The Republic of Awesome

One very very annoying thing about NUS is that they give you a webmail account the size of hamster testicles. That would be fine, except that they then spam said account like as if they were Nigerian scammers dying of starvation.

George Agdgdgwngo shows us how it’s done.

More often than not, you’d run out of space on your account, and then they’d proceed to shut it down. Which means you cannot receive more of their spam… and other very important emails.

FML!!!

The solution is to auto-forward all mails to a Gmail or Hotmail account which have Gigabytes of storage space.

Therefore, when my friend You Jun wrote a short guide on how to auto-forward mails from his NTU account, I decided to appropriate the guide for use on the NUS webmail system (which is exactly the same as the NTU one…)

Step 1 – Setting up a Forwarding Rule

First, log in to your NUS webmail account. Use Internet Explorer as it has the Microsoft Outlook thing built in. Chrome and Firefox doesn’t.

Find the Rules button. It should be in the left sidebar, below Public Folders. Click on that, then click on the New rule button. It should be on top.

Simple, yes? Now a dialogue box will pop up, in which case you fill in your Gmail/Hotmail or whatever address you wish to forward your emails to.

You can ignore all other fields except for the ‘Foward it to’ field.

Oh and remember to uncheck the ‘Keep a copy in my Inbox’ button. Or you’d keep a space-eating copy in your NUS webmail which will defeat the purpose of this whole exercise.

Click the Save and Close button and you’re done!

From now on, all mails arriving to your NUS inbox will simply be forwarded to your Gmail/Hotmail, leaving your NUS email clean and empty.

Step 2 - (Optional) Getting Gmail to send as NUS Webmail

This step allows you to send mail from Gmail as u0xxxxxx@nus.edu.sg, which is awesome as you’ll never have to login to NUS webmail ever again!

I’m only writing on how to get Gmail to do it (because I <3 Google and it has 7GB of space). If you’re a Hotmail user you can read instructions for Hotmail here.

How to do it with Gmail:

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1. Click on Settings, it’s on the top right hand corner.
2. Click on the Accounts and Import tab.
3. Click on the Send mail from another address button.
4. Input your name and your NUS webmail address
5. Click Next Step.

The next step is to configure your SMTP server thingamajig, which I think is too troublesome. Just go with the default Gmail settings and click Next Step again.

Gmail will then send a verification email to your NUS webmail. Go to NUS webmail, open the mail from Gmail, click on the verification link and you’re done!

Yes you are now free from the clutches of the evil NUS webmail system! Go celebrate with a bottle of old wine and muse on how your life is kinda sad since this is your greatest achievement this week.

Looks like Apple is releasing a touch pad PC. Think a iPhone but enlarged and capable of doing more notebook-esque stuff.

I foresee a massive tidal wave of jizz from Apple fanboys around the planet instantaneously having a product release of their own.

Jobs – making people jizz their pants since 1975.

Here’s what may be the real deal, or a faked video:

My question though: How is one going to type long word documents on the thing?

Via the on-screen touchpad?

Or are the bourgeois Apple users too cool for proletariat work like that?

I think it’ll be pretty awesome to play with a tablet like that, but probably rubbish to do work with it. And I mean REAL work as you don’t just fiddle around with a few photos or videos.

As is always the case with Mac vs PC…

Oh and here’s a MadTV take on the whole thing:

An annoying thing about innit is that everyone is just so nang crazy that they’d spam the Chatbox hoping to make it into the top 10 box.

A pretty idiotic prospect, since getting to the top 10 through spam is like winning the Special Olympics – yes you’re a champ, but ultimately your blog is still retarded.

No offense so Special Olympics athletes. My heart goes out to them.

Thus transpired the events of this afternoon, which shall forever be known as the Dang Intervention.

It started innocently enough, with a warning to dang whoever spammed.

Nonetheless, it didn’t take long for shit to hit the fan.

Chats are read from bottom up.

Right after I issued my warning someone JUST had to test my mettle.

Unfortunately for that person, I’m a man of my word.

Danged!

But somehow, the just NEVER SEEM TO LEARN!

Pictured: People with learning disability.

Victims of learning disability

Truth to be told, I do read stuff on innit. However the problem is that 83% of the posts on innit are just pure unadulterated rubbish.

They are either:

• a) Boring
• b) Uninsightful
• c) Poorly written
• d) Plagiarised from other sites
• e) All of the above

My advice to you?

Consistently churn out quality, original works that you can proudly read over and over again. No, not on how your day went (unless this involves a lot of sex or violence), but on something people would find interesting and would love to read.

Pictured: Sex and violence

Personally, I read blogs that are funny or intelligent or both.

Funny as in I laugh my arse off between each paragraph. Intelligent in that it makes me think, without the author sounding like a pretentious fuckwad.

Google image result for ‘pretentious’.

Guest quote from AngelKein which just about sums it up:

“People think getting nangs will help improve their traffic, yes it does, but just a small pile of poo. You want get more visitors, write nicer posts that will attract people’s attention. And with clean simple layout and normal read-able fonts. Oh yeah. With read-able English also. How do you expect your traffic to increase if people can’t even read nor understand your posts.”

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Aside: Let’s make this an innit Chatbox policy! People who spam get 1 chance. The moment they spam again, BOOYAKASHA we DANG them! If you support this, spread this message to all and sundry!

Final aside: No insult meant for people who are actually retarded (as in mentally challenged like, for real) or with learning disabilities. Dyslexia is not as fun as TV make it out to be =(

Today’s newspaper ran an article about how a Japanese whaling ship rammed a speedboat manned by anti-whaling activists, chopping off the front section of the boat.

You can read about it here.

Somehow I have always been intrigued by the exploits of the Sea Shepherds. They sail where evil whaling ships go about killing whales and sabotage their operations. This is done by throwing stink bombs and tangling the whaling ships’ drive systems with ropes.

Hell yeah it sounds like something I’d do even without the noble bit of saving whales!

But seriously just stink bombs?

If I were to lead an environmental activist group which uses ‘extreme’ measures, I’d be a lot more extreme than that!

It’ll be called Al-Greena and we’d do shit like bomb factories spewing toxic chemicals, disable forest clearing machinery with thermite, throw petrol bombs at organisations that do dastardly things to the environment, and other generally destructive measures.

Oh and kidnapping delegates at environmental summits who do not support carbon-reducing protocols. Then we’ll put them in a sealed room and pipe in smoke from burning hydrocarbons before calling the cops and fleeing.

Finally an Al-Greena representative will appear in the media claiming responsibility for the attacks. Gaia-hu-akhbar, motherfuckers!

Anarchy and destruction with a cause that’ll get you laid. Goddamn, call me Tyler Durden and sign me righttt up!

I love the Google search suggestions. They reveal much about what people are searching for.

In Malaysia, people are concerned about…

…the Jews being smarter than them. Mm mm Anti-Semitism goodness.

Another interesting thing Malaysians searched for is ‘why English is important’. Understandable considering the deplorable state of the Queen’s language in Malaysia. (Case in point: ‘why the jews so smart’ is grammatically incorrect, yet it is a prominent search string)

I got an idea for you. Learn proper English you dingbat! It’s not called the ‘international language of knowledge’ for nothing. Then you’d be way smarter than the Jews for sure.

Over in Singapore, the topic du jour is…

…smelly Indians. Fucking racists. I think we Chinese people are probably the most racist in the world. If Chinese characters had Roman alphabets they’d start the KKK or some shit.

Speaking of racism, a search on ‘chinese racists’ brought to my attention the plight of Lou Jing. Miss Lou is a girl in China born of a Chinese mother… who had an extra-marital affair with a black man.

It seems Chinese people have an inherent dislike for people of darker skin than them (or a massive fear of 8 inch Nigger dong), for netizens in China basically blasted the poor girl when she appeared on a TV show.

Here’s the girl in question:

I dunno about you, but damnnn - she’s fine!

Dumbass racists, it doesn’t matter what skin colour a person is. A hot chick is a hot chick, even if she’s got blue skin. (Question: Would you bang Mystique of the X-Men?)

Internationally, people searched about…

…smelly vaginas apparently.

It’s called vaginitis and you can get over the counter treatment at your friendly local pharmacy.

Aside from that, popular search topics were why men have nipples, why their poop is green (ew – too much veggies?), and why did I get married too (I assume they are referring to the movie due in 2010).

So what can you learn from all this?

People in Malaysia are anti-Semitic, people in Singapore are racists, and people around the world have smelly vaginas!