The Cabbage Patch

UUUHHHGGG-rrrrRRR!

Hello World.

The impact of this site is lost if I give an introduction, so you’ll just have to check it out for yourself.

[UPDATE - 4/2/06, 12:34pm]: As Tom has correctly pointed out in the comments, this link now only returns a 403-Forbidden Error instead of the page that was originally there.  I shall leave the link in place in case the site returns in the future, for it really was funny.

For those of you who didn’t manage to click on the link before it went down (Shame on you! You should be checking The Patch every day!) the link pointed to a blog run by none other that Chewbacca from Star Wars.  It also featured “glow cobras” or “glowbras”.

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True Love is but a +2 Broadsword away.

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Fear of Girls is a short film about a couple of um… nerds. Now I don’t mean simple, friendly geeks like myself, oh no, this goes way beyond that.

These guys play Dungeons & Dragons, and consider themselves “PLPs”, or “Platonic Life Partners”. They are “truly unique” as they say.

Very funny stuff.

NOTE:  Unfortunately I can’t embed the video into the post as I have been recently with other videos, because this one is a Google video, which Wordpress doesn’t support.  Hopefully they will one day (like the YouTube ones), but until then you’ll just have to use the link.  Sorry.

No, card tossing is not a euphemism.

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This is an extremely simple game in which you throw cards into a top hat. Simple, fun, and quite hard once the wind picks up.

When CEOs go mad.

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Below is a video of Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer seemingly gone mad. Even if you don’t know who he is, this is a truly hilarious video.

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Thanks go to Oskar for sending this one in.

A myriad of memories.

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I like photos. I like taking them, and I like viewing them. As long as they’re not photos of me.

That’s why, over the last several months, I have been playing with the amazing photo-sharing site flickr.com. For Christmas last year, I received a Flickr Pro subscription, meaning I may upload up to 2GB of full-resolution photos every month, and keep all of them on the site forever. Believe me, that’s a lot of photos.

And so, due to my new “Pro” status, I have gone on a photo-uploading binge. I currently have over 630 photos up on the site, and add more every week. These cover events from just over a year’s worth of events, including parties, holidays and more.

If you would like to browse the photos, all of the sets may be viewed here. Each set can be made into a slideshow by clicking the “View as Slideshow” link on the set page, and every photo can be viewed in a range of sizes, from full-res down to thumbnail size. › Continue reading

How big is a “metric assload”, exactly?

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This is the best blonde joke ever. Really.

Welcome to The New Cabbage Patch

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If you are reading this, you have successfully found the new home of The Cabbage Patch. Welcome.

I have decided to migrate the site to this new service because it’s just plain better than what I was using before. Most of that “betterness” will only be noticed by me behind the scenes, but a few things you will see is the slightly updated and cleaner look, real post categories, an integrated search box (finally, one that works!), and various bits and pieces here and there.

The new address you should be updating your bookmarks with is http://orriblecabbage.wordpress.com/
The RSS Feed is http://orriblecabbage.wordpress.com/feed/

If you have no idea what I’m on about, that’s ok. I am ‘Orrible Cabbage (not my real name) and this is The Cabbage Patch. It used to be located here (and the old version still is).

Despite the change, I will still be doing exactly what I’ve always been doing - finding, creating and pointing you towards tons of stupidity and hilarity in order to waste as much of your day as possible.

So, have fun, and I hope you like the change. Feel free to leave a comment using the link at the bottom of this post, or email me at orrible.cabbage@gmail.com if you want to say anything or if you have something you want me to post.

So cute, I couldn’t resist.

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Bugs is an orisinal game which, as those of you who follow such things would know, means two things. One, it’s simple. And two, it’s beautifully made.

In this one, you play as a little girl jumping around some bugs. The aim is to scare as many of them away without actually killing them. Fun, simple, and far too cute.

I feel less of a man already.

Why, Australia? Why?

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The Triple J Hottest 100 has just been announced, and I hate to say it Australia, but I’m disappointed in you.

Of all the local and international acts that released songs last year, it was Bernard Fanning that you liked the most? Sure, Powderfinger (his real band) are great, but on his own Bernard Fanning is no more than a slightly-better-in-tune Ben Lee!

And speaking of Ben Lee, he was your second choice!? My, my. What has this country come to?

I must admit, however, that the remainder of the list was much better. I was especially pleased at the six (yes, six) Wolfmother songs that made it through.

For those of you who don’t know, the Triple J Hottest 100 is the world’s biggest listener-voted music poll. Around 600,000 people from around the world voted for their favourite songs from the past year, and the top 100 were compiled and announced live today on Triple J.

The Top Ten were:

10. Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
9. Joker & The Thief - Wolfmother
8. O Yeah - End Of Fashion
7. My Doorbell - White Stripes
6. Mind’s Eye - Wolfmother
5. Dare - Gorillaz
4. Best Of You - Foo Fighters
3. Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
2. Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
1. Wish You Well - Bernard Fanning

The rest of the list, along with photos and various other things can be found here.

Scorpion Queen finds King

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