* Posts by Winkypop

5642 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Oct 2008

Man FLIES with Android-powered homemade bird wings

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Meh

Hmmmmm

Colour me skeptical, but I'd be happy to be wrong.

Braben sticks knife into secondhand games market

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I like my games to be like my computer

Not bleeding edge and a bit cheaper...

Google cools data center with bathtubs, dishwashers

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Pint

If you don't like Google

Send them a message.

Just piss in your shower/storm water drain.

New supernova pops up just over there

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Joke

Supernova or....

....just someone using the new iPad?

You decide.

Testicle-boiling new iPad ignites fanboi fury

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Flame

Selling like hot, errr iPads!

Still want one

Still getting one

Kim Dotcom seizures 'null and void'

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Paris Hilton

Re: Makes me wonder

...and I only EVER read the articles in Playboy!

New iPad sales hit 3 million in first 4 days

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Unhappy

I've got to wait for my shiny new i3pad thing

And I don't like it one bit!

Giant planet pileups in far-flung star systems: Computer says yes

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Alert

Mind the gap

How universally true!

The Register obtains covert snaps of Google's new London offices

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WTF?

It makes me think

c.u.l.t

Aussie hardcore gamers set to be legit

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Facepalm

Stop it

Or you will go blind.

Victorian Taxi Directorate exposes 400+ email addresses

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Facepalm

Taxiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !

Oh dear

The Facebook test: Why social Big Data is important

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HR psycobable

They use that crap because it's easier than actually doing a good job.

Flying Spaghetti Monster's works spotted in space

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Trollface

But is the FSM evil or compassionate?

According to the old-menu he is a monster of great wrath, hatred, fire, flood and pestilence.

However, if you read the new-menu he is a monster that teaches love and forgiveness.

We are but his minions and we need to know.

Tevatron refines Higgs boson picture

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We're gonna get you little higgsey!

Oh yes we are!

Hands on with the Apple iPad 3

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Go

Want, new, shiny, thing!

Sorry, I have been turned.

What?

No apple icon?

<-- this is close I guess.

New iPad 4G data connection will only work in America

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Wow

Fondleslab 4G signal here in Australia, all the way from America!

Oh, hang on...

SimCity to return after 10-year holiday

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Devil

Planning, tactics, control - err what?

I just used to build a huge city only to let Godzilla loose and watch the fun.

Pro tip: Always put the fire stations well out of town.

Venus BELCHES solar wind in shock weather explosion

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Re: No idea...

Oooh look, a cute penguin!

Deutsche Telekom shatters data-transfer speed record

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Alien

Imagine if they also used the...

...Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator !

Google’s privacy policy: Incoherent and confusing

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Big Brother

It's fine print

You're NOT expected to actually read it.

Lego space shuttle hits 114,000ft

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Trollface

Hang on....

I think I saw the strings!

iPhone con man knifed to death in knock-off mobile brawl

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A bit harsh

Going equipped was this guys 2nd mistake.

China's first MOON rover slated for 2013 launch

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Flame

First Chinese takeaway on the moon

Good on them.

Meanwhile, the US is gazing thoughtfully at it's own navel.

AOL joins advertiser exodus from Rush Limbaugh

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Mushroom

A nasty piece of work

And chock full of hubris.

He believes his own press releases.

Citrix drops Rush Limbaugh over 'slutgate' slurs

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Devil

The guy's a total douchebag

Self-righteous hating moron.

These god-botherers make me sick.

Weeing Frenchman sues Google over Street View photo

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Trollface

Haven't you guys heard of...

...slashing your grass?

mon dieu!

New forum Wishlist

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Trollface

Needs more cowbell

Obviously.

Hobbit movie locations using 6km of data cabling

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Joke

Meanwhile on the set of Star Wars 7

Staff are using the force 2.0...

Asteroid could SMASH INTO EARTH in 2040

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Joke

Surely

If enough people unfriend AG5 on Facebook, it will go away!

Anonymous web weapon backfires with hidden banking Trojan

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Trollface

Still laughing.....

Oh man that's funny.

Warner Bros boss moots 'disc-to-digital' scheme

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FAIL

How long until in-show advertising?

If they control the medium (cloud), they control the way the message is shown.

DVDs never looked so good.

Blighty's Post Office computer system goes titsup

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Alert

A posties lot is not a happy one...

Blame the dick-wads from head office for delivery issues and cut-backs.

Paper plane world record disputed

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Linux

Should have used duct tape

Duct tape can do anything.

Ask the Mythbusters.

<-- looks a bit like a duck

Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board

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Devil

Animated cartoon character versus a politician?

Hmmmm, how to chose?

Both are 2 dimensional.

Aussie soldiers let rip on Facebook

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FAIL

We ask that you shoot them

But please don't hate them.

???

Stratfor leak: US 'has secret indictment' of Julian Assange

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FAIL

US intelligence firm Stratfor

So not actually very intelligent then.

Epic net outage in Africa as FOUR undersea cables chopped

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So many African cables cut

It's a good thing that the dark continent is firmly joined at Egypt, otherwise it might float off.

Bone-bothering boffins build GIANT penguin from fossils

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Linux

Pingwins

I for one bow down to our long deceased uber-penguin antipodean overlords...

Microbee flies again

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Headmaster

We had one at our school

Only the 'smart kids' were allowed to use it (under strict teacher supervision).

Us dumb kids were very graciously allowed to watch it in operation, but only from a 'safe' distance of about 10 feet.

Child abuse suspect won't be forced to decrypt hard drive

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Trollface

Oh you Americans

And your zany laws!

Facebook denies poaching your text messages on Android

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Devil

Facebook

I've heard of that!

It's game over for pinball pioneer

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Pint

Specials when lit

Hours and hours of fun at 20c a pop!

Vale.

Great Firewall springs a leak: Chinese flood Obama's Google+ page

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Shhhhhhhhhh

Enough with the democracy already!

Next thing you know everyone will want some.

Avoid flying next to blubberbeasts with seatmate-finding site

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FAIL

Pre flight stalking

As if flying wasn't bad enough....

Chinese cops bust culinary Apple trademark thieves

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Coat

The new iPhone iStove

Just what every Chinese bachelor needs in his iPad.

Galaxy is teeming with homeless planets

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Windows

Easy to spot surely

Just look for where they stash their cardboard boxes at night time.

Boffins build blood-swimming medical microbot

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Facepalm

Conspiracy nuts dream...

Wait for it:

"The Illuminati World Government is secretly putting robotic chips in peoples"

I'll continue to consume my chips the traditional way, with a Pint of best.

Private Manning keeps mum at Wikileaks plea hearing

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Mushroom

In war

No one should be trusted nor believed.

Hey Commentard! - or is that Commenter?

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Happy

I'm a proud commentard

I've always been a commentard.

It's just a laff, innit?

Apple gobbles apps search robot Chomp

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Big Brother

I must admit

I'm slowly turning into an Apple fanboi.

It must be an evil plot....