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Geeky Goodness
March 24, 2006 link category: Teh Cool
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We love the tech humor, being teh geeks that we are. While not necessarily gamerz ourselves, we can nevertheless appreciate the timeless sentiment in "Frag the weak, hurdle the dead". That's an all-purpose sort of homily there, people.
Anyway, we're currently digging J!nx and manfully attempting to refrain from purchasing one of everything. Some of our faves:
Because, yes, pirates are way cooler. Also in a tshirt.
We'd like ours to say "now" instead of "please", however. Totally wearing this to the childrens' next Family "Fun" Night. If ever an elementary school needed a big cup of STFU, it's that one. *chaos*
More l33t goodness:
Social Engineering Specialist Because there is no patch for human stupidity - Truer words never spoken.
Dog Shirt 0wn3ed - Oh the humiligration!
Baby Creeper Hello world! - It's only a matter of time before the little winkies are coding in the womb. "Junior, you rewrote mommy's dna again, put it baaaack."
FPS Poster Frag the weak, hurdle the dead - Sure, you'd have to be 13 to actually want to display this on your wall, but still, great sentiment.
Signs you should not be allowed on the internet (part 1)
March 23, 2006 link category: Stare
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You're so devoid of creativity that you decide to rip off the design and layout of another website, despite the posting of clear copyright notices that the unimpaired individual would both read and understand.
You're similarly devoid of intelligence, in that the design you rip happens to belong to the company that actually hosts your own website. This one boggles us, we freely admit. Seriously thought we wouldn't notice?
When called on your perfidy, you lurch about, insisting as plagiarists so often do that you only nicked it because it was "pretty", as if that were some sort of compliment-type thing instead of outright thievery.
You sign your pathetic whinge with "sorry for your troubles". Our troubles? Oh no, poppet, fail to remove the plagiarized graphics/layout or it will very much become YOUR troubles. Sod about with the legally registered identity of a company and that's what happens.
Just Write a Frickin' Letter Instead
March 16, 2006 link category: Office Space
How do I set up email accounts. I haven't been on your site in many months but your new help system is awful compared to what you used to offer. I can't believe I have to ask for such an easy question.
Leaving aside completely that the new helpdesk system contains a very prominent link to the Knowledgebase, just as the old did... No, poppet, when you're using something as simple and user-friendly END-user-friendly, anyway as cPanel to manage your account, we can't believe you have to ask such an easy question either. Because that large MAIL MANAGER link in your control panel wasn't a dead giveaway. And the Manage/ADD/Remove Accounts link was a little too vague.
Un-Drool
March 14, 2006 link category: Teh NOT Cool
A follow-up post to our Oct. 30 "drool" over the Deck LED backlit keyboard...
We bought one. Spending more than we've ever spent before on a piece of hardware that didn't actually make our computer go faster. We happily readjusted our typing style to account for it's very tightly packed, and somewhat rearranged keyboard. We loved the quiet snick of the keys. And that the LED had it's own "screensaver" and shut down when not in use.
Then the son-of-parents-who-were-not-married spacebar broke.
Oh, it didn't break all at once, no. First the spacebar simply refused to accept input unless hit multiple times. So, naturally, we took the key off to see if anything was stuck thereunder. There wasn't, but the tiny and fragile wire and plastic widget that is the means by which the key attaches frightened us. We carefully reattached it and decided to just deal with the irritation of having to multiple-strike for spaces since the keyboard was so &*^#%*@ expensive.
A day later we ordered the Saitek Eclipse to replace it:
Ugly, noisy, bulky...yet sturdy. And still backlit. Yay.
Shoe Ink
March 14, 2006 link category: Teh Cool
There was going to be a salutory post here on the ubër-coolness of these Tattooed Shoes:
<press blurb> A number of tattoo artists were brought on board to create the look of the new line; tattooist Dave Rhoades designed the collection of men's moccasin loafers pictured here. Rhoades' designs are actually hand etched into the leather and the shoes are then burnished with oils and tattoo inks to embellish the art. </press blurb>
However, the designer's nightmare of a Flash website pissed us off so badly that we leave it to you, our fine Factoid-ees, to find them on your own. We hear Fred Segal might carry them, but, let's face it...if they're just now figuring out that they need an ecom presence, they might not be your best choice.
Via Needled
Chef Whinybutt
March 13, 2006 link category: Stare
We freely admit that we wholeheartedly despise that craptacular creation that is South Park. But when Isaac Hayes quits the show, whinging that "there is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," and "as a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices," we're so delighted by the rebuttal of the loser-boyz who created the thing that we're going to break out the blockquotes:
Though Hayes, a devout Scientologist, made no reference to specific episodes that he felt crossed the line, series creator Matt Stone had little doubt that Hayes' decision was triggered by the November 2005 episode "Trapped in the Closet," which satirized the religion's beliefs and practices and featured "cameos" by animated versions of Tom Cruise and John Travolta."This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology," Stone told the Associated Press. "He has no problem--and he's cashed plenty of checks--with our show making fun of Christians."
Wait, there's more...
Past episodes of South Park have skewered Catholics, Jews and Mormons, among others. However, according to Stone, he and Parker "never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology."He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin," Stone told the Associated Press.
We here at Factoids do not care who you worship, be it Chthulu, Xenu or actual gnus, if you're a hypocrite about it, we're going to point our fingers at you and hoot. Derisively.
Crazy Love
March 11, 2006 link category: Big Love
Eye Pixels
Despite our complete horror at the thought of watching Chloë Sevigny perform in anything whether she's sucking some greasy racist's crank or not, we shall be tuning in to the season premiere of Big Love on HBO this Sunday. It'll be interesting to see how far they actually try to distance themselves from the Mormons, despite official protestations to the contrary, and we have our very own recovering Mormon in-house to provide *coff* trenchant analysis.
Besides, we <3 The Paxton, especially when he's all noble and stuff.
Update - Well, they're definitely Jack Mormons, hence the "compound" and self-styled Prophet. The girl who works with the daughter, whose Dad is a state trooper...is anyone else thinking "sting"? We like the dynamics between the wives. It's nice to think that sort of thing could actually work, outside the strictures of "religion", that is.
Ridiwhosis?
March 09, 2006 link category: Technojoy
We, like Eddie Izzard, have technojoy Ctrl-P print, why won't you print, it's only one paragraph, and we have a keen sense of design, so natch we're going to be barmy over these little winkies:
Colorful smilies made tactile, Ridibundus smileys are artsy little cushions, declared by their creator to be "good for all children—one- to hundred-year-olds.". Alrighty then. And at only 570 rubles for the set, they're a bargain, a bargain for you.
R, Matey
March 08, 2006 link category: Teh Cool
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Our affinity for all things piratey is already documented, so, natch, we're snapping up these funky Jolly Roger topsider/van-type footcoverings from the inspirationally-named Angry, Young and Poor.
While we haven't been angry, young or poor for some time now, we can still vividly remember how much it did not rock. Vive le passive-agressive dissension!
Tumble Not Thy Merlot
March 08, 2006 link category: Eh?
Greetings and salutations! Who cares where we've been...on with the Factoiding!
What, in the name of tiny brown acorns, is THIS?
A wine TUMBLER? Have you people Lost It? The entire point of having a bowl-ish container floating atop an eensy stem is to prevent the heat of your hand from otherwise tainting the sublimity of the elixir of your choice, particularly vital in instances when imbibing those wines dictated by fashion or palate to be served chilled.
So, Reidel can't settle for simply charging a metric arseload for their glass of dubious appeal, they now have to further blaspheme by offering the Dixie cup of glassware as an "enhancement" to our imbibing enjoyment? I've nothing against Thunderbird there's a time and a place for Thunderbird but this is strictly screw-top territory people. Eschew, ESCHEW!!
