Guide to pants off living
January 2005
Conspiracy Theory
Friday, 28 January 2005
A conspiracy theory is manifested when people are too fucking stupid and ignorant to comprehend the truth.
9/11 was a conspiracy! Get some drops for your third eyeball.
The moon landing was a hoax; oh fuck off.
Sheesh.
Posted by travo at 9:16:55 AM
Farklempt!
Wednesday, 12 January 2005
Okay, so I'm not sure I really understand this, but it's kinda cool none the less. Farklempt kinda sounds like a nasty swear word but it is infact some really interesting online art and perhaps an anonymous social experiment.
Mmnnn, if it's anonymous, does that make it social? Probably not.
None the less it's cool. Like, there's this box right, with these bubbles - they're like your emotions, you have to click on them to make sure you can keep them in check. Don't let them get too big or they'll burst, keep them nice and even. Okay now look on the right, that's your little avatar; kinda looks like a cow right!? Well, the size and proportion of your emotional bubbles determines which way your cow floats. When your cow floats over some other cows, their emotions kinda multiply with your emotions and you both get points!
Cool. Make sense? Nah, I didn't think so. It's kinda silly fun though. And, and I got like more than 20,000 points!
Oh and Farklempt was featured on Wired the other morning, they have a much more succinct explanation than mine.
Posted by travo at 9:37:23 PM
Personal Chemistry
Monday, 10 January 2005
Loitering around Slashdot and found that Developer.* magazine has had kind permission to reproduce and essay by Gerald M. Weinberg titled.Personal Chemistry and the Healthy Body.
What a cracker!
While first published twenty years ago, it is still a pertinent article which resonates strongly with themes of work/life balance, personal physical fitness and personal health and maintenance of personal appearance.
I am lucky that many of my geeky friends are one the right side of human, personable, and healthy. But there are many folks I have known who could take a leaf out of Weinbergs book.
Posted by travo at 7:33:51 PM
Tsunami of Economic Aid
Saturday, 08 January 2005
What kind of global socio-economic environment would stimulate many of the worlds most affluent and powerful nations competing to donate money and resources to a region of nations stricken by disaster.
By no means would I suggest that this is not a worthy cause and we shouldn't get behind it if we are able and inclined to do so; many are and some aren't - in spectacular fashion.
But really, this is bizarre to me. Whether it is the disaster itself which has struck a nerve, whether it's the timing of the event, whether there are the right socio-economic conditions in the first world which are effecting this kind of response; it is still quite remarkable to observe the behaviour of nations and large corporations at this time.
Posted by travo at 3:32:25 PM
Scorecards Galore
Thursday, 06 January 2005
I've been enjoying a cracking season of test cricket and it's been mostly thanks to the wacky guys on ABC Grandstand Radio. Kerry O'Keef (who's head is shinier than the new ball) and the team have been great.
Yesterday though their trivia question send me searchin' online for a scorecard archive. And lo and behold - there is one - a bloody great one.
Cricket Archive is the goods. It has everything. Check it out.
Posted by travo at 11:09:59 AM