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Maunsell Towres

The Thames Estuary Army Forts were constructed in 1942 to a design by Guy Maunsell, following the successful construction and deployment of the Naval Sea Forts. Their purpose was to provide anti-aircraft fire within the Thames Estuary area. Each fort consisted of a group of seven towers with a walkway connecting them all to the central control tower. The fort, when viewed as a whole, comprised one Bofors tower, a control tower, four gun towers and a searchlight tower. They were arranged in a very specific way, with the control tower at the centre, the Bofors and gun towers arranged in a semi-circular fashion around it and the searchlight tower positioned further away, but still linked directly to the control tower via a walkway. All the forts followed this plan and, in order of grounding, were called the Nore Army Fort, the Red Sands Army Fort and finally the Shivering Sands Army Fort. All three forts were in place by late 1943, but Nore is no longer standing. Construction of the towers was relatively quick, and they were easily floated out to sea and grounded in water no more than 30m (100ft) deep.

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ONE MAN JOB: UBAH

Since I've had started discovering YouTube few months ago I found out that there is almost every single videoclip from my fav_bands or artists. I started looking for some videos I've never seen before and found some real masterpieces.

My opinion is that the bands like Velvet Acid Christ or Wumpscut which are in a fact performed only by one person are unique, because the quality of the music they're producing is one of the best on the EBM field.

Back to the topic. What I wanted to show you is a video from Velvet Acid Christ called "Pretty Toy". If you like movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or whatever you'll like it because it's design, if you like VAC, you're gonna call it masterpiece. As I do.

"...we see what you really are - you have become a pretty toy."

(video may be flagged as inappropriate becase some violence inside or something, in this case you need to have YouTube account to confirm &. see...)

"SPLIT YOURSELF" VIDEO FINALLY RELEASED!

And this time on YouTube!

After almost 9 months long waiting someone managed to copy a raw .avi file from a videocamera into a PC, used some crappy Movie Marker or what the hell and sent me a link with "Hey, check this - guess what's that". I was really surprised.

The "director" is a friend of mine and the man standing behind the local project Streetlive, what is supposed to be a place with the biggest amount of retards in one guestbook. You know, young and fidgety sprayers. He's been working on this vid with another friend of mine, Romus, running his own and not well-known personal webpage.

As I mentioned before I felt very happy while watching this shot 'cause the history of "Split yourself video" is as sad as the plot in Venezuela's serial and since me 'n' my friend have been in charge of arranging things around this contest, we really got in touch with the pure and exact meaning of the word "imbecility". Hope you'll like it.

(the original 40MB source can be downloaded here)

CYANIDE AND HAPPINESS

I knew about Cyanide and Happiness for about a year but I managed to dig into the original source on the web just today. I've never seen such a funny comic based on the humor darker than the thoughts about having a relationship with Paris Hilton's pink dog since the "Gone with the Blastwave" (which is something entirely different but worth reading too).

Some people may disagree with the sence of humor used into this excellent piece of art but that's because those people hadn't focused enough on getting across.

If you like black humor, nonsence book, straight dialogues, weird funny situations pointed out by simple and more than sufficient graphics, you've got the funniest comic evah. Screw the Garfield!

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INTERMEZZO

Some time ago I've been thinking about some interesting fact, and that's why the most of the girls I know start acting like a bitch after some period of time. It wasn't me who hit on it, it was my friend and his worth-remembering sentence

"They're pissed off on us because they know they'll never really own us."

But at least, they could try to. It was ment to be a joke but it surprisingly helps. And now something special for all sexually frustrated, sex-starved individuals whose best friend is their right (or left) hand and a CD with big, fat, black "P" sign:

Lineage fisting:

Have a great time!

New video walkman presented by SONY

Few days ago Sony presented their new Video MP3 Walkman and I'm curious what this little thing does. As you may see, Sony adapted original design from their old HDD players like Sony NW-A3000 (I'm a proud owner of this) and the main change is in new LCD display and ability to play MPEG4 video.

Playing videos on mobile phones in crap quality (with the need of buying memory card) has become indispensable for life style, but playing vids on the machine primary made for playing music... I dunno if you have but I haven't seen anyone walking on the street listening to music from mp3 player and... ...holding player and watching video-clip simultaneously.

Hint:

Sony says:
"Music is important.... blablabla..... Sony Walkman has sound like anyone else. It's provided by technology called "Clear Audio" filtering right and left channel which ensures fully-natural and not over-bassed bass line with original Sony headphones."

(now time to laugh)

One thing I know for sure is that "over-bassing" is a therm the Sony headphones don't know (and cannot do ofc). Even with the full bass line on the 7-lined-equalizer on my NW-A the bass line is hardly recognizable and during travelling by bus or a car in high speed almost unaudible. Koss Headphones rox.

But who knows, maybe the NW-A808 is one big surprise.

So, A808 for travelling, why not, but otherwise it's waste of money imho. More over with only 8GB flash memory and 8 hours battery life for video... I'll stay with my 20GB "A3000".

Hannibal: The Mistake

I've been against since the beginning but I couldn't refuse and resist "the invitation" (if you know hat I mean;) ) for "Hanibal: The Rising". Well, it was much more Rising than Hannibal. Let's see:


Compared to the aboriginal movies "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Hannibal" it is completely STUPID and ABSURD movie full of demented dialogs ("We eat or we die"). These things (and many more) converted the movie into a piece of another shitty movie. The original Hannibal Lecter as a character presented by Anthony Hopkins had a "soul", he would persuade the victim to offer him a piece of it's own flesh on his own will, but not the present Hannibal-punisher, who's got a long way ahead to original Hannibal's practises.

I felt like I'm watching a movie made for current public and trying to show Hannibal more comprehensible = movie based on nauseousness and cold violence. "The Hostel" lovers, your time has come.

+ I didn't understand one scene:
The one in which the Hannibal-to-come is putting the green mask on his head (which became the attribute for his character lately). If I remember properly, he had worn this mask only few times in "The Silence of the Lambs" and it was used to avoid him to bite the servants. "The Silence of the Lambs" is pretty good movie and the best way how to show (and remember) Hannibal as the monster was thru this scene with mask. But the Hannibal as a character has no attachment to this mask at all so I didn't get the point why did they put this into The Rising. It's a crap.



+ the final explosion of a boat, shitloads of stupid dialogs and dumb people in cinema and one would regret that he's on "The week-off alcohol" week :P

Windows Vista installation guide

Takes 2 minutes. Got probs with installing new OS from Microsoft? Microsoft's Part-time assistant and guru explains:

"It seems to be incompatibile with almost everything I've got in my computer. Now you'd probably say "Nah the computer is probably old", but no – it's brand new and it just ain't work. I'm gonna see if I can load it into another machine, that I think it'll be a little more compatibile than my computer."



And that's the best way how to install your new Windows Vista (if you're stupid enough to buy one).

WHAT SUX ABOUT PARIS HILTON?

For the main, she doesn't know how to do the washing lol.


Next time use Goooooooogle to find out, Paris. Might be useful.

You know how - turn the PC on (the button turns it on... no not the button under you t-shirt, don't mix up witha.... don't touch your nipple Paris!!! It's got nothing to do with ur PC, at least for now), now doubleclick on the Red fox with flames.. yes you're doin' very well.. and now type "w-w-w-dot-g-o-o-g-l-e-dot-c-o-m" and press Enter. Enter like.. you know what I mean. Excellent. Now type very slowly "How to use this goddamned washing mashine" and press Enter again. And there you go.

You're doin good Paris! I'll see you at my next lesson called "How to not look like an asshole". Good luck!

CREATIVE TOY?

"Maxik's toys for kids - this one for your unborn kids - dentists. Pulling out, digging into and filling teeth. Everything is up to yours kids' fantasy. Price +/- 18$."

That's certainly worth buying lol. The only thing I want to know is if the "funny toy" purpose is really the right one. Personally, I'd probably buy this piece of plastic to someone with serious problems with teeth to make him "happier" a bit.

The upgrades would be also cool - adapter for batteries to allow screaming while digging, few bottles of ketchup for blood-squirting effects... and maybe a "Next!"-shouting button.

I'm gonna wait for next year serie. With all these additional upgrades it's gonna be a blast...

(advisor: WERE; shop: Maxik's toys center)

VIRTUAL REALITY INSTEAD OF MEDICINES?

Have you ever imagine yourslef after a car accident? Lying on the bed in a hospital afgter surgery and instead of medicines and hard displeasing retrieval discipline you'd simply step on the hi-tech board, the doctor would turn the monster monitor on with a race boat simulator - and your goal would be just to race as the way of recovery? Why not. Now it's possible.

Does it sound like a fiction? I'm sure it is, but the scientists and medics in Chaim Sheba Rehabilitation Hospital in Israel are not the same opinion. Actually, they started a programme called "Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment", which is still in research stage tho but with great acclaim.

"The system immerses the patients in a fully reactive virtual and physical environment, using tiny sensors placed on the body, 12 high-speed infrared cameras, a moving platform that reacts to the patients' weight distribution and a life-size 3-D projection screen. The system's goal is to simulate daily activities like driving a car and virtual reality helps the patients retrain their brains and bodies to function and works much faster than traditional rehabilitation methods."

That's really cool, isn't it?

(original sources: Chicago Tribune, The Standard Weekend, TV etc)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. release date finally set?

Today I read one very interesting article at one infoweb about games and stuff (Tiscali Games), where had the author written about release date of the FPS/RPG "game of the year", the STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, which is planned for March 2007. After almost five-year-long waiting it's certainly a perfect message for all horny players worshipping their PCs more than biological needs and for Chernobyl freaks, but:

-THQ didn't say the certain date - it may be the 16th May (the date published at press conference), 20th May (mentioned by American's online shops) or 23rd May as the tade counted down on the Stalker's homepage. Stay tuned?

-the amount of bugs in game is one big unknown and actually it's the main theme to discuss at the internet. Hope it's not gonna be a piece of a crap.

-requred hardware. I don't know yours, but mine is certainly NOT adequate even to put a dvd with Stalker into my DVD-ROM. In case of install, the screen would probably start blinking with "wtf are you tryin to kill meh?!". I just hope my grandchildren will enjoy the full quality and full resolution. In the meantime, I'm gonna check Youtube for some ingame videos, because this will be prolly the only experiece of mine with this masterpiece (yes, it is masterpiece). If you have some, please use comment link :)

(btw: I have played STALKER already. It was about a year ago when someone had stolen the pre-beta version and put it somewhere, I don't care. It was on my friend's "PCzilla" with sounds grabbed from Counter Strike, 3 guns, strange tables all over the screen with numbers changing constantly, with "frozen enemies", brick-like birds etc, but with the whole map. It looked amazing this time. Punk is not dead:) )


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THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Welcome. Welcome at the beginning of the end, the end of another "this piss me off and this kix asses" blog. I decided to create this blog because "The Old one" is published in czech language and it didnť satisfied my needs and needs of people from foreign countries, who visits The Old One from time to time.

It means that the most of the posts at The Old One will beh also posted here, translated etc just for you to consider "What the hell is he blogging about".

So enjoy, here we go. The Firs One.