Filed under: Internet, Meme | Tags: /b/, 4chan, fgsfds, Harald Schmidt, macro
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An image of a person, index finger extended, with the macro’d text ‘fgsfds’.
One of my favorites. Originating, as all things do, on 4chan back in the days of yore when anonymous replied to a random thread with a left handed keyboard mash.
Seeing as how this is 4chan and random is the watchword, another anon macro’d the text onto a picture of German talk show host Harald Schmidt, seen here.
Anon decided this was filled with the potential for lulz and decided to run it into the ground. The upward pointing index finger, it was silently decided, was all-important and so the meme became a person, an upwards pointing index finger and fgsfds.
To be used when one finds a threat or topic pointless, or just whenever the fuck you feel like it.
And now you know.
This month marks the 10th birthday of the mp3 player. The MPMan F10 by Saehan Information Systems had 32MB of flash memory, could store up to 8 songs and pretty much sucked.
Saehan Information Systems MPMan F10
Inflicted upon the world at CeBIT in March 1998 the MPMan F10 was, for 6 months the only mp3 player in the whole world, making it the iPod of it’s day,
However it was quickly overshadowed by Diamond Multimedia’s Rio PMP300, by virtue of the fact that the Rio wasn’t styled like a set of bathroom scales.
Diamond Multimedia’s Rio PMP300
Saehan Information Systems was also one of the first members of Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), a group of like minded industry jackasses who’s goal was to produce the worlds first DRM. And how did that work out? SDMI went under in 2001.
The lesson is: Industrial design is important, even for ground-breaking technology. And don’t piss off Cory Doctorow or he’ll destroy you. Through time.
[Via The Register]
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The spirit of bershon is pretty much how you feel when | |
| you’re 13 and your parents make you wear a Christmas sweatshirt and then pose for a family picture, and you could not possibly summon one more ounce of disgust, but you’re also way too cool to really even DEAL with it, so you just make this face like you smelled something bad and | ||
| sort of roll your eyes and seethe in a put-out manner. |  |
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| Bershon defined by writer Sarah Brown |
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I love new words. Not jargon, mind. Words that describe and explore and celebrate the minutia of human existence. The idea that 200,000 years of existing together as people and 1,500 of talking about it in English still hasn’t fully defined the way in which we live.. This describes to me a world of endless complexity.
But it’s a small world and we’re all basically just people. For all that complexity, for all those infinite possibilities, we’re all very much alike. Put any teen, forced to associate with their mother, in front of a camera and your going to get a Christmas card of pure unadulterated burshon. I’ve done it and so have you.
There’s more that unites us than divides us. Like fucking Christmas jumpers.
John: “It wasn’t me.”
Paul: “It’s not that big a problem. You can recover. You’ll need to kiss ass like a one legged man at an ass-kissing contest, but you can recover.”
John: “It wasn’t me.”
George: “Damage control.”
Paul: “Damage control. You need to get in front of this thing and control the damage.”
George: “You need to, exactly.. You need be the one talking about this. Don’t get attacked with it. If you’re the one talking about it then noone’s going to imagine it was you that fucked up.”
Paul: “Exact.. No, wait..”
George: “I’m saying he shouldn’t even concede the point it was him that..”
John: “It wasn’t..”
George: “I’m saying; be the one talking about it. Be all “What the fuck happened there? That was a fuckup”.”
Paul: “No..”
George: “No it’s like.. two lines of defense, right? First: make a lot of noise about it. That’ll throw people off. Everyone’s expecting you to hide in a hole and wait to get fired. If you’re the one hunting round for a head to cut off it makes it look like it wasn’t even you.”
John: “This is the problem. People don’t listen.”
Paul: “Nope. I disagree. I’m thinking more like cop to it but act like it’s nothing. Smooth it over with management but for fuck sake don’t walk around hunched over in front of the plebs because your going to look weak.”
George: “This is what I’m saying. Lines of defense. First act like it wasn’t you, to the users and management, right? If that doesn’t work then fall back, cop to it to management and smooth it over.. But, like, the boss isn’t going to send a newsletter out to the plebeians saying “John fucked up.”
Paul: “Ask him how.”
George: Laughs “Right? Take your whipping from the boss and walk out like nothing happened. Plebs don’t have to know you borked it. Plebs don’t have to know who borked it. Plebs don’t have to know shit.”
Paul: “Actually that’s not bad. Go with that.”
John: “It wasn’t me.”
Filed under: Internet, Make, Tech, Toys, Video Games | Tags: Commodore64, Guitar Hero
Proving once again all you need is a soldering iron and a dream.; Shredz64 is a Guitar Hero port for the Commodore64, using a PSX64 board to interface the PlayStation GH controller.
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It allows for imported songs and can detect when the controller is lifted up, to activate ’shred’ mode. Lord.
Winther Mini Rickshaw – £64.99
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| good measure. Great fun for two children, the passenger sitting in a comfortable seat complete with a safety rail and | ||
| foot rest while the other is working hard, pulling. |  |
I love toys. Never grew out of them. And I’m all for getting kids outside where they can get some fresh air and exercise and hit by traffic.
All I’m saying is; if your design for a toy is based around one child subserviently chauffeuring the other and your pitch includes “with lots of roleplaying”, maybe don’t have the little minority girl carting round the aryan ubermench. I’m just saying.
Link [via NerdApproved]
It’s said that all modern patriotism is born of one stirring landscape of a mans home town. True, it’s only said by me and maybe that one guy who changed back the Robert Frost page I edited on wikiquote.. But the facts remain, until an admin reverts the edit, that there’s nothing more striking than good photography of the city you were raised in.
I have a deep, casual love of my city. I know the shape of it and can hold the whole of it in my head at once. It’s undoubtedly shaped me more than I it, but I still feel like it’s an extension of me.
Looking at these makes me wonder what the hell else I’m missing.
| HDR | delcond on flickr | houseofstraw HDR on flickr | padburyphoto on flickr |
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It’s said that a penny saved is a penny earned. Less well known is the fact that saving 1600 pennies earns you a totally sweet-ass FF:Advent Children lighter. It’s just not punchy enough to carry as a proverb and it doesn’t fit in a fortune cookie.
I have to say for unlicensed, unbranded, change-from-a-twenty merchandise, probably made by unskilled child labour.. It’s nice.
Heavy, good click to it. It’s everything you want from 16 bucks.
There was also FF sake glasses. Did someone just say weeaboo?
Filed under: Internet, Rant, Tech, Xeni Jardin | Tags: boingboing, cory doctorow, hate, xeni
This pretty much covers why. She’s that friends girlfriend that doesn’t know the difference between interesting and loud. She’s the kind of person that’s probably never seen a real smile in her life. The closest she’s elicited from people are fixed grins of weary tolerance, as shows above.
I wouldn’t mind so much if she’d just stop posting on boing boing. You’re nerdy and that’s cool, we get it. Your mother and I are very proud. Now can you be quiet please? I think Cory needs me to be angry about intellectual property law in Sweden.
He walked to his car and a little piece of me went with him. Specifically, the Daily Show episodes I copied to his flash drive. That night I lay awake in bed thinking about him, and me, and wether having a confirmed Republican nominee while the two Democrat candidates were still fighting it out going in to the convention would draw media focus away from McCain when he needs it most, or wether it would make the Democrats seem disorganized and weak.
