Weird user agreements

I don't normally blog other blogs, its lazy and creates a link chain that is pointless and fills the internets with stupid links. Normally I attempt to blog real content, like midgets and the strange world of undead armies. So why does this post about weird user agreements interest me so much. Well mainly for the comment at the end about EULA agreements which you agree to just by opening the packet. Like those software agreements that take your first born child when you remove the wrapping from your latest edition of microsoft golf.

Anyway the comment states:

"Any idea if any friendly lawyer-types have considered putting together a 'counter-EULA'? Ideally, it would be simple form letter that you can mail back to a company that you've recently done business with, that would read "By opening this envelope, you agree to release [name] from the EULA bundled with [product]", and go on from there with the proper legalese. After all, if they believe that opening a product box signals acceptance of a contract, then it's no different the other way around."

Psychadelic Toads

I know that psychadelic toads are a favourite topic around here. I want to extract their psychadelic toad juice and then feed it to my ever growing army of the undead to see what effect it would have. Well some dog has gotten in ahead of me and is going through some serious withdrawal from licking too many toads. I love this storya nd it provides just so much amusement for a friday afternoon. So go psycahdelic dog, enjoy your trips to the end of the universe and send me a postcard from toadsville.

Pen Spinning for N00bs

Haha, so you think you are cool because you can stick a pen halfway up your nose. Well that kind of pen trick isn't actually that hard. Try it with a large posca like one of these then I'll give you some cred.
Well this sucker doesn't use no posca, instead he custom makes his own pens and then does Pen Spinning tricks which kept me slightly amused while my latest bout of ether abuse ran slowly out of me ears. mmmm sweet ether, its the fun that vaporises brain cells while keeping me fit and healthy.

Thanks Dan!

Navi bot

Aaaah, look at the cute little robot. According to my excellent Japanese (and the google translator thingee) this cuddly bear bot is designed to direct you on where to turn by using hand gestures. Pretty cool eh, instead of a disembodied fembots voice you get the navi bot to stick its friendly arm out and tell you where to go. Sure maybe if you took the head off and replaced it with terminator style glowing eyes it might not be so friendly, but who'd do that kind of thing anyway, hey? Freaks, all of you.

‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’

Aaaah GW, its been a while since I heard some more words of genius from the mind of our self proclaimed world leader. I mean seriously how many times does he have to contradict and make a fool out of himself at interview before the whole world realises he is no more intelligent than a chimp. In fact he's probably less intelligent. 'We will stay the course in Iraq' has been one of GW's favourite sayings and now in a complete turn around he is saying ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’. What I don't get is, surely it would look a lot better to just admit you were changing your tactics and start again rather than just bullsh!tting your way through it. Idiots...

Thanks Mike!

Your worldview

Got a few minutes to spare on another pointless quiz? Wanna find out how close your beliefs are to those of GW and Osama (made up of course because they never took the quiz)? Well enter the Worldview Quiz which takes 20 relatively random leading questions about your beliefs and categorises you into some kind of progressive science freakoid (like me) or some kind of extermination super religious freakoid like GW. So, its not super exciting but then monday never is.

Swiss rocket man

You gotta love any company with website entitled Swiss rocket man. Sure the hydrogen peroxide rockets that are developed can be used in 1001 devices besides making a rocket man but dammit making someone fly for six whole minutes is one hell of an accomplishment. I wish I was some kind of rocket man, sure it'd be dangerous and you'd probably end up head first into the side of a bridge or something but goddam it'd be one hell of a way to go and would ensure my growing insanity was tempered before I bust a cap in yo' ass.

World's Strangest Vehicles

Yes, not all the vehicles in the world are 1999 Camrys with dings in the side. Some are strange magical creatures with a life of their own. Sure I've blogged about a lot of these before but this site attempts to combine all the strange vehicles into one magical land where you can go and play to your hearts content. Nah, actually the site is pretty lame and doesn't really contain any intersting information. In fact I nominate this site for my hall of shame and guarantee that only an imbecile would find this site exciting.

One giant head

As giant heads become more and more popular with the nouveau riche, I can't help but think that maybe this magic new giant head is perhaps going a bit too far. I mean look at this thing, if you don't end up with serious neck pain in the first five minutes then you must have a neck bigger than a late 80's Arnie. Supposedly allowing some 360 degree immersion this giant head is just a little too comical for my liking.

Mind control video games

Bah, humbug, how can they work on controlling computer games with people's minds when I still can't stand up stright after 18 pints of guinness I'll never know. So how does a teenager move video icons just by mind power? I think the trick is in the fact that they hooked him up and effectively trained the machine to learn what his brain wanted to do before actually implementing a reader type thing. Well that was a real scientician style sentence so read the damned article yourselves fools.

Fried Coke

In my humble opinion there has never been a product as exciting and innovative as fried coke. I mean how do you deep fry a liquid? Seems like you turn it into some kind of goo and then deep fry it into sweet sugary dough balls. I mean fried cheese was a good start, deep fried mars bars were a fair advance but fried coke has to take the cake and pummell it into the almost healthy category in comparison.

Thanks Patrick!

Breathing Earth

The earth is alive! Look at it go, Breathing Earth shows how much each country is breathing by making CO2 and how many people are born or die at any given moment. Its kind of hypnotic sitting there watching the thing grow and change and makes you think about how many millions of lives are out there at any given moment. Plus if you move your mouse over stuff you get to see some statistics from each country.

Molecular spiders

Nanograss is some tasty stuff. This one time I was eating nanograss and wearing an onion on my belt. It was the fashion at the time. Well turns out that these Molecular spiders love nanograss as much as me! Supposedly by grabbing onto the grass and eating their way across it they can make it completely sterile. If you don't care about the science, just think about the possibilities. These type of tiny robots will one day be able to cure disease or stop a bull elephant in its tracks plus they're soft and cuddly and make an excellent after meal snack. The only problem will be when they get too smart and start taking over the world, but I reckon we've got 20-30 years yet.

Phriday Photo Phun

Eh, so I shamelessly stole this picture from boingboing but that doesn't stop it being one of the funniest pictures I've seen in a while. Sure, maybe its a photochop hoax but I don't really care, enjoy. Have an excellent weekend peeps and see you all on the flipside.

Scientists teleport stuff

Remember just don't get a fly caught in the machine, cause if you do you'll end up with a horrible messed up DNA that led Jeff Goldblum to become some kind of freak in that weird movie called the fly. So if you've got no idea what I'm talking about then good because I never intended you to. But if you like the idea of teleportation than Scientists have teleported both light and matter. Which means that you can take that ray of sunshine with you when you visit antarctica. Well maybe, in like 800 years when they can do more than move a random collection of atoms more than 18 inches but its still some pretty cool technology.

DVD Rewinder

Sick of all those DVDs sitting at home that you couldn't be stuffed rewinding? Want to ensure that you never have to pay fees at the video store for forgetting to rewind your movies? Well the DVD rewinder is the answer to all your prayers and will save you millions. Plus its 25% off at the moment. Come on people, are you serious, the fact that someone made this product just boggles the mind. Sure 99.99% of the world's population will not understand the comedy gold that it entails but is the fact the a few people on the net might find it vaguely interesting a reason to make such a damn fool invention? I think not.

eBooks

eBooks were once detined to be the next great thing. You'd be able to take a million books with you where ever you went and they'd be easier to read than paper and would only cost your first born son. Well at some point people realised that reading on computer monitors (CRT and LCD) sucked pretty hard. The refresh rates meant that your eyes got super tired and soon you were like this guy. Well I've been hearing a bit about this fancy new electronic ink eBooks that is actually a static image that only gets refreshed when you change a page. Supposed to be good for the eyes and also actually looks kind of like a real book. So here is a review of one of these funky devices that I might just have to buy at some point soon. Well I will buy if they price the books at a few bucks each not like the mega rip off current prices of like $30 for a paperback new.

Penguin driving robot

At first I thought 'Sweet, soon all our cars will be driven by hyper-intelligent penguins who will ensure that all our cars are perfectly safe' but then I realised that the Penguin driving robot was more designed to help you avoid crashes would warn you when you were driving like a damned fool. Plus as an added bonus all the additional information was in Japanese and the autotranslator thing made it even more garbled so I can only conclude that this bot must be the greatest invention in the history of mankind and is guaranteed to make your driving experience super happy mega fun!

Hogwarts in Matchsticks

Yes ladies and gentlemen roll up, roll up for the world is about the answer to the madness of my blog. If that didn't make any sense then take the blue pill and go and have a lie down. Here and now we present the magical world of hogwarts in matchsticks. I reckon the above project would have taken some 10,000,000 man hours to complete, or 80,000 chimp hours as their little fingers are so adept. The detail of the matchstick world is actually pretty damned good and a heap better than the attempt I made with egg cartons and curly straws. Sure my attempt had more turrets but they had a habit of toppling and killing small animals.