Hypocrisy

I've often joked about Ikea's owner having no clue what sort of furniture they're selling/inflicting on innocent people, let alone using it. Well...

Antisocial networks

If it goes on like this, i'll never manage to convince myself to get a facebook account... Not that i have any so-called friend of the facebook kind that i could "meet" there, actually. Maybe it's time to create a social network for people who refuse to use facebook.
A social network with "enemies", maybe?

It finally happened...

...i've found someone more cynical that could ever possibly be(?). I don't know if what disturbs me the most here is that he's doing every possible trick to get people to watch some stupid videos that are supposed to make them buy some shit, or that it openly details actions whose morality is probably questionable, or that it would certainly be more efficient to simply pay his employees to click 100000 times on the stupid links themselves (that's what they probably do, in the end; why didn't he go so far as confessing this?). And he looks happy on the picture.

I'll never ever watch another video after Pimbert sends me a link. I'd have too much the impression to be utilized in a gigantic marketing plot. Ok, i think the ones involving cars of the 70s and/or junk food are most likely still safe enough...

Broken gadgets

Found in the wired blog: The Not in My Cart website with a list of all recent recalls.

My favorite, a recall on a model rocket (emphasis mine):

The model rocket's side or engine retainer ring can separate and cause the rocket to fall without the nose cone separating and the parachute deploying, posing a risk of an impact injury to nearby consumers.

What if the people standing nearby weren't consumers, but people following the autarkia philosophy? Won't they get hurt? Or doesn't the model rocket firm care about them getting hurt. What about young kids and babies? Are they already consumers?

Tweaking the EEE pc

Not available out here yet, but as soon as it comes notebookreview.com has some hints tweaking it.
Also read the excellent info on the eeeuser.com wiki!

All in all it's just another equation against the wall

But what a nice one it is.

Try getting THIS with python or .net!

How many programming languages are there where you can end up having an asteroid named after you?

But a well deserved one it is: the Glazebrook meteorite is named after one of the developers of the excellent PDL perl data language, the perl way to do Matlab, which just helped me solving a set of linear equations without trouble.

The theory to encabulators (all new, for adults only)...

...among other things: Encabulators are obviously built on the basic principles of orgone accumulators, i.e. machines used to harvest orgonotic energy directly from ether or a nearby reseller, and putting it to use to regenerate the contra-rotohydroflux of decadrapondic protracto-billevesium, thus activating the Broad Utensilic Lateral and Lysergic Space of Hilbertian Iterative Thermodrome. It goes without saying that this implies loads of fadeasic baliverns, which is potentially dangerous to faribola-sensitive persons.

As visionary and radically life-changing as these devices may be, they are still currently facing lots of criticism due to the lack of faith of most yellow-belly so-called scientists, mostly out of concerns that believing in such advanced theories usually lead the superiorly intelligent person in question to look strikingly like this:

But of course, it does get you all the naughty stewardesses that you may ever dream of.
Coming soon on Pffflog: How-to build your own orgonotic comb.

More on encabulators

Frequent readers of this blog might have already read about encabulators, but only few will understand its working mechanism. Most work on encabulators has been in the second half of the 20th century, and good information is hard to find. Fortunately, several original instruction videos have been posted on youtube:

All new, for adults

If someone would ever make a parody of 70's style movies for grown-ups, it would look like this. Nevertheless, it's the real thing. The quotes are excellent!

(note: I was actually looking at opel kadett advertisements, can you imagine...)

New, lightweight software

It's free, it's light, it installs on all OS-es, and it doesn't really do anything. You want that.

NaDa website

Whatever floats your boat.

Click the picture for a collection of tattoos placed on all gradations of hairy skin.
Warning: NSFAHCOLAYKI (not safe for a healthy continuation of life as you know it)

How online shopping should look like

Now i feel like buying something...


Maybe Pimbert could even tell us what the hell this is all about...

(via digg)

Difficult questions with easy answers.