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Why are trailers on TV for DVDs usually much better than the trailers that were on when the movie was released in cinemas? So many times I’ve gone “Wow, what’s that movie?! That looks rather swish. Maybe I should get out to the cinema more”, only to find out at the end of the ad it’s for something that looked terribly dull when they promoted it the first time but that’s no longer on the big screen. Ah well, there’s always bittorrent.

has a spare ticket for the Nine Inch Nails gig in nodnoL on Tuesday, so I’ll be heading down over Monday night to meet her at somepoint the next morning and then with later on in the day before the gig. Will anyone else be out for it?

I’m also going to Disfunction, an occasional Dundee hard dance stylee night tomorrow if anyone’s interested. Details after the cut.

Details copied from the posters in the centre of town. The night doesn’t have any web presence so I’ll probably get a few hits from search results after the spiders get to this post on my blog :)

Disfunction – Friday 1st July
City Function Room (op. the bus station)
8:30pm – 2:30am, £7

Jay M (Future Sound Corp./Force 9/Therapy)
Paul Nisbet (High Fish Recordings/Exposure)
Graeme Ross (Fluid/Exposure/Therapy)
Ben C (Disfunction/Addiction/Therapy)
The Juvenile (Future Sound Corp./Disfunction)
Billy McG (Disfunction/The Bubble Club)

P.S. Do my quiz, bitches!

I really should work on one of the following;

• Infest 2004 – Extras
• Blogging and the law 2
• Mortiis and Dark City
• Some thoughts on Star Wars
• My trip to London
• Some more links 14
• Things that piss me off

..but I can’t be arsed….

Remember I mentioned I glowsticked at Entropy? I just received a package in the mail containing NOFX’s The War On Errorism and a note saying “Cheers Milk, nice glow sticks! Enjoy the CD, all the best, Neil & Doug”! Aww, those guys.. This furthers my theory that you can glowstick to anything with a beat :)

“I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him. It is for this reason that I’m writing you today, to formally request that this alternative theory be taught in your schools, along with the other two theories. In fact, I will go so far as to say, if you do not agree to do this, we will be forced to proceed with legal action. I’m sure you see where we are coming from. If the Intelligent Design theory is not based on faith, but instead another scientific theory, as is claimed, then you must also allow our theory to be taught, as it is also based on science, not on faith.” link

• “Four skydivers … decided to give the Nintendo DS wireless capabilities a try while they were freefalling” (interesting, but check the rather unimpressed comments on the /. article).
• A handy, who-knew guide for the expiration dates 77 foods, beauty products, and household goods
• Boy recites pledge of allegiance to the United Federation of Planets in class, gets suspended.
• Is that a turned on Casio Exilim EX-S500 in your pocket, or d’ya wanna fuck?
• Interesting history of the Starbucks logo
• Interesting setup for DJing with cassette tapes
• Nifty flash optical illusion
• Supa-kawaii!

And finally, written by CheeseburgerBrown, the guy who did the amazing The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster blog; What Art Is.

After work on Friday I went over the river to my parents to pick up my Creative Zen Micro mp3 player, which had just come back from repairs again. I had a google regarding the problem I’d had with the unit (dodgy headphone socket) and it seems the flaw is fairly wide spread; Creative recommends owners use a headphone cable with a 90° angle jack which is a bit stupid but I’ll try and find an adaptor as I can’t be bothered with the hassle of sending it away and having no music to listen to when out and about.

Headed out to Entropy (monthly punk/emo/ska/hardcore night) for a bit of a change and had much fun dancing away avec glowsticks, although I was a bit disappointed that no proper pit occurred as I’d have enjoyed a good mosh or pogo. DJs Neil and Doug seem to know their stuff when it comes to punk but they don’t seem to care much for punky industrial (i.e. Mindless Self Indulgence, etc), dance-punk (i.e., !!!, LCD Soundsystem, etc), or punk influenced indie/rock (i.e. The Mars Volta/… And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, etc). Ah well.

Got a Megabus Saturday morning up to Aberdeen, arrived a little after noon and met up with Suzzi (), Missy, Claire and sprogs (). We headed to a park to relax for a bit where I ate some Sushi, wrestled with Suzzi and Claire, and narrowly avoided crushing a small child :o Got back to Suzzi’s with Missy and the sprogs and collapsed, exhausted, on the sofa bed. Snoozed for a bit then chatted and noodled around until it was time to get ready for Teh Ghey Club! After a bath and shave, I popped on my knee-length black skirt and sleeveless lycra top, while Missy donned his maids outfit and sexay high heeled boots (unfortunatly no pics were taken, so nothing for ), then we all headed out to the club, Oh Henrys. I met up with my friend Drew from work in Dundee who I had a bit of a chat with; he impressed me greatly with his ability to flawlessly perform the routine for DJ Casper’s Cha Cha Slide. Suzzi and I got down on the dancefloor with some hot glowstick action to Gwen Stefani, the Spice Girls and Steps, and I even got a kiss on both cheeks for lending some random guy a glowstick. Someone asked me what sex I was – score! Gender bending++. All in all, I had a great time meeting peeps and going out, something I seem to have been doing a lot of recently. Aberdeen last weekend, Edinburgh the week before and London before that. I should try and make it up for Elizium at some point in the future to see how it has changed since I was there last (which must have been over two years ago now). This Friday is Sin and the Friday after that I was thinking of giving Dysfunction (Dundee techno/trance/etc night) a go. I’ve 68 glowsticks out of 80 left from the mass purchase, so if I keep it up at this rate I’ll be running a bit low by the end of the year ;)

No milk today, it wasn’t always so
The company was gay, we’d turn night into day
As music played the faster did we dance
We felt it both at once, the start of our romance

“During a press conference, the scientists said they had last month transplanted multi-potent stem cells from umbilical cord blood to the 37-year-old female patient suffering from a spinal cord injury and she can now walk on her own.” – link

• Microsoft thinks they can share better than BitTorrent
• In other news; grey hat hackers rip the shit out of Windows in front of Microsoft execs
• HDR lighting in the specially made Half Life 2 Lost Coast level: some bumph here, more bumph and screens here
• If you don’t use RSS feeds, you’re not hardcore
• Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
• “This is what it sounds like…when Tamagotchi cry”

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If you haven’t already seen the pic, check ’s new and rather nifty nail-job. The image has spread around geek blogs like wildfire, turning up on Shiny Shiny. For some reason the editor there, Katie Lee (who also writes for The Independent on Sunday Review, Stuff, Marie Claire and Custom PC), decided to start the post with the blatently sexist line “Here’s one for the geeky ladies in the audience” which I was most pissed off with, so I’ve fired off an e-mail to her regarding it. I’d rather like to hear something back or I’ll definitly reconsider my subscription to the sites RSS feed.

Update for anyone coming from here; my blog is crossposted to my LiveJournal account where there are some comments regarding this post.