Best not to click this if you’re at work, or the type of person who gets all upset about rudeness…

The Internet is full of bonkers people, as my last post shows. To provide some light entertainment in these serious and depressing times, I present to you the Insane in the Membrane blog.

The Internet… a place where anyone can post their opinions, no matter how ill informed or downright crazy they may be. Is the world going to end today, tomorrow or next week? Are aliens from other dimensions going to materialise and make out with your sister? Who knows… well the people mentioned here think they do. Read on

Think of it as a showcase for all the weird and downright crazy websites and YouTube videos that exist. It’s a bit like those late night telly programs that show people doing odd things, only without the canned laughter.

Should you find a website deserving of a mention, please tell me and I will have a look. Right now LHC related things are fair game, as are the Scientology lot, but if you know of any other crazed loons that need a bit of free public ridicule, add a comment.

If you are a crazed loon, feel free to also comment.

Please direct all humour failures to the nearest wall since any angry or abusive emails sent to me will be posted as a matter of course.

Looks like someone’s been putting acid in the Ars technica water supply…

There are an increasing number of devices that could potentially take advantage of the additional bandwidth, including external hard drives, flash readers, video cameras, and the all-new USB-compliant llama expected to be genetically delivered from the Andes sometime in late 2011. Obviously a USB llama wouldn’t be much use without a USB 3.0 device—ever tried downloading from a llama over an old 10BaseT network? Yeah. It’d be worse.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070918-intel-announces-demonstrates-usb-3-0.html

USB 3.0 sounds interesting but I wonder what the point is when we’ve got ethernet, SCSI and all the other standard protocols and connectors. Maybe in 10 years time everything in a PC will be USB - hard drives, network, keyboards, printers, the works.

Memes are funny things. One minute you’re a sensible, thinking being writing a post on the Internet, next minute you’re on teh interwebs spouting all sorts of nonsensical junk. It’s really weird, nobody sits down and says “OK, this is a new meme, you can reply to anything with all your base… and if you feel like it, the form I iz in ur <noun> <verb>ing ur <other noun>“. We just sort of vacuum them up from each other. Wouldn’t it be great if actual, real information was transmitted in the same way?
Seems even the real world of printed text isn’t immune, as this story from the Houston Chronical of all places shows.  It’s amusing watching someone attempt to report on Internet culture, unless you visit several hundred message boards a day it just doesn’t make sense It’s like trying to explain a Monty Python film to someone who’s never heard of them - it just doesn’t work.

I’m off to pay a deposit on my new house now. Or is that I is in ur shopz payin’ my depositz, can I has keys pleez? Damn you Internet

hijack-hacked-linksys-wireless-router

Read on for an amusing tale of what happens when people fail to change the default settings in their hardware. I’ve got a wireless network, my neighbour seems to as well. Fortunately for him he has WPA, fortunately for me I have MAC address filtering.

Unfortunately for me I have a Belkin router that doesn’t work properly

What happens when you combine the Nigerian 419 scam and Monty Python? Something very very funny, that’s what. Just click the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvyrzQldOKE

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense.

Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don’t hold up
By John Rennie

“>Scientific American 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Sometimes it tells you important things like I have to be a mile from my home to be recovered.

Other times it tells you quite serious things that are unintentionally funny.

So, my car isn’t insured if war breaks out and they drop a nuclear bomb on me, or if our local nuclear power plant blows up, or if a UFO flies over me and its radioactive engines either break the car, or cause pressure waves that break the car.

So lets hope aliens don’t invade any time soon, and if they do, can they leave my car alone. It’s currently in the garage being fixed. Getting it there was a little stressful. Given the car last broke down because it got wet, I wasn’t five centimetres out our driveway before I had to drive through a small lake that had formed on the road. I don’t think I’ve ever driven down our road so slowly and carefully. Every slight jolt of the car or weird vibration transmitted up the steering wheel had me wondering where a good stopping place was.

Fortunately I made it to the garage, although working out which house to go to was a little tricky. Not too well advertised this place. It’s literally someone’s house with a garage.

The raft race was funny. The “official” rules are that you have to make a raft out of anything, and you can’t use premade hulls (so no strapping some beer kegs around a boat hull), and the thing has to be paddled across the loch.

Well, we had one boat made from the roof of a transit van with a small outboard engine attached to it, several kayaks tied together, a surfboard and a blow-up dinghy. The raft done by the police was the best, it was a load of beer kegs tied to two pallets and some wood. The village police woman was sat on it along with some other coppers. Deciding paddling was too hard they got a tow off a huge motorboat.

The towing was going well until the motorboat accelerated…

… At which point the raft was torn apart, ejecting half its quite drunken crew and their drink into the sea. We whizzed over to help them and to find out if they’d actually got any form of bouyancy aid attached to them. They did, and were more concerned about their cans of beer and bottle of cider going astray than the fact they’d just fallen in the water behind the biggest powerboat in the loch. We deposited the remains of half their raft at the start and whizzed the slightly damp crew to the finish so they could continue with the drinking and falling over. After that we followed the last “raft” to the shore then, getting bored with sitting in a powerboat on my day off, I gave the boat to Graham - who quite likes powerboats - so he could go and “practice” driving.