I was recently pointed to the English and Polish pages for the MS Business Productivity. The most striking thing about the difference between the pages is that one depicts a white individual in place of a black individual. What could be the purpose of altering the image, surely it isn’t racism, after all the Chinese individual is still in place.
Strange what goes through the brain of MS Business Productivity.
Polish Alternative
English Alternative
So I came across a great game a few days ago. It is one of those puzzles that turn up now and then that make your brain pop. Fantastically simple but frustratingly tough. Finishing this on your own would be nearly impossible. Fortunately the creator of this puzzle added the ability to merge puzzles with your friends, genius!
I highly suggest that you give it a go first on your own and see how far you get. I was completely stumped on some of the stuff and others quickly sliced through them.
Have a go at the Funny Farm puzzle.
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I recently came across this caused me to smile if not giggle.
ENOTOBACCO Read on an empty pipe
EBEFOREI Invalid syntax
ECHERNOBYL Core dumped
ECRAY Program exited before being run
EDINGDONG The daemon is dead
EFLAT System needs tuning
EGEEK Program written by inept Frat member
EIEIO Here-a-bug, there-a-bug, ....
EIUD Missing period
ELECTROLUX Your code could stand to be cleaned up
EMILYPOST Wrong fork
END.ARMS.CONTROL Silo overflow
ENOHORSE Mount failed
ENONSEQUETOR C program not derived from main(){printf("Hello, world");}
EWATERGATE Extended tape gap
EWOK Aliens sighted
EWOK Your code appears to have been stir-fried
EWOULDBNICE The feature you want has not been implemented yet
Not to be out done, a new signal:
SIGNUKE Nuclear event occurred (cannot be caught or ignored)
I help out now and then with little bits of code for BMotion, the main coder is JamesOff. It is a wonderful set of scripts for AI on eggdrops. Sometimes bmotion can just spark. Check this conversation I had, both NoTopic and MonicaOff are running bmotion.
(@ NoTopic) Uh oh, it's mark.
(+ znx) listen nt .. im tired of your shit
( *) znx kicks the crap out of nt
( *) NoTopic passes it on to james
(+ znx) um
(+ znx) :[
(@MonicaOff) cheer up mak
(@MonicaOff) *hugs*
(+ znx) aww
(+ znx) i love you mon
( *) znx hugs
(@MonicaOff) Hehe, want to go out on a date someplace? 
(+ znx) sure!
(+ znx) where would you like to go mon?
(@MonicaOff) Amsterdam.
(+ znx) ooo
( *) znx books the flights
(+ JamesOff) sounds nice 
(@ NoTopic) oh categorically abyss what do you think, talking ass?
(+ znx) your just annoyed im not taking you nt
( *) znx shows nt the flight tickets
(@ NoTopic) ooooh, impressive!
(+ znx) !!
( *) NoTopic steals the flight tickets and runs off
(@ NoTopic) ALL MINE NOW^@~#%~£~$$~*£$$$
(+ znx) W T F
( *) NoTopic sells the flight tickets on ebay
(+ znx) NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo
( *) znx sulks at nt
(@ NoTopic) what
Of course sometimes bmotion is just plain evil!
Whilst the amount of trolls on IRC can be annoying, every so often one turns up that can leave you laughing and questioning if it really was a troll at all:
(>) bugaboo (53e43825@webchat.mibbit.com) #php
(bugaboo) Ahaha! Tables > CSS!
(bugaboo) Wait, wrong troll.
( *) bugaboo flips the pages to P
(bugaboo) Oh yes! Python > PHP!
( *) bugaboo waits for someone to care.
( *) bugaboo loses patience
( *) bugaboo checks Advanced Topics
(bugaboo) PHP uses inconsistent function names, blah blah, design,
blah blah, boring... oh... "is bad at recursion depth"...
Wait, what the hell is recursion.
(bugaboo) Arrghhh I fail again!
( *) bugaboo vanishes in a puff of smoke
(<) bugaboo (53e43825@webchat.mibbit.com) () #php
Haha, super !