New Folk Hero
Sometimes you stumble across a little article tucked away in a newspaper that makes you say “Whaa?!”. This story about a guy who managed to con several banks into handing over 5million Euros in such an article. It reads like something out of James Bond.
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The winners of this year’s Ig Nobel awards for improbable research have been announced. Favourites this year include the paper on pressure build-up inside penguins entitled “Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation” and “Will Humans Swim Faster or Slower in Syrup?” from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal as well as papers on artificial testicles for dogs and brain activity in locusts forced to watch Star Wars.
Lost Rhapsody
Fans of the tv series Lost will love this funny mash-up called Lost Rhapsody – everyone else will just scratch their heads and think I’m nuts.
NTL Announces Sky+ Equivalent
UK cable co NTL are finally joining this century with the announcement of a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) – it’ll be a hrad drive based system that will allow you to pause, record and rewind live tv and view different channels in different rooms. Let’s see how riddled with annoying protection it is.
TV Cream’s Top 100 Toys
Smoking Monkeys? – Check. Weebles Wobbling but not falling down?- Check. Walkie-Talkies that only work when you’re in close enough range to hear the other person talking anyway? – Check. Stylophone to drive Dad insane? – Check.
TV Cream have done a bang-up job in their Top 100 Xmas toys. This is pretty much my whole childhood spread across several pages.
Star Wars as a gif
Someone with a lot of time on their hands has made an animated pixel gif with all the important bits of Star Wars (Ep4.). It’s surprisingly cool.
Baby Yoda Fancy Dress Outfit
Isn’t this Baby Yoda Fancy Dress Outfit the wierdest and funniest fancy dress outfit you’ve seen for a while? The second picture is a classic.
Google Calendar
Just noticed the link for Google calendar is now active but nothing there yet – wonder when it’s going live?
I also note that GMail is being renamed in the UK to googlemail after Google couldn’t resolve a longstanding dispute with another company so anyone signing up for Gmail in the UK will henceforth have ‘…@googlemail.com’ address but existing users or users from the rest of the world will still be able to get gmail.com addresses.
Respect your Elders
Although this looks a bit staged to me, I still think it shows you should treat your elders with respect – especially if you drive a poxy car like this merc.
Woman Thou Art God
Woman Thou Art God is the website of Rasa von Werder who is a buxom, porn-freak feminist fundamentalist Christian who is a ma5turbator, a preacher, a (probable) lesbian and thinks all men love pr0n, and if they don’t they’re lying. Just think of it as a character study. It’s strangely car-crashy.
Taking Viagra In Church
From this website, read this article. Please forgive my lack of vaguely humourous remarks regarding this article… but I’m finding it hard to believe that I actually found the Old Testaments ‘Song of Songs’ 5:16 vaguely arousing! Do I laugh or flagellate myself??
Bouncy sheep joy
Bounce the sheep, snap the traps, leave the bombs, and click the sheepie for a little extra boost. How for can you get? Fight!
The decisive moment
I’m sure this guy only took 1 second to ‘grab his chance’… shame some other guy was pointing another camera in the right direction at the right moment.
This isn’t a link
Often we have posted ‘Chinglish’ websites. This time, for your enjoyment, is a product description off the back of a Skype phone package that recently came into work. It’s joyous. I have read over it twice and this is exactly how it appears:
Comodow network phones are on type of terminal products of voice Transmission communications based on internet which different from ordinary phones in trans mission way they make voice quality as high as The immobile phone.with DSP voice dealing chip.they make voice transmitted on the inter net and realize the commun ic-ation between Computer and Immobile phone by gae’ s connecting internet and PSTN netword.our products are fit of di-alinnetword.iocal are a network and so on.The-Erefore they are Especially useful for families and companies,which always communications by the international long distance phone, Companies and their Iocal offices use it to keep each other frequently.
Bear attacking bird feeder
Not something I see in my backyard every day – fantastic pictures of what I can only presum is a very, very hungry bear attacking a bird feeder for food. Was that rope made of steel wire – how did it take the weight?
Viking Rock Gods
I’m loving this superb animation of Viking Rock Gods. The music is wonderful too – full marks for this one.
Flamin’ ‘eck!
As these guys say, if the engine in your heavily modified Volkswagon GTI is going to flame out, it may as well happen while you’ve got a huge crowd of people there to impress.
You can skip to about 2/3 through to see it but stay tuned for the superb aftermath music.
Jack Thompson – Dickwad
I’ve been following this story for a few days now but have only finally got round to posting it. I’ve not got the space to go into all the details so if you’ll forgive me, I’ll post a few links for you to read so you can get the whole story.
Jack Thompson is a lawyer who hates video games and blames them for all of society’s ills. He came up with the superb (sorry – I meant cretinous) idea of saying he’d give away $10,000 to charity if someone would design and release a game that followed his plot outline. This is where
PennyArcade first got involved. They have raised a magnificent amount of money through their Child’s Play charity which relies on donations from these evil gamers that Jack despises so much.. Quite rightly, they thought that they were getting a bum rap from Jack and emailed him to say so. Jack phoned them up and launched into a tirade. The next day they emailed him back and he returned their mail with another harsh phone call threatening to sue them (for what?).
Today brings the news that someone took Jack up on his offer and created a GTA mod to comply with his offer and get the money given to charity. Except that Jack now claims his offer was satire.
So how did Penny Arcade deal with this? – They donated $10,000 to charity in Jack’s name.
For this they are superheroes of tthe highest order.
Some further reading for you.
Escape from Rhetundo Island
Don’t hate me for the amount of time you’re about to waste on this – Escape from Rhetundo Island is another frustrating puzzler in the same vein as Hapland 2 (and obviously the original Hapland too).
I won’t give you too many clues (I’m up to level 8 so far but I think that’s my lot) but make sure you have Flash 8 – Flash 7 will look like it is working but you won’t see most of what you need – the clue is in level 2 – if it looks impossible then you probably need to upgrade your version of flash. Some spoilers available here)
Another Minigolf game
Yeah, I know it’s just another Mini Golf Game but itseems quite a decent one this time.
Garfield Strips!
You can stop thinking those naughty thoughts right now – I mean Garfield Comic strips – using this site, you can create your own.
Doctor Who new spin-off series – Torchwood
For all the sci-fi nerds reading – this will probably be old news to you but for the benefit of everyone else, here’s an announcement from the BBc that they are going to be filming a Doctor Who spin-off series called Torchwood. It’ll be shown late next year and features the writing skills of Russell T Davies who scripted the recent Doctor Who revival series. It’s based around the Captain Jack character that Davies introduced near the end of the last series.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus – Just the words
The complete unexpurgated scripts of the original Monty Python TV series. Just don’t go quoting them at me.
I’m Popular – How one man wreaked havoc on MySpace
Samy is popular. In fact he was one of the most popular people on the planet a few days ago. Not that anyone who had linked to his MySpace profile actaully knew who he was, instead he had created a simple ‘worm’ that spread exponentially across the site. Here’s his story – enjoy seeing how easily someone ruin a site that FOX recently paid $580million for.
LiveMarks
LiveMarks is another useful/interesting site to check out. It’s a live listing of the websites that people around the world are bookmarking using the superb Deli.icio.us site (which, if you haven’t checked out, you really should). You can also use Livemarks to see the most popular links on deli.icio.us.
Aytozon – compare eBay & Amazon prices
Here’s a nifty idea – use Aytozon to compare eBay & Amazon product prices side by side. It’s not perfect by a long way yet but I’m hoping it will get there eventually. (the ability to use regional variations of the sites would be a big start ie: amazon.co.uk and ebay.co.uk, the ability to save searches is always useful too).
GreyCobra Tutorials
GreyCobra is a handy site to bookmark for lots of decent tutorials for photoshop and the like.
Unpredictable Porridge – The John peel music legacy…
More John Peel – John’s son, Tom Ravenscroft, has announced that he will be supervising the new site, John Peel Music, set up between Universal records and John’s own record label, Dandelion Records.
Unsigned bands and artists from around the world will be invited to upload their music to the site and visitors will decide on the strongest of the online demos, which could lead to being picked up for a release with full major label support. Good luck to them.
