25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.
In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3i
NEW: A Queensland software engineer has been in a four-and-a-half year long battle with Services Australia to get a look at a MyGov app's source code.
He says we should be able to scrutinise it to make sure it's secure. Services Australia says it's a national security risk.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/09/mygov-app-code-services-australia-security-fraser-tweedale/
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#theplaylistsuggestion
songs that come to mind considering the avenues of new music in the eighties and nineties were Rage and weirdly Hey Hey it's Saturday.
TISM - Greg the Stop Sign
The Poor - More Wine Waiter Please (there is a live version on youtube from Hey Hey it's Saturday, introduced by Kamahl)
Honorable mentions for
Tina Turner - Nutbush City limits (I recently learned that the dance taught in school is uniquely Australian)
John Williamson - old man emu
So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.
Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.
Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy
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