Nick Jackson

Apparently our favourite gaming-related “lawyer”, Jack Thompson, has walked out of a hearing, claiming that the judge doesn’t have authority to preside over aforementioned hearing. Associated is a rather verbose letter, in which he seems to perform his usual trick of going off at 7 different tangents at the same time using bizzare language and repeatedly referencing how he, The Mighty Jack Thompson, has saved the world.

This is the same person who seems hell-bent on banning any video game which is more violent than The Adventures Of Fluffy Bunny Rabbit in Cotton Wool Land (not a real game) since it scars the poor children and makes them want to go decapitate police officers using chainsaws and then urinate down their throats.

This is the same person who throws legal threats at anybody within 100 yards who mentions his name, the name of anybody he has sued (which is an extensive list) or the name of anybody he has sent a legal threat to (an even longer list).

This is the same person who goes off his nut about how God has sent him on a mission to clean the world of the violent smut which is degrading today’s society every time that somebody points out that he’s talking bollocks.

You get the idea. Please, hurry up and debar him so we can finally be rid of his endless rambling about how far up his own backside he is.

I’m off to submit 42 pages of work. Normally 42 pages would be a huge essay or report, perhaps extensive technical documentation. No.

I’m submitting 9 pages of report, and 33 pages of printed code. Almost 4/5 of my submission is something which does bugger all when printed, and would make far more sense to submit on a CD.

Stupidity rules.

As strange, unexpected, slightly bizzare websites go, this one does pretty well.

The girls are hot, but the rest of the scenes are either disturbing or having an element of fetish (Or more likely both).

Make of it what you will.

Apparently the wonderful University of Lincoln have acquired some bicycle storage huts, allowing students with everybody’s favourite two-wheeled transit method to lock them up securely. Students have to provide their own padlock, but this is only to be expected and is no more unusual than any other bicycle storage method. However, I spotted a slight problem in the message telling us about this.

There are three huts by the GCW Library and a further six by the Sports Centre on the Brayford campus.

So by my maths that’s a grand total of nine secure bicycle huts. For a student and staff body of somewhere in the region of 30,000. (more…)

I’d like to start with a genuine quote from the University of Lincoln’s Public Security Policy, available on the university’s internal Portal system under the first entry for a search on “security policy”:

The University has an obligation to balance these 2 requirements. Occassionally these requirements will conflict…..academic freedom…. blah

To which my only reply can be “dude”. It appears that the only publicly accessible version of the Public Security Policy is a draft.

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Please tell me it’s April 1st: California College Offers YouTube Class (FOX News)

I think this is the end of an era; all those Nigerian 419 spammers (You know, Mr. Umbugaguwakubankurmagaru of the 22nd Nigerian First Banking Oil Holdings Corporation) have finally been caught!

Failing that, this is probably the worst 419 attempt I’ve ever seen in my life. Read more for the full thing.

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Pretty, huh? This is the official logo of the 2012 Olympic games, to be held in London. It comes in a variety of colours, and is designed to be animated in all manner of wierd and wonderful ways. The cost? A phenomenal £400,000 to the Wolff Olins agency, who apparently specialise in things like this. There’s one major problem though, which I will illustrate with the aid of an (Admittedly virtual) marker pen.

Yes, that’s the real logo underneath. Now go look at the the one without my scrawlings.

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