At-Ats shagging!
Fantastic! Star Warsshagging! Lovely 
Plastic Bertrand is back!
Well, blow me! The only famous Belgian popstar, the inimitable Plastic Bertrand is back. Only now, he is the headmaster of the Belgium version of Fame Academy and boy does he look different! (how do you spell botox anyway?)
Should I Stalk William Shatner?
Well, should I? Take the Ape Culture.com Standardized Should I Stalk William Shatner Test to find out.
designmethod:bling bling
How to make a cool computer case mod (& scare the children at the same time) – as this guy says – the kid’s new supercharged pc should make ‘Paint With Elmo’ run like a champ!
What kind of Blogger am I?
kuro5hin have identified the main types of people who ‘blog’. I think I’m closest to a linkyblogger but could also be a techie, hippy or in fact any except the teeny one.
evil clown generator
I have tried to post this link before but it didn’t show up so here’s it is again. It’s a cool toy for making an evil clown face. See what the scariest you can do is.
Apology
Sorry for the releative lack of posts but I’ve been having some difficulty posting since Blogger was hacked the other day & quite a few posts haven’t shown up. Besides which, I’ve been very, very busy at work & no-one has been sending me anything new. Please keep the links coming in to the email address on the right of the screen & I’ll post them up here – don’t be upset if I don’t post them though – a lot have aleady been posted.
Star Trek – Nemesis
A few days before this gets released for general viewing, I can bring you the newStar Trek Trailer. There are some bonuses to my job 
(You’ll need Real Player to watch it).
Grom Googlism
I’ve been told to blog the Googlism site by loads of people so for all of you, here are some Googlisms for ‘Grom’;
grom is a short stout dwarf usually seen in at least 3″ platform soled heavy boots and wearing a brightly patterned sparkly longcoat with hideously long collar
grom is currently rehearsing and finalising the tracks with his paralel classic heavy metal project doomsword
grom is the result of seven years of research as part of a secret military project
& my personal favourite, grom is shorter and designed specifically to accommodate kids under five feet.
It’s all true I tell you!
The Framley Examiner
The Framley Examiner is a spoof online newspaper. Here’s a link to it’s personals/classifed ads page. It’ll give you a good idea of what to expect from the rest of it.
Geeky but Scary
Here’s a list of computer bugs that have affected rea-world computer systems (like cars & space shuttles etc). It’s quite frightening to see that one word missed out of some code could (and has) lose a multil-million dollar space probe. The funniest one for me are the F16 fighter planes that flip every time they are on autopilot & cross the equator!
The Caffeine Workstation
Do you work on a computer all day? Drink a lot of coffee? then you need Caffeine Machine courtesy of pimprig.com.
Cool fact of the day!
I noticed that I’d had a couple of hits from Poland which piqued my interest so I did some investigating & found out that Grom means ‘Thunderclap’ in Polish!
I’ve also been getting a few hits from the forums on Adventure Gamers.com as it seems that my m8 Kaye posted a link on there to here. So if you have come from either Poland or Adventure Gamers, then I hope you enjoy your stay & please come back again.
Realistic Internet Simulator
Rob from B3ta has made a cool game based on the typical Internet Users’ surfing experience.
Woo! Yay!
Joel Veitch has done it again. This time his Angry Kittens are covering The Vines – Outtathaway and doing it damn well too!
Symantec Security Response Warning
Well, hot on the tail of news that blogger was hacked (that’s how I publish this site BTW), comes news of a particularly sh1tty marketing scam/virus. I can just see the marketing dept of friendsgreetings.com rubbing their hands with glee that they’re so smart as no-one else has ever thought of doingthis lame idea. Well, newsflash to them – Loads of people have thought of doing it before but decided not to create a virus as a marketing tool as it’s a sick, lame-ass thing to do. Ponces.
Earth Erotica
Heather Firth takes photgraphs of geological formations that look like knobs, fannies & tits. I guess we all need a hobby.
Buy Bush a PlayStation 2
This makes a lot of sense;
Dear Mr. President:
I represent a small consortium of voters who are deeply concerned over your proposed {or, if appropriate, ongoing} military action in Iraq. Given the amount of public speech and political rhetoric you have devoted to this issue in past months, it seems to us as though you are more interested in playing commando than in fighting an actual war with actual human casualties.
Enclosed with this letter, we have sent you a small gift: one PlayStation 2 game console and one copy of SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs. We ask that you accept this gift and use it, rather than the lives of Iraqi civilians and our U.S. servicemen, to fulfill any militaristic fantasies.
Respectfully,
Mikel Reparaz
Chairman
Buy Bush a PlayStation 2 Campaign
Photocopier Model Number Generator
Ok, now this link is not funny or clever, it’s just odd. Type in your name & it tells you what model of photocopier you are (or have? or want to be? I dunno!). Actually it’s rather lame but hey! at least you know they’ll be better links tomorrow!
New job Opportunity
Doesn’t look like there are many requirements for this job vacancy but I still don’t think they’ll get many applications! Mind you the pay ain’t too bad but even the work address is funny
AtomFilms – Gone Bad
These are superb! I apologise for those of lesser bandwidths but I think even on a 56k these are still worth checking out. Two, 6 minute CGI animations (although I kept forgetting it was all computer generated!) that form two seperate stories in what I hope will be a long series of Zombie features. Gone Bad: Episode 1 features a jaded priest & a tennis playing zombie whilst Episode 2 (my favourite) features a fisherman who catches more than he expected. It also features the best underwater dancing zombie I’ve ever seen. (thanks to Kaye for this)
Breaking News!
And now, this breaking news report on Columns: something. This really tells it like it is!
Daily Telegraph Braile Project
Joe Magee used to work for the Daily Telegraph doing illustrations. That is until they realised that the dots in the images were actually braile and said rather rude things. It’s amazing how long he got away with it for.
The case of the 40,000 coat hangers & one genius
If you read nothing else today (apart from this blog obviously), then it must be this story as reported by the Independent newspaper of an on-going case of theft of 40,000 coat hangers from hotels. The transcripts from the case are hilarious & you can see that the judge is having fun too. part one is here and part two is here. Read them both.
Sample quote;
Counsel: Now, Mr Chrysler – for let us assume that that is your name – you are accused of purloining in excess of 40,000 hotel coat hangers.
Chrysler: I am.
Counsel: Can you explain how this came about?
Chrysler: Yes. I had 40,000 coats which I needed to hang up.
Fantastic Case mod
I mknow this is a geeky link but I think none geeks will appreciate it too. It’s a pc case mod that looks amazing – it uses the shuttle case that I’ve mentioned before & an LCD screen built in.
Nice flash movies
Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday – was in meetings all day & had no time to find any good stuff myself and no-one sent me anything worthwhile (which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep sending me stuff)
Anyway, here’s the video for the Flaming Lips’ ‘Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots and damn fine it is too.
How to Dance Gothic
Especially for Sarah & Paddy – How to Dance Gothic which reminds me to remind you all to go to the Royal Park Pub in LS6, Leeds on Nov 2nd to see the Sisters of Murphy (BTW, nice shorts Paddy!)
This House believes that “the free music mentality is a threat to the future of music.”
Wish I ‘d done better in my A-Levels so that I could attend thisdebate at Oxford Uni. Chuck D (Public Enemy) vs. Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) should be good for a laugh but best of all is that Hillary Rosen of the Rec Ind ASS of America will be making a rare trip to this country to have eggs thrown at her. Wish I was there. Wonder if anyone will release it as an mp3?
