Quote

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
- Al Lowe

AvP: Requiem

Just found out that there's a sequel to AvP.
Saw a few trailers:

Two here
One here

I enjoyed the last one, which is probably better than the movie itself (I like the counting).
It seems that this movie is going to be quite loyal to the video game. (despite the fact that it occurs in the present day). And will probably be very violent is you believe the trailer.

Human Clock

We've had a human calendar, but apparently there's also a human clock.

IP adres

This is kinda makes me feel insecure

Douglas Adams quotes

Found here

Word Illusions

Pretty cool

Some cliche

But I still like em

About Girls
Geekchart

Joke: The true history of the world

To be read: here

Joke: The Programmer's game

A Programmer and an Engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from LA to NY. The Programmer leans over to the Engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game. The Engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The Programmer persists and explains that the game is real easy and a lotta fun.

He explains "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $5". Again, the Engineer politely declines and tries to get to sleep.

The Programmer, now somewhat agitated, says, "OK, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $50!".

This catches the Engineer's attention, and he sees no end to this torment unless he plays, so he agrees to the game. The Programmer asks the first question "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"

The Engineer doesn't say a word, but reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five dollar bill and hands it to the Programmer.

Now, it's the Engineer's turn. He asks the Programmer "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?"

The Programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look He takes out his laptop computer and searches all of his references. He taps into the Airphone with his modem and searches the net and the Library of Congress.

Frustrated, he sends e-mail to his co-workers -- all to no avail. After about an hour, he wakes the Engineer and hands him $50.

The Engineer politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back to sleep. The Programmer, more than a little miffed, shakes the Engineer and asks "Well, so what's the answer?"

Without a word, the Engineer reaches into his wallet, hands the Programmer $5, and turns away to get back to sleep.

Human Calender

Shiny

Nova, string theory

If you ever wondered one of the following questions:

What is string theory?
Who would win in a fight between gravity and a magnet?
What is the fourth dimension?
Are wormholes real or fiction?
Does God play dice?

Then you should watch this

Quotes can be scary

The world has scores of superpowerful particle accelerators. Last
year, a fireball created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in
Upton, New York, had the characteristics of a black hole. Physicists
are reasonably sure that no such black holes could escape and consume
Earth

Reasonably.

WereGeek

There's a lot of webcomics out there, not all of them good. I've got maybe twenty or so bookmarked, of which about five that I actually enjoy reading from time to time. (Rest is for when I get bored, or ones that I haven't deleted).

I accidently stumbled across Weregeek the other day and I must say, I'm enjoying it. I've always enjoyed dnd-based comics (Order of the Stick, Dm of the Rings, Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic,...). Weregeek is probably newer than most of these (not by much though), but I'm enjoying reading through the archives so far.

New Quote

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- No idea

The new Star Trek movie

Usually I won't do rants like these, I find it kind of a waste of space (as if anyone wants to hear my opinion about something) but I'm gonna make an exception here.

Contains minor spoilers, read at your own risk.

Today I stumbled upon a short spoiler summary of what the new Star Trek movie is going to be about.
I had mixed feelings about this movie. On the one hand you have an amazing cast like Simon Pegg, etc. On the other hand Star Trek movies & prequels have a tendencies to be kinda bad or mediocre at best. (The exceptional few movies has been really good, but none in the past 10 years). But then you have JJ Abrams there, so that increases the odds of it being good (or so I thought).

I was hoping that they learned their lesson from Enterprise when it comes to prequels (especially the first few seasons). Then I read online that the plot of the new movie was going to contain... time travel. I was stunned, I had expected much better from the people behind this movie. The plot I understand it is going to be someone in the future coming back to change the past. Wow, that's never been done before... especially in star trek movies or attempted prequels (in my mind prequels don't include time travel, the only purpose being that you can include a bunch of stuff that still has to happen, which kinda defeats the point, aka Enterprise...).

I hope there's a twist or something to make it good. Time travel is a hard thing to pull off, very hard. You're more likely to screw it up.
No good plot line has ever come from someone going back in time to stop something, there has to be much more to it. The best ones deal with how you can't change the past. Or you use time travel as a gimick (the best example I can think off right now is the episode 'Blink' of Doctor Who, absolutely brilliant use of time travel).

I hope the spoiler I read was wrong, because I'm not even sure I want to see this movie. It's probably gonna be a predictable been done a hunderd times time travel story line, and then there's gonna be a few obscure references to things which only the die hard star trek fan will understand. The great line of actors will be caught in their rolls, no chance to add something new or unique because most of them (except the two or three main characters) won't appear for more than two minutes.

Sorry for the rant, won't do it again

Yin and Yang

Webgame with a twist

Click here

Illusion

Look at this picture here

First look at the picture in general, you'll see a green dot moving

Then look at the moving dot, it will disappear

The look at the cross in the center, now everything is gone except the moving green dot.

Strange, isn't it?

Source: Newscientist
More: Wikipedia, seriously what isn't wikipedia good for?

Quote

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and always fatal.
- Neil Gaiman

New campaign

Yesterday was the first session of a new dnd campaign that I'm running.
Everybody seems to have made a sport of playing the strangest character classes which they could find and now we're lacking an (decent) arcane caster. We have a swashbucling pirate, a very specialized shapeshifting druid, a dilletant (whose key asset at the moment is his saves), a duskblade speciallizing in geography, then a cleric and a rogue.

The world that they're playing on is home grown. I still have to come up with a name for it. It's basicly a world where evil has been erradicated long ago. At first there was the great nation of Devalon which covered a significant part of the world. But after the king dissappeared, some of the more distant cities severed all ties, forming the nation of Katarna. Since then tensions has been rising between the two great nations.
Our heroes began on various different places but all met with an untimely death in the first few moments of the session. However shortly after they woke up again near the towns of Smallbank and Treeshine on the border between Devalon and Katarna. They soon find out that strange things have been happening in this area and random attacks are taking place on nearby farms. When a witness steps forward in Smallbank who claims to have witnessed that the elves of Treeshine are behind the attacks, the town starts gathering weapons. Determined to stop a war, the heroes set out to investigate. After finding some strange ruins in the area, they head out to Treeshine. In Treeshine they discover that a witness there has claimed that the people of Smallbank are behind the atrocities and that there too they are readying for war. Now our heroes are sure that a third party is involved, whose bent on starting a war in this area. This all coincides with the discovery of an area of forest where everything has turned evil, a sight unseen for thousands of years. The session ended with the investigation of ancient crypts. Legends surround these abandoned crypts, and some claim that the recent events can be traced back to them. After navigating several traps and discovering an unorthodox transportation system, the heroes find themselves in a hidden underground giant city, a race unseen for millennia.

Full Frontal Nerdity

I smiled at this weeks Full Frontal Nerdity, I liked the Saw reference they used as a halloween comic.
I kinda liked the Saw movies, I liked the concept and the twist at the end. (I've only seen the first two though)

View comic here

I'm a believer

I visit quite a few sites regulary and some of them include cool links that they found online. One of them is the main site of Nodwick dot com. Most people I know just skip to the comics, but sometimes they miss out on some of the gems that these links hold.

Here's a link to a remix video of the song 'I'm a believer' which caught my eye. It has a great style and some nice artwork to accompany it.
You can see it on Yahoo video here