Archive for May, 2006

Chile is a country in South America and England is in Europe, but the problem is that except of it being very far there is an ocean between (in case you don’t know), so it’s probably quite a problem to get from Chile to England on foot.
Yet Karl Bushby decided to try it. He started […]

While reading fullcontactpoker forums I stumbled upon a post named “What’s so bad with killing children?“. I suggest you to read at least the first page of the thread (later it turned into a series of useless personal attacks). Here is the relevant excerpt from the Bible:
2 Kings, 2:23-24.
23: And he (Elisha) went up from […]

I am seriously pissed off. I just read over at pokerstars blog about their 5 billionth hand. They have thrown $100,000 (one hundred thousand dollars) away. Yup, they gave it to the 5 billionth raked hand participants.
Sure, poker sites get a lot of money from rake, and this is a way to say thanks or […]

They are utterly lame. I can’t imagine anything lamer than nicks that just end with numbers because the original nick wasn’t available (the exception for this are of course l33t n1ck5, that’s acceptable).
I made a small test on KGS, based on knowledge that naruto fans are often dumber than average idiots. Well, of course, there […]

Rob Gonsalves is an exceptional Canadian painter. Wikipedia states that his works can be classified as “magic realism” (someone really should upgrade that awful stud).
I’ve recently stumbled upon a collection of Rob Gonsalves’ pictures (reading digg is sometimes worth it). It’s a thread in a Russian forum, but I think that it doesn’t really matter […]

I like the good old dynamic serif typefaces (from 15th-17th century). The most well known is Garamond, which is also my favourite one, together with Pastonchi (which is so unknown it doesn’t even have its wikipedia page, although it’s a very sexy typeface (I especially love opennes of the small letter ‘f’ (see the pic […]

I had to solve another issue at KGS today. Someone was swearing in hebrew (using word benzona) and one user pointed me to Urban dictionary. Well, I searched around a bit (of course) and the one I liked the most is the word fuck. The best description is probably the second one - from Monty […]

I think I will just have to start smoking camel cigarettes. If any ad could persuade me to start smoking, it would be this one.
But seriously, I have no idea what target audience the creators had in mind when creating this ad (maybe, they were undercover go players trying to propagete go and even got […]

Sometimes I write a post (or just intend to write it, like now) about a website that is completely in czech language. It makes no sense to write that in english, since any potential visitor has to know czech rather well to enjoy the site. On the other hand it wouldn’t make sense writing half […]

There are some words that are often misused. It drives me insane when I see native English speakers use “your” instead of “you’re” (I have no problems with “youre”, I can decipher that quite easily) and vice versa. Some people also use “their” instead of “they’re” or—even worse—instead of “there”. I can see no fucking […]