10 tonne bomb + comedy voice naration.
.Did everyone talk like that in the 40's?
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 2:16, Reply)
I remember my step grandad saying he dropped one of those...
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 3:43, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9rZwNGU
Edit: Have this gem as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_6WekXKcM&feature=related
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 6:07, Reply)
I made this; tell me what you think of it.
luvu xx
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 1:23, Reply)
lancaster uni! :)
constructive criticism meaning no offence at all:
edit it down tighter. a lot. there potential here for something sweet, just a little all over the place mate.. and a little long. loved the bus hunting tho :D
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 10:26, Reply)
A
Hope you guys like it! :)
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:45, Reply)
'badass', I had very little hope for this. But fuck me, it's actually quite good! :D
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 1:03, Reply)
haha yeah... its late and i'm tired, so my vocabulary is lacking somewhat!
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 1:04, Reply)
personally i don't think badass is lacking as an adjective.
can be possibly enhanced by adding 'motherfucker' to the end.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:19, Reply)
There's a section called 'The mountain of the tapping dwarves' that is thoroughly entertaining on here. nice little flash game for the guitar.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:41, Reply)
In the future of the past all portraits were going to have had lasers, and other confusing conditionals.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:23, Reply)
They all look like they've stopped to pose in the middle of a blaster fight. I quite want one of these.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:42, Reply)
This article has just scared the shit out of me.
WARNING: contains words
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:02, Reply)
It's the numbers I'm having problems with.
Edit: I'm reading Jared Diamond's book about the collapse of societies and it seems very prescient right now.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:05, Reply)
I'll put a tenner on Latvia pulling through. (at 10-1 odds)
50-50 on Spain, and nothing for either Ireland or Pakistan.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:20, Reply)
It has this, the original version of The Lion Sleeps... gorgeous...
link to album on hamazon
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:25, Reply)
Substantially a different song to the (worse) one we're all familiar with though.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:04, Reply)
That song has a lot more history than i thought....
Karl Denver is the earliest version I used to be aware of.
Is it just me, or do the modern version also sound like the Doctor who theme? Think of the 'wimwe' as the bassline, and away you go.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:27, Reply)
There was a very good doc on BBC4 a few years ago which showed how she made that effect. Very much worth watching.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:38, Reply)
is my doctor who/lion sleeps tonight crossover musical thing not an original observation?
Seriously...has it been notice before?
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:43, Reply)
I suppose I'm saying I don't really see it myself.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:46, Reply)
go "awhimaway, awhimaway, awhimaway", and then do the doctor who "a diddle-a-dum, a diddle-a-dum". They are interchangeable.
Then the high pitched part that follows is really similar too.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 11:21, Reply)
"Beleaguered social networking website Facebook has angered privacy campaigners by surreptitiously awarding itself a perpetual licence over everything its members post on their pages..."
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:39, Reply)
Still going to use it though, and they know it.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:44, Reply)
I can understand that. I'm probably going to delete it though as under the new TOS I'm basically relinquishing ownership of any articles / creative writing I produce. And the same applies to people who use Facebook to showcase their photography / artwork.
They're just shooting themselves in the foot - all this will do is boost the popularity of other social sites like DeviantArt etc.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:50, Reply)
Utter shite that doesn't steal the copyright to your intellectual property...
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:11, Reply)
What I'm more concerned about is their data collection techniques and links to the CIA.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:17, Reply)
i wouldnt put it on facebook
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:47, Reply)
were that they continued to own whatever you uploaded there even if you delete your account.
What Facebook "owns" seems very open to interpretation, like the UK police photographs thing. I guess you'll have to wait until they try to do something evil to find out how much satanic power they actually have.
On the other hand Facebook is a pretty rubbish place to showcase your art/writing in the first place, unless you only want your friends to see it.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:56, Reply)
i don't ever really place anything original on my facebook, don't host photos bar a couple of crappy ones i#'m not that fussed about. Though i have a 'myflickr' app which doesn't exactly host my photos on there, just thumbnail and link. Would that mean they have licence under these? I'm a novice to all legal mumbo jumbo.
Should i delete the app?
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:10, Reply)
Just checked the TOS (http://www.facebook.com/terms.php) and I can't find anything about apps, so I'm not sure.
But I did see that people who use a 'share' link on their blog relinquish ownership, even if it's a third party that does the sharing. So my advice would be yes, assume Facebook will claim legal ownership of everything in your apps. Maybe check the specific terms given when you install the app?
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:52, Reply)
they simply claim inalienable rights to publish and/or edit your work as they see fit. It in no way lessens your ownership, and you certainly don't relinquish ownership.
As the creator of a work, you hold the original copyright. They, under the new shitty TOS, will claim the right to use it, royalty free, as they see fit. They could not, for example, turn around and tell you to remove your image from any site other than facebook, because you have the copyright, they do not. And they cannot prevent you earning money from your work.
What it does do, is stop you claiming any money from them, should they earn money off of your work.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:00, Reply)
Apologies, I meant you relinquish *exclusive* ownership (to profit from etc).
Btw according to CNN the new rules don't apply to apps: "Facebook's terms of service do say that 'User Content and Applications/Connect Sites' are exempt from its claims on content ownership."
edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/facebook.terms.service/index.html
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:11, Reply)
it clarifies a lot of the mess.
Although you do still maintain exclusive ownership. Nothing is relinquished whatsoever. FB do not in any way own your work or the copyright to it, they merely retain a license to it. It's no different than if you placed some photos on a stock image site, and someone bought a license to use them in a commercial endeavour. The only difference is that you are not selling the license, you are giving it to FB in order to be allwoed to use FB.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:42, Reply)
when you upload a photo, the original is not shown, but a much lower quality version, presumably to keep the size down, so i wanna know if ownership applies to the original or to the one that's actualy shown
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:30, Reply)
so unless the image is resized so much as to no longer resemble the original, then the copyright exists for both images as a single entity. Bizarrely, there is an actual percentage figure of how different an image must be before it is no longer protected by the original copyright. Feck knows how they decide that though.
In another bizarre copyright/IP mess, if you were to make a painting of a celebrity that is too lifelike, then you would not be allowed to sell it because it would violate the trademark they have on their likeness.
Crazy, crazy world.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:55, Reply)
They haven't made their users sign or click to accept the new terms, therefore any terms introduced after the user signed up are legally worthless.
Still a big hairy load for new users, but existing users are safe.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:52, Reply)
...lets just say I cut n paste a pic off b3ta that in actual fact was a cut n paste from another site, that (as it turns out) was ACTUALLY a pic from ANOTHER site. Are they saying 'cos it's on FB it's theirs?
I don't think so......do you?????
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:10, Reply)
Most likely it'll be a case of make-a-fuss-and-we'll-stop-using-it-otherwise-we-don't-care. Which is the way of the world now, innit?
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:28, Reply)
they're saying they're free to use it.
In bontempi's example, if there was a legal contention over the ownership of the work, then facebook's TOS would cover their asses, and the person doing the upload would be in the shit. The original creator of the work would have complete ownership still, and if any royalties were in dispute, it would fall on the uploader to settle them.
These kind of "ownership" TOS's are commonplace all over the web, but because facebook is so popular, and because they did it on the quiet, there's uproar from the various "the sky is falling" blogs and news outlets.
If you really want to be pissed - consider that almost all work related contracts in the design, media, IT, research, and several other fields will say any work you create on work time/resources is 100% the company's property. Imagine how many b3ta pics have been made on work computers, yet we jump down the throats of Zoo/Nuts etc as soon as some bell-end from the smelly public emails it to them.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:32, Reply)
On top of that they are paying you. Albeit probably for something else.
It's a fair point though.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:35, Reply)
someone loses out on a shedload of cash because they made all or part of something on work time (which includes breaks, overtime, and simply being on the premises) and then that company discovers it, nabs it, and sells it.
The worst cases are when the creator has been making tons of money, then the company discovers they own the work, and demand the employee cough up every penny they made so far. Then fire them for using work resources for non-work stuff.
Copyright/IP laws are a bitch if you don't watch your actions carefully. They can really fuck you over
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:40, Reply)
had a stipulation that and "concept, idea or creation" i had "during work hours" was theirs. IDEA?!! hmm i'm having a slash and i think of a genius end to world poverty? Theirs.
i fought good and hard against that one.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 10:32, Reply)
Actually here's a breakdown of Facebook's new TOS against numerous others like Myspace, Flickr & Youtube. Facebook comes out worse off on multiple counts: amandafrench.net/2009/02/16/facebook-terms-of-service-compared/
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:37, Reply)
those examples, you'll see they're all basically the same. They all get unlimited license to use your content. The only difference is that FB's wording is fecking awful, and clearly written by a lawyer who doesn't understand the softly, softly approach.
Because those other companies explicitly spell out that you retain copyright (which you also do with FBs new TOS), everyone thinks they're being dead nice about it. In reality, they're doing what they think they can get away with legally, and covering their own asses in the process. They're just smart enough to play the words around until it sounds like the user is the one getting the good deal.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:48, Reply)
Touch screen interfaces are generally hard and flat. Impress tries to break from that tradition by making the display flexible. Allowing you to feel more like you are interacting with the display.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:06, Reply)
(pardon the pun)
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:59, Reply)
Potentially GC, albeit quite hillarious, apart from the death of the chimp :(
But seriously, what do you expect if you train it to drink wine?
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:44, Reply)
Did you perhaps accidentally link to something not funny by mistake?
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:01, Reply)
I would edit the original post, but this might undermine your point.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:06, Reply)
It's a potentially very dangerous animal, no amount of 'home bonding' will make risk free, and if not in the wild needs to be supervised by experts who have done stuff like study primates for years and know what they are dealing with
The owner, Sandra Herold, is an obviously a fuckwit, and a prime example of why 'exotic animals' shouldn't be in the hands of rogue individuals, but rather professionally run zoological collections where they can potentially play some part in gene-controlled breeding programs to preserve what's left of their populations in the wild
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:51, Reply)
so where's the fun?
;)
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:30, Reply)
To use any of the 'chimp's tea party' pictures these days requires clearance from the Director General, they are deemed so inappropriate and sensitive; i've not come across any of chimp's smoking in our archives
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 10:08, Reply)
You keep something stronger than a grown man and the intelligence of a small child in a cage and you get surprised when you let it out?
GIVE IT SOME XANAX.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 10:13, Reply)
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:20, Reply)
More Wayne's World goodness. Wayne and Garth haven't sold out to any corporate sponsors. Honest.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:42, Reply)
Seemed only slightly more obvious than some of the movies I have seen recently.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:32, Reply)
pretty self explanatory, really. a vcr that makes toast.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:34, Reply)
In America they have this thing at sports games called the Jumbotron which randomly chooses someone in the crowd. Normally they just wave and scream. This guy didn't.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:54, Reply)
So perfect it ought to be fake. But somehow I think it isn't. Brought a tear to my eye, I laughed so hard.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:02, Reply)
You can see the woman who looks like his mum tapping him on the leg to point out they are on camera, pretty normal yes, but then she sits there looking straight on and clapping as if it's normal for someone to do that...
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:06, Reply)
I think it'd be too much effort to orchestrate such a thing with so many people. Priceless, the guy has such a total lack of self-consciousness, it would embarrass even Mick Jagger.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:19, Reply)
Aren't there jumbotrons in the UK? During a football game or something?
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:24, Reply)
but wouldn't be able to do.
Woo to you and him.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:26, Reply)
It's so easy to pick out which people realise what's going on!
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 22:46, Reply)
here's the same thing but filmed by a guy in the crowd. Made all the better by hearing the crowd's reactions. :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=792FDmAhu0k
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 23:15, Reply)
don't think i will ever stop smiling after seeing this. absolutely amazing stuff!
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:15, Reply)
What would happen if everyone on the planet starts doing that. Yikes.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 2:03, Reply)
people gradually geting in in the joke. Top stuff!
(, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 0:21, Reply)
It makes me giddy.
(Thanks for the track, Nick of the T)
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(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:27, Reply)
and right click the mp3 it'll download it. But I'm not sure, what with me being thick.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:35, Reply)
The lure of Jeremy Kyle was too much, and whilst usually I end up feeling dirty after witnessing his particular brand of shouty therapy, this time I am glee-filled.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:33, Reply)
The first thing I made on b3ta that was entirely my idea... and people liked!
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:41, Reply)
but no one commented on it (probably for good reason) - but if you're still in the mood - how about some footage of the people jumping out of the windows dubbed with 'It's raining men' by the weather girls?
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:23, Reply)
We went here today.
Wonderful place full of many geeky items. They supplied ALL the set dressing for the IT Crowd.
The sad thing is that although the UK was vital in the history of computing this is the only computer museum we have.
And they have no money, they are only open by appointment at the moment as they cannot afford the staff to open.
I wish this could get into the Newsletter and some rich geek could send them a stack of cash.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:24, Reply)
I take it you've not been to Bletchley Park then.
Edit: sorry, that sounded a little short. These guys are indeed stars and need supporting, but they're not the only ones. Bletchley needs your support too.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:47, Reply)
is that it is only for the computers they had at Bletchley. No Jupiter Aces or ZX80s there.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:52, Reply)
home computers last time I was there, including Z80s and all sorts. They've also got plenty of big iron on show as well as the home stuff. It's not just colossus.
The BCS have put a lot of work into the Bletchley exhibits over the last year or two, but they've only got space to display a small fraction of what they've got in store.
I don't mean to make it an "either or" - support both.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:57, Reply)
I didn't realise that Bletchley had all that kind of stuff. I thought it was just the Collosus and that was about it.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:59, Reply)
and rightly so, it's a chuffing impressive rebuild project!
Their small stuff is all hands-on and working as well, so you can play with it, which is a lot of fun!
www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/ are worth keeping an eye on as well, they only lost their premises relatively recently and I really hope they can find somewhere to go.
I met one of the guys who's involved with it when I went down to Bletchley to drop of a couple of SGI machines I nolonger had cupboard space for. Lovely chap.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:04, Reply)
I don't think many people appreciate the part the UK has paid in the popular culture of computing.
Tim Burners-Lee
Alan Turing
Johnathan Ive
Charles Babbage
The best selling computer game of all time was coded here. Yet the history of computing is being brushed under the carpet.
It's not long until it is lost for all time.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:18, Reply)
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(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 20:14, Reply)
had me bopping away as i poured myself a Leffe...
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:38, Reply)
we're giving our EP out for free too.
Acoustic Rock with Folky/Punky influences.
Am I allowed to post? or will I get shouted at?
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 21:55, Reply)
although we haven't recorded our EP so cannae give it away yet.
but there's some stuff on youtube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNuJgiZg8c
and
www.youtube.com/user/drivenlikethesnow
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 0:04, Reply)
But:
www.myspace.com/churchdestroymusic
There we go. Lovely!
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 18:10, Reply)
I've sent you a friend request :)
(, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 0:28, Reply)
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