Recent Comments by MINK subscribe to this feed

Christopher Hitchens is Waterboarded
^no, a better rule is to criticise him only within the boundaries of your own experience and research. but always criticise. and always experience. and always research.

otherwise what, you only get a vote if you've been president before? You can only dislike music played on instruments you know how to play?


written by MINK  | 6 hours 33 minutes 11 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Time Lapse Photoshop Painting of Lost's John Locke
kinda wanna remove the * art tag.


written by MINK  | 6 hours 43 minutes 39 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Taipei 101 loaded with fireworks. 2007 - 2008
there's no way thousands of engineers could have rigged all those explosives in that building that without somebody noticing.


written by MINK  | 6 hours 46 minutes 22 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

pretty much how I feel about it these days... (Blog Entry by smibbo)
i love many things that have happened in the location known as america, but fuck yeah, i hate the actions of recent administrations of the political entity known as the USA. kthxbye


written by MINK  | 7 hours 46 minutes 17 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Security guards vs hooligans in russian supermarket
i am no defender of putin's russia, but it is interesting how much lawtalk there is on here compared to the iraq threads.


written by MINK  | 8 hours 9 minutes 26 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Penn and Teller: Bullshit! The Bible (29min)
^ahhhhhh, good point. What if it was? What if it wasn't? Shouldn't we clarify all these things?


written by MINK  | 9 hours 50 minutes 17 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Trinary data storage?!?! It's true! (Geek Talk Post)
so you get four times the space for the same space?

what happens if you can store 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 9?

i am shit at maths.

what are the implications for software? i guess nothing, right? this is just storage...?


written by MINK  | 9 hours 54 minutes 30 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Bush heckled at Monticello
After what Bush has done, i think we can safely say he's given up his right to an uninterrupted meeting.

Fuck him quoting the ideals of the founding fathers.

The only american thing that can happen here is Bush gets hounded off every stage in the land until he has to resign due to an upcoming trial for crimes against humanity.

Oh, you don't think he's guilty? You don't think dropping bombs on a country that hasn't attacked you, killing civilians (not military targets) with your opening shots, and then invading with ground troops and taking over the oil ministry... you don't think that's the TEXTBOOK DEFINITION OF WAR CRIMES? That's not ENOUGH for you?

Fuck you if you stand up for Bush's "right" to speak uninterrupted. He's had his fucking chance. Being a babykiller SHOULD get you hounded off the fucking stage.

UGH. now i need a shower.


written by MINK  | 10 hours 9 minutes 43 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Penn and Teller: Bullshit! The Bible (29min)
so, being in violation of the Sift Rules for over a year means you get a reprieve?

Maybe that's something we should *discuss, along with solving the conflict between FAQ and actual policy.


written by MINK  | 10 hours 58 minutes 40 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Reasons Why VideoSift is SO Much Better Than utoob (Sift Talk Post)
actually i find youtube comments far more entertaining than Sift comments, for this reason. And sometimes they are more witty and pure, particularly when someone with knowledge of history comments on a thread full of racists.

i won't post my favourites, because you can go to pretty much any thread involving a small european country. just click at random.


written by MINK  | 11 hours 1 minute 58 seconds ago | CH
 1  | flag spam (0)

BigBrother to the world (Blog Entry by Thylan)
it all comes back to the simple fact that you do not have a god given right to watch whatever someone digitises.

forget "privacy rights".... that's not the point here. The point is YouTube is a broken business model.

The EFF is barking up the wrong tree as usual. They should be pushing for copyright reform, not the "freedom to ignore copyright without detection".

let's face it if there was no illegal shit on youtube they would not be doing this. It's our fault, for watching free southpark. We get what we deserve.


written by MINK  | 11 hours 54 minutes 6 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

Bye Bye TV (Blog Entry by swampgirl)
Yo fuck TV it's shit.

But Farhad is right about some computer games. We had neighbours who had twins, and they could fill the whole map of Sim City with a fully functioning, stable community, generating millions of dollars a day. When they were seven years old.

Whereas, another kid i know is 10 and all he can do is put cheat codes into Grand Theft Auto and fly around the screen stuck to a rocketpowered sex doll.


written by MINK  | 11 hours 58 minutes 18 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

BlogTV, Ustream.tv and Stickam (Blog Entry by dotdude)
man blog tv is insane. sound wasn't working for me though.

but i mean... jeeesus. it's a great time to be a teenager. i can't believe i didn't even have an EMAIL address until i was nineteen.

God help us when this generation are running the country, etc etc etc grumble


written by MINK  | 12 hours 7 minutes 19 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

BlogTV, Ustream.tv and Stickam (Blog Entry by dotdude)
interesting.

for me, live broadcasts are both DOOMED and THE FUTURE. i cannot decide.

But really, I prefer to receive entertainment when I actually have the time, rather than when someone else wants to throw it at me.

but... the chatroom thing and interaction is SO much better than prerecorded. we have a little indie radio show and even if ONE person sends ONE text message while we are broadcasting, it is INFINTELY COOL! "yeah, big ups to tomas on the SMS, this one's for you...." so coool. Maybe we can hook up a studio webcam to these services?

i think "podcasts" are the worst things... they are just dead radio. no pictures, no audience, just a fucking tape of a fake radio show that happened more than 24 hours ago. Crap.


written by MINK  | 12 hours 16 minutes 38 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)

pretty much how I feel about it these days... (Blog Entry by smibbo)
I agree almost 100% with farhad, and dag, and i thought the article linked was just whiny. If you don't like encountering different people's views, hey, how about DON'T TRAVEL AND DON'T TALK TO PEOPLE IN BARS.

And shitloads of people refuse to eat McDonalds AND have a dim view of american foreign policy, AND have a dim view of their own countries' politics. If one of these people tells you America has wasted the best chance in history to create world peace, do you listen then? Or make some other excuse why you don't have to listen? Maybe if i like The Doors and Jefferson Airplane I am not allowed to criticise America? Right? That's logical?

When you travel abroad you represent your entire nation, like it or not.

At least people don't assume you are a football hooligan who wears a bowler hat and drinks tea all day from a golden cup, sitting on a chair made of money.


written by MINK  | 12 hours 24 minutes 35 seconds ago | CH
 0  | flag spam (0)