Sunday, 29 November 2009

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Thursday, 19 November 2009

Houston to experience problems

In my latest attempt to make it look like people are going on the site I've written a news post for the blog.

Regardless, it was confirmed earlier this morning that Houston, a vague sity-like location in the US of A will be experiencing some problems later today. When pressured for the catch phrase an official spokesperson gave this response.

"Ok! Umm, uhh, how's it go. Houston, there's some issues we may need to deal with."''

...never mind. ..idiot.

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Camel evolves long enough neck to give itself obcene oral pleasure

That's right kids! This is no longer a rated PG blog.

We're putting the banana back into Illogicopedia! And in the most graphic porn-involving way possible >;-)

Actually we're not. Since everyone stopped editing recently there's been no point starting an ethics fueled debate on decency. Not even on the blog. And that's really, how you can tell things are bad, because blogs are ghaye!



....Hindleyite.

So basically get back on the site and start editing and stuff, I'll try and keep things going and write articles and stuff, but without your input .. I'll probably just get bored and switch over onto another tab more in line with my other worldy inter-cests.

Yes, I should. So edit dammit!

Sir Reginald Wincest, signing out..

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Do stuff, dammit!

I order you lazy ?pedian pricks to do something entertaining, like write more articles.

That is all

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

A phrase which here means

Oh, man. I haven't looked at this article in like ... forever. Not since I wrote it back in 2007. And you guys have really made it awesome. On reading it, I literally laughed out loud.

Seriously, I did.

I thought nobody'd give it a second glance - it was just my lame attempt to turn the "A word which here means" reference from Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler uses the phrase in his books ALOT) into an instance of self-referential humor, but then I realized that it wasn't really a word, it was a phrase, so I dropped "word" and added "phrase." But on losing the Snicket reference, the article seemed sad and irrelevant, so I dropped it and went on to other ideas, but it has apparently grown into a mature level of awesomeness by the excellent contributions of the community. Such developments would never have been possible from a simple stub on certain other wiki projects that delete stubs whose names shall not here or ever be mentioned. They are only possible in an open friendly environment such as we have here.

Hear here! A toast to flying toasters! A few cents into the fountain of nonsequitor, where the currency is Triganic Pu! And a completely misunderstandable time being had by all, in a magical faraway place where the air smells like warm root beer! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you ....

Illogicopedia!!

(FYI, I'm thinking of writing a series of "Toast to Illogicopedia" blog posts up to the end of the year, just mentioning awesome things that have happened. I might keep writing it, might not, we'll see how it goes)

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Hindleyite come on skype you kiddie fiddler

Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype Skype. So yeah, Dan, come on skype more often.

Friday, 23 October 2009

A year of independence: The Wikia debacle revisited

It's been one whole year since Illogicopedia moved from Wikia's servers, and it's verily shot by. Seems like only yesterday I was ranting my ass off at Wikia and their uncanny ability to cheese people off royally.

But for all that bad blood, I really don't think Wikia are that evil. The extreme views expressed within the pages of this weblog are all in good humour, you understand (or perhaps not: looks like we managed to fool one or two people with our Wikia-bashing along the way).

That's not to say I actually like Wikia: in fact, it's doubtful whether I ever did, even when Illogicopedia was with them. There's something about it that makes it all incompatible with everything Illogico, and by proxy I, stand for. Perhaps its the whole corporate image, or the fact it promotes profiting from volunteer spirit.

Yes, we were grateful when they took us on, but it was a means to an end. As has been mooted numerous times, it was always an idea for Illogicopedia to go it alone, so to speak, and moving to Wikia was simply a stepping stone.

It's still the ultimate goal for Illogicopedia to be self-funding, and maybe one day when I get a job that actually pays more than peanuts we may actually get to the point where we become the commercialised ones, with Illogico mugs and T-Shirts and the like. Oh, how the boot will be on the other foot then!

That's all in the future though. To mark Illogicopedia's first whole year of independence, I've posted a bit of an analysis over at one of those free-to-host places on the interwebs. It's a bit dry, but will hopefully bring to the attention of the general public the plight of small wikis such as ourselves. It's one of the bigger user-generated content sites, so who knows, maybe somebody from the mainstream media may read it.

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

The biiiig Wackypedia clearout

This is an announcement from your friendly neighbourhood yak. This week I shall be trawling the Illogicopedia in cleanup mode, taking a hammer to both the Trash bin and Mexicans categories.

Just to let you know that I will be checking the articles for quality first, before I trash, stubbify or (on rare occasion) delete a selection of the very worst 'Wackypedia fodder', as I like to call it.

Such fodder is stuff left over from the Wikia days that was just about acceptable at the time, but is now not really the kind of content we want to be looking to promote.

If I delete anything you wish to improve or keep (for some strange reason) you can find it in its pre-2009 form over at Wackypedia. I'm not linking to it here -- I don't want to give them the satisfaction of a backlink, which they have refused to give us -- do a quick Google search for it if you must.

I've already cleaned out about 40 articles and, with a bit of help from you helpful Illogicopedians armed with the Random Page link, I hope to clear out some more old stuff in the near future. Cheers all.

Oh yeah, and vote on the VFD articles, lest ye be devoured by a Halloween monster or something.

I'll Ask The Questions Here is back!

Illogicopedia's very own game show, I'll Ask The Questions Here, is back and currently taking reservations for its second season.

For those of you that haven't managed to pick up the first season on DVD yet, I'll spoil it for you: everyone's favourite Testicular ballbag TReich McNutsack won out, narrowly beating T3 to the title of IATQH Champ 2008... ish.

There are still loads of spaces left for this season, so check out the appropriate page int' forum if you want to join. As for me, well I'm too busy ushering Halloween ghosties away from my doorstep to be answering questions. I get enough of that when I'm standing in the House of Commons, so as you can imagine, I'm going to sit this one out, peasants.

This has been a guest post by Tory Party leader David Cameron.

Thursday, 15 October 2009

(Fear) Arousing Halloween Fables 2009

Are you scared of things that go bump in the night? Well, if it's some drunk from the local beerfest then you really should be. However, you need not be afraid of entering Illogicopedia's second annual (Fear) Arousing Halloween Fables which, after the roaring success of last year, is making a triumphant return to the fold.

Find out more at the appropriate forum page, and look out for ominous floating orbs and mysterious faces appearing on the telly. Ooooh.

Oh, and sorry, that was the best picture of a 'scary banana' I could find via Google images. 'Evil' and 'banana' generally don't go hand in hand, though this particular one looks pretty nasty.

Monday, 12 October 2009

Who wants to come to my party

Hey, the cool guys at microsoft have come up with a HILLARIOUS advert.

Just watch this video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyas7BrbUFY

And to think this is 100% serious microsoft stuff.



Well actually, I did THREE launch party tasks!

Friday, 9 October 2009

Grey DayZ #8

Just to let you know, the latest instalment in the Grey DayZ series has been released. Click the pic below to view it or just get on down to the cartoons page for any more you might have missed.

Thanks as ever to Huge Bob.

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

The media takes this crap too seriously

To Germany this morning, where it's being reported that some footballer with an unfathomable surname fell victim to internet vandals earlier this year. On the 11th February, it was announced on his club's official website that Schalke striker Kevin Kuranyi had been made redundant due to certain disagreements between him and the club.

However, it was in fact a load of old codsbollocks, and some hacker had managed to break into the official website and put the article there out of mischief. The story was taken down soon after, but not before the media had got hold of the so-called 'revelation', resulting in red faces all round (they stayed in the sauna too long).

You may ask what on earth this has to do with Illogicopedia, and that's a very good question. The answer to that is nothing much. What is interesting is the fact that ESPN decided to embellish their article on the above incident with a selection of football-related Wikipedia vandalisms, described in boring and meticulous detail.

What's more, the article attempts to explain some of the inner workings of the free encyclopedia. When will they learn? Wikipedia has no formal rules and procedures so cannot be regulated in the way a prisoner or performing bear can. The fools!

Illogiblog hereby announces that whoever can persuade Wikipedia that the moon is actually cheddar cheese will be made King of all Wikipedia.

Additionally, forget the image in the top corner of this post. It has almost nothing to do with this article, but then that's probably what you'd come to expect from this blog by now.

Thursday, 1 October 2009

Wikipedia Beta

For what it's worth -- and even though not a single person asked me for it -- my opinion is that Wikipedia's new Beta skin is... not that bad, really. There are no drastic New Monaco-esque changes - only the colour scheme and sidebar have really been altered.

Probably best of all, though, is that the search box is now in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This does require some getting used to, but on the whole I think it lets the sidebar breathe a bit better. As you might know, I'm a bit of a fan of the old grey-and-black colour scheme, so I suppose this was always gonna sucker me in.

In all, it looks a bit cleaner and, save the funny gradient colours behind the page tabs ('edit this page' etc.) -- I'm not sure what the general Internet obsession with those is all about -- is probably a slight improvement on the classic Monobook.

Wikia, take a good hard look. This is what good practice is all about - not rushing out half completed skins and using the public as unannounced beta testers, rather taking time to get opinions, and most importantly, leaving it up to the users to decide.

Think I more than made my point there. Anyhow, I'd love to hear your opinions on the new beta skin. Just log into your Wikipedia account and select the 'try beta' option next to your user control panel at the head of the screen.

More Grey DayZ

This stuff is classic Huge. Click below for the latest instalment, or get a load of the strip page for more of the same.

Sunday, 27 September 2009

Oh my God, I have a blog!

Oh my...

Seriously, WackyWikiapeeedia is running again! What can we do? Erm...

If I met Angela on the street, I would:
  • take my shotgun and shoot her in her hands as she can't type anylonger.
  • shoot her in her feet, when she said that she types with her toes.
  • ask her politely to kill herself.
  • ...
No, I think we can just stand and watch :(

I almost forgot to say that I have a Blog. I've recently started it. The blog is about everything and is written in Dutch and Norwegian (by me of course). It calls "MENSA RERUM" (Latin for "table of things"). Visit it here.

Saturday, 26 September 2009

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Huge Bob is back with GREY DAyS

You heard correctly! Illogicopedia's resident doodler has returned to the IllogiToons fray with his latest strip, GREY DAyS. You really should check it out, or we'll send round the neighbourhood watch guys again. Needless to say, it's suitably strange.


Not sure if this will become a regular thing, but it's cool nonetheless. Click the pic for full quality.

Saturday, 12 September 2009

Wikia Reopens Illogifail

A not so recent newsflush nobody seems to have noticed. Wikia has just reopened the old wiki we used to recide at for a user who spent one day editing it, it is now back to its usual dead editors barely consisting of anything, clearly we need to sort this out once and for all.

Ideas?

Men In Black take over Illogicopedia

You heard right. Will Smith and that other bloke have infiltrated the Illogicopedia servers and used their mind-erasing gadgets to eradicate everything done in the last seven days - which in itself raises questions as to how machines can be affected by a device meant for humans.

Anyhow, the likelihood is that some sort of alien activity took place on Illogic over the past week, resulting in the arrival of said MIBs. CarlB was questioned mercilessly for seven hours, though thankfully they chose not to wipe his memory. It is via him we recount the events of this week.

The upshot is that for the time being, most edits made in the last seven days have been lost to the annals of time, which, as they say, is a major bummer, dude. Needless to say, the Illogic dwarves are working on rectumifying the problem as we speak, so all hope is not lost just yet.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuungus! -- Irate administrator