Competition Time!
Dudes and dudettes, it’s competition time here at Ludicrous HQ. The story goes that I have 2 hard drives in my PC which used to be called XP and Data, because one had Windows XP installed on it and the other was just for data.
Archive 2005
Archive 2005
The earliest posts on this domain, kept as they were written, dates and all.
Archive 2005Drinkcold Desktop
From drinkcold.com: Desktop: Perhaps a handy program could be invented which automatically deleted your desktop contents every 14 days or something.
Films
There are some good looking films coming out soon (and out already). Even though my bank balance doesn’t agree with me at the moment, I must get to the cinema to see all of these!
Archive 2005 currently holds 65 pages. They are dated 2005 to 2005. This section takes the pages that have a procedure in them — a setting to change, a command to run, a mistake to stop making.
The desk checks what these pages claim against the documentation they refer to. That is the whole of the method: no benchmark suite, no scoring, no invented averages. No page in this section is a ranking, and none of them is sponsored. Commercial pages on this domain are labelled Partner content and are not written by the desk.
Order here is chronological, most recent first. A page does not move up because it is being read more; it moves only when something newer is published. That makes the foot of the list the oldest material on the subject, which is worth knowing before you follow a setting or a command from it into a current install. The most recent of them is Drinkcold Desktop, published 2005-11-09.
Everything in Archive 2005
Front page- Archive 2005
BonBourn I
Here is some of what went on during my most recent trip to Newcastle-Upon-Bulman, and in usual Bon fashion I’m posting it three days after it actually happened.
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Quote of the Week (October 25, 2005)
Seeing as Rey hasn’t posted this, here it is. While walking down the street en route to Nando’s… Reyhan: “Helen, do you like AJAX?” Helen: “No, I prefer gravy.”
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Wootings
This blog post is revolutionary for 2 reasons. It feels good, yo.
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The Day After Tomorrow
An update to my previous post:
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Closed
Ludicrous, Incorporated is closed for business until Tuesday 25th October. Please leave a message after the tone and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.
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Tomorrow
Things I shall do tomorrow (not necessarily in this order):
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Hello? Fuck!
I linked to this video back in January on JB.com, but it’s really funny and I was talking to Justin about it today and he said he hadn’t seen it so I thought I’d link to it again!
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‘Tis a Proud Day
I’ve just been looking at my referrer stats for lud.icro.us. Turns out I’m pretty popular on MSN Search, especially with adult content related searches.
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Arachnophobia
I just awarded my next door neighbour 10,000 bonus points for coming and ridding my room of the biggest spider I’ve seen in my whole life (with the exception of those in the zoo).
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Shrieking.net 3
…And then my host shut down without warning. Again. I’ll have it all running again soon, please bare with me.
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Boncasting™
Rey’s been podcasting. They’re mostly crap yet somehow uncrap at the same time. My fave.
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Quote of the Week (September 30, 2005)
pirateyam says: domains are like women pirateyam says: theres plenty of fit ones pirateyam says: but only a few you want to commit to I’d like to hear Helen’s reaction to that:)
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Cultural Revolution-Era Clip Art Book
Propaganda = cool.
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Compact Disc Digital Audio
I’ve started buying CDs again, for a few reasons. Mainly because I refuse to pay the disgusting prices charged for legal music downloads - an album from iTunes UK will cost you £7.99.
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Outburst
Excuse me, very few of you will understand the next line. Bon owns the code, yo I might explain this at a later date, but I just had to get that off my chest:D
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Headline of the Year
The crew of a fishing boat blocked emergency radio frequencies for hours as they watched an erotic film.
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Water
I am drinking a glass of water.
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Wallpaper
Fancy a new dekstop wallpaper? Check out Veer’s wallpapers where all 250+ are stupidly stylish and totally free (for personal use).
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Impossibly Small
Holy crap! Have Apple just launched the most desirable pocket gadget since the original iPod?
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Quote of the Week (September 4, 2005)
Justin says: she is a dream Justin says: lets get her drunk and \missing text/
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Shout Out Louds
Introducing Shout Out Louds. They’re fucking great, ok. In fact I like them so much I’ve actually purchased their album instead of just downloading it from the dark side of the net.
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Quick Update
Now when you post a comment to lud.icro.us it’ll appear straight away without being moderated.
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The World Loves Google
It’s true. The developed world cannot get enough of Google, and that’s why whenever Google launches a new service or piece of software nowadays it makes it onto the front page of the world’s top news websites.
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A Pint of Pornstar Please
So today - in a “Girl Next Door” stylee - I found out that the barmaid down at our local pub is in fact an internet porn star.
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“Completely Unconnected”
Shit. Turns out that this guy was innocent.
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London Bombings
I’ve not posted anything on lud.icro.us about the recent London bombings and the associated terrorist investigations, and I’ll tell you why in a moment
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Windows Vista
Well done Microsoft, for picking a spectacularly bad name for your forthcoming operating system.
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Making Fiends
This online animated cartoon series called Making Fiends is so utterly obscure and wonderful and crazy and beautiful and fucked up and funny and engaging and spooky and unique and bonkers and lovable and mysterious and absorbing
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Live 8 Video Downloads
Quicktime movies of over 400 different Live 8 performances. Some guy has compiled a list of links to the (high-quality) Live 8 videos on the AOL servers.
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Flickr Pro Accounts
Does anyone want a free Flickr pro account? I have 2 free 1 year pro accounts still to give away, but I’ve got no-one to give them to.
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FlickrBlog - Trucks
Award for the ‘Lamest FlickrBlog Post Ever’ goes to Trucks. How exceptionally non-exciting.
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Roseability’s New Job
job. first day, induction. with 6 stupid people. example; talking about sleepers on railway lines, “that’s what you do at night, innit? “, everyone else laughs. yes
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Odeo
Being the superdude that he is, Rey gave me one of his invites to Odeo today. Apparently they’re quite hard to come by, although they’re not as sought after as Gmail invites were last year.
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A Strange Intense Dream
Best. Dream. Ever.
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Alpha is the New Beta
A few years ago if a piece of software or a web service carried a beta mark, most people except developers would keep well away from it.
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The Adventure Begins…
When I heard that a brand new Half-Life 2 full conversion called Eclipse had just been released for free download, I went along to the website and downloaded it almost straight away.
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Say What?
I’ll be switching on comments on some posts from now on. Feel free to comment, or not. I know I will be!
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T-Shirt Site of the Week
When it comes to clothes I’m really really picky. I mean, I’m really bad. Some people can go into a shop and just pick out t-shirts and trousers and shit and say “yeah, that’ll suit me”.
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Lame Lotto Ad
The UK National Lottery, called Lotto, usually has a top prize of a couple of million pounds.
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Windows Movie Maker
I’ve been playing around with Windows Movie Maker today. It’s pretty crap, but quite easy to use just for knocking some videos together and sticking a soundtrack on there.
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The Summer Burn 2005
This is cool shit. Everyone should sign up for The Summer Burn 2005. What happens is you submit your name, email and postal address, and after the signup closes you get emailed the address of two other people who signed up.
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Blake Ross on Today’s Software
Blake Ross is one of the forefront developers of Firefox, so he should know a thing or two about software.
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BMW 325i
I want this car! Update: Bah! Someone bought it!
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iBrows
Apple have this thing of naming lots of their products with the letter i at the beginning, the iPod, iBook, and iMac being the most popular of course.
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Bon’s Favourite Films of All Time
If someone were to ask me what my favourite film was, I don’t think I could give a definitive answer.
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Quote of the Week (June 7, 2005)
Justin says: i’m so hyper Bon says: u been on the red bull or something? Justin says: MMM NICE SAUSAGES BANG!
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This Rocks
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae.
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The Rise of lud.icro.us
ludicrous.com still comes top when you Google for Ludicrous. lud.icro.us currently sits in third place, below a page about me on Britblog.com.
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IE 7: so much for Firefox
Rey linked to this article about Internet Explorer 7 which is entitled “IE 7: so much for Firefox”, from which the following quote is taken: Firefox is great, I use it.
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A Musical Baton
Total music files residing on my computer: 2.88 GB Last CD I bought: Evil Nine - You Can Be Special Too (album) Song playing right now: TV on the Radio - Dreams Five songs I listen to a lot or mean a lot to me
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Shrieking.net 2
So there’s this guy called Reyhan who links to used to link to links to this guy called Matthew who links to this guy called Mac.
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Mr. Robot
If you’re a fan of zefrank then you’ll like this. It’s a video of a guy sitting in front of a camera telling you he’s a robot.
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Amarillo Spoof
From BBC News: A spoof video of the song (Is This The Way To) Amarillo, performed by British soldiers in Iraq, has crashed Ministry of Defence computers.
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The Internet, Explained
This has turned out as an uberpost! Read at your peril! Recently I’ve noticed that a lot of people who use the internet don’t seem to get the entire concept of it.
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Feed the Ducks
Get these great pictures of some ducks looking rather attitudinal while being fed down at the pond.
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Such Great Heights
Garden State. One of my all-time favourite films, due in no small part to the wonderous soundtrack which sounds really great when you listen to it with your ears.
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Newfeeder
After a long while of neglection, I’ve knocked up a fresh new wormfeeder.com for Spring/Summer 2005.
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Ham, Cheese and Coleslaw Sandwich
You’d think that I would have mastered the art of making a sandwich by now. After all, I have used an entire loaf of bread to make the second biggest sandwich in history among many others.
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Yo La Tengo, Nuclear War
Intro. Nuclear war, yeah. Nuclear war, yeah. Talkin’ about, yeah. Nuclear war, yeah. It’s a mother fucker!
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My Nokia 7280
So I’ve had my Nokia 7280 for just over 2 weeks now. I loved it at first - for about two hours - until I decided to write a text message on it.
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Lick!
I’ve forgotten how I came across it initially, but this self-portrait of sorts by Lane Collins is wonderful!
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A New Bloginning
This is what I needed. I’d completely run out of ideas for layouts, designs, headers, etc. for ludicrous.com, so I got myself a superlicious new domain name and decided it would become my new blog.