90 Day Jane Blog

Pinny came across this weird blog somehow. The chick plans to kill herself in approximately 3 month's time. People as always, see the humorous side in this. The links below the original blog are the inevitable parodies that soon followed.

Original:
http://90dayjane.blogspot.com/

Parodies:
http://90daypoop.blogspot.com/
http://90dayjayne.blogspot.com/
http://90dayjohn.blogspot.com/

Huge Hamburger!

The picture says it all. I found it at Eric Goldman's blog. However, the direct link to the image can be found here.

Internet Sub-Cultures: Noob Talk

Games like "Command & Conquer: Generals" and most probably others have players from all over the world, most of them using the "noob talk" lingo, talk pronounced more like taak (think of torque without the R). Flaming is essential and in order to do so, the word noob (a way of saying newbie in a totally degrading manner) is supposed to be misspelled in one of absurd variations; some of them are as follows:

noob, noobs, newb, nub, nubs, boon, boons

There's usually an adverb or an adjective added to it. For example:

noob host
dc noob
scud noob
bunker noob (of course, one of my favorites)

There are always new varieties invented by the minute. It's a whole different linguistic culture of it's own. It's probably got to do something with the whole Green Revolution. In this case, preserving your keys, saving keystrokes for a rainy day or probably for extending the life of your keyboard and looking cool while you do so.

What bewilders me the most though is the improper conservation of keystrokes. For example, a couple of days ago, a noob posted:

[elf] u kik?
[elf] mannn

Keys conserved: y,o,c and the shift key
Keys excessively hammered: n and the Enter key

Okay, y and o is somewhat of an IM (instant messenger) standard these days (something I'm totally not into). However, the excessive use of n and conservation of the c is somewhat inappropriate. Firstly, if you're actually preserving your finger energy for some other subtle exercise that may not be appropriate to suggest here, then why excessively hit the n key? Secondly, in terms of preserving your keyboard strokes (for an ever long lasting keyboard), why would you save on a c and then go waste away the n; I mean, the n is used way more than the c. This internet subculture is both interesting, yet bewildering.

Give us your money, this is a ketchup

Just saw this story and had to blog it. Shamelessly plagiarized from here.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Two thieves armed only with ketchup ambushed a supermarket employee as he was taking cash to the bank, Greek police said Tuesday.

"The thieves jumped out of the bushes and threw two big bags of ketchup on the front window to stop the car," said a police official who requested anonymity.

The man fought with his attackers who managed to flee on a motorcycle with only 400 euros of the 140,000 euros he was carrying.