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Entries from June 2009

The Pirate Bay sell out big time.

June 30th, 2009 · Comments Off

Noble heroes The Pirate Bay have sold their stolen goods emporium this week for 60 Million Kronor. Of course none of the actual goods were stored at the site, so one must wonder what was it that they actually sold? We have been told again and again that these selfless shining knights offered nothing more [...]

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Keep it up. Keep it up. Whoooo.

June 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

NEWS FROM THE LIQUID ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
Thursday night at a secret location a cabal met and plotted dominion over humanity. To keep out interlopers the panel was heavily advertised as a discussion on the Sustainability of Sound Arts In Australia. This meant the only people there were from arts funding bodies or those that admire arts [...]

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Space Attack!

June 18th, 2009 · No Comments

From beyond THE GIANT SPACE VOMIT…

comes an insidious new evil – a threat to eyeballs and stomachs everywhere
THE SPACE VOMIT ATTACK CRAFT

A symphony of fake metal gradations, jelly highlights and PURPLE
Everything it touches turns into purple mush

including people

and small animals

Actually that last one wasn’t purple but it is sure is damn ugly.

Here you go Apple, [...]

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iPhone review

June 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Once I walked as one of the gods. I was the greatest, the supreme, crowned by universal acclaim. No one could come near to my perfection. Oh they tried; they tried and failed, because they did not have my nobility in their soul. Cheap and hurried and half planned, they could only ape me. This [...]

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*Stop The Presses*

June 11th, 2009 · Comments Off

Notorious cybergoth and loss lead marketer Trent Reznor has finally realised that his online fan community is filled with jealous resentful people who are only there to try get a knife into him. (Thanks to Earthrid for this earth shattering news). Everyone here at Ellard (that’s me) is kind of proud and just a little [...]

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Ten reasons to use Bing!

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments

One. You are less likely to hear Google used as a verb. This one reason is enough, but I give you more!
Two. A worried company is a company that works for you. Sick of reading press about the Google Ideas Hammock hanging in the Google Moss Garden next to the Google 5 Star Staff Restaurant? [...]

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Viva Sonyland!

June 6th, 2009 · Comments Off

Here’s a huge bag full of discarded Betamax videotapes. Yay! Let’s see what crazy stuff we can find here.
This looks particularly good:

The best or nothing. I want the best. Let’s get the tape out and see what this is…

VIVA SONYLAND! Betamax Demonstration Tape. Two parts here – Inside Betamax and Visiting Sonyland. Each of these [...]

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Ebay.

June 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Imagine my surprise and delight this morning when I got this email from Ebay!
It’s all yours, now you just need to pay.
We hope you enjoy your latest purchase. The next step is pay the seller. Don’t wait. Pay now to get your item as soon as possible.
Pay with PayPal, the safe and easy way [...]

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folding@home

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Haven’t been able to write. Too busy filling in the application to start the next layer of academic cake. The process of proving artistic worth (”provide evidence of action painting – include section of canvas torn by police officer”) is disheartening.
I can understand that they need some kind of proof (”photograph of audience disapproval – [...]

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