Interesting Sites, Facts and Other Sh*t

[bundibundi]

Lets gather together our knowledge of the interwebs, technology and the world as it is into one nifty little thread. Im always looking for new ways to bludge while Im supposed to be working.

http://www.latfh.com - Look at this f*ing hipster. Lets laugh at the people who reinvented cool.

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com - funny cats

http://www.killsometime.com - Good site for games and videos, kept up to date. Have monthly epic fail compilations which are worth the price of admission (which is free)

http://www.bash.org - Funny IRC conversations, though slightly nerdy.

http://www.tv-links.eu - watch almost any TV show online, updated pretty much as soon as they go to air, generally good quality.

http://www.myp2p.eu - stream live sports

http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicor ... -game.html - The soundtrack is more addictive than the game.

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iPhone apps -

VLCStreamer - watch videos from your PC on your iPhone
pocketcloud - control your PC from your iPhone
downloads - download whatever you want from the net
DungeonRaid - Addictive column game with RPG element

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The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.

Less than one percent of people who entered Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp survived, after being liberated by the Russians in 1945.

American poet Edgar Allan Poe was once thrown out of West Point Academy in 1831 after showing up for inspection stark naked.

A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.

Ants never sleep in their wholelife.

A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.

The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.

Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

[shinAUFC]

http://www.iffhs.de/?10f42e00fa2d17f737 ... 6f28f53512

[bundibundi]

http://www.iffhs.de/?10f42e00fa2d17f737 ... 6f28f53512

no idea how they come up with that, but go us. highest ranked a league team and only a few spots behind everton. its clear now why DV spends so much time on an aufc forum compared to the others.

[shinAUFC]

Its based on those who qualified for their respective champions league.

every game won you are awarded points, but different competitions earn different points, obviously euro champs league earn the biggest per win.

Next 2 seasons we will not be ranked

[Steelinho]

Also takes into account our games in the Club World Cup, which jack up our ranking substantially.

[sevengoals]

http://www.zonalmarking.net/

Football tactics, formations, diagrams, chalkboards and graphs

[Nash]

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/03/16/ ... t-tactics/

great site sevengoals!

[shinAUFC]

BOOKMARKED!!

hmmm wonder how it applies to FIFA 11 lol

[Agostinho]

Ladies and gentlemen I present you:

Kim Jong-il looking at things.

www.kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com

[Stobes]

Ladies and gentlemen I present you:

Kim Jong-il looking at things.

http://www.kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com

That Kim Jong-il sure does like to look at things. Good on him.

[Steelinho]

[Old Gregg]

http://www.latfh.com - Look at this f*ing hipster. Lets laugh at the people who reinvented cool.

hehe! In a similar vein:
http://diehipster.wordpress.com/ - fucking hilarious this one, some cranky Brooklyner bringing down the hammer...
http://stuffwhitepeoplelikeinmelbourne.blogspot.com/ - taking aim at Australia's ground zero for urban cool look-at-me-ism

[terry tibbs]

You've reminded me of this one I came across years ago. Somehow its still going. It's wildly, willfully offensive and tasteless but the sheer force of his ridiculous outbursts makes me laugh.
http://www.ifuckinghatehorses.com

[sevengoals]

Ladies and gentlemen I present you:

Kim Jong-il looking at things.

http://www.kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com

That Kim Jong-il sure does like to look at things. Good on him.

Inspirational!