:: GussetBLOG ::

:: Saturday, May 24, 2003 ::

Like this you mean?

:: Dan 24.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Finaly, somewhere to go to find out what that piece of music in that ad is
(Why we cant just put a bit of writing in the corner of the screen, like other countries I'll never know)

I'll own up to stumbling across this site whilst looking for info on "Apache Indian" (of the boomshackalak kind) for the sheer comedy of it.

:: popcorn 23.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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I've never had so much fun watching stuff come out of a sheep's arse as when I played The Silly Sheep Pooh Puzzle, try it you won't get herpes I promise. At least you won't get herpes from the puzzle, you might get them from your lover or a toilet seat or something.

:: Spokesy 23.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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OMG, I didn't think wordy could get any creepier, but look at what he looked like to start with. It's some bastard offsprind of the Currious Orange and Ainsley Harriet, arrg get it away from me!!!!

:: popcorn 23.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Ooo, talking about old BBC stuff. LOOK AT THIS!!!! A complete archive of the Look and Read series, and pictures of Wordy! Then download MP3s that sound like this:

Barker: "oh good what a pleasant surprise, I've always wanted a stuffed badger! Give me a stick mr deal i'll just knock him on the head"

voiceover man: "but barker didn't know how strong and fierce a badger can be... Stripey went for him!"

Barker: "arrggghhh help get him off me argghh help" etc. for about thirty gold dust seconds of badger savaging, along with footage of a man wrestling with a stuffed badger.

:: Dan 23.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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I was poking around the BBCi website, when I discovered The Ghosts of Albion. It caught my eye because:
It's writen by the woman who played Tara in Buffy
It seems to draw alot from H.P.Lovecraft (ghosts and demons in the mid 1800s)
There's a load more to the site than just the animation/story
It's got Lesley Phillips in it.

It's more like a radio show, with animation tacked on, and I've not watched/listened to much of it, but it looks promising.

:: popcorn 23.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Check out the Rolf Harris Mashup contest at www.shitmat.co.uk. Quote from one of the tracks: "take you down the shoping centre and ram the fucking trolly in intoface you ugly maggot fucker")

:: Dan 23.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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I've been trying to find it on http://www.securityfocus.com but I keep getting distracted by ethics papers. They've also got a bunch of stuff on quantum crypto. There's a stupid amount of info on various topics there.

:: popcorn 22.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Hmm, Dr David Whitehouse piece (BBC News), is obviously just a cut down version of this story. Here's a better explanation of QE, I'll have to check that story you mentioned popcorn. Do you have a link?

Implications for Cryptography are particularly interesting. See The Code Book

:: Dan 22.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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The best explanation of quantum computers I've ever come accross was on securityfocus.com. In a story about intrusion detection and tracking, that was based in a recearch lab, just as a side line there was a quantum computer idiots guide that had little to do with the story but got it just right.
Thinking about it didn't they manage to entangle 3 qbits a few months back?

Ever want to be Denis Quaid in "Inner Space"?
That time is getting closer (although the real scientists went for the far-safer "sod minimising, send a camera in" approach).

:: popcorn 22.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Quantum computer draws closer
Don’t you just love it when journalists, in this case the BBC News Online science editor, adopt that tone of "whatever the fuck that means?". This could have been explained a lot better (although I wouldn't fancy trying myself) but you get the idea.

:: Dan 22.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Fawlty Towers theme restaurant opens in Wilmslow, complete with intrusive, opinionated manager. But is there a Spanish waiter called Manuel?

:: Dan 22.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Donna Summer played Gusset's The Imagination is in the Spelling (sample) on his Advanced D&D show on New York's WFMU on May 9th. You can see the play list and listen to the show as MP3 or RealAudio here.

:: Dan 21.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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I got home from work last night and found, as expected, that the dust bin and the recycling box had both been emptied. It was pissing down with rain, so I hurriedly wheeled the bin back it to its special bin sized bin cupboard that the rental agency call a shed. To be fair we have managed to fit a broom in it as well, but that’s all. I then picked up the recycling box, which had been helpfully left the correct way up with the lid dropped inside after emptying thus allowing it to fill with rain water. Admittedly, there are drainage holes in the bottom but it is amazing how ineffectual these are. So I emptied the water out onto what the rental agency call the front garden (approximately two square meters of grass with no wall or fence to divide it from the pavement or from either neighbour), and took it back into the house. I decided that it was still too wet to go back to the corner of the kitchen where it normally dwells, so I left it on its side on the mat just inside the front door. In the mean time checked my email, read my post and glanced through the copy of Bizarre that had arrived that morning (worth buying for the camel brothel article alone), and then had a shower. When I wandered back downstairs I had a cursory glace over the box and decided it was adequately dry to return to the kitchen. I put it down in the kitchen, almost instantly changed my mind about it being dry enough to return to its normal position, and so moved it again to the mat near the back door and lent it up on end. When I walked back out of the kitchen I slipped, bare footed, and then quickly regained my composure, glad that there was no-one else around to have seen it, and carried about my business think to myself, “good job I moved that, I only put it down there for a second and that was a pretty dangerous damp patch it left”. On returning to the kitchen again I went to the damp patch with a piece of kitchen roll to dry the watery smear of death only to see some small black twig or stick or hunk of mud or something that must have been left by the dirty, filthy, whore of a recycling box during its brief but near fatal visit to the area. When I got close enough to the offending detritus to pick it up, I saw that it was not the black twig, stick or hunk of mud I thought it to be. No, it was in fact the barely still alive front half of a slug, the rear half of which had been flattened when I slipped on it with my bare, and freshly cleaned, feet a few minutes earlier! Now, I’m not really squeamish, but this slug got squashed in a piece of kitchen roll and dropped in the bin pretty swiftly, and was spared the slow and agonising death by salt my mother always practices. The lesson: check recycling receptacles left outside in all weathers for molluscs as well as stagnant rain water before returning to the house. Probably also worth checking for small mammals, ferrets, drunken ferrets, badgers etc., while your at it.

:: Dan 20.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Yeah I've know about it, didn't know there were papers in the wild about it. I was going to blog it when I'd been down the pub with a friend who's doing his PhD in philosophy. It's odd though 'cause he'll come out with some arument about we're in a computer simulated world therefore God cannot exist, and he compleatly believes this, but then the next conversation will start out with an argument that there has to be a God and he compleatly believes this.
Gotta love philosophers they can sit one the fence, claim that thay are on both sides similtainiously, and the fence, is in fact, a fish.

:: popcorn 19.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Are you living in a computer simulation of reality? I’m sure everyone has at least heard about this paper already even if they haven’t actually read it. I’ve just read it today, and although it was admittedly stretching my understanding in places, I though I’d share it on the off chance any secrete intellectuals read Gusset Blog. This whole site is dedicated to the question and provides a huge amount of background reading and related articles.

:: Dan 19.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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The world dullest blog, but absolutely hilarious!
(Thanks to G3RM for the link)

:: Dan 19.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Don't know if this is of any use to anyone, but if you're up for a little retro-gaming-music composition then NerdTracker2 might be the very thing.

:: popcorn 18.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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Matrix Reloaded in Accurate hack shocker
Something that bugs me about practicaly every film that requires some sort of "h4x0r" action, is the fact that it's always done with some sort of amazing GUI frontend or wierd 3d enviroment (if you've seen Hackers, Swordfish, Antitrust, the Net, Sneakers, etc, etc you'll know what I'm talking about) when in real life most of this sort of thing is done from the command line or web browser (OK not the most visualy stunning things for films) . However, acording to the Reg in Matrix: Reloaded, Trinity uses nmap (nmaps site has screen grabs of MRe) to find ssh servers that are vunerable to a real remote buffer overflow.
A good point made by the reg is shouldn't they have all been patched by the time the film takes place? Although another good point made by the people at nmap is that the Matrixs "reality" is still 2000.

:: popcorn 18.5.03 [Arc]    ::
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