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Small world

Small disaster: Suffering a power blackout when you’ve downloaded 97.8 per cent of a 234MB file.

Small victory: Getting past that ball-breaking World 2-4 level in Super Mario Brothers 3 after numerous attempts. (And in the Funny How It All Worked Out dept: I wouldn’t have been playing if it wasn’t for the blackout.)

Small acknowledgement: Gullible and simple-minded might also describe someone who was suckered into buying a bootleg SMB3 cartridge.

Small rant: eBay’s inability to filter for US-based sellers who sell to overseas customers. You can filter for US sellers and you can filter for items which are available to Malaysian bidders but not for both. “Ships to: United States only” has dashed my hopes one too many times.

Posted in General.


Fight cool with burning hearts!

Two more reasons to watch Dekaranger:

1) A giant robot riding a giant motorcycle.

2) A magically babe-a-licious villainess.

(Images found on the Tanoyo board.)

Posted in TV.


Fake intell

Wire News reports:

A virus purporting to show images of Osama bin Laden’s suicide popped up on the Internet on Friday, designed to entice recipients to open a file that unleashes malicious software code, security experts said.

The fake bin Laden suicide file, when opened, unleashes a program called a Trojan horse that makes it possible for attackers to take over infected personal computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

You have to wonder who would be so simple-minded and gullible enough to swallow that codswallop and actually click on that file.

Who indeed.

Posted in Web.


Megablast

Phrase of the day:

Super Nashwan Power

(Screenshots.)

Posted in Games.


Fleep

Few would consider math problems to be an engrossing read but Jason Shiga‘s Fleep is riveting.

In the author’s own words:

It’s about a boy who wakes up in a telephone booth which has been mysteriously selaed in an envelope of concrete. Using only the contents of his pockets (two pens, a paperback novel, three coins and 20 ft of unwaxed dental floss) our hero must fashion and execute an escape plan before he runs out of oxygen.

The comic is 44 strips long and I dare you to stop reading after 22. It’s impossible. Impossible, I tell you!

(Link obtained from MeFi.)

Posted in Comics.