| Monday, February 28, 2005 |
 | I would say NWA is a good demarcation of when rap crossed over [to the "dark side"]. It became much more about guns, drugs and gangs, while the early 80's was more about dancing, and had an innocence and an energy which I found appealing.
Beautiful. I may not know much about hip hop, but I do know delicious, farm-fresh stupidity when I see it.
Cray supercomputer on sale on eBay. It's incredible how quickly computers lose their value - in a fortnight's time he'll probably end up donating it to the local school, who will be grateful but a little confused. Personally, I'd want to know how many frames per second it can manage in Doom 3 before buying.
If you can't get a decent frame rate, you may be seeking another way to pass the time. Might I suggest a little game I've cooked up called Sudan 1 bingo? The rules, in short:
1) Go to the FSA website and download the list of contaminated foods. Since the FSA seems to have been too cocking lazy to pull the data into a single page, do their job for them by cutting and pasting the pages together.
2) Send this aggregated document to your fellow players.
3) Each player prints out a copy of this list.
4) Each player runs down the list, placing an asterisk against any product they have definitely consumed in the past two weeks, and a circle against any product they feel they might have consumed.
5) This list is then totted up, with one point for each asterisk and two for each circle (because uncertainty is the best part of any health scare). Highest score wins the round.
6) This repeats every time the list of proscribed foods is updated. The game ends when all participants die of bird flu, CJD or the effects of climate change.
7) If any player places a circle or asterisk next to Hot Dog and Ketchup Pot Noodle, the game ends immediately. Nobody wins. Everybody must sit down and thinks very seriously about his or her life.
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