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[jack]

Tojan horses

Linked from Raymond Chen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3SfNANtig

What happens if you build a wooden horse, put some soldiers inside it, and then ask security guards if you can leave it overnight inside their complex? Mostly, nothing. The Turkish consulate refused though.

Choice quotes (With no prompting) "Why would there be anyone inside?" and later "I had no idea those soldiers were in there!"

Isn't it amazing what you find on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_and_video_games_considered_the_worst_ever

I mean, isn't that useful? It is exactly the sort of thing you might want to know. I think I found it when someone joking about a notoriously bad game and I wanted to know why, or possibly when I wanted to joke about a notoriously bad game and had to look one up to be the butt :)

50 worst named computer games of all time

http://www.gamerevolution.com/feature/worst_names

I feel sorry for them, but it can be funny.

"Zeitgeist (Playstation/PC, 1998)

Man, nothing says 'fun' like a German philosophical term for an era in the dialectical progression of a people or the world at large."

Intermediate Value Theorem in "Down to earth practical utility" shocker!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1524163.htm

On a smooth but not flat surface you can theoretically rotate a four-legged table so it doesn't wobble (but mayn't be flat). Doesn't knowing that your irritating failure is mathematically impossible make you feel a warm glow inside? Go maths!

Comments

[senji.livejournal.com]

Surely the last of those isn't news -- I remember IWJ stating it in New Hall bar before now (and then performing it)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it was news, I said it was funny :)

Indeed, the problem with amusing links is that I can't tell if 90% of people I know have seen them already, or 10% have. My natural inclination is never to post anything unless I'm confident I wrote it myself and its original (and even then lots of people have often said the same thing). So I compromise by throwing out a chunk of each, giving a sound bite, and hoping people who are bored of seeing it forgive me :)

(I could have a separate link blog, but I've resisted, as it seems to cry out for something like reddit, but I've not got round to setting that up. I'd rather have a smaller percentage of links that a larger percentage of readers read, than vice versa :))

[senji.livejournal.com]

I have the link-list, but it's a piece of tissue-paper tied together with CVS (OTOH this makes it a lot easier to update than LJ).

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yes, that works quite well.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

FWIW I don't remember that but it's entirely probable, it may be ages ago, or it may be from wherever this came from in the first place :)