Well well well! You all thought that we was messing with you, didn't you? You thought that the WebJam 8 win was nothing more than an elaborate hoax designed to bag some awesome prizes, didn't you? No, friends, it wasn't (though I'm totally going to do that for the next WebJam) for now the time has arrived...

You know, very special occasions - those of cultural and historic importance - demand certain graces: and I think it's fair that an announcement as auspicious as this be marked with both the Blink AND Marquee tags:

!!! TURNTUBELIST HAS BEEN RELEASED !!!

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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 and narcissistic pretentiousness will ensure this will be short-lived) and the movie can be analysed on a more frivolous level: as the classic underdog-comes-good sexist flick that it is.

De-robed from its social significance, more subtle aspects of the film are able to flourish... like the suspect arrested for mopery - which they oddly defined as "exposing yourself to a blind person" when the actual definition is "walking down the street with no clear destination or purpose" (though sometimes expanded to "mopery with intent to creep" if it involves unsavoury characters).
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Recently there has been a lot of attention given to the list of the 500 worst passwords. "Worst" meaning "most frequently used" and therefore easy to guess. A better practice, according to microsoft (who we all trust when it comes to security matters), is to create a password that is "a simple and long phrase".

One problem is that simple and long phrases aren't things we remember. We only remember very very short passwords like monkey, bond007, and (apparently) nipples.

My solution, accordingly, is to combine both password approaches together - forming several of our favourite words into a longer random name-esque phrase. You should choose one or more from the generated list below, and build elaborate fictional situations around them. Thus, you'll never forget your password again.

One drawback to this method is that the 500 worst passwords of all time contain a generous quantity of naughty words. So your fictional character is most likely going to be a porn star.

Cheers to a more secure online experience!