Potential Difference

Why I Want An iPhone

2010-06-12T17:01:00.025+10:00

Because I am a male, I am inexorably drawn to cool, shiny bits of technology. And unless you have had your head buried in the sand for the past few days, "cool, shiny bits of technology" now includes the iPhone 4. Don't get me wrong, I hate Apple as much as any sane-minded person, and it is for this reason that I have refrained from buying an iPhone until now. I have sat back and watched as countless legions of Apple-lovers have rushed...

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What If We Are the Videogame, and God is the Player?

2010-03-01T17:14:00.010+10:00

Two of my favourite things to complain about have come together in an orgy of potentially epic metaphors and unbridled hatred in textual form. Namely, religious interference and the R18+ debate. For those of you who do not know, the R18+ Debate is an ongoing discussion by the government's censorship boffins about whether or not to allow Australia to have an 18+ age rating for videogames. Currently, we do not have one, and so any game...

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Christinsanity

2010-02-26T20:11:00.004+10:00

"Do you believe in God?" You would not believe (or perhaps, if you're religious, you would), how often I get asked that question. A day does not go by at University when some lanky communist, wearing what can only be described as a sack made into the vague shape of a t-shirt, spots me in the crowd and makes it his mission to drag me over and complain to me about how I am an ungodly specimen of humanity and that the only way to redeem...

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Orthodoxymoronical

2010-02-23T18:46:00.010+10:00

It has been far, far too long since I clicked that "New Post" button. Far too long indeed. My hands are red with the blame, I assure you. With the world in ruins once more, and new topics to cover, I have again decided to enter the world of mercilessly harsh opinions, scathing remarks and to wade into battle equipped with a wit so sharp as to cut through the lies and pierce right to the heart of the matter. Impossibly epic metaphors....

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I Won't Leave You Falling...

2009-09-22T13:58:00.002+10:00

I won't begin with an apology, as that is all these posts ever begin with; so instead I shall just give it to you straight. You may have noticed that I have not been writing for some time now, and basically this trend is set to continue. I just do not have the time any more. And after something like 160 posts, I am sure you have plenty to keep you entertained. I will occasionally post stuff now and then, but nothing too major. So, keep...

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Creation

2009-08-07T22:10:00.006+10:00

In the beginning, there was Jack Bauer. Jack Bauer created Himself, and henceforth does not need to explain why He was there in the beginning; which in of itself is an arbitrary notion as time is highly curved on cosmic scales due to the gravitational pull generated by His own awesomeness; insomuch that it loops back on itself, and thus He has always existed, and always will. He defies mortal description, and therefore He cannot be...

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War... What Is It Good For?

2009-07-15T16:42:00.013+10:00

And in keeping with the lyrical tradition, the answer is "absolutely nothing." Of course, our American cousins would instead reply: "War is good for unleashing our own special brand of justice upon all those who threaten freedom and democracy." Or, in simpler terms, "We want their oil." But anyway, the American desire to fuel the ever larger-cars for their ever-larger population is not the issue at hand... Luke has issued the...

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Driving License to Thrill

2009-07-05T12:43:00.003+10:00

In an astounding display of wizardry, Lee has come up with yet another ultimate challenge for the Phenomenal Four. Our task for today is as simple as the last... "what is the best car?" Typically, Lee went for the Porsche September the Eleventh, because it is brash and powerful; all the things that he himself isn't, and therefore he must be compensating for something. Luke went for the Golf GTI, mainly because it is the car that we...

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myTunes

2009-06-21T22:04:00.016+10:00

It seems that, astoundingly, Lee over at Surprisingly Bewildered! has come up with a suggestion. He challenged the Phenomenal Four to come up with a list of 25 songs of our own choice. Sounds simple doesn't it? Well the twist is that there are 5 categories we have to fill (Happy, Sad, Love, Guilty Pleasures and a category of our choosing), with our top 5 in each category. 5 top songs x 5 categories = 25 songs. It is maths at its most...

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Potential is Different, Once More

2009-06-21T18:17:00.005+10:00

You may have noticed some aesthetic changes to the blog over the past day or so. That's because I like to update the look of p.d every once in a while to keep it interesting. Looking at the same old boring layout day after day can become, well, boring; hence the changes I shall handily list below so you can look out for them...Using some html hacks and general awesomery, I've altered it from a two-column to a three-column layout. This...

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Global Boring Can't Come Soon Enough...

2009-06-11T12:48:00.024+10:00

Today is a bitterly cold day. This is the first time that I have worn socks indoors for close to 8 months. It is also the first time that I have kept them on whilst in bed as well. Actually, thinking about it, I believe they've been on for close to twenty-four hours now. I am thus supremely reluctant to peel them off in-case the Americans designate them as a biological doomsday weapon and lock me up in Guantanamo Bay for a thousand...

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Control Freak

2009-06-05T00:21:00.007+10:00

It seems that people actually want to wave their arms about and generally make themselves look like an epileptic on steroids. E3 was awash this year with new controllers, as both Microsoft and Sony unveiled new motion-sensor Wiimote-style thingymajigs for their consoles, and to be honest I'm not sure why. I have never understood the reasoning behind this latest gaming craze whereby you can wave your arm to control your character. I see...

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I Believe That in the Real World, We Call them Criminals...

2009-05-22T15:10:00.010+10:00

It seems that things have gone a bit tits-up for the UK government in the past week or so; what with the revelation that most MPs have cheated and lied in an effort to squeeze every last penny of taxpayers money they can get their hands on to fund their ridiculous habit of buying an absurd number of houses. Plainly this is good material. I do not believe that the nation's bloggers will ever run out of hate-filled prose with which to...

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Living Long and Prospering

2009-05-20T14:36:00.011+10:00

>Minor Spoilers Ahead Okay, I am going to get the obvious stuff out of the way first... Star Trek is going beyond the final frontier and boldly going where no movie has gone before. Set phasers on fun. It is beaming into a cinema near you. Go and see it at maximum warp. Don't Klingon to your gold-pressed latinum, go and buy a ticket. I think I've covered all the stereotypes... that should keep the nerds happy. For the rest of you who,...

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Oops

2009-05-15T16:58:00.002+10:00

Ok sorry to not have been posting for ages... lots of stuff to do :P I think that the O:EA Part V has been abandoned. I will post what I had already saved to drafts in the coming days, but it doesn't seem likely that anything will be posted "officially" if you see what I mean. I will however post my review of Star Trek after I have re-watched it over the weekend. And this time I won't be distracted by certain other factors; purely...

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Windows 7... Rounded up from 666

2009-04-10T12:18:00.015+10:00

For some unfathomable reason, I decided to visit the Microsoft Windows 7 page to see what it had to offer. I pressed "enter" with a palpable sense of fear and dread; truly I knew that W7 was going to disappoint harder than if the new Star Trek movie was just an hour of William Shatner grinning madly and lolloping about on a big pile of money... >shudder "Give me all of your earnings to help me in my quest to buy a proper...

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Round the Bend Down Under

2009-04-03T23:06:00.006+10:00

To begin with I must apologise for the chronic lack of articles as of late. Being a Uni student can sometimes be hard graft, and as is the case with the other Three, I have been bogged down with work and social mishaps. So, to get back to my usual hating ways, what I am going to do for today's post is make a bold statement: Australians can't drive. See, it is actually in bold and everything... I have been on the roads for five months...

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The Legendary Legate

2009-03-17T15:54:00.015+10:00

Everyone knows King Henry VIII right? The fat, disease-ridden, promiscuous king who had six wives? Well, he is regarded as one of England's greatest Kings; and one of the most controversial as well. However, Henry VIII was not the only "King of England" during his reign... enter Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the Alter Rex. -The Cardinal Himself, in a painting by Samson Strong in 1526 Alter Rex literally means "other King", and is a title...

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Shuffling Off This Mortal Coil

2009-03-13T14:32:00.017+10:00

"Form over function" seems to be the new phrase fueling Apple designers in their never-ending quest to provide you with a needless update for something that doesn't actually require one. Hence we have the all-new iPod Shuffle 3rd Generation. The old iPod Shuffle G2 For clarity, I own the previous generation model, and I have done since it was released. It is a great little piece of kit. Cute as a button, and about the same size as...

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The Jack Bauer Power Hour

2009-03-06T11:29:00.005+10:00

America has many, many things wrong with it. 304 million things to be exact. The average American has an IQ which is lower than his waistline measurement and, intelligence-wise, is on par with an orange. Most of them are the same colour as one as well. Now I am not saying that the entire population of America is thicker than a plank of four by two; far from it. Some noble people could even be considered smart; they invented the Space...

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Museical Geniuses

2009-03-02T07:01:00.016+10:00

I find it incredibly hard to write about music, which is why I was quietly opposed to this latest edition of "Operation: Epic Article". As I said on the main page, all you can really put is "I like this music because it sounds good." This is not very helpful. I am in no way a musician. Indeed, for many years I thought that bass was pronounced to rhyme with the farmyard animal. I had no idea that 'indie' meant 'independent'; I thought...

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There Seems to be a Theme... Men in Tights...

2009-02-25T13:45:00.005+10:00

I am now convinced that all American sports require the player to be a homosexual. Big, hulking, sweaty men pretending to beat the crap out of other big, hulking, sweaty men in a wrestling ring. American 'Foot'ball players having to wear a suit of armour before they even consider going near another player. Baseball players bend over all the time in ridiculously tight trousers. Then you get the monumentally dreadful NASCAR races. They...

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"Good Morning Everyone..."

2009-02-24T14:18:00.012+10:00

Ahh, nothing like the soothing tones of Richie Benaud to get you in the spirit for what is undoubtedly one of the best games on the planet. Yes indeed, for p.d's contribution to what I have now christened "Operation: Epic Article", because it sounds impressive and somehow important, I have decided to write about a sport which, up until a few years back, I thought was a bit... well... boring. As such, I can completely understand why...

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Road Rage Doesn't Even Cover It...

2009-02-19T17:03:00.008+10:00

I bloody hate the Brisbane bus drivers who plague the Logan Road. Loathe them with a passion not seen since Mel Gibson directed a film about Sir Jesus H. Christ. Apoplectic is far too low a term to describe the intense maelstrom of hate and anger that I experience upon being caught behind one. They are the stewards of hell, and the minions of Satan himself; Iain Lee. I bet that he gets them to personally ferry his pasty-white self to...

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Phournomenal

2009-02-18T22:13:00.003+10:00

Just a quick post to inform you of a few changes. First, Lee has changed his blog name to 'Surprisingly Bewildered' to, quote, "get his creative juices flowing". Second, we have a new main page for the four blogs in the Phenomenal Four team. Check it out over at http://thephenomenalfour.blogspot.com/ It should have content on it that wouldn't really fit in a normal article; one paragraph posts and the like. Cheers! Chris

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