Squids revenge
Henri Cartier Bresson referred to the perfect photograph as capturing “the decisive moment”. A wonderful example of this is the young men being frozen in time mid barf (see post a few days ago). Another perfect example is encapsulated by the Angry Squid
Buh-bye, here’s your P45
If anyone you know is leaving their job, then why not let Pete & Dud send them off in style. Just change the ‘grom’ in the URL to whatever their name is.
PHP – New designer drug!
Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP. Thank goodness I’ve never been caught – I’ve been experimenting with PHP for a couple of years now, often knocking it back with a MySQL chaser! I had no idea it could be so dangerous!
Chicken F1sting
I’ve just been sent a mail that was sent out to the Capital Radio network here in the UK. It had
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attached with the message “Has anyone tried this”? I played it in all innocence and promptly spat my tea over my monitor. A classic WTF moment.
Star Wars cleanup on Mac technology
I spend a lot of time in datacentres as part of my job but none of my kit is anything like as neat as this kit (needs Quicktime VR). It’s the kit that was used to clean up the new release of Star Wars. I’m not sure that the images do it justice though – I reckon after a Mac had done it’s job it will look more like this. (send me your Mac-loving flames to the usual address – I’m out of toilet paper).
Fat Lass vs Gravity
Yes, you know what’s going to happen, yes it does happen, but blimey – gravity’s quite a bugger for fat lasses when you think about it.
Now she knows what it’s like for all those cakes disappearing into her mouth! thanks Big bruvver
Cool Video
Slightly chunky in the old download department… your patients will be rewarded – C-Mon And Kypski – SH177Y BUM
Unnecessarily Exhaustively Informative Websites
Found via this article comes another Unnecessarily Exhaustively Informative Website. This one is on the benefits of squatting rather than sitting when using the toilet.
Squares
Avoid being twonged by the red things, try to bump into the black things and score lots of joyous points.
1337 One of these things is not like the others
It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these – I thought for a moment we’d run out… au contraire! Here’s a lovely one: xbox live. Please note the Google Safe Search condition of this search: (strict filtering filth success = 1337 Googling. By George, I do believe I may have just set a new precedence)
The Dialectizer
Another one of those lovely netsite b@st@rdisers. This time The Dialectizer. Select a dialect, select a site and hey presto – The beeb in cockney or GromBlog in Jive. Sadly it doesn’t seem support Web standards properly. Tsk.
The Caseless Case Mod
This is more of an un-case mod but it’s genius all the same – the artistry surpasses anything I could create and the cooling is second to none but I do prefer more flashing, coloured lights in my ‘pooters. via boingboing.net
Marc Perkel Rantz: Download Fahrenheit 9/11 Here
Marc Perkel has taken Michael Moore up on his statement that he has no problem with people downloading his movie and has just bought a load of bandwith for a few weeks to let everyone download Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s an interesting concept – so far I haven’t seen any evidence of the cinema or dvd sales of this movie being harmed but I don’t know many people who haven’t seen this excellent (but admittedly flawed) film so it’ll be interesting to compare the industry stats about this movie in a few months time with other major movies.
l4m3r g3t5 Pwned
If you’ve seen people use the word ‘pwned’ on t’web and not known what it means, here’s the perfect definition.
Bugatti Veyron 16.4
As we are somewhat of a bunch of petrolheads here (although you wouldn’t believe it when you see whgat we drive) I feel compelled to post this Bugatti Veyron 16.4! OMFG! 1001 bhp!
John Peel dead
News just in – I’m extremely sad to report that John Peel has died whilst on holiday in Peru. John Peel was responsible for shaping the face of British (and the rest of the world) music for the last 40 years. In the whole of that time he was the only consistently music-focused fan who paid little attention to trends and fads and he introduced a huge amount of people to music that they would not have had the opportunity to listen to otherwise. I don’t say this lightly but John Peel was the best DJ that the world has ever seen – just to show you how respected he was, in the last 5 minutes, I’ve received 7 emails with the bad news. Who else would play Napalm Death next to a Greig Concerto?
Turkish Star Trek
Something Awful are running a review of ‘Turist Omer in Star Trek’ a 1973 Turkish movie which took a popular actor (in Turkey) called Turist Omer and basically stuck him into a low-rent rip-off of Star Trek. Just one look at the photos nd you’ll see quite how poor this was. Still worth a giggle just for the fact that they renamed Spock to Mister Spak. thanks Imran
Brain in a Dish Flies Plane
When I was doing my edumacation thing at uni I did a thesis on neural networks and their application to the prediction of protein structure blah blah tedious. Neural networks in those days were computer models of how they thought the brain worked and how you could forge pathways through this mathematical alogorhythm thus ‘teaching’ the software how to do something (I believe car registration plate character recognition works using this principle). At that time, never (in my wildest dreams) did I expect to see neural networks being actually created out of real neurons and applied to real life situations… Let alone being able to create a brain in a dish that can fly a plane!
Guess the 41 songs in 58 seconds
This is damn hard. Using careful deployment of the pause and rewind button in winamp, I have so far managed to identify about 15 of the songs in this One-Minute Medley of tunes. There are 41 in all so I’ve got a way to go yet. (Luckily the answers are on the site but I’ll leave that until tomorrow)
Drunk
Another pageful of images of drunk unconscious people being exploited for the camera
Cunning Stunt and other Vehicular mishaps
A bumper crop of vehicular-related mishaps today. We start with the, getting to be infamous, Mr & Mrs Wheatley with their weel-crafted Cunning Stunt video clip – so good you’ll think it’s real.
Next up are a loads of video clips that will make you go ‘Ooh‘, ‘Eek‘ and ‘Wow‘.
Battleships
I used to love this game as a kid – especially when they brought out the one with the lights and beeps. I’ve just spent half an hour playing this cool version! You can parallel process battleshipping with work – just turn your speakers down.
Sick link warning
If you find this kind of thing unpleasant then I suggest you really don’t click this link. It is an image that graphically shows a suicide jumper moments after impact. The face of the surrounding crowds are worth seeing: they say a thousand words as they watch the innards become outards.
Road Blocks
Goddamn! This is an addictive game. Road Blocks is one of those simple games that you start playing then realise 20 minutes have just disappeared from your life. Level 17 is where I finally gave up.
Why you’re not allowed to play in the cockpit
No idea if this is true or not but here’s a damn good reason why you shouldn’t play in the cockpit.
Treasure Box
Treasure Box is one of those surreal games that make you question the sanity of the creator. It’s very odd to say the least.
Groo: Team Photo
Go to this post, read the blurb, then (and only then) click on the picture for the full effect. Classic.
Homeless Identity kits
I found this idea quite a fascinating one – it’s an ‘art’ project to record the possessions that some homeless people in London have. These ‘Identity kits’ are quite telling and it’s strangely voyeuristic to look at them without seeing the people who own them. I found it interesting how many of them had a passport and the photo of Jack Nicholson (in the eShining) was a weird thing to carry when the sum of someone’s possessions is only a pocketful of detritus.
Titanic and IceBerg Inflatable Slide
I can’t quite work out if this Titanic Inflatable Slide is sick or great. Judging by the other stuff they sell I assume it’s not meant in bad taste. (they really need to learn some html though – bloody AOL users!)
