
and then toaster blow torches. Or maybe it was the other way round?
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I know this is wrong, but.. well, the term head performance, it reminds me of a porno mag someone i know used to have, from Amsterdam.
It was called Dog Instruction.
Yes, yes, i know...
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 9:23,
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It was called Dog Instruction.
Yes, yes, i know...

john evans...

champion head balancer off of record breakers. he failed on it.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 9:43,
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champion head balancer off of record breakers. he failed on it.

too good for words. He's not like... your dad or anything is he?
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 9:58,
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I think someone should make a headbalancing game featuring John and the bunny - John has to walk along with the bunny on his head - whilst the rabbit has to balance a miniature model of John on it's head - z and x keys balance john's head, and n and m the rabbits. Increasing levels, bigger rabbits - thus more unexpected head movement...could work.
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that sounds like it could be the best game in the world ever.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 10:13,
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Cheryl was very dissapointed. His face went purple.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 10:39,
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You sure?
I had a billion of them on me head just this very morning.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 10:51,
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I had a billion of them on me head just this very morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/newsroom/060401milk.shtml
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 11:02,
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but back then, in the address bar, it said mark=202.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:49,
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ignore=202 yet?
Odd.
There's this among other things: The Tao of Internet Relay Chat
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 9:20,
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Odd.
There's this among other things: The Tao of Internet Relay Chat

Oolong the rabbit is growing weary of enforced headperformance with tasty pastries | Suddenly he snaps! Roaring with rage he turns on his tormentor! | With a mighty leap, he pounces upon his master in a furious attempt to rip out his jugular with his rabbity teeth! | But the human is mightier, and wrestles Oolong into a deadly suffocation hold. | His life ebbing away, Oolong realises that his battle is futile. | The next day, Oolong, his spirit crushed by defeat, returns to his daily headperformance chores. |

Can you IMAGINE my suprise when little joey started doing this?

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I guess sheep on the head must be quite easy to do. Jakob wouldn't do it otherwise now would he?
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:47,
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I can never make anything as good as the rabbit bloke's site, so i am throwing in the towel.
How can you compete with this?

What an outstanding headperformance!
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:00,
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How can you compete with this?

What an outstanding headperformance!

can he keep up this outstanding headperformance and balance it on his head while he hops around?
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:11,
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'cause i can't be arsed.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:14,
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Joey's never done more than one.
Lazy git. It's the stew for HIM tonight... with herb mash and everything. No, I can't tell you Herb is.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:27,
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Lazy git. It's the stew for HIM tonight... with herb mash and everything. No, I can't tell you Herb is.

Text-only headperformance is the way forawrd, in usability terms at least.
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well i'd been wondering for months what to do with that domain name.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:50,
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I used to have a mate called Sam Handwich. He worked in a snack food kiosk and was eaten alive due to a tragic Spoonerism.
more of this shit at http://www.rathergood.com/ramblings.html
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 9:09,
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more of this shit at http://www.rathergood.com/ramblings.html

He'd've been a good friend to my American mate Chip, had he made it into the country for longer than 10 minutes.
Bless Chip Buttie.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 9:18,
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Bless Chip Buttie.

You'd have to be Japanese to think "lets whack a fish pie on the rabbits head and take photos", probably.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 17:48,
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All this talk of cats has reminded me of my first ever attempt at a shockwave animation...
www.dynofoo.com/dynofoo/cat.htm
... I'm still secretly really proud of that.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 6:14,
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www.dynofoo.com/dynofoo/cat.htm
... I'm still secretly really proud of that.

that's one of the best bloody animations I've ever seen.
Was that in your blue period?
tell me, are you ok?
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 6:18,
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Was that in your blue period?
tell me, are you ok?

did you try and balance food on the cats head? Was it the food that killd him?
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 6:25,
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Killed? Well I haven't seen him in a while but... what do you know?
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 7:49,
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or we will shoot you with tiny bullets made of the keenest steel.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 7:55,
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I just saw your small space invaders. I think i just came already.
:)
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 6:20,
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:)

i thought that was very cool.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 6:22,
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Yeah, well the games on the site are the collaborative works of three people. Invaders is my baby though. Was it you who put the link on tsluts? Cheers for the amazing boost in hits BTW. Today looks to be a record day.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 6:31,
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can't remember how i found your stuff, but it's really cool. i have tiny invaders in my status tray as we speak.
have you got anymore plans for doing web stuff?
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 6:44,
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have you got anymore plans for doing web stuff?

One of the tiny games coders has just released tiny checkers today and tiny river raid and tiny tennis will follow soon. As for webby stuff, i've been meaning to get back into shockwave stuff for a while so who knows. I think I feel inspired.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 7:48,
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... that would be evil and frustrating.
i like the space invaders as desktop art really. it's quite cute to notice it moving around every so often.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 7:56,
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i like the space invaders as desktop art really. it's quite cute to notice it moving around every so often.

That's what I like about them. That's why tiny tennis is a tray icon too. You can be typing away and suddenly notice the tray icon say 'Out'. Unfortunately current feedback is that it has breached the limits of tinyness vs playability. The same breed of naysayers also put the stops to my tray icon mpeg player project. swines.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:06,
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'cause i'd imagine pong would work fine in the system tray.
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the blue cat is absolute and complete unadulterated genius. fan-fucking-tastic!
Can I suggest that it should squeak when you click on it? genius. utter genius.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 7:14,
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Can I suggest that it should squeak when you click on it? genius. utter genius.

The main theme of my site is not to show these 'headperformance' links,
and it's not my hope to propagandize nothing but the strangeness of his
headperformance over the world.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 4:52,
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and it's not my hope to propagandize nothing but the strangeness of his
headperformance over the world.

and get right on into that headperformance.
Nice ginger pussy by the way, etc etc etc...
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:09,
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Nice ginger pussy by the way, etc etc etc...

we've been thinking making a website called
mycatisgay.com
as he roles on his back and looks utterly silly.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:19,
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mycatisgay.com
as he roles on his back and looks utterly silly.

I thought you meant your girlfriends cat could balance rolls on it's back.
You should try that you know.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:24,
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You should try that you know.

he walked backwards and growled at me.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:25,
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he's bound to be gay. Walking backwards is a sure sign. I've seen that before.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:27,
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his left paw? If so - he surely is the devil himself.
(But try him with a roll, go on, just to be sure)
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:47,
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(But try him with a roll, go on, just to be sure)

I want to give the rabbit owner a big kiss. Bless him. We want MORE headperformance! And we want it now.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:07,
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Headperformance skills are sorely underrated, in the rabbit world at least.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:10,
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maybe i should try balancing the Great Pyramid of Cheops on one of the crabs. The crab in the poke the crab game does dance on his head though, in a breakdancey kind of way. does that count as a headperformance?
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never tried that themselves? Jeez I thought pyramid balancing was taught in junior school. Crabs these days! TUT.
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 8:39,
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http://www.netmag.co.uk/wb_details.asp?id=29010&ch=WB001
a marketing chairman's idea of what makes a good flash game in order to promote his idea of a 'good game' (to promote his company) which is perhaps the most unoriginal game i have seen (its slickness only goes to make it more dull).
Compare his game to cats and wonder why this man feels in a position to comment on what makes an entertaining game.
(not promoting a marketing company or being topical over original, I think is a good start)
As for his own accusations of being 'sick' .. ooh, don't get me started.
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a marketing chairman's idea of what makes a good flash game in order to promote his idea of a 'good game' (to promote his company) which is perhaps the most unoriginal game i have seen (its slickness only goes to make it more dull).
Compare his game to cats and wonder why this man feels in a position to comment on what makes an entertaining game.
(not promoting a marketing company or being topical over original, I think is a good start)
As for his own accusations of being 'sick' .. ooh, don't get me started.

... hmmm... i knew him as a student at wolverhampton poly. he's a smart guy.
i mostly agree with his points.
and scooterdeath? well, it's out of date now, but when kerb launched it - it was spot on.
my take on web games is that we are giving people two minutes of entertainment.
it's all about mechanics vs theme.
we attempt to think of an interesting mechanic first, i.e. remembering objects, and then apply a theme afterwards.... like cats or bunnies.
personally, i am super bored of shooters, and racking my brains each & everyday to think of a different mechanic we can play with.
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i mostly agree with his points.
and scooterdeath? well, it's out of date now, but when kerb launched it - it was spot on.
my take on web games is that we are giving people two minutes of entertainment.
it's all about mechanics vs theme.
we attempt to think of an interesting mechanic first, i.e. remembering objects, and then apply a theme afterwards.... like cats or bunnies.
personally, i am super bored of shooters, and racking my brains each & everyday to think of a different mechanic we can play with.

that slickness takes away any appeal, but thats just me.
That said, I stopped liking computer games after Matthew Smith retired.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 10:24,
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That said, I stopped liking computer games after Matthew Smith retired.

i much preferred the eastenders one to scooterdeath, much funnier less slick.
i'm waiting for lots and lots of online trump card games, it's a simple, winning, easily adaptable formula.
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i'm waiting for lots and lots of online trump card games, it's a simple, winning, easily adaptable formula.

it's deathly dull mechanic.
it's joy comes from the theme (i.e. cars/dinosaurs), and it being a two player game.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 10:27,
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it's joy comes from the theme (i.e. cars/dinosaurs), and it being a two player game.

Surely the eastenders one was the scooter one with the graphics changed?
Just a piece of marketing. (To be fair he's obviously good at marketing - I got sent that about 5 times and a free advert in netmag).
He makes fair points - but to other CEOs.
My point is that marketing by it's nature has to be inoffensive, and of mass appeal.
Remember games like the Attack of the Mutant Camels and Jet Set Willy - they only appeared because games then could be made by a single person - without each change having to go through a board meeting - and thus you'd get real eccentrics making games that were fun, playable and completely from nowhere. Flash at the moment has the potential to see the same sort of stuff come through. I just found that article amusing because it was simply a guide to how to make something by numbers, in my opinion.
Marketing's killing the web, y'know?
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 10:38,
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Just a piece of marketing. (To be fair he's obviously good at marketing - I got sent that about 5 times and a free advert in netmag).
He makes fair points - but to other CEOs.
My point is that marketing by it's nature has to be inoffensive, and of mass appeal.
Remember games like the Attack of the Mutant Camels and Jet Set Willy - they only appeared because games then could be made by a single person - without each change having to go through a board meeting - and thus you'd get real eccentrics making games that were fun, playable and completely from nowhere. Flash at the moment has the potential to see the same sort of stuff come through. I just found that article amusing because it was simply a guide to how to make something by numbers, in my opinion.
Marketing's killing the web, y'know?

tell me about it. pop-ups, html emails, content split over pages to generate ad revenue.
but then we are marketing too. we are putting out weird little games to get the b3ta name about... and make people sign up for the email list.
so come on. tell your friends. we want people reading the damn email!
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 10:49,
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but then we are marketing too. we are putting out weird little games to get the b3ta name about... and make people sign up for the email list.
so come on. tell your friends. we want people reading the damn email!

Do you want people to like your site - if it makes money, thats a bonus -
or would you like it to make monkey and if people like it, thats the bonus - "frankly who cares - we're getting hits".
(kept the spelling mistake in because it amused me upon re-reading this)
It's the old art vs capitalism one, methinks.
(I have recommended your site, btw - the cursor love bunny game is the most popular)
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 11:05,
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or would you like it to make monkey and if people like it, thats the bonus - "frankly who cares - we're getting hits".
(kept the spelling mistake in because it amused me upon re-reading this)
It's the old art vs capitalism one, methinks.
(I have recommended your site, btw - the cursor love bunny game is the most popular)

i'd like it to make monkeys. lots of monkeys. rob keeps telling me that monkeys are out of fashion, but i reckon that's no good reason to stop making monkey things. i like monkeys. monkeys rock.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 11:08,
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the definative Mandrill game, I think there's definately potential in Mandrills
http://www.normsoft.com/tim/rafiki/mandrill.jpg
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 11:13,
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http://www.normsoft.com/tim/rafiki/mandrill.jpg

and look how wrong i was.
there is life in monkeys yet.
however... it just feels a bit gay to still be harping on about monkeys after all this time.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 11:17,
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there is life in monkeys yet.
however... it just feels a bit gay to still be harping on about monkeys after all this time.

on a serious note- b3ta's not likely to ever make money in itself, but the whole point from my point of view is to get a collective of people turning out lots of cool stuff bringing people in to the site and the email, from where we can continue to promote the work of the members of the collective, which gets all of us (the creators) more likelihood of making money indirectly through commissions and provides our users with a genuinely fun and novel experience. Everyone should be able to win without directly making money from the site and tainting everything with evil.
Does that make sense?
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 11:13,
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Does that make sense?

its good to have a site like this that (as far as I can tell) makes things for people to enjoy rather than just being some marketing device. That article just annoyed me with the way it suggested that a game is only as good as the hits it gets to your site.
I dont like such cynicism behind things.
I'd like to think that people do some things though simple love of an idea and hope that other people will enjoy it.
By all means use marketing to sell an idea, but not vice versa.
(my original point, I guess - clouded by the fact that you know the person who wrote the article!)
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 11:27,
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I dont like such cynicism behind things.
I'd like to think that people do some things though simple love of an idea and hope that other people will enjoy it.
By all means use marketing to sell an idea, but not vice versa.
(my original point, I guess - clouded by the fact that you know the person who wrote the article!)

... then interesting things will happen.
(BTW: and that doesn't mean selling a list of subscribers for spam.)
oh yeah... the bunnygame... yep it has a life of it's own. we tried to make something that would be popular - and it exceeded beyond our ambitions.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 11:13,
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(BTW: and that doesn't mean selling a list of subscribers for spam.)
oh yeah... the bunnygame... yep it has a life of it's own. we tried to make something that would be popular - and it exceeded beyond our ambitions.

there aren't a billion billion versions already? I swear I've seen a few
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Thu 20 Sep 2001, 5:54,
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kill+binladen
b3ta at number 1. ooops.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:12,
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b3ta at number 1. ooops.

http://www.google.com/search?q=kill+osama
bugger, we are only number 3 for that.
others? glad you asked.
kill queen mum : number 4
kill geri: number 1
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:20,
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bugger, we are only number 3 for that.
others? glad you asked.
kill queen mum : number 4
kill geri: number 1

got to be good for traffic i suppose. i've been wandering whether the current state of affairs would increase users of kill your friends.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:21,
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it would be a huge hit.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:28,
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been wasting my time with them since that crab vs. monkey banger last year
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 10:18,
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i once got my site coming top when you searched for 'stringfellows' .
A representitive lawyer of the mullet meister contacted me and threatened me with legal stuff unless i removed the story about a snail that takes of its shell in said night spot.
Amusingly when I did, a caption competition with a picture of Peter and a woman dressed as a banana started coming top which obviously didn't vet it's enteries before publication...
"ha ha"
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:25,
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A representitive lawyer of the mullet meister contacted me and threatened me with legal stuff unless i removed the story about a snail that takes of its shell in said night spot.
Amusingly when I did, a caption competition with a picture of Peter and a woman dressed as a banana started coming top which obviously didn't vet it's enteries before publication...
"ha ha"

think you should send it to the news of the world?
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:30,
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the first one done- people have made several but none have gone massive- best was a bit over 200 last time i looked i think. they didn;t publish it as far as i know, but i didn't read the paper. someone like stile might like it.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:32,
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from the 19th of September, one year on (2002).
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Thu 19 Sep 2002, 8:42,
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me
so much has happened, we'll tell you all about it so you can bet on the horses and make a fortune
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Thu 19 Sep 2002, 8:47,
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so much has happened, we'll tell you all about it so you can bet on the horses and make a fortune

http://www.ichooseradio.com/games
got bored last night, so i made that. Not sure if its of interest to anyone. but i thought i might as well post it.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 7:00,
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got bored last night, so i made that. Not sure if its of interest to anyone. but i thought i might as well post it.

yeh, ta.
I'll stick some sound on there when i get home from work tonight :o)
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 7:20,
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I'll stick some sound on there when i get home from work tonight :o)

a "schplut" kind of noise when you hit people? and hardcore techno soundtrack? and roaring engine? those would do it for me. and a dog noise would be cool too. hooray!
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 7:56,
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yeh - good idea.. new version will be up in about.. umm.. 5 hours, then.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 8:00,
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.. because it'd be bloody annoying with techno, squelching, barking..etc.... and you probably run over about 10 dead bodies every second ;)
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 8:38,
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If you go into a blank word document and type QN33 NY - highlight it, change to font to 26 and the type to wingdings - see what you get.
QN33 NY was one of the planes that crashed into the WTC.
(via melissa frost.)
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:36,
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QN33 NY was one of the planes that crashed into the WTC.
(via melissa frost.)

where did the flight number QN33 NY come from, i cant seem to verify that at all
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:49,
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it's probably bollocks. have you read the snopes stuff?
http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:52,
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http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm

yeah read it this morning, looked everywhere and none of the flights appeared to have that number. might wind up some work colleagues though.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:54,
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... is our one source for accurate news at the momement.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:58,
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especially when you have CNN.com talking about terrorists nicking fire engines, and reporting every word of Bush's as though it has come straight from god.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 7:01,
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aI was the seat number which Paul Ruebens was sat in when arrested in the cinema...
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:14,
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http://members.tripod.com/~sporkk/
The web has finally fulfilled it's potential.
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:10,
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The web has finally fulfilled it's potential.

but what about spifes and knorks?
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:38,
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im the first. does that make me geeky?
woo to sporks though
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Mon 19 Aug 2002, 2:35,
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woo to sporks though

found you on another message board - being unfaithful to your warp mistress eh!
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 6:58,
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... was talking about b3ta on the wapr board?
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 7:28,
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everyones talking about you there rob!
"ere, that rob, he's got smelly yellow pants"
that's what they say
"smelly yellow pants and he likes jimi tenor"
;-)
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 9:15,
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"ere, that rob, he's got smelly yellow pants"
that's what they say
"smelly yellow pants and he likes jimi tenor"
;-)

Cows, milk and chocolate...
www.chocolatemilk.co.uk
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 4:00,
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www.chocolatemilk.co.uk

complete with papier-mache goats:
www.trilobite.freeserve.co.uk/fun/quake4/index.html
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Tue 18 Sep 2001, 11:29,
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www.trilobite.freeserve.co.uk/fun/quake4/index.html

it's in the spirit of the game, and it annoys crab bloke - whose mother is an english teacher.
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Tue 18 Sep 2001, 8:53,
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or you remember the cats too well....also have no work to do:-)
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Wed 19 Sep 2001, 5:43,
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Download a speccy emulator and try some of these pre-flash speccy anims
Here
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Tue 18 Sep 2001, 7:05,
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Here
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