1. Top 10 Lists

   Let’s face it, the only reason for putting up Top 10 lists is to drive quick traffic to your blog. Why? Because you are lazy and cannot concentrate for more than a short sound bite. In fact, i shall make this into a podcast for the activity handicapped

2. Cool Pictures / Videos

   “Oh no! Seen this thing? It’s sooo fracking cool. Digg me now.” C’on peeps. Enough already. There’s a gazillion things out there and if even the most basic deformation of a potato or Dorito crisp send shivers of excitement down your spine, you should have yourself locked in a nice comfy room with no windows and lot’s of cushions. Stepping outside your door might kill you with excitement. Be forewarned.

3. Social Networking Sites

   Whether it’s plain-old I’mSpaced or Ringed-in, what’s the point of a thousand sites trying to network everyone? The features are the same: spam farms for 10 year olds. IMHO they should all be bought by Google today and made into something useful. Everyone could have a proper website and .. oh wait!

4. PFYs discovering life outside their 10sqft dorm room

   As shocking as it may be to under-educated poor North American teenagers, but there’s a whole planet out there (/me points to behind west and east coasts)! America is not representative of people on this world, neither do they horde all the gold or have discovered law making. Here’s a shocker for you:

   North America was re-populated a few hundred years ago by outcasts adventurers from Europe (just off the east coast) and enterprising young men and women from the far east (that’s actually just west off LA). As a bonus I throw in the fact that they weren’t even the first people to live on the great plains – there were people there before them. They were called native North Americans.

5. USA World Domination

   Kinda goes with the previous rant entry. What’s up with people always trying to conquer the world? Can’t we just learn from all the failed attempts before and abandon the idea altogether? Who is next? I ponder Antartica hasn’t had a go yet.. .

6. Political Commentary

   I love the fact that the Internet is so free anyone can say anything these days! Meaningful or otherwise (the latter mostly), everyone feels they should have a go at politics. Just a shame nobody votes anymore.. .

7. Death, Destruction and Hype

   That one is actually quite disgusting. Whenever people die, get maimed or manage their 10th head-shot in a row there’s the obligatory media hype. Big, bold headlines, supported by a strap line so OTT everyone is scared instantly into voting to give up their freedom to secure it. Makes no sense. People see reports of mass murder in a far flung place, send aid Dollars and vote on new legislation making sure that those poor people will still have something to suffer from in case of the next L!VE Aid concert.

8. How to design a website

   I think everyone knows how to do a website today. Or let me put this in another way, they should. The web has been here for a long time now and all the website designing tools make it virtually impossible for people to venture off the path of good taste. Whenever you give people advice, they listen, nod a lot and then go off to do the exact opposite anyway. If someone tells me they’ve designed their own site I always ask two things:

   a) How long did it take you, and
   b) Was it any fun

   Because if it took them less than a couple of hours, chances are they have no idea why they are having a site anyway. Also, if it was fun it sure as heck couldn’t have been done professionally, right?

9. Rapid (Rabbit) Web2.0 Trashlications

   “Uhh, look it goes zoom zoom!” Yeah, but no – why? Visual interface effects are there for one reason, and one reason only: to aid the user.

   Everyone seems to be able to get their next killer app out of the door before even the basic concept is finalised. Let alone planned out and thought through. Yes, I agree that it is great to put ideas into working prototypes – but please not forget all those failed and over-venture-capitalised enterprises of the late 90′s. There’s a reason why so few are still around: they actually sat down and thought about whether that half-arsed idea they had last night down the pub would actually work.

10. Plagiarism 2.0 – Content-theft driven websites via RSS

    RSS feeds are a wicked tool. No, really RSS feeds are a thing of evil. Everytime someone sits down and writes / designs / creates something and publishes it through an XML data exchange file, ten scammers get made. Now it’s real easy to create wholesome portal websites with someone else’s content. Just register a domain and parse what ever feeds apply, slap some ads on it and bang: a free golden goose! Time to buckle down those feeds.. .

If you’ve read thus far and have no idea how you got here, I suggest PANIC! So digg me while you do.. .

“So long and thanks for all the fish.“

Direct Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnIajyXDLs

Lazyboy is a musical project started by former Aqua member Søren Nystrøm Rasted, check out Help.com for more.

Lazy-B’s Underwear goes inside the pants music video courtesy of YouTube.com:

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Ben Luhrmann’s Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen music video also from YouTube.com:

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Enjoy

Sources:

http://www.lazyboytv.com/

http://help.com/wiki/1043923/lazyboy/

http://www.thebeatsurrender.co.uk/daily/recordbox/underwear-goes-inside-the-pants-lazyb/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazyboy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Nystr%C3%B8m_Rasted

Along with the design I’ve created a “Ann for Prime Minister” banner and Little Britain mini button, which you will be no doubt delighted to hear are free! As in free beer. If you use them please don’t forget to link back to her Little Britain Ann for Prime Minister post or my blog. Ideally both *g*. Thanks.

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Please save the images to your server to preserve my bandwidth. Thanks.

I just got to write up more about this show which won the 2004 Gemmini Best Comedy Award. It’s lo-no-budget stuff (filmed and edited on DV), absolutely politically incorrect and hillariously funny. See how much you can do with a good script and a few comitted people?!

More to come. Meanwhile check out the Trailer Park Boys website at Showcase. And if anybody has season two as Bit Torrent or otherwise, please post it up on bCT or let me know where to get it from!

Although sharing TV rips is most likely illegal, I can’t wait to see more of this show. And once the DVDs are out, I’ll buy ‘em all. Perhaps one day the networks will understand that the way we “consume” TV has changed and that they had better gone with what their customers demand. When the heck will we be able to enjoy true TV on demand?

The clip is definitly worth watching IMHO and should help boost our lads morale as intended. However, the British Army never heard of Bit Torrent and just put the badly ripped video file on their internal network. The file weighted in at some 52MB and when the word spread and thousands of service men and women from around the globe downloaded it… guess what? Yeah, our multi-million pound defence Internet was brought to its knees LOL!

Without further ado, please point your Bit Torrent client to:
Lo-Res (5MB) and Hi-Res (52MB) torrents. Peter Kay’s “original” spoof can be found here. Enjoy.

The original hi-res, lo-res and DVD can be found here thanks to Vidahost, Putfile, TJworld and of course the British army!

Links: You can read all about it on the BBC News website.
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