Telstra Bigpond’s Shocking Customer Service Shines Through In Whirlpool Survey

April 11th, 2005 at 12:40 am by johnsee (Australia, Online)

Australia’s largest Internet service provider, BigPond has criticised the results of a survey in which most respondents rated its customer service as ‘awful’ or ‘poor’.

A Telstra spokesperson described the survey — where 22 percent of respondents who used BigPond rated its service as ‘awful’ and a further 43 percent as ‘average’ — as using “extremely basic methodology,” making invalid comparisons and skewed by the characteristics of its authors.

The survey is conducted by broadband community site Whirlpool whose users, Telstra claims, “are high-end … rather than reflective of the general Internet-using community.”

Continued at ZDNet

Transformers Movie By Dreamworks?

April 7th, 2005 at 11:53 am by johnsee (Movies)

Dreamworks appear to have a movie of Transformers in the works. Michael Bay (Pearl Harbour) is looking to be a likely director. With a November 2006 release date. For those of you interested in this, the IMDB movie page is up and a recent article about Michael Bay directing is here.

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Nikki Webster Semi-Nude: Follow Up Story

April 6th, 2005 at 11:53 pm by johnsee (Australia)

Earlier this year we posted a story about a plan for Nikki Webster to get some of her kit off for FHM. Unlike some of the more boring stories on sandstorming, this is one of the stories that has not fallen into the abyss of the archives. Over 100 people found the story through search engines last month, so I thought a follow up story was a neccesity.

The pictures will be published in the May issue of FHM (out… sometime) but some of them at least are available online right now here.

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Sky Windmills

April 6th, 2005 at 10:20 pm by johnsee (Tech & Science)

Wired is reporting on an Australian engineer by the name of Bryan Roberts who has an idea to build a giant floating platform of windmills. The device will provide itself with enough power to stay afloat, as well as delivering additional power to the ground via a cable. Just imagine if in 20 years time we all have a giant floating little platform above our houses. The website on this can be found here.

At the same time wired is running another very interesting article on a robotic shark being used to study great whites. The shark looks very realistic and fits a full person inside. Be sure to check that story out too.

A real evil supervillian lair? A world map from tiny islands

April 4th, 2005 at 11:22 pm by johnsee (Around the World)

A developer near Dubai is building a supervillain lair straight out of the funnybooks — a collection of private islands arranged to look like a map of the world, with African game preserves, luxury hotels, McMansions, condos, etc etc etc. Also, a fleet of (heavily armed?) water-borne private coppers patrolling the islands for crooks, and, I’m guessing, hidden missile silos, or possibly a labroatory for breeding a race of superbeings.

The World will consist of between 250 to 300 smaller private artifical islands divided into four categories – private homes, estate homes, dream resorts, and community islands. Each island will range from 250,000 to 900,000 square feet in size, with 50 to 100 metres of water between each island. The development is to cover an area of 9 kilometers in length and 6 kilometers in width, surrounded by an oval shaped breakwater. The only means of transportation between the islands will be by marine transport.

The Official Page is here
Text taken from BB under CC

Need more funny?

April 4th, 2005 at 9:47 am by johnsee (Site News)

Elevator Disco
[***] A great practical joke of a few guys who have fitted an elevator out with flashing lights, music and a disco ball. Dressed in some swanking disco gear, they are having the time of their lives no matter what any others might think.

Head Spinning?

April 4th, 2005 at 9:40 am by johnsee (Online)

[Source: http://www.gprime.net/images/trippy/]

Its not an animated gif, civer a bit up or watch it closely and you will see that nothing is actually moving. There is another great one here

Yuma Yuma Idle!

April 3rd, 2005 at 7:57 pm by johnsee (Humour)

American Idle Meets Yuma Yuma Hey Man
[*****] Just about everyone has seen the original of this poor young man whos webcam dance to a popular pop song accidently made it onto the internet. Apparentlly that guy is now a prisoner in his own house, and hates the publicity he has been getting from the media. All of that aside, Be sure to check this one out!

RIP Pope

April 3rd, 2005 at 2:30 pm by Doc (Humour)

Poor ol’ Pope JP the 2nd isn’t very well. In fact, the old fart’s probably about to cark it in the next few hours or so. Here are some funny (albeit highly irreverent) slogans i have come up with to help celebrate this untimely (and by untimely i mean long overdue) death:

• The Pope is dead, and that poor bastard never even got to have sex (with a woman).
• The Pope is dead. Hopefully his speeches will be easier to understand now.
• The Pope is dead, and no one can tell the difference.
• At least he won’t have to wear that stupid hat anymore.
• Oh my God! You killed the Pope! You Bastard!
• Holy crap! the Pope died! (Pun intended)
• Lets get ready to HUMMMMMBBBBBLE! A new Pope!
• The Pope’s dead, and he didn’t even get his own action figure.
• The Pope’s Dead, and the only thing the Cardinal Vicor of Rome gets to bang is the bell.
• They should take him for one last trip in the Pope-Mobile after he dies.
• Poor Pope. Hasn’t been able to get a stiff Pole for years, and now he is one.

< ---- Look! Even the Pope's laughing!

Do what you want with these. Stick ‘em in your MSN name, make a t-shirt, whatever! Well, at least until TShirt Hell buys the rights to them :P. Yes, that’s right. I sold out. See you all in Hell!

UPDATE: Seems TShirt Hell already had some ideas brewing long before JP2 kicked the bucket. Check them out here.

I’m 19

April 3rd, 2005 at 1:15 pm by johnsee (Online)

Apparently at heart I am 19 years old. It sounds about right, and so I thought I would link everyone to it. It’s a quick quiz… and if you have time… comment this thread with how old you are, both in age and at heart. (You don’t have to register or anything… just comment!)

Goooooo!

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