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a few stragglers [Dec. 15th, 2009|05:59 pm]

deathboy
Man on 'chicken-licking' charge

Sex abuse church elder McConaghy 'too fat for jail" - now that's a convenient way to avoid jail for child molestation!

Extremely funny business email conversation between a creative and a fuckwit

Perfume "Made from Michael Jackson's DNA"

A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind

Relations to the people that made the Psion handheld computers are bringing out a pocket-sized XP rig, though it seems it's a rebadge of another machine...

Pacman rings (sold out, curse it)

Glowing graffiti gadget

Pterodactyl hilarity
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leenks [Dec. 2nd, 2009|06:00 pm]

deathboy
Sometimes, the CCTV camera isn't turned on - as a matter of policy

Pirate Party: Questions for Lord Mandelson

dick-head. - should be worksafe, but might not be.

"Chocolate Syrup" - Compiled from Texts From Last Night, 2009 - very funny in places.

UN ponders 'Net "10 commandments"

Star Wars Trivia: Davin Felth, a stormtroooper with a suprisingly long and detailed history

Innumerate Fundamentalists and π (old article, but hey)
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Lae-night linking trip [Nov. 30th, 2009|01:18 am]

deathboy
The official God FAQ

Why We Immunize (long, good read though)

busty latex-clad Daphne from Scoobydoo. I'll take two, please, waiter.

Bountii: Negative Cashback from Bing Cashback

Stylophone+DS-10 - The Girl From Ipanema

Dan Bull - Dear Mandy [an open letter to Lord Mandelson]

'World's strongest' beer with 32% strength launched

arcade expressionism

A systematic destruction of Melanie Phillips’ pitiful Question Time rant (against global warming)

Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ

Steve Jobs to Developer: Name Change ‘Not That Big of a Deal’
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(no subject) [Nov. 26th, 2009|01:09 pm]

deathboy
[music |Kling To The Wreckage (Featuring Justin Warfield) - The Crystal Method]

Autocomplete me

Michael Jackson's 'face' on baby scan

AT&T call rep with a sense of humour (and a shit job)

A subtle way to pass a message to your neighbours via WiFi

video: Lady Gaga before she became famous

Best T-shirt slogan evar

tvsersity supports iPhone, relatively easily...

At French hamster hotel, live like a rodent

Hacked climate emails: conspiracy or tempest in a teapot?

Excellent, messed up, NWS, funny, 8-bit style animated music video: FLAIRS - TRUCKERS DELIGHT

iPod Touch / iPhone DJing software released

Hilariously awful: First Bite a customizable Vampire Love Story

5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth
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url bukkake [Nov. 21st, 2009|03:59 pm]

deathboy
Got or considering an Apple Timecapsule? worth reading this...

Summarize your sex life with a Star Wars quote - once again, reddit delivers

Etsy: Excellent lego / lego star wars toy pieces turned into earrings / jewellery

Free industrial music from up-and-coming popular beat combo and skiffle-fusion quartet "DeathBoy"

Meteor Streak Lights Up the Night Across Utah

Hilariously fucking batshit insane british mongoloid dimwit with huge anger-management issues loses his entire shit in a rage about Modern Warfare 2 being slightly disappointing

Clever / cute clock made of scrollbars

INSANE audio tool - extreme timestretcher "PaulStretch" stretches audio to 1000x original length, and beyond. Essential for ambient musicians.

TWITTER WILL MOLEST YOU (sfw)

Open Rights Group - looking out for our digital rights

Information is Beautiful Friday: how ethical is your job?
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(no subject) [Nov. 18th, 2009|11:53 pm]

selectnone
Snaefell Laverda Sidecar Project - Motorbike with custom sportscar-styled sidecar

Very pretty attempts to discover the 3D equivalent of Mandelbrot fractals

34-year old chap who was born with his heart outside his body (although it's not on the outside nowadays, squeamphobes)

Dr Charlene Werner explains the science behind homeopathy, causes me science-rage

"Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist"

E-Waste in Guiyu

Lenna - Playboy centerfold, image-processing standard-model

Design your own phone/ipod/laptop/etc skins!

Dog dressed as iPhone
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linksss [Nov. 18th, 2009|10:41 pm]

deathboy
BBC article on furries

Amidio Touch DJ - first iPhone dual-deck DJing software (am just trying it out, it's nae bad. probably worth £12 anyway)

A poster that will really annoy some of you, and bemuse the rest. Worksafe.

Stylophone Beatbox - someone fucking buy me one. NOW.

Horses, and the compound insult (comic, probably worksafe)

genoQs Octopus - INSANE midi-controller (with an insane price-tag)
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linkjaculation [Nov. 10th, 2009|03:37 pm]

deathboy
I probably shouldn't find this hot... Women footballers playing VERY dirty

Colour film of London in 1927 - which reminded me of these colour photos of Russia in the early 1900s

Women: apparently more rapey than you'd think

Panic Attack! - Awesome bit of CGI (given that it's not a hollywood movie) (youtube, worksafe)

Liked Fuck My Life? Liked My Life Is Average? Then you might like My Life is ACTUALLY Average.

Wikipedia: List of animals with fraudulent diplomas

Moan My IP - potentially not worksafe, if not entirely pornographic, could get you funny looks.

Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss?

Entertaining / rational liberal talk show "The Young Turks" discusses right wing fundamentalist backlash to the recent US military shootings

Police allow guy fawkes demo in London - could this signal a change in attitude?

Hellraiser Gamecube skin

Man Born With Heart Outside Chest Celebrates 34th Birthday

UniformDating.com - dating for people in the various forces/services

Elgato DTT Deluxe world's smallest USB TV tuner - fuck me, that really is tiny.

Wikimedia's visitor logs on browser use - interesting!
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leenks [Nov. 1st, 2009|04:02 pm]

deathboy
accidental wang silhouettes (worksafe)

FFFFfffuuuuuuu... (a compilation of rage comics)

How the internet will look without net neutrality

American politicians goofing off at work

Scientologists convicted of fraud in france

AA Gill shot baboon 'to see what it would be like to kill someone'

Cell size and scale - excellent flash app to help you visualise tiny objects
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splarg and the whelk people [Oct. 13th, 2009|11:55 am]

deathboy
Art made with dead flies

Johann Hari: Britain's not bust. So don't use it as an excuse to impose cuts

4-chan breaks your mind again - WS, NMS

Let's say you've gone back in time - this poster has you covered - print out and stick inside your time machine.

First-ever CC-licensed film in Sweden, available from Pirate Bay

Ace pirates vs Transformers t-shirts

Train drags German mooner half naked along tracks

BAA to give up on third Heathrow runway - hurrah!

Sell the Vatican, Feed the World (video, small amounts of NWS language)
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(no subject) [Oct. 12th, 2009|05:11 pm]

selectnone
Good afternoon!

1-million-fps slow-motion videos of bullet impacts

Here's a purty timelapse film for balance

Dark Side of Phobos: DooM Remix Project
- 2CD-albumsworth of remixes of all the tunes from the first Doom game. The tracks vary in recognisability, but it makes for a nice package overall.

Dirty Coding Tricks - game coders fondly recall their hacks and bodges

Gorgeous picture of a launching Delta-4 rocket, where camera lens was destroyed by the takeoff

CubeDudes - loads and loads of movie/comic/etc characters built from Lego

CGI-brows - the next step in movie effects magic!

Concept-drawings from the the contest to design Lenin's mausoleum, back in the day - I particularly like the wacky fantasy ones

Timeline of Science Fiction inventions - dates when writers first mention scifi stuff, back to the the 17th century

Monkeys in a swimming pool
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(no subject) [Oct. 12th, 2009|09:44 am]

deathboy
Zork Walkthrough as song lyrics

The Three Billy Goatse Gruff

Epic Gender Fail

The Eigenharp, a bloody strange musical instrument

OK Cupid proves racism in online dating

Proof that linux is evil

Americans are fleeing religion as atheism surges

Funny comic :D
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linksss [Oct. 10th, 2009|04:41 pm]

deathboy
Facecunt.com - Facebook... for Cunts. I wish this site actually worked.

Interesting bit on data visualisation, in which signatures are analysed an transformed in such as a way as to make fakes immediately obvious.

106 Pics of the Blizzard offices will make any geek violent with jealous lust

An awesome comic about fucking with bees.

Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa

aaaand a comic about god.

Over and out, link-monkeys. X
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(no subject) [Sep. 30th, 2009|06:16 pm]

deathboy
'Oldest' burglar is jailed again

It COULD just be coincidence - video about probability / psychology

'Clown' tourist blasts into space

This is all DJs, evar. (image macro)

the Creationist movie "Expelled" with subtitles correcting the lies


15 Most Stupid Forehead Tattoos

"english democrats" - some fucking numpties trying to be the BNP lite, preaching "patriotism" thinly veiling the same old racist rhetoric that the nation's woes are down to immigrants. spend a few minutes voting the video and the comments down, if you have time to spare? Their website is similarly awesome.

Nanny State: 1.1% beer
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backlog [Sep. 29th, 2009|10:23 pm]

deathboy
A whole lot of crazy, interesting shit

Facehugger comic strip

Viral Sculptures in glass

fucking mad face-modelling/morphing site. It's japanese, but you should be able to suss it out. well worth uploading your own passport-style-photo to and giving yourself a massive afro.

CrippledEarth.com - Tinfoil hats set to STUN!

A few of my favorite things Lady Gaga has humped

Tromboning. Once the domain of nameless perverts and sexual explorers, thanks to the internet, you can get a definition and bug a mug with it printed on it.</a>

Innocent London resident arrested on bullshit terrorist charges gets apology from the police some years later. Good work, man!

Awesome T-shirt on threadless gets re-issue. Shame their shipping rates are practically fiduciary rape. Someone buy me one?

Cyberpunk / Sci-Fi Fiction Generator - methodology
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Mostly news [Sep. 24th, 2009|10:44 pm]

deathboy
Western Spaghetti by PES - nifty bit of stop-frame animation

Indonesian woman gives birth to 8.7 kilo boy

McCanns still RAVINGLY insane

John’s Background Switcher - lively up your desktop

Blood lamp. Creepy, and likely to make cutters trigger.

TOOOL - the Open Organisation of Lockpickers

Mother gives up racist views, pleads for return of children

Beijing Wal-Mart

Medical marijuana patient gets his pot back

SampleRadar: 281 free dub samples

Nude blonde woman scares builders into running for safety
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that's numberwang [Sep. 23rd, 2009|10:31 pm]

deathboy
Why the fuck do you have a kid?

Dungeons & Dragons Spellcasting Limited Edition Jones Soda

Friend keeps promise to dead soldier by wearing skimpy dress to his funeral

Reading Kafka 'enhances cognitive mechanisms', claims study

Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Public Domain Books

The World's Coolest Bus-Stops

I lost my penis due to priapism

How To Stay Goth Past 50

Jesus Fuckin Christ! (nws)

Obama Tells Letterman: I Was Black Before the Election

9/11 Tattoo
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that's numberwang [Sep. 22nd, 2009|02:06 am]

deathboy
Ladies' Tattoo Remover

Knitted bacon wrap

Lily Allen, anti-file-sharing industry stooge steals article on copyright from another site (wholesale, without attribution)

Very, very, very wrong. (worksafe, but you might not want to be thought to be the sort of person that looks at this image)

Inside Bill Moorier's head

Library of antique and scrap leather books... necklace!

Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings
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pork links [Sep. 17th, 2009|07:59 pm]

deathboy
Limbaugh: We need segregated buses

Birther Orly Taitz gets laughed out of court

Kanyelicious!

Shop worker 'licked food on sale'

Cablevision unveils interactive banner ads on TV

iPhone saves the world

How many people are in space?

Hot Chicks with Dogs with Boners

VIDEO Of Obama Calling Kanye West A "Jackass"

NASA Levitates Mice in Magnetic Field
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news stuff [Sep. 7th, 2009|10:32 pm]

deathboy
Transsexual prisoner wins move to women's jail

Contraception myths 'widespread'

50 cent writes self help book - norly

How to Make a Hologram

Dirty Coding Tricks

Virtual Barber Shop

PiL to reform

Apple's iPhone loses carriers money, claims researcher

Terry Wogan To Leave Radio 2 Breakfast Show
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