Author: joelh

I get paid for every second of your life I waste. Otto sends this interesting remix of Steve Balmer remixed saying the words developer over and over.

If you, like me, are painfully addicted to WoW or even if you are just curious and have a nice phat pipe, check out these two videos by a guy called Tristan (not my friend Tristan), Here Without You and Not JUST Another Love Story. The second one is especially hilarious and includes some good…

World of Warcraft is the latest MMORPG, like Everquest before it. That means it is an online roleplaying game that you play with hundreds of people, doing quests with them, killing them, trading items and so forth. It has a pay-per-month system ontop of the cost of buying the game, which is a standard $80…

Writing a review for a Harry Potter book is almost by definition a waste of time – anyone who is going to read it read it on the first day and everyone else could not care less. This website, however, has never and is unlikely to ever be about me using my time productively so…

Niven writes: So… its happened – in London, a young Brazilian electrician was shot to death- 5 rounds in the head – as a supected suicide bomber. Apparently, police were alerted when they noticed him wearing unseasonably warm clothing. Funny – who’d have thunk a brazilian would maybe find London summers a little nippy? Mitigating…

I don’t have much respect for the news in Australia. What it covers, how it covers a story, and how it does affect people is a very scary thing. This open-letter to Sixty Minutes was spawned by the following news story and a fight with my mother questioning if Shane Warne is BAD . (Her…

Battlefield 2 is the sequel to Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam. It is set in the present day with battles between America and Iraq, and America and China. Much of its gameplay and style has been directly lifted from the hugely popular Desert Storm expansion for Battlefield, which turned Battlefield 1942 into modern downtown iraq.…

Sheep ringtone, finally someone remixed nature.

From boingboing Left Behind Game, a game based on a science fiction book series in which Christians have gone to heaven and non-Christians have been left on earth to battle it out to the death (as those with prepared to question questionable material should be!). It sounds awesome, who needs nukes when you have smite.…

This is my old phone… Sorry, I mean WAS! Distruction