smart stuff

LinCity

LinCity is a cool free Linux game. LinCity-NG is a City Simulation Game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity (www.floot.demon.co.uk/lincity.html) game. Within the scope of the GoTM project (happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1243) at happypenguin (happypenguin.org) we have created a new iso-3D graphics engine, with a completely redone and modern GUI.

Enjoy and help the project! Oh boy, I do feel young again :-).

We got no strategy

I simply love today’s Dilbert. It is so realistic.

I have seldom seen common sense strategy. Most companies rely on luck and have close to no strategy, or they go for the lunatic strategy.

About idiots

Ken Boucher posted this to the xp-list :-)

 >FWIW, I didn't find it insulting.  I was offering my (somewhat
 >> educated) viewpoint.

 I knew that education would get you in trouble someday.
 If you were a dropout like some of us, we wouldn't be having all
 these communication problems.

 That's why I like to work with people who know they're idiots. It's
 just so much easier on all of us.

 If they're an idiot and they know it, I can work with them.

 If they know they're an idiot and they turn out to be smart, so much
 the better.

 If they're an idiot and don't know it, I know I don't want to work
 with them.

 And if they're not an idiot and they know they're not an idiot, I
 don't want to work with them. Why make someone like that suffer?
 After all you'd have to be an idiot to want to work with me.

Link of the day

links.userfriendly.org/lotd/http://www.delltechforce.com/

Die Larry Ellison Puppe k?mpft gegen "Big Iron" und sagt "Let’s go in and kick some proprietory ass!"

ROTFL

.. that sounds like real life

I was once on a project where the customer realized only after 1.5 months that they want us to modify an application that does not even exist at that company. You really makes you wonder what goes on in big companies .. Great Dilbert comic

FreePop

Do you remember the days around 1990 we used to play Populous for days?

FreePop is a computer game based on the classic Populous I and II games by Bullfrog Productions. It is currently in development and aspires to be a great improvement on the original games, being a fitting gift to the open source community, as well as a part of the open source community.

freepop.sourceforge.net

OK, So What’s Populous?

For those of you who were trapped in a small dark room during the late 1980’s and 1990’s, or otherwise similarly deprived, Populous is a series of games developed by Bullfrog Productions which created the god-sim genre. The premise is that you (the player) and your opponent (AI or human) are gods or equivalent deities, and you battle each other using your powers - such as the summoning of natural disasters and the ability to coax the will of your followers - in order to destroy the followers of the opponent. The winner is the god with remaining followers.

Some shots of Populous II:

freepop.sourceforge.net

DE: Bildblog: Notizen ueber eine grosse deutsche Boulevardzeitung

Bildblog ist ein Watchblog.

Was heute in der "Bild"-Zeitung steht, steht morgen ueberall. Vielleicht sollte man sich also mal genauer anschauen, was sie schreibt. Die kleinen Merkwuerdigkeiten und das grosse Schlimme.

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AFI'S 100 YEARS ... 100 LISTS

cool

World's largest truck

Just in case you do not know what to buy me as my next birthday present .. I saw this monster on Gizmodo.

Team is an anagram for meat

Make sure you check out today’s userfriendly.

If uncertain about the dress code, also enjoy today’s Dilbert

What’s a day without Dilbert and UF?

Brown table strategy

(Source: Dilbert) Today's Dilbert fits in wonderfully with the current outsourcing mania. link

Googlism.com

Thanks to Valerie for the link

 have a look at googlism.com and type bush or chirac or armin roehrl :-)

Beat Takeshi

If you want to relax after too much work .. and are sick of the normal Hollywood movies, check out Beat Takeshi.

Excellent page about Beat Takeshi.

Takeshi Kitano on the question: What’s you’re coolest moment?

 "In Japan, there is a broadcasting station called NHK,
  like BBC, but much, much stricter. When I was a rising
  star in comedy I appeared on a live program, and the director specifically
  said you can't say such-and-such, if you use these words you'll
  be finished. So of course I couldn't resist. I said 'shit'
  12 times in a row. I said, 'I saw a shit-like substance on the street.
  So I went over and I picked it up and smelled it, and it smelled like
  shit. Then I felt it and it felt like shit, and I liked it, and
  it tasted like shit, so I put it away. Thank god I didn't step in it!'
  That was my coolest moment, because it was a tremendous risk. They could have
  cut me off but they didn't. The director was fired and the producer was moved
  to another program, far away from Tokyo."

He's inexpensive because he is totally untrained ..

Check out the Dilbert comic from 7/21 :-).

A good marketing beer add: "The ideal wife"

A friend sent me this funny beer ad this morning. It is not politically correct, but enjoy it. www.approximity.com/~armin/Idealwife.mpg

more ads

Stand up meetings ..

Check out this Dilbert comic

Dilbert - outsourcing :-)

Make sure you see the image. It's so real.