Posts from ‘August, 2008’

“Paris Hilton sells her special taco!”
*pitter-pattering golf clap*
Well done.

It’s funny to think that The Hampster Dance is 10 years old. If only Roger Miller could have lived to see the humble whistle stop he composed for the 1973 Disney Film Robin Hood become the most enduring of Internet phenomenons. In a hypertext world, a page staying in the same form for five minutes [...]

A couple of times a week, I go to Halopedia and type “cleanup” into the search bar. With a sigh I look at the long list, some of which are already peopled with articles I’ve already tidied up for the benefit of nerdy gamers everywhere with too much spare time on their hands.
Every time I [...]

Just got this e-mail from a former fellow worker drone:
The strangest event just unfolded: I had a nightmare (well, it was scary at the time) that you were chasing me as an evil robot from Xanthur that wouldn’t allow me to leave the planet. I couldn’t destroy you or any your fellow foes for the [...]

Having sequestered myself in the rear of the mammalian’s primitive cinema-dome, I subjected myself to this travesty in the hopes the robots would win. Or at least make a good showing. Once again the mechanized nation was cast as being universally stupid, subservient, and generally useless.
At least our animated representatives moved with more realism than [...]