of your time and technology.
Downloading now for mrsmules ipod.
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Now you can have HAL on your very own door.
Gell-filled, illuminated interactive door-art.
These buttons are constructed of durable clear polycarbonate and anodized aluminum. The lighting is provided by an LED light source that has an extremely long life. The installation is simple and works with most existing and new systems!
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October Surprise is asking people to predict the re-election trick that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney have in store for October. Results so far:
Osama bin Laden captured! 38.1%
Spectacular terrorist attack on US soil! 18.3%
Vote is threatened by terrorist attacks, vote suspended due to red alert. 15.4%
Diebold Election Systems fixes the vote in battleground states. 11.1%
Escalation in Israel, Iran, or North Korea. US opens a new war front. 7.1%
US pulls out of Iraq in October, leaving the UN in charge.5.0%
WMD's found in Iraq! 5.0%
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Watch your buddies getting drunk, or really bring the pub to the home with
BEER100.com
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Most people complain about getting too much e-mail, but they have nothing on Wendy Cudahy of Microsoft, who receives around 2.4 million e-mail messages each day.
"You know when Windows XP has a problem and it asks if you want to send an error report? Well, if you click the 'send report' button that message comes to me," said Wendy who has been the Error Report Wrangler at the software giant for the past two weeks.
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I got some new natty trainers yesterday, with a rather nice design.
Nike Rift maharishi dragon, with split toe (camel toe)
GO WITH THE TOE YOU KNOW!
I like getting new trainers.. even more now mrsmule works for Nike... wooyay!
urban dictionary definitions of camel toe LINK
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Yup.. thats right...speaking like Yoda, is like stepping back 1500 years (not forward as expected).
Mr Crystal, a professor of linguistics at Reading University for 20 years, said Yoda - a Jedi master in the Star Wars films - was a good way to get children interested in how preferences in English word order changed from the Anglo-Saxon era to that of Middle English.
'FULL OF THE FORCE I AM'
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Church of Fools is open 24 hours a day for exploration, chat and prayer, and at different times there are public services. Most mornings and evenings there are simple and short services (around 7.30am and 11pm UK time).
the UK's first web-based, 3D church, which opened as a three-month experiment on May 11th. Church of Fools is an attempt to create holy ground on the net, where people can worship, pray and talk about faith.
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A cosmic single currency for use in financial transactions between Earthlings and extra-terrestrial civilizations has been unveiled at a conference on unidentified flying objects here.
"We are offering the 'galactos' as a means of payment between plants. It will represent the Earth in financial relations in the Cosmos,"
The coin, made up of chrome and nickel, weighs three grams with the inscription "galactos" and the year of issue 2004. It will be identified by the letter G with two parallel lines like the US dollar.
Exchange rates please???????
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Residents of an Austrian village called F*cking, have voted against changing the name.
The 150 or so people who live in the village debated the issue after roadsigns kept being stolen - many by British tourists.
Spokesman Siegfried Hoeppl, said: "Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us F*cking is F*cking - and it's going to stay F*cking - even though the signs keep getting stolen."
He said the name came from Mr F*ck and his family who settled in the area 100 years ago, and added "ing", meaning village or settlement.
The villagers didn't find out about the English meaning of the word until Allied soldiers stationed in the region in 1945 pointed out the alternative meaning.
Local newspaper editor Menhardt Buzasa said there had been an increase in the number of signs being stolen, and said British tourists were usually blamed.
"I do not agree it is just the British. F*cking is universal. Germans use it as much now as the British, and it also means the same to the Americans, Australians and anyone in the English speaking world," he said.
Similar votes on a name change have taken place recently in neighbouring Austrian towns Wank am see and Petting, as well as in Vomitville and Windpassing.
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Dog meat used in hot dogs
Two directors of a Belgian meat wholesaler have been arrested after dog meat was found in hot dogs around Europe.
More than 20,000 kilos of hot dogs were seized by food inspectors during a routine visit to the company's headquarters in Brussels.
Health and safety officials have notified neighbouring countries that sausages sold by the firm involved are not fit for human consumption.
Several thousand of the dog food contaminated hot dogs have turned up in Holland, according to the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority.
Checks are being carried out to see in what other countries the hot dogs may have been sold.
The Federal Food Agency in Belgium has confirmed the meat used in the hot dogs was intended for use in the dog food industry.
mmmmmmm LEKKER!
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