Banish these people from the gene pool
This week has been a bumper week for what the Japanese call ‘cosplay‘ (dressing up as characters from mange, anime, cartoons or films – sometimes for sexual kicks) – first there was this infamous Tron costume which just reminds me of Milton Waddams from the classic film Office Space (go rent it if you haven’t already). Next up is this couple wearing cornish pasties on their foreheads – oh sorry, it’s a Klingon Wedding – my mistake.
StationRipper – the streaming ripper
I’ve used some fairly poor quality software in the past for trying to rip streams from the internet but I’ve just found out about StationRipper via /.. As long as the original stream is good quality and you’re on broadband then it’s a good piece of software to run. Although it looks limited to Shoutcast streams, it’s not – you can entry any url and it’ll capture it.
Back to the Future car on eBay
There’s a full recreation of the DeLorean Gullwing that featured in Back to the Future on sale on eBay at the moment. I’ve seen a few other half-hearted versions but this baby is as close as I’ve seen – it also has one improvement over the cars used in the movie – this one is roadworthy (time-travel not guaranteed).
Mike West & The Man from Delmonte
Please excuse the personal post for once but I’ve just received copies of cult 80′s indie stars The Man from Delmonte‘s cds that were reissued by Vinyl Japan. Although I hadn’t forgotten quite how good they were, it still brought back an awful lot of memories so I went to track down Mike as I lost contact with him after he left Manchester in the early 90′s to move to the USA. It turns out he’s now in New Orleans and doesn’t seem to have changed – he’s still got the magical touch with his evocative lyrics and has released 9 solo albums, is still playing a ridiculous amount of gigs (average is 300 per year), has defined his own musical genre (levee-billy) and is much in demand as a producer. I wish him all the best.
Look-a-not-likes
Another regular feature of pri.me.uk is our addiction to lame Lookalikes. Here’s another collection for you all to laugh at. The popstars page alone has enough dodgy looking people to fill the whole of next months Chav of the Month!
Two of these images are not like the others (pt. too many to mention)
Yet another in our ongoing series of spot the odd-one-out on the Google results page – this time it’s another image search for ‘giant cow’. As per usual, the odd ones out are NSFW and aren’t that hard to find.
Carpal Tunnel Onset Accelerator
If you use a computer all day then you should be aware of the condition known as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, caused by repetitive actions. If you haven’t got the syndrome and feel left out then why not try the Carpal Tunnel Onset Accelerator – it really works!
Arty stuff
This has probably been blogged before but not in my tenure so I’m going to do it now. Lovely art site, Potatoland has this great website visual shredding facility. If you’re not doing much at lunchtime try these.
Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy movie – first details
Here’s a rather long interview with the producers of the forthcoming Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. It goes a long way to restoring my faith in it being a decent movie and not the usual Hollywood foobar as they even went as far as only allowing Douglas Adams’ biographer and the editor of h2g2 to be the interviewers. I was rather astonished to hear that rapper Mos Def is to star as Ford Prefect but he is an intelligent bloke with a wicked sense of humour so it might just work – I’m especially looking forward to Warwick Davis as Marvin – the test images look like nothing I’d expected but from what I’ve seen and heard, it’ll work very well.
Baaaad Taste – Hitler Youth sing YMCA
Incredibly bad taste but very well done – this version of YMCA features the Hitler Youth choir. (link is to a .WMV file)
Banana Guard – protect your bananas
The Banana Guard is a fantastically pointless gadget. It’s a curved box for storing individual bananas in – I wonder if they’ve taken into account the EU regulation that governs the size of bananas (it states that bananas must be “free of abnormal curvature” and should be at least 5.5 inches long!).
McDonald’s Boss Dies of Heart Attack – insert ironic headline here
Almost as ironic as Jim Fixx dying from a heart attack, the boss of evil conglomerate McDonalds has died from a heart attack. Karma’s a sweet thing.
Catch the crook
I like this little game on the North Yorkshire Police’s website – Catch a Crook is an identikit memory game which isn’t as easy as it looks.
thanks anistropia
Two of these images are not like the others…
Another one in our ongoing series of bizarre search results – this time it’s a google image search for tintin. The expected results contain two unusual results (both NSFW) and you’ll probably need to make sure safesearch if off to see what we’re talking about.
Ivan Sarajcic’s Flag Identificator
Supurb tool for flag enthusiasts! (not that flag enthusiasts are particularly likely to be viewing this site) If you know what a flag looks like, don’t know where it’s from, and can’t be bothered rummaging through page upon page of image files then this link is for you.
Welcome Jude Roman Fairbanks
OK. When the delightful Gromsprog was about to enter this world I recall Grom getting all gooey and posting the odd baby-based link. Well now it’s my turn. This is what happens when a photographer and a web designer have a child. I’m afraid it is all rather soppy and lovely and it’s probably not worth checking out if you’re not, shall we say, “baby-oriented”… but I must confess to having experienced a little moistening around the ocular organ when I watched this lovely flash animation. Welcome Jude Fairbanks! *sniff*
ChavScum of the Month
The classic guide to the UK’s Burberry-sponsored youth movement, ChavScum, have updated their Chav of the Month pictures – surely the award must go to Slasher or whoever owns this car.
Calvin and Hobbes
Hopefully our readers are discerning enough to have discovered and enjoy the wonderful creation of Mr. Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes. Well, somebody somewhere has created a lovely selection of animated gifs from his strips. My particular faves are this one, this one, this one and that one. Lovely.
How to get out of a Speeding Ticket in style
Justin Lee from Auckland, New Zealand has style – lots of it. He exhibited the largest cojones I’ve ever seen when he managed to wriggle out of this speeding ticket. I’ve done some checking and it all seems genuine so top marks to Justin for either mastering the art of time travel , learning to drive when he was less than an hour old or just blagging his way out of this ticket.
One of these things…
Is not like the other. What would you expect if you did a Googlie for flea? A flea perhaps? Maybe the bassist from the Chili Peppers? Click the odd link out and check out the unusual erotic “art” by Frogdot (NSFW)
Randomised Dance CD Titler
Simple but effective Randomised Dance CD Selecta – just refresh for a new title or type in a 5 digit number and come up with a ‘Classic Urban Disco Anthems 2003′ of your own.
Anyone want an old Amiga, Atari, spectrum,C64…
There’s a fantastic opportunity for old-skool nerds on eBay at the moment – it’s a huge collection of vintage computers and consoles. The photos make it look like my old bedroom before my wife ‘had a tidy-up’ (her words, not mine!). It really is a geek’s wet dream and although the price doesn’t seem cheap – for what you get, it’s phenomenal value for money but you’ll need a big truck to cart the lot away with you.
Full fps game code is under 96Kb
Small is indeed beautiful (according to my wife) and this is proved by .the .produkkt who have just released a beta of a full fps game called .kkrieger – the most amazing thing is that the file size for the code is only a mere 96Kb which would fit inside the readme file for Unreal!
(I’ve just tried to run it on my work pc and it crashed before it could run but I’ll try it again later at home.)
Glastonbury 2004 Tickets – new batch available
If you read this within the next few hours and you’re after Glastonbury tickets then go to seetickets.com and you’ll find some available for ordering. They’ve only just gone up and I don’t know how many are available but a load of people at work here have just got through to order them. Phone number is 01733560075. Enjoy!
Cool clock
I like clocks… they tell the time and everything. Remember the flash clock with the pencils writing the numbers? Pah! Thing of the past. Here is a lovely little javascript clock by a chap called Kurt Grigg… [span class="geek"] lovely creative bit of coding. [/span]
Computers for luddites
Do you prefer your shiney new cars with walnut dash? Would you rather your new stereo had a fetching wood veneer finish? Well Luddite Industries make the computer just for you! Let ‘Nature’s Computer Company’ lovingly craft a computer to your specifications out of the finest mahogany money can buy…
Underoos – pants for kids
Underoos are back apparently – retroCRUSH report seeing them in the shops once more. These fine garments consist of a vest/t-shirt and pant* combination with designs on them to look like a superhero, tv character or even the morally dubious Daisy Duke. If anyone knows where to buy these please let me know – I’m intrigued to see what the new designs they’ve decided to inflict on children are.
*pant is used here in the UK sense of the word ie: to indicate an item of undergarmentage and not the US derivation meaning an outergarment (or trousers to everyone else).
There are a sextillion ways to spell Viagra
Certified (and certifiable) genius Rob from the best use of the internet ever – Cockeyed.com has calculated that there are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell Viagra – that’s somewhat appropriately over a sextillion (although I doubt such a word exists).
Windows Sounds Remixed
Even though the standard Windows sounds are enough to drive you crazy, the remixed version is actually pretty good – give a minute to get going and you might be surprised to find yourself tapping your toes along with the tune.
Transparent Gaffa Tape
No! This shouldn’t be allowed! Clear gaffa* tape is a transgression of everything that makes the universe work and should be banned.
*Gaffa= gaffer, duct, duck, scotch tape etc – it just depends were you’re from as to what you call it so please don’t pick me up on the spelling!
