Aquarionics

*Real* Harry Potter fans wouldn’t mind waiting for the next book

A war of words in crayon, between kids with short attention spans who belive that the world should ignore Harry Potter because the next one has been in production a long time. Particually of note is the phase:

Real fans stick to what they love. I’m a fan of the band A1, they were off the scene for around six months but they still kept their fans – their true fans anyway.

Six months for A1? And you wonder how these people cope. It makes the four years I’ve been waiting for the new Space album seem like nothing. But where would the world be without the precocious 11 year olds of the world?

Hacking is illegal

Unless you’re a record company.

So, the new design is now fully uploaded (Look around a bit, things will be a little wierd while the various caches stop playing silly buggers) Fonts are a little smaller, menus a little rounder, and the whole thing slightly less minimal. Or is it?

It renders right in – as far as I can tell – everything apart from NS4, and I’ve no idea what NS4 will make of it because I haven’t got it installed. IE5 doesn’t like Nodes very much, I know.

Anyway, off to a secret location to meet LoneCat’s extended family. Wish me luck…

Americans sue fast-food chains

Apparently, people who eat junk food do so because they have been lulled into thinking that deep-fried chicken with extra lard coating and a big sign in it saying “Don’t eat this, your heart won’t cope” is actually better for you then a diet of fresh lettace and raw carrot.

In fact, the actual story is that some horizontally-enhanced (Um, possible duel meaning there. That’s “horizontally-enhanced” as in “fat”, rather than “horizontally-enhanced” as in “Busty”. Beware kids, political correctness can cause misinterpretation) Americans are suing McBurgerFriedChicKing for making them think junk food was good for them.

Suing for your own stupidity… how… interesting.

New in the nodes section, A quick guide to linking to things on Amazon

A tutorial, or guide, to Amazon Item Links, and making them usable.

An amazon link is made up of four parts, server, path, asin and
session.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050ABX/202-0443038-0326228
\--------------------/ \--------------/ \--------/ \-----------------/
Site Name Script Code # Session Ref.

See below for an update, it gets shorter

The first part, or Server, is the physical server to use when
referring to the object, it can be any one of amazon.co.uk .com,
.co.jp, .co.dk, .co.ca or whatever they have opened today. It is required.

The second part, or path, is almost always /exec/obidos/, and is
mandatory.

The third part is the Amazon System Identification Number, or ASIN,
consisting of that phrase, plus a string identifying the item.

The fourth and final part is everything after the asin number, and is
known as the Session, identifying your personal access of the database
system. It is not any kind of security risk to add this to links,
because should you access this session from a new IP – or after a
length of time – it becomes invalid, but is not necessary for people
to get to your item. For example, the optimal link to the above is:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385602642/

Furthermore, it should be noted that if you place the id of an Amazon
Affiliate in place of the session, then a percentage of your purchase
will go towards that affiliate. (It’s one of the few ways Aquarionics
comes close to paying for it’s bandwidth).

For example, for that link to donate a percentage (ranging from 5 to
15%) to the Buy Aquarion A Cli