Rent-a-D1ldo – PSA
Oh. My. God.
Please tell me that this is a joke. (Doubt you’d want to open it at work but not really NSFW).
YOU WILL RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAAHHHHHH
“Is this your vee-hickle, sir?”, “Drop yurr gun!!” and “The perp fell down the stairs in the interrogation rum, sir” are just some of the exciting new phrases you will be allowed to use if you buy one of Smith & Warren, Built to last a lifetime authentic Po-lease Sherff badges. Custom design your very own personalized custom stars, sheilds, eagle tops, hat badges, name bars and more for as little as 10 bucks! Visit Officerstore NOW!! This has been an infomerciallized documen’erry film preezentation.
Need a ButtKicker
All gamers are used to force feedback devices these days (rumble packs or vibrating joysticks for those who still don’t know what I’m talking about) but how about this – the Buttkicker is a device that straps to the underside of your chair and…well, I’ll let you work out the rest.
(Also note the very unfortunate photo on the homepage – makes you wonder what other devices they sell!)
Generate a Composition
If you happen to be someone who enjoys downloading brash, loud, beepy nasty ringtones then don’t bother reading this post you tasteless oik (and expect your phone to be dropped in your pint if you like to demonstrate your ‘ringtone collection’ down the boozer). However, if you like to download ringtones with a better cool factor, you can try composing your own on this site. Cool bit of kit. It helps if you actually like freeform jazz though as there seems to be negliable difference between most of it’s creations.
USB Key essential nerd download
Mike Tech Show, a good podcast site, has put together a 62Mb download of essential software to carry around on your usb keyring. I don’t think this is a definitive list (where’s the USB-friendly version of Thunderbird or the usb bootable version of Linux?) but it’s a good comprehensive start. You can see what’s included and download it from here.
PSP firmware downgrader released
Following on from our post a few days ago about a possible PSP firmware hack to allow you to run homebrew software, it seems that someone has already managed it. I’ve not tested this myself yet so please do your research before you attempt this hack but it’s good news for all early adopters out there.
Bad A55 Mofo Pencils
Does the guy in the cubicle next to you doubt how much of a bada55 mofo you are? Put him straight with these fantastic pencils. I’d really like some of these – they appeal to my perverse sense of humour. (NB. link and link’s url contain some very naughty words indeed).
Filthy-mouthed weatherman
I assume this was live TV and the weatherman bloke simply forgot. It’s amazing how a tiny slip of the tongue can lead to such an outburst of eloquent and delightfully delivered profanities. Turn it up and wait for his smile at the end. What a charmer.
hallelujah
Haaaaaalleeelujah (thud) Hallelujah (thud) Haallelujah (crunch)… Haaaaaalleeelujah (thud) ha-lle-lu-jaaaah (wallop). Ouch. Best with speakers… link to wmv file.
Animal Acts
Ay oop, all. I’m back from my hols and it looks like you’ve got on alright without me. I have no idea what JC has been up to and, frankly, I can’t be bothered checking out what he’s been posting so I’ll just start with some lovely animal pics. There’s a tidge of photoshopping going on in one or two… but that’s quite acceptable considering the general quality of the authentic snaps. Sorry if I repost anything… if I do then it must be good and therefore you won’t mind seeing it again.
Doggy Bags
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if these Doggy Bags were real? Unless you owned a Great Dane of course!
Little People
There’s something I can’t quite put my finger on about this site – Minimiam has lots of images of small figures in unusual ‘landscapes’ and just looks great – I’m not sure what it is but it’s strangely enticing.
Liquid Sculptures
Liquid Sculpture is a site dedicated to the High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes by Martin Waugh – it’s very impressive and beautiful
Pets In Uniform
Following on from the recent BeeDogs post, I’m ecstatic to be able to bring you Pets in Uniform – it’s better than you could hope for.
Learn computer programming with a board game
Want to teach your children how to become a code monkey? Or fancy learning it yourself? Why not get a copy of c-jump the board game designed especially to teach programming skillz. Fun for all the family (possibly).
Commercial Breaks and Beats
We first blogged this site way back when we first started this site over 3 years ago but it’s well worth an extra post. Commercial Breaks and Beats is a database of the music used in UK tv adverts (and amazingly, not every entry is Moby!). Also of interest if you like this kind of thing is UK TV ADverts which does the same but for actors and actresses who do the voiceovers and US readers might like to try Sounds Familiar(although I’ve not checked this one out yet).
cheers for the reminder our kid
Hacking with RFID
I’ve expressed concerns over the growing use (and reliance) on RFID tags in shops. For some reason recently we’ve seen this form of tag being utilised more and more by large corporations as a way of tracking goods and purchases in stores and in many areas, RFIS is now being used to pay for services by eliminating checkouts. The guys over at RFIDAnalysis have proved that using low-cost equipment, you can copy and crack other people’s tags and get yourself some free petrol. More fuel for the fire – I’m glad that more of this proof of concept work is now coming out – wonder if the UK id cards will still include RFID tags?
PSP 2.0 Overflow Found and Working
News has just reached me of a working firmware 2.0 overflow hack. It means nothing yet but does open some more avenues of investigation to enable the PSP to run non-official software.
OOTTINLTO – Amazons
Here’s a kind of reverse of our normal One of these thigns is not like the others – usually we look for a page of normal results and one rude odd one out but this tie the GIS for amazons yeilds a page of Amazonian women and one lonely looking ‘chick’.
cheers Kaye
How many condoms can you wear at once?
It’s such a simple question, you wonder why no-one’s answered it before – then you relise that no-one in their right mind needs to know how many condoms you can wear at once.
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
The IE Developer toolbar is actually really handy for web monkeys.
Build your own Sentry Gun
Anyone who’s played games like Half Life will have come across unmanned sentry guns – great idea but they’ve never been used in real life. So what’s a geek to do other than build their own sentry turret – good work!
Ned’s ideas for Gay & Lesbian Channel
Now, whilst I know that this link is utterly non-pc, I defy anyone to not smirk at least once after listening to Ned’s ideas for a Gay and Lesbian channel – it shouldn’t be funny but manages it.
Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now
It’s a great URL, they’ve got a good video, it’s just a shame that it’s better with the sound off but you can forgive Mitch Benn and the Distractors for venting the theory that everythingsoundslikecoldplaynow.com/. They’ve got a point you know. Could be worse – everything could sound like Keane.
Opera is now totally free
Not Fat Ladies singing – I’m talking about the web browser Opera which until recently wasn’t as popular as Firefox due to the built-in adverts unless you paid. Now they’ve decided to give the full, un advert-laden browser away for free. I’ve used it on and off for several years and like some of the features a lot (ability to zoom in on pictures, tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, RSS feed reading) although some like mouse gestures never did grab me that much. If you want a good solid browser then I’d recommend it (but then again, I’d also recommend Firefox too).
Salvo’s Restaurant blog
Salvo’s is a small restaurant here in Leeds which has been a regular haunt of mine for well over a decade now. One of the owners, Gip – a well known and liked person about town has started up a Salvo’s blog covering plenty of foodie topics – I’ll be keeping tabs on this one to see how it goes – he’s got some recommendations for places to eat throughout the country and if Gip recommends it, it must be decent, trust me.
*Edit* I’ve just found out that Salvo’s was listed in the top 10 Italian restaurants in the UK this month in the Times newspaper so congratulations to them for that achievement
OOTTINLTO
A rather bizarre addition to our One of these links is not like the others – Biohazard sent me this link to a GIS for British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (which amusingly is BAAPS for short!).
e-learning torrent site
LearnBits.org is a torrent tracker site that might appeal to some of you. It calls itself an e-learning torrent site and features BitTorrent trackers for computerised training courses. The legality of some of it is questionable to say the least but that’s a matter for you to decide on.
Real Reality TV – Dutch Style
Trust the Dutch to live up to their national stereotypes but lauching a live sex and drug-taking reality tv show.
Another thing you didn’t know you needed
As part of our semi-regular features on things you didn’t know you needed, I can bring you thepizza fork. Cool or pointless – I’ll let you decide.
