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20 Sep, 2008

Add to our Flickr Pool!

Posted by: Shaun In: General

In order to encourage more discussion and a sense of community, I have created a flickr group for Ebola Cola.
For those not in the know, flickr allows users to share photographs and engage in discussion. You will have to register with flickr before you are able to add your own snaps to our pool.
Right now, [...]

18 Sep, 2008

O’Reilly Takes on Hackers on Steroids

Posted by: Shaun In: General

DESPICABLE, SLIMY, SCUMMY.
“Bill O’Reilly announced tonight on his show The Factor that he is calling the FBI and Attorney General on the hackers and liberal bloggers who posted private information on the Palins!”

The Huffington Post today are reporting on a story today regarding Anonymous and their fight against Governor Sarah Palin, you can even read about it on WIRED magazine’s website.
It seems that one hacker took control of her Yahoo account and leaked personal and rather important screenshots to Wikileaks. Wikileaks claim that because Palin was using [...]

11 Sep, 2008

Outrage Over Racist Internet Game

Posted by: Shaun In: Gaming| General| News & Politics

The Something Awful forums have become a rather minute national celebrity after British newspaper, The Telegraph decided to report on a game made by a popular forum goon.
The article features inaccuracies such as:”“Gently caress” is internet slang for a common swear word.“.
Yes, really, they said this.
The game is known as ‘Muslim Massacre‘ [...]

06 Sep, 2008

Toying with Google Chrome

Posted by: Shaun In: General| Technology

For those not in the know, Google recently released a Beta of their brand new web browser (Google Chrome)  which is aimed at knocking Firefox and Internet Explorer from their almighty pedestals.
The release day was one that saw the Internet awash with bloggers and forum-addicts glued to their threads and websites eager to see what [...]

22 Aug, 2008

Big Brother Tasks I’d Pay to See

Posted by: Shaun In: General

It doesn’t come much more boring than British reality television, mainly due to the fact that our ‘contestants’ are normally idiotic racists who would much rather eat their own shit than socialise with other contestants. Big Brother appears to be one of the most popular and most entertaining reality TV shows here in Britain and [...]

20 Aug, 2008

Taste That Linux Flavour

Posted by: Shaun In: Design| General| Technology

One of the main reasons for using an operating system such as Linux, is the ability to customise almost everything.
With this in mind, I’m glad that users have the ability to alter the theme on Ubuntu Linux as the default is not exactly revolutionary or exceptionally pretty.
However, the community can play a huge role in [...]

15 Aug, 2008

Enter the great Gaiman giveaway!

Posted by: Shaun In: General

As a very big Neil Gaiman fan, I had to enter a competition being held by Fashionista Piranha, who appears to be a very intelligent LiveJournal blogger and avid reader.
The giveaway entry with details, prizes and other information can be found here!
What’s more, prizes are being added after every fiftieth entry into the competition, which [...]

09 Aug, 2008

Ebola Cola’s forum goes live!

Posted by: Shaun In: General

As part of the new Ebola Cola upgrades, which you may have witnessed, a forum has been opened in order to attract discussion and a sense of community.
The forum will also be a meeting place for contributors and myself, as we currently have no means of communication.
Since I have been busy tweaking the board and [...]

So I was asked to write about the Beijing Olympics for a rather minute article in an online magazine. Needless to say I was rather reluctant at first. How can I write about the Beijing Olympics without pressing my own opinions and views on readers? Even then, how am I supposed to write about the [...]


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