I really don’t know whether this is real or a spoof. One the one hand I hope it’s a spoof, because really, come along now, but on the other I hope it’s real, because… that’s pretty amusing.

There’s not much to say, it just amused me that someone out there thinks there’s a market for something like this.

I wonder, do you think they’ve changed the permissions structure so you can’t chmod things to 666?!?!

I came up with that one myself (no, really), but there’s a whole bunch more amusing bits and bobs approximately here. Personal highlight:

In Ubuntu Christian Edition, there can be only root and 12 more users, one of which will help crackers to access the system

This is obviously just a universal constant, a straight up fact that can’t be argued (you only need watch such masterpieces as Kindergarten Cop and it becomes readily apparent), but today news broke of a thing that happened that made his awesomeness even more awesome.

It’s been written about in many different places but the bottom line is, he sent a letter to the California State Assembly outlining exactly what he thought of them, but you may have to read between the lines to see what that is. Or, just down the left edge of them, perhaps.

It is such an amazing event I literally almost cried with joy.

So Yahoo closed GeoCities yesterday, and an era of the web came to an end. A pretty poor era full of shit animated gifs and midi files, sure, but an important one nonetheless. The LA Times has a good write up on it, which is fortunate because I’m lazy.

Randall Munroe is rather less lazy, and decorated up his site in a manner befitting of GeoCities to honour its passing. It’s back to normal now, but luckily I saved a screenie of it, located approximately just there —>

I guess the people who GeoCities catered for are all mostly to be found on MySpace and Bebo and suchlike these days, still with creations as ghastly as GeoCities’ ever were, but somehow a degree less charming. Or maybe animated skulls and spinning @ signs and under construction gifs on every page and repeated brick patterned backgrounds and table borders aren’t actually charming, and I’m just too old for all this.

Distinct possibility.

So the built in ‘record video’ function can only do clips of up to 30 seconds in length, from one camera angle at a time, and takes an age to do it, which is bloody weird considering it does the same exact function in real-time while you’re playing.

You then can’t access them directly via intranets, you have to upload to the Forza website then download from your PC. Annoyance!

Still, I fully intend to put together a snazzy little demo video o’er the next few days, but until I do, here’s a shit video of 2 laps in-cabin with my mildly modified M3, showing some amazing overtaking skills.

Remember the first time you played Mario 64, and it just felt so perfect, and so finely tuned, that it just couldn’t do anything wrong? That’s about how good I’m saying Forza 3 is. If you want to read more gushing, there’s some after the photo.

That’s my E36 M3 right there. It feels exactly how I expect an E36 M3 to feel. Now, obviously, it’s rather Daily Mail-esque to claim a car in a game feels like one I’ve never actually driven, but I’ve thrown my own E46 around enough to know the general M3 characteristics and this feels pretty close to that, K? K.

The new physics model really is amazing. It felt good with the RSR in the demo, felt good with the lower-end FWD cars this morning, but with a proper bit of rear-wheel-drive-saloon-grunt it really shines. You can fling this thing around like nobody’s business and it always remains under control, and that’s without the stability and traction control driving aids, thanks (as aids go, they are very definitely bad aids). It makes me wonder how Forza 2′s physics every really sufficed.

Visually it is really rather good. I’ve noticed a couple of shadow glitches but these are stupidly minor and overall it’s very very good. Always hard to tell when your telly’s only running at 1024x768 mind, but, does look very impressive. The photo mode seems to be about the same as last time, but with the enhanced models it looks better of course, and they seem to have improved the jpg compression which always made Forza 2′s photos look bunk. I can’t remember if 2 had a movie mode, I don’t think it did anyway, but 3 does and it’s pretty cool, as demonstrated below, by a shit movie clip what I made.

Now, I’d rather be playing it than writing about it so: cheerio.

Conclusion: it’s bloody ace.

Clearly not as creative or witty as his Alan Sugar one, but still, well worth a watch. As discovered being tweeted by the adorable Charlie Brooker.

For entirely educational and informational purposes I direct you hither.

Seems that guy Jesus is really trying hard to convince everyone he’s the guy to follow, as he’s now decided to show up on a toilet door in an Ikea in Glasgow.

Coming hot on the heels of that marmite incident in Wales back in May, you’ve got to admit, this is some pretty strong evidence of… that… stuff…

With all the knots of wood there are in the world, you’d think he’d just do something more obvious like show up in all of them, but then again maybe he is and I’m just not squinting hard enough. <– FAR-REACHING METAPHOR ALERT

Oh, wait.

See here: my official reaction.

They have made available, via some new fangled thing called Project Tuva, a series of lectures given by Richard Feynman at Cornell University in 1964.

Entitled The Character of Physical Law, the 7 lecture series was given for Cornell’s Messenger Lectures, an annual event where a suitably grand guest speaker lectures on a suitably grandiose subject.

As the title implies, the theme of Feynman’s lectures was rather broad, with him giving an overview of many key physical principles, how they were arrived at, and what they mean in real terms.

I don’t think any summary or further description would serve any real purpose, but suffice it to say, if you’re into (or even vaguely curious about) physics and how we understand the world around us, there are few better people to explain it.

Oh and you’ll need Silverlight, annoyingly, but if ever there was a reason to install it, this would be it.

*Well, they did a wonderful thing back in July, but I’ve been busy, K? K.

I’ve known about Loading Ready Run for ages but never really investigated further, then today my dude Nathan sends me this, and it’s pretty hilarious. Hence: post.