Silliness:

Marvellous, don't mess with the old biddy you punk-ass merc driving git.

Like they said, way too much free time on their hands. But still, Diet Coke is awesomely powerful stuff.

And you thought you'd seen everything. Get the Scoop, on Poop.

Ok, so I'm against waste - but this is just taking it personally.

Geekiness:

Me likey! It's a little 3D app showing the positions of satellites. You'll be surprised (if you are ignorant of GeoStationary orbits and how they work) at the large number really really far out on the equator.

Follow the 10 C commandments, and do not waver from the path of righteousness. (Or, use C#, F# or Ruby and chill.)

Silliness:

Proof positive that ideas rule over execution art in game design.

Geeky Silliness:

The story of why, in some versions of windows, Poland is twinned with Atlantis.

Well, I'm supposed to be working at the moment, but I'm between projects. I have been reading up the training notes, in case anyone at work reads this. (Or, indeed knows of its existance) But I've also purchased some chocolate cookies from the shop.

I know I'm safe in admitting this, because the only person who would tell me off for this sort of behaviour is the one who lives with me, and hence is exactly the person who will never read this.

Anyway, the point of the post, said cookies have a nice big star-shaped exclamation on the front of the box (you know the sort, the kind of thing which reads "New and Improved" - don't even get me started on that phrase.) which reads "with 37% chocolate chips." This leaves two main questions in my head, for a chocolate chip cookie, what are the other 63% of the chips made of? Or are the chips all made of 37% chocolate? In which case what else are the chips made of?

All in all, quite alarming.

Geekiness:

A rather good website showing how complex problems can be solved. It lays it all out rather nicely.

A stack of useful tools for Visual Studio. Groovy.

This is pretty much a re-print of a post I made on channel9, but I thought it was funny, and no-one there seemed to notice so I've brought it to your attention.

Seeing as I got into a bit of a disagreement with the third most famous geek ever at the moment, I decided that XHTML needs a few extra tags put in for those of us not quite skilled enough with our mother tongues to make all meaning clear.

• The "Tongue in Cheek" tag, for people who take everything too seriously, you could label your text as being not serious. Thus allowing the browser to display warnings or format the text to make it clear that the content isn't serious. (Perhaps by using circles to dot is instead of a dot.)
• The Sarcasm tag, for when the vast all-encompassing intellect of your readers misses a really subtle and incredibly nuanced use of language which indicates sarcasm.
• The Camp Tone Of Voice tag, especially useful when bitching about people's fashion sense.
• The Teenage Girl's Stream Of Consciousness tag. Because like I want to say something, but this guy's all "you're really stupid" and I'm all like "shut up" and they don't listen to me because they're all bitches and whenever that simone says anything I feel like "shut up bitch" and I want to strangle her but it makes me discracted and my spelling all goes wonky and the teahers are all like "you're suptid cos you can't spell" and I'm all like "shut up" and they never listen anyway and it's all soooooo unfair. (Especially useful for MySpace methinks.)

I think it's pretty explanatory, someone get onto the w3c!

Silliness:

Marvellous picture, completely priceless reaction from the poor anchorman (run while you still can!)

This is completely friggin' mental. But you've got to admire the effort which clearly went into it.

Geekiness:

Be afraid, be very very afraid. Democracy as you know it is under threat. I'm glad that last time I voted for anything it was on a real piece of paper.

Geekiness:

Useful tips on Photography - actually this was today, not yesterday (As the title says) but I couldn't not post yesterdays link, and it looked lonely all by itself.

Tim's Link:

Pelicans are dangerous beasties - I've watched them fish in the Zoo before. But I'd not heard of one eating pidgeons, until now.

Silliness:

The idea that won't die... The ekranoplan. Here's footage of the Russian beast taken from a documentary.

Why is anyone's guess – but what happens when you microwave a CD and put it on a tesla coil? Art m'dears.

That's your lot today, I'm a busy man.

Sadness:

Wow... The world's oldest business looks like it's gone bankrupt. Still, 1400 years of trading - they've lasted longer than any empire I can think of. (Pedants will point out the Roman empire lasted a hugely long time, but I don't count the empire after Rome had been lost. Kinda spoils the Roman bit to my mind.)

Silliness:

All well and good, right up until it gets dark outside methinks. Anyway - the all glass toilet!

The longest list of whingeing I think I've ever seen. Strangely poetic in the concentration of bile it represents.

Ellie's Link:

Hoorah! The age-old tradition of endangering your own life with burning tar can continue thanks to lots of help. Marvellous.

Silliness:

The world's fastest street car. It's a 1970's vauxhall, seriously - I'm not joking.

It's amazing what you can get on a motorbike - I love the guy holding a mirror.

Who said American soldiers are dumb? Here's a powerful insight into the trauma of returning home from war ashamed of your actions.

Aside from spending more time on Channel9 than is healthy, I've only been involved with a few Internet forums. In my time posting, (and frequently killing threads dead.) I've come up with a simple rule for getting replies to a thread.

The key is to not present a balanced argument, this may seem obvious to some, but it comes hard to me. You want to start a debate, if you present a balanced point of view you leave respondents with little to say. So the single rule for successfully posting on a forum is to be as one-sided as you dare be. Be careful though to be rational in your criticism - ranting and raving like a lunatic isn't going to get you any replies. (Unless you're criticising Microsoft or Dubya Bush, where you can be as rabid as you like and you'll still get responses - although you may not be taken seriously.)

If you don't believe me, you can experiment for yourselves - start a thread with a post along the lines of: "X product sucks." or "Y Politician is an idiot." and you'll notice that you'll get a healthy number of replies.

Silliness:

Quite possibly the best advert for a feature of a car ever!

I don't know what inspired the essay, but someone knowing something about Oedipus makes it funnier.

Geekiness:

A list of physics related games. Some of these I've played and are very cool. The rest, I dunno.

Silliness:

Wow... I mean, wow! Art drawn into the dust on the back of a man's car.

Armando Iannucci in reflective mood on the role of comedy as news in modern society. (And I'm guilty of getting more info from "have I got news for you", than from listening to today on radio 4)

Silliness:

Now that's what I call recycling.

Predatory teenage girls lure bands to her basement for lurid free music depravity. (genius)

Ellie's Link:

China is trying to eliminate bad English before 2008. Good luck on that one, we've been trying since the middle ages.

Silliness:

Umm.. The Game Poets Society? What the hell is going on here?

This amused me, what happens when you mix sweets and drink?

This man has been developing easy ways to move large lumps of concrete – and claims he could build Stonehenge. I just want to know how to get the crossbars in.

Geekiness:

The delicious irony. Here's a page supposed to be about the art of 404 pages (y'know "page not found") but what happens when I try to visit it? (I'm not telling you if you can't guess.)

Ellie's Link:

Man skateboards halfway across Australia to be injured by a small piece of metal while having his photo taken. He's determined to finish the journey though.

Silliness:

Hmm.. Chad Vader - not scary, not scary at all.

The campaign for real beauty show you how (exaggerate for effect) beauty magazines achieve unrealistic images.

Seriously abusing the groovy physics sketching program.

Ellie's Link:

Awww, it's the end of the series of unfortunate events. Although to be honest 13 books in any series is pushing it.

Silliness:

Useful, yet obvious, tips for improving your productivity.

A very long list of useful books for games developers - anyone want to guess what's being added to my amazon wishlist?

Wow, apparantly according to a totally factual and authorative source (y'know, wikipedia) our army is smaller than Germany's, France's and Japan's) cool.

Curious, curious - psychologically being a paedophile, and being gay / straight are non-compatible. Paedophilia (how long until I get black-listed somewhere?) is a sexuality in its own right. Mainly interesting for the dog quote though!

This is plain odd, a water powered car. Not exactly practical though.

Quite possibly the most astonishing, and appaling thing I've seen in a while - these chickens are alive through the entire process of being scooped up by a mechanical head.

What's with these ancient comic covers? (Photoshop perchance?) However, the title given to the link where I found it says it all. "Superman is a Dick".

Geekiness:

Steve Ballmer talking straight on various issues, interesting guy - and a hard one to dismiss.

OK, OK, so it's another list - like the world isn't already full of those! - but I agree with it. The 7 most annoying fonts.

Ooohh... 3D models generated from pictures - pretty funky.

Seriousness:

Ok, so the first serious link in SLOTD, but what the hell. Chinese border patrols were seen killing Tibetan refugees by mountain climbers on their way up Everest.

Silliness:

Sublime, meet ridiculous - woman's bum burned as lightning passes out of it.

A very groovy staircase in New York.

A seriously cool, but ultimately pointless "Distance Printing Machine" in the style of all those machine gun writing stunts you see in cartoons.

Awesome advert, don't have a clue what it's for though.

Geekiness:

New phone concepts. I love concepts, they're all the fun of imagining without any of the drawbacks of doing.

Geekiness:

Text based Pong! (Need I say more?)

Hmm.. The guys who make MythBusters decided to test the theory you can destroy your car with a subwoofer. Is it me, or are they really struggling for myths?

One simple question, do you want to burn things with a laser? Yes... Then here's the one for you.

Silliness:

Amazing picture of Batman and Robin drawn on the pavement. You just have to stand in exactly the right position for it to work that's all.

Apparantly attractiveness is related to the ease with which people can be processed - bizarre idea.

Brilliant time-waster this one, JacksonPollock.org. As you move and click you'll get a trail of paint splatters following the mouse.

This is actually pretty cool, hard to explain though.

Ellie's Link:

(via Dorothy) Albino lobster airlifted to safety.

Silliness:

Wow... What an amazing dull sounding job, but then to each their own; if he enjoys watching paint dry then good on him.

Weird chair - but quite funky, and Matt'll like it.

An analysis of Wikipedia Vandalism, tongue firmly in cheek. I hope it doesn't get vandalised though.

How to get people interested in science. Hmmm.... I don't think that would have worked on me.

Awww.. Children's letters to God.

Geekiness:

Interesting article on design in computers, I'm sceptical about the usability of the more cutting edge designs.

I really really like this search engine - I've heard critical reports about its performance, but haven't seen any evidence. The results could probably do with improving, but the idea is very sound.

Ellie's Link:

A man found trying to reverse several hundred miles across Australia. Try that in Devon and see how far you get.