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Amiga Music Monday – Chris Hülsbeck – Turrican 2 (Intro)

By Glen McNamee | February 8, 2010

Today’s Amiga Music Monday was Composed by Chris Hülsbeck and is the Intro tune from the brillant Turrican 2.

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Weekend Stinks

By Glen McNamee | February 5, 2010

The weekend doesn’t stink, I’m just sick of calling these post Weekend Links.

This weeks top link is the amazing cryingwife.com.
On a similar subject, Leoni thinks she is an Emotional twat. I obviously disagree.
Killer sexy heels are not found on the feet of Miss Suffragette
Pete gives us a review of Mass Effect 2
Jake at System Error gives one of only sane posts on the fallout from iPads lack of flash.
Dan at Minute44 wants to write a book
Lonewolfrepose explains Bill Murray day.
Merman celebrates an Anniversary
Finally Anton applies to for a job at MigrationWatch.

Web comics – Left-Handed Toons (by right-handed people)

By Glen McNamee | February 4, 2010

Left-Handed Toons (by right-handed people) asks the question ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to draw a whole bunch of cartoons using your non-dominant hand?’ The result is much better than question and this crappy blog post would suggest.

I just love Einstein’s face in that last panel.

Link: http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/

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I need a Break

By Glen McNamee | February 3, 2010

Topics: Comics, Images, life | 2 Comments »

Soft touch on Immigration?

By Glen McNamee | February 2, 2010

Common Knowledge is often just bollocks, this is because people are lazy and stupid and simple stories are easier to remember than a complicated history and, you know, facts.

Britain being a Soft touch on Immigration, is one a great example. Go ask some one on the street about Immigration, and they’ll tell you how foreign paedophiles fly in on golden aeroplanes, are welcomed into the country, given a seventeen bedroom mansion AND GUESS WHO’S PAYING? Even Judges are drooling out similar nonsense.

Reality of course is a much more complicated and slippery bastard (Like a Fish designed by Ernő Rubik). Looking deeper into the issue (or just researching on the internet for five minutes) you’ll quickly find a lucky few immigrants pass the points-based system for citizenship and the citizenship test, but for the majority (including children) there is detention, and deportation.

The job of sorting all this out falls to the Border Agency, which is where where it all starts to go wrong. First of all, you wouldn’t want to be on their Christmas Card list and secondly a whistleblower has exposed some of them as a bunch a racist cunts.

Highlights include;

staff kept a stuffed gorilla, a “grant monkey”, which was placed as a badge of shame on the desk of any officer who approved an asylum application.

Well, that doesn’t sound to bad…

one official boasted to her that he tested the claims of boys from African countries who said they had been forcibly conscripted as child soldiers by making them lie down on the floor and demonstrate how they shot at people in the bush.

Oh, that’s not good.

One method used to determine the authenticity of an asylum seeker claiming to be from North Korea was to ask whether the person ate chop suey.

Well it can’t get any worse, can it?

a superior nevertheless decided the woman and her children should be removed, and asked officials whether there were any grounds to remove them. Frustrated, she approached a member of the legal department. His reply, according to Perrett, was: “Umbongo, umbongo, they kill them in the Congo.”

Well, what a twat, not only is he a hideous unfeeling racist, he has also spoilt one of my fondest childhood television memories.

Of course this all could be made up by the whistleblower, and I’m sure we will hear more about it in the coming weeks, but it all goes to show how reality is can be very different from common perception of it. I give you one last quote from a manager at the UK Border Agency

If it was up to me I’d take them all outside and shoot them.

UPDATE 03/02/2010 - Duncan Stott who tweated the original story has a blog post on this that is worth reading.

Topics: Politics | 1 Comment »

Amiga Music Monday – Martin Iveson – Jaguar XJ220

By Glen McNamee | February 1, 2010

Great news, everybody! February is Amiga Music Monday month. Starting today the February’s four Mondays will be a celebration of classic Commodore Amiga track, from the very best Amiga musicians.

Kicking us off is the title screen music from the game Jaguar XJ220 Composed by Martin Iveson and released in 1992 by Core Design.

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Friday’s Links Today Possibly

By Glen McNamee | January 30, 2010

No chat, just links.

This weeks top link is the rather brillant web comic axecop. A 5-year old kid writes the comic. His 29-year old brother draws it. Together, they fight crime.
Igor shares his thoughts on selfishness and selflessness.
Time passes between blog post for Scribbler.
Leoni tell us about Daytime Stockholm 2010-01-27
Five Chinese Crackers asks what am I going to do with my life.
Charlie Brookers take on the iPad is worth a read (as all his stuff usually is) .
It’s Stormkeeper first post of the year and for a while.
lonewolfrepose has a nice Sunday morning guidebook

That’s your lot…

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You wish you were this cool.

By Glen McNamee | January 26, 2010

What’s his name?

Topics: Video | 2 Comments »

January 2010 so fat.

By Glen McNamee | January 25, 2010

You know what? Writing blog posts is rubbish, it’s such a bloody chore that I’ve got about 425 things I’d rather do, including wash the dishes, and that’s without really thinking about it, I could come up a few thousand more things I would rather do if I thought about it for another minute or so.

However, since I’m upset over Scribbler not updating mercuryvapour (and deleting a load of old posts) it would hypocritical of me not to do a proper personal blog post once in a while.

“So, what has happened since I last did a proper update?” I hear none of you ask. Well the answer is if you are bothered to read on the following is (in no particular order);

Built a Snowman

As the country ground to it’s annual halt because of a little snow earlier this month, I happy plodded along working from home. However as the old saying goes; When God gives you ~~Lemons~~ snow, you ~~squeeze them in that fuckers eyes~~ make snowmen.

Note the hat (mine) and the six pack (not mine).

Upgraded the PC

I finally ordered new parts for the Desktop PC as I’d manage to scrape up enough money and because the old parts were so knackered the PC was crashing to a Blue Screen of death on a daily basis.

New PC Bits

The PC build (and reinstall of Windows 7) was as easy as Lemon Pie (like they say, when God gives you Lemons, you ~~squeeze them in that fuckers eyes~~ make Lemon Pie) the only slightly problem was my complete ignorance of the existence of SATA power cables. I had to pop out to computer shop to buy one, which was pretty stupid as later when examining my spares box, I found I three of them. I just didn’t know what they were when I put them in there.

PC runs like a dream now, I can actually have more than four tabs open in Chrome without the PC breaking down like a Eurostar train in a winter snowfall.

Read some books

Got a started on my Christmas books by reading through Charlie Brooker’s Screen Burn, which is laugh out loud funny (a rare thing for me), The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate and Eric Bischoff’s Controversy Creates Cash, which I download read on the ebook reader (it still gets used, and I still love it) after watching Bischoff and Hogan’s return to Monday Night Wrestling with TNA.

I’m currently reading Charlie Brooker’s Dawn of the Dumb, and it’s every bit as funny Screen Burn.

Sort out my New years Resolutions

I’ve sorted out a my New years Resolutions for this year, they are the usual goals (stop being fat, do some work, have a life, etc), but this year I’m going to be smarter (no pun intended SMART goal fans), I’ve broken these goals into Monthly and Weekly targets which are documented and updated on a weekly basis. I’m also having a weekly meetings with a friend in which discuss, track and verbally commit to our weekly goals.

Also as mentioned previously the ObscureInternet forum, is has new a lose weight and get fit subforum, which is going very well at the moment.

Played Saints Row 2 on the PS3 far to much

I went out bought a game for the PS3 that I could play, this games was Saints Row 2 as it was a cheap and came highly recommended from my friends at the insideoutcast podcast. It’s definitely a lot of fun, and I’ve managed to knocked up almost 50 hours playing time in the last month alone.

Did some boring Internet stuff

I’ve done a fair amount of blogging this month, this will be my twenty post which is probably a new record for this blog, (look in up in the Archive, I can’t be arsed to). Last months myleene-klass-and-jonathan-shalit-are-full-of-shit post got an amazing response. It had a recording number of readers, was retweeted a lot, and was linked to by some pretty great blogs. I may do more of these ranting about real world stuff in future.

I’ve discovered Windows Live Writer, which I’m using to write this post. The drag and drop features are superb for things like images, and I imagine I will be using this a lot for future ObscureInternet posts.

Speaking of ObscureInternet, I’m still working on a new design, and looking at kicking off with some new articles shortly.

Nowt else interesting.

So that’s pretty much what I’ve been getting up to since new year, dull isn’t it. I’ll just rap this up by saying this post took about a day to write, so I hope you enjoy it.

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