The first 15 times I watched Revenge Of The Nerds I was transfixed with the symbolism of the persecuted nerd: Like present-day rednecks, the nerd of 1984 represented one of the few remaining demographics where intolerance and ridicule were not only acceptable, but encouraged.
Of course, today’s nerds are revered and adored (though our pompous self-promotion [...]
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'lil messages by Mr Speaker
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Spiffy things from Internet
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Another World JS - Megidish.net
Games in JavaScript are one thing. Another World in JavaScript a whole NEW thing! -
The Man in Blue > The 139 Mix Tape
One man's life, in mixtape form: 139 songs, 46 minutes, litres of blood, sweat and tears... -
Atari Punk Console with two 555s
This is usually made with a 556 chip (which is just 2 555s) - but they can be harder to find. Here's the dual 555 version. w00t!
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Some awesome posts from around these parts
Pinball on YouTube
Friday, May 22, 2009Lol! You spawn something new everyday. Quite by chance I came across a youtube video about “Hacking windows pinball” which reminded me of an article I wrote yonks ago called, strangely enough, Hacking Windows Pinball. “I wonder if it’s related?” I wondered. It was. It was just a video of the “hidden test” cheat I found. Then, to my surprise, I looked at the related videos… There’s zillions of them!
Some of them take even longer to explain how to type 2 words than I did explaining how to reverse engineer in assembler language. And sooooo much bad music… But it does highlight an important message: If you want your content to be popular, it has to be relevant to the interests of 14-year-olds.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Feet
Monday, July 11, 2005
Imagine, just imagine, you discovered the most awesomely best thing in the known universe. And then, on that very same day, in that very same shop, you discovered the equally most awesome thing in the known universe. And THEN, imagine realising that if you combined those two most best things together, that the blinding goodness of mixed elements would multiply together to create a result of such intense and astonishing goodness as to render all other things in the known universe to be pretty crappy in comparison.
Well, I did that.
