Tabs on tap
Pint of Cider, two vodka and cokes, a double wiskey and a half of Marlboro lites
Up-Geeking my ‘pooter
Not so much of an upgrade this time, this one is more of an up-geek. I’m about to order the bottom LCD screen on this page for my computer. It’s very simple to connect – just one cable, your only choice is internal or external cabling. The idea is to give a WinAmp interface. You simply run this freeware which displays the id3 tags from your mp3s and shows the track and artist information of any song playing on your computer in the display.
Many more cheap displays available from Crystalfontz – Serial, USB, and Parallel LCD Modules are all available.
Ich Bin Ein Anarchist
Despite this cool game being entirely in German, this anarchism sim is great fun. All you have to do is torch cars and smash windows without being caught and beaten to a pulp by the police. Again, the only annoying bit is the music – it sounds like it was made by a man wearing lederhosen.
Risky Whisky
Here’s a game that almost console quality – not bad for such a quick loading online game. Risky Whisky is a truck-driving, moonshine-delivering game which is astonishingly addictive – the only bad point was the music that drove me mad! Simply drive around the track without spilling your booze.
Diarrhoea in America
OMG – Here’s a photo of a variety of American anti-diarrhoea remedies. Brilliant.
How to Configure Internet Explorer to Have More Than Two concurrent Downloads
Slightly techy one this but it’s a worthwhile hack to do if you have any connection faster than a 56k modem and use windows 2000 or XP. Basically Microsoft, in their wisdom, decided to limit the amount of downloads that Internet Explorer could handle (interestingly they claim it was to comply with Internet standards but that’s an outright lie – I’ve checked the standards documents). An even better solution is to download Opera and use that instead of IE – it’s faster and much nicer anyway.
Hotel Pelirocco
If you thought that New York’s infamous Chelsea Hotel was the epitome of Rock and Roll chic then think again. The Pelirocco Hotel in Brighton is far more stylish with themed rooms designed by artists (Jamie Reid), musicians (Asian Dub Foundation), record labels (skint, Rough Trade) or inspired by icons such as Bettie Page & Leigh Bowery. Every room has a Playstation 2 and internet connection but you won’t be needing those in rooms as beautiful as these. If you want to treat your partner then you can’t hope to earn more brownie points than taking them here. (& if my wife’s reading this then I’m saving up honey!)
The FWord
Here’s a hilarious submission to the American courts on the “Constitutionality of fu[k, ‘fu[ker’ and fu[king fag” from The Smoking Gun – it’s funny all the way through to the meniton of Chuck-E-Cheese on the last page!
waitallday
The waitallday website is brilliant! I have no idea how the designers managed to cram it all into the one page. Sheer genius.
Blake’s 7 set for return
Never thought I’d see Blake’s Seven back on TV but it does indeed look set to return in a couple of years from now.
Guitar Case Mod
Latest bizarre pc case mod I’ve seen is this guitar-based one. Which is nice.
Code Monkeys
No really, code monkeys.
What the font?
WhatTheFont is an online tool for tracking down the font used in an image. Not a site I’ll be visiting everyday, but one that’ll be going into my “useful” bookmarks.
Edible.com
Delicately smoked over mesquite wood, canned smoked cobra comes ready to eat in brine. It is best stirred into a Thai style red curry or can be eaten simply on a cracker as an exciting canape. You can buy it from edible.com. Or maybe you’d prefer Reindeer Hash, Tibetan Yak Butter and the infamous civet coffee made form beans collected from wild cat droppings. Mmmm, roasted!
Superb videos
Remember the Flashing Blade, The Goodies, Rentaghost and other memorable British shows from the 70′s? Network Video have started to release them all on DVD or VHS at a reasonable price. They even have modern favourites like The High Life (‘Ooh deary me!’) but my vote goes to the Charley Says series of Public Information films. The one I’m watching at the moment has instructions on burying a body in your garden after a nuclear attack (and it only cost me five pounds from HMV in Leeds)
Feeling horny?
You can’t get any hornier than this – it’s official!
Bubba Ho-Tep
Bubba Ho-Tep looks like my kind of film. The plot has Bruce Campbell playing Elvis (stuck in an Evlis impersonator’s body!) battling an ancient egyptian mummy. Despite winning a scakful of film festival awards around the world, the film is stuck without a proper release at present but you can see the trailer at least. Guess I’m gonna have to wait for the dvd to see this classic.
Duct Tape Superheroes
Imagine the worst costume you could possibly wear to a fancy dress party to impress a member of the opposite sex. It might look something like of these Duct Tape Superheroes.
This is not a gif
Believe it or not but this optical illusion is a static image, not an animation.
Underworld
Take The Matrix, cross it with with Blade, and add a dash of The Crow and a smidge of the White Wolf roleplay games and what do you get? The most super shiny, scary, ace blockbuster movie this year. Underworld. Watch the trailer. Grrooowwwlll!
Movie Site
Wow! Doubt that this site will stay up for much longer – tons of new movies streamed straight to your desktop – I just watched the first 5 minutes of XMen2 before I remembered that I had already got the movie on my computer. Obviously you need a fast connection to watch the movies.
Hug your techie
Today is Sysadmin day. Believe me, they work alot harder than you imagine – time to give them some love.
Siggraph 2003
I’m off to sunny California tomorrow, so I thought it deserved a link. Me and 30,000 other arty/techy types will be nerding it up at the world’s biggest computer graphics conference, Siggraph, held this year in sunny San Diego. If you’re even remotely interested in how they did the fx for The Matrix Reloaded, Lord Of The Rings or are a fan of Pixar and ILM, this is the place for you.
4 whole days of mindblowing imagery, geekery, and of course at least one day of Seaworld!
Titty time
Apparently Cameron Diaz is trying to get an injunction to stop these photos, taken just before her first starring role in ‘The Mask’, being published. Nothing like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, eh? Don’t know why she’s trying to stop them as she has nothing to be ashamed of judging by these photos. (Caution: NSFW)
ASCII art – the next generation
ASCII art moives, does exactly what it says on the tin.
There seem to be a limit on how many times a day each movie can be watched. So if you can’t see one then try another (the skateboard ones were working at time of posting).
Mammoth C64 weekend
If you live in the South of England then get yourself over to Brighton on 13th September for ‘Back in Time Live‘ a mammoth weekend of Commodore 64 fun, the biggest 8-bit rock concert ever held, and a great retro-music-game-exhibition featuring a live performance by Press Play On Tape the insane Danes who play old C64 computer game tunes on real instruments!
Bambi hunt
In my quest for cool places for me to do a team building exercise for my team at work (which consists of just me and no-one else but I still get a team-building budget!) I found this article on so-called ‘Bambi hunts’ where you can stalk naked women with paintball guns.
Doesn’t sound dubious at all does it?
STAR WARS Screen Tests
Before Star Wars, there were the screen tests. You can watch them all here. Bizarrely, second choice for Princess Leia was Terri Nunn – later to become the lead singer with Berlin (awful 80′s band responsible for ‘Take my Breath Away’). If you haven’t seen the Kevin Spacey spoof from Saturday Night Live yet then scroll down on this page to see it.
stripcreator
I’m back from my travels so many thanks to Kaye, Popcorn and Al for filling in – keep posting guys!
On a slightly random note, I’ve been really annoyed about the Blogger people changing their code and busting my RSS feed so, prompted by another mail telling me it was bust, I’ve done a temporary fix by pointing my 404 error page to the main www.pri.me.uk page (not an elegant fix but hey, it works!). Thanks to Brad from (one of my long-time favourites), the marvellous StripCreator for kicking me up the backside to fix it.
