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Bzzzt ... wrong!

Despite being laughed at by the whole world (squirting anyone?), you try making friends (well actually, buying friends) and they still screw you over.

kids in the hall

In 1984 a bunch of then rather unknown Canadian comedians trooped together an formed Kids In The Hall.

By 1989 they managed to get a series on CBC untill 1994, which consequently aired all over the world which yielded them instant popularity.

To me they were Month Python new style. Their sketches ranging from utterly childish stupidity (like "The Magical Flying Pig" series, "Dr Seuss Bible" and "Bobby And The Devil") over witty sketches (like and "I Speak No English") to absolute brilliant portrayals of humankind's not so lovely characters (like " The King Of Empty Promises").
And then there is the "Pit Of Ultimate Darkness" ...

The intro tunes are surflike and sound great as do most of the songs they perform in their shows ("These Are The Dave's I Know")

Wel go ahead an loose an entire day watching these.

about foo-fu

Sunday being my day of rest and thinking things through, I considered it a good moment to give a bit more explanation about "foo-fu" and what it means for me.

Let's look at the two parts of foo-fu: foo and fu.

On itself foo is generally known as a metasyntactic variable, especially in programming examples like "if foo=1 then ..." .
This is even specified in its own RFC (RFC 3092)!

Foo is also a type of chinese dog.
Well more correctly, "foo" carries the connotation "lucky" in Standard chinese. Therefor you have the dogs guarding a doorway called foo-dog as they're intended to bring luck or to conserve luck for those behind this door.

Although sometimes considered an alternative method of writing of the word "foo", in itself "fu" has an other meaning which also happens to be the one I intended for this blog which is "expertise".
This is especially through if you look at martial arts where the pupil will obtain a certain level of "fu" from his master or through his/her learnings.
Although a bit "Karate Kid"-esque, it relates to real life, in a sense that, through trial and error, you grow skills and learn to master the art of living your life.

"Fu" is also an extention regularly added to wordt to describe the mastering of something. Mostly in a joking way. A very popular version of this is animefu, an anime enthousiasts site.

stupidoverload

While copying the link of the famous "Look at me I'm an attention whore" I noticed the main site this image resides on.
And off course as there is a collector of wisdom in the form of Wikipedia, there should be a counterpart or this would not be the internets.

Ladies and gentlemen ...
I present you ...
The Encyclopedia Of Stupid !
(which is exactly what it's name says, just look at the picture with this post which was the first one I got to see on this site ... need I say more ?)


Enjoy a good reading!

translucent

Sometimes it's fun just to just find a word which you feel sounds great and the look at the results in google image search (SafeSearch turned off).

I tried it with " translucent" and the resulting puctures vary from a crappy card with a translucent heart in it, to a stunning photo of greenish amber pills .

The most funny result were these translucent water sandals from www.artlex.com.


Oh, and these are the search results as they appeared to me.

married to the sea

Priceless !
Take an old print, preferable eighteenth on nineteenth century tech related, and add a new tagline to it.
Married To The Sea.

(via Sh3Ll4C's blog)

tux mania

Get your children to work (or your inner child) and head over to this site.
After first admiring the wonderful history of Tux, you can find a DIY cut out version here.

Download, print, cut out and start getting messy with the glue.

for the more advanced crafts(wo)men among us, there is also the Free Penguin Project, complete with downloadable Tux sewing patterns.

update : forgot to check the links, it seems http://www.premiumink.com/penguin/ no longer exists so you' ll have to do with the more advanced sewing version.

no good deed

Following the outrage these last days when some bloggers announced microsoft gave them a shiny new laptop (apparently the new Acer Ferrari is the only machine apt to run vista at a decent speed) pre-packed with vista, it seems it's now time for a big 180.

After Laughing Squid announced they would auction of the laptop and send the money over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
Marshall Kirkpatrick, one of those lucky being on the receiving end of one of these "demo-models", mentioned he got a follow-up message from microsoft telling him - contrary to the original letter joining the laptop gift - to either give it away or send it back.

After all ... "I strongly recommend you disclose that we sent you this machine for review, and I hope you give your honest opinions."


(via slashdot)

daan live

Yesterday evening I went to see the sold out show of Daan.
Despite my lack of enthousiasm for his newest record 'The Player' all of the songs stand live.

As the Roma in itself is already an impressive hall (old cinema grandeur all over the place) with a good sound , this added to the overall atmosphere.


The thumbnail included is from a series of very nice photo's taken by Anna Vanaerschot on the earlier AB concert of the same tour.

update : dipfico posted 5 clips of the concert on youtube. Although under one minute, they give a good impression.
And for a small quiz : who matches the songs to the clips?

war of the worlds (2)

Seems like I was not the only one thinking of Orson Welles.

kiwi !

Kiwi !

circular sarcasm

This woman definitely gets the point, although she rather spoils the plot by posting the clue to the story.
Try grasping the point without reading her explanation. If you don't get it straight away, this video may well be addressed to you.

For those who got it : here she is her lovely self.

war of the worlds

Today the be public broadcast service of the French (southern) speaking part of Belgium, RTBF, announced in a fake bulletin that the Flemish (northern) part of Belgium declared independence and split off, as such ending Belgium's existence.
Amongst others, they claimed King Albert II would have sought refuge abroad.

Even CNBC fell for it.

schrödingers ...

... comic
via http://www.xkcd.com.
(Thanks Cory for reminding me of this site)