 September 3rd, 2010 by Weskimo -
I do a lot of driving during the course of my everyday life, and found myself recalling a few odd ones from recent memory. For example, today I was on the highway and saw a cloud shaped exactly like the profile of the starship Enterprise. A few weeks ago, I saw a 40-50 year old man in a leather vest and baseball cap skateboarding down a busy city street. Like seriously, like a 60km/h zone, he was going 4km/h and using a lane.
So what else is out there? Tell us what you’ve been seeing. What is the Weirdest Thing You’re Ever Seen While Driving?
Note: We will accept ‘while on the bus’ for those of us who are vehicularly challenged.
September 3rd, 2010 by Weskimo -
Over 10,000 vehicles are stuck in a traffic jam on a highway between Tibet and Beijing… again.
Traffic on this particular highway was cleared just over a week ago following a 9 day, 100km long gridlock. This time, the standstill is estimated to be about 120kms long.
The massive backlog of vehicles is largely due to the needs of Beijing’s population of 20 million. Constant supplies of food, consumer goods and coal are required to keep the city running properly. Combine the flow of those deliveries with a little bit of roadwork and you have yourself a parking lot.
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September 3rd, 2010 by Weskimo -
In an effort to stem the bleeding of Anglican church membership nationwide, Halifax-based Anglican Rev. Lisa Vaughn has asked cellphone, laptop, and technological gadgets in to receive a special blessing this weekend.
Vaughn says in an interview “It’s not just about please don’t let my cellphone drop calls today. It’s about, you know, help me to be the best Christian, the best person I can be in my conversations, in my communication.”
Personally, I’m not too hopeful of her chances of increasing attendance too much with this initiative, but I am a little curious. If I had her bless my Xbox controller, would I be playing with the Holy Fist of God on my side?
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September 2nd, 2010 by Newbs -
Last week, I declared Kevin Rose, the founder of social media/link sharing site Digg.com and the entire community of that site to be Shameful Humans. I blamed Kevin and his staff for prematurely pushing out v4 while it was still packed with glitches and absent in obvious features, and I blamed the community of Digg for completely overreacting to the changes brought about.
In the intervening week, Digg’s tech has stabilized, things are getting fixed, and Rose appears to be moving forward. The community of his site, however, is not. Each day, I fire up Digg with the hopes of finding amusement and maybe even a story or two to cover on the site, the things I used to find. Instead, what my browser displays each morning is a user-generated catastrophe of nerd rage.
Every anti-Digg and anti-Rose post that can be found is popularized and pushed to the front-page. Significantly worse, the frothing geeks who continue to visit Digg, even though they claim to hate it, see to it that no conversation within any comment section can take place unless it is specifically about how bad the new Digg is.
As anti-v4 push-back continues, it has become increasingly shrill and conspiratorial, with users now claiming sites like Mashable and TIME pay Rose to promote their content. This of course ignores the fact that these users have managed to entirely bend Digg’s system to their will, in direct violation of corporate interest. Someone, somewhere has to be Digging up those stories in order popularize them. Where users used to follow other users, they now more often follow websites, and some sites have managed to work the system better than others. That’s it.
Never have I more greatly appreciated the diligent work of moderators on the forums I visit. If this were any forum on the internet, such users would be banned for trolling, trashing, and abusing the site they are participating in. At a certain point, Digg is going to have to boot these unruly abusers in order to be able to provide any kind of service at all, save as venting ground for unwarranted rage.
Digg has been rendered unusable, not by its leadership, not by the corporate masters the company has supposedly bowed to, but by its own community of spammers who have seemingly nothing else to do than ruin a perfectly good service for everyone else.
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September 2nd, 2010 by Weskimo -
Treyarch has announced that Call of Duty‘s newest installment, Black Ops, is getting a multiplayer overhaul. But wait, for those of you thinking “thank god, finally the game won’t reward players for being camping shit eaters,” think again. Treyarch hasn’t decided anything of the sort.
Several new modes have been announced, including an offline mode vs. bots, one more way to hate playing this game. I wonder if the AI will camp like a bastard too?
One good thing about this game is the introduction of CP (CoD Points) used as money to upgrade and unlock new weapons. Much preferred over unlocking as you progress, where you often get items you care very little about. To my understanding, you can spend the points on whatever you want.
But here we are, the money shot, 4 new game modes, 3 of which seem to be 1-shot-kills tomfoolery designed to make you camp and wait for a kill, actively punishing those players out to play the game. Thanks for making sure that the assholes of noobs everywhere are more accessible to every dick on the internet, Treyarch.
September 1st, 2010 by Weskimo -
Welcome again to Movie Maundering. Further expanding upon my recent urge to punish myself for unknown sins likely committed in a past life by watching exceptionally poor movie choices, I just finished watching The Butterfly Effect.
→ Continue reading Movie Maundering #5 – The Butterfly Effect
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