Off By One

Odds are, Beau should not be allowed to see this link: We Are Your Friends

It’s video, so don’t bother, on a slow connection.

Update:

The file at the original location was moved, so this Youtube link has it. If I find the better version again, I’ll upload it and host it here.

Justice vs. Simian: We Are Your Friends

Update again

The link is fixed, it’s a local file now. Will work ‘til doomsday.

This might mark me as exceptionally nerdy, but I just love this set of warning signs for tomorrow, dug up via the instapundit.

Some favourites:

This is the scary one — it should probably be posted in most banks, office buildings, my building, and Britain.

Perhaps those times when you’ve got a project due the next morning “all of a sudden” even though you never let things sit that long?

My life, according to Shaw, some days.

I can just picture this hanging in an effete coffee shop, over books by Sartre, being studiedly ignored by a gaggle of pseudo-intellectual first-year philosophy students.

Seen over the magazine rack containing US, Cosmo, and Maxim.

I think I should get a shirt with this one on it

From the net.humour namespace:

In a world of fearmongering media and government, it seems to me that life would be better if we could just fucking count!

Found on the interweb a short time ago, and brought again to my attention today by the good folks at MetaFilter:

Events since Duke Nukem Forever was announced.

This is a bit of a sobering list of things that have happened since DNF was announced nine+ years ago. The truly jarring one is the fact that NASA — amongst the most legendarily ponderous bureaucracies in North America — “proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed [the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity] upon Mars where they have been exploring the surface for over 2.5 years.”

Wow.

A friend of my co-worker, call him “A”, is the subject of this post.

On Canada Day, “A” was stabbed.

“A” is a chef, by trade.

Odds are good that “A” will be receiving one of these, delivered to him more-or-less anonymously.

Life is full of the funny, sometimes.

I’m in a particularly bad mood, this evening. As a consequence of some poor planning, on my part and that of others, I’m at loose ends for the evening, every plan I had — in sequence — having become obsolete in some fashion or other.

This is primarily due to work, today and yesterday. This isn’t a condemnation of my job, by any means; that’s still excellent. Rather, I blame WebSphere. More specifically, I blame certain extension methods for its security infrastructure that are rendering me insensible.

Ah well. Such is life.

On the more amusing site of the software world, someone who is as geeky as me (and as interested in software design methodologies) should read the conference site for Waterfall 2006. This is some seriously good stuff. Trust me.

Just something that caught my eye:

From here.

Apparently, although this is news to me, March 15th has become the “International Eat an Animal for PETA” day. (Via Instapundit)

It doesn’t have the same linguistic flair that, say, Talk Like a Pirate day does, but it’s still something that I’ll approve of. Apparently, joined by many others, although most of them have left the blogging thing — or at least re-done their links — since they participated, so no links.

I guess this stems from an ad campaign that PETA used a year or so ago associating animal slaughterhouses with the holocaust, which is pretty nasty even to my jaded eyes. So, eat some meat for PETA on the 15th! Hell, why not start today?

Alright, it’s not Nimoy doing Bilbo Baggins, but this trailer is by far the most amazingly shitty bit of cinema I’ve seen since I made the mistake of renting The Phantom. Although I strongly recommend that anyone with eyes and a brain give the movie itself a miss, the trailer really does have to be seen to be believed. (extensively mocked here)

Update

It seems that the link to the movie is no longer working. Trust me, you’re better off that way. If you still really need to see something bad, just follow the “Bilbo” link. You’ll do just fine.