Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos
How 80′s is this – Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos – a perfect example of 80′s cartoons and racial stereotyping. (NSFW banner adverts on the host site).
Bees recognize human faces
Fascinating research has shown that Bees recognize human faces. Although they probably don’t know or care what a face actually is, they only care about odd looking flowers but it’s another extraordinary ability that these little fellows have.
Google Earth Critical Update
If you don’t yet have Google Earth on your PC then you must be congratulated for being able to physically use a computer, considering you have barely evolved from a paramecium, you paddle-armed dribbling fool. Suffice to say, Google Earth is as important as air. Perhaps more so. Anyway… if you haven’t logged on to the Google Earth Server recently and you are from ’round these parts’ then get booting up and enjoy yourself because there’s a massive strip of land right across the Pennines which has been updated and is now viewable in exquisite detail. Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Manchester suburbs and sooo much more. If you look really hard you might just see the Pri.me.uk offices! For readers from other places, the Pennines are a ‘mountain’ range stretching North-South through the thin bit of the UK. Do a search for ‘Emley Moor, UK’ and check out the largest free standing structure in the country (so I believe).
Samorost 2 – the best online game returns
Although you may not recognise the name, anyone who’s seen the original Samorost game will instantly remember the game from the unusual graphics. Samorost 2 is the follow-up to one of the greatest examples of Flash gamesthat the interweb has ever seen. It’s quirky, beautiful and frustrating and well worth half an hour of anyone’s time. Make sure to bookmark it as you won’t complete it in one sitting but do go and have a look – you’ll thank me later.
Latte Art
Latte Art is the skill of making frothy coffee into a liquid picture. The International championships (yes, it’s that popular!) was held recently in the Netherlands.
ELF ZAPPER
Excellent Christmas game for the Xmas season – Elf Zapper in which you, erm, zap the elves.
Spin ‘n’ Groove
Lovely little music makers program made by a friend of a friend of a friend – Spin ‘n’ Groove is a mixing game made for Channel4 which is highly addictive – I’m sat here listening to a rather fantastic groove I made a few minutes ago and it’s making me yearn to go home and dig out my old keyboards and sampler (cue screams of ‘No!’ from anyone who’s ever heard any of my old music)
cheers Kaye
Number One Hits from your birthdate
This post is in response to a recent request from one of our readers to find a site listing number One hits across the years. Simply go here and amend the url to reflect the year you are interested in (this is 1969 – and before you ask, that’s not my birthday) – it’ll show you the number One from UK, US, & Oz.
Best Speeding Ticket Excuse Ever
I know that this one came round about a year ago but I don’t think we posted it back then so, ladies and gentlemen, please cast your eyes over this fantastic excuse to get out of a speeding ticket. Luckily, it seems the New Zealand police seem to agree with our unlucky driver.
Nerd Tools
Geek Post Alert – everyone else can look away as this will bore/confuse you.
TamperIE is a superb tool I came across today. It allows you to intercept Http POST and Http GET commands, alter them as you wish and then allow the amended version to progress through. This is incredibly useful for penetration testing and, yes it is a hacking tool as well but it’s most useful for debugging bad code (or getting cheap goods from badly written webshops).
Also by the same guy (Eric Lawrence) is the http debugging proxy tool known as fiddler. Both very handy.
OOTTINLTO pt 3
OK, I didn’t know what to expect when I did a Google Image Search (GIS) for blah but I certainly wasn’t expecting that! NSFW.
The worst Audiophile products ever
(Possible repost alert). If you know any of those appalling audiophile nerds who spend thousands of pounds on hi-fi kit and then bang on endlessly about the quality of their setup (only to find that they play Celine Dion and Meatloaf on it) then you might like to drop some of these products into the next conversation you have with them. Here you’ll find lumps of metal, plastic and wood then cost more than a small house but serve absolutely no purpose (or at least, no purpose that can’t be recreated with some gaffa/duck tape). I mean, come on, $30,000 for some cable!
Watermelon Art
Look at it. It s lovely… particularly the flowers. Then scoff it before it dries out.
OOTTINLTO pt2 (for today)
In a bizarre turn up for the books, I’ve just been sent a One of These Things is Not Like The Others link that is kind of NSFW for all the results except for the odd one out. All will become clear if you do a Google Image Search for breast pump.
cheers (new dad) Ted.
Public Domain Movie Torrents with PDA versions
If you’ve got a pda, psp, iPod video or other portable movie player then you might want to have a look at the Public Domain Movie Torrents site – I like the look of the multiple FLash Gordon movies – I’m guessing that they’re the old, old, Black & White ones that used to be on Saturday morning when I was a kid. Tonsof movies available and they won’t kill your bandwidth since they’re formatted for portable devices. Just remember to keep your torrent open after you’ve grabbed them to let others get them too – fair’s fair.
The internet is for …
I love this video – I’m still humming it and inserting ‘…for p0rn‘ after everything my colleagues say today (which must be very annoying for them). I’ve just played this 3 times in a row and still find it hilarious.
*Edit* It transpires that this song is originally from a musical called Avenue Q which looks like Sesame Street on crack. Will have to check it out further.
OOTTINLTO
It seems to be getting harder and harder to find pure OOTTINLTO links but there are still plenty of ones that are worth posting. Take the GIS for Octopussy – it has all of the required elements of one image that’s unexpectedly NSFW (well, not that unexpected in this case) but then the uniqueness of having One of These Things Not Like the Others is ruined by having multi-limbed felines in the results. Oh well, keep ‘em coming in.
cheers Stevie
DIY passport photos!
TheePassportphotosite does exactly what you’d imagine but it’s a very cool idea that’ll save you a few quid. Upload a photo and get a simple printout suitable for use as a passport photo for a darn sight cheaper than using those pesky booths.
CIA SABOTAGE MANUAL – a photoset on Flickr
In the 1980s the CIA apparently produced a small illustrated booklet in both Spanish and English designed to destabilise the nicaraguan government and economic system.
Ricky Gervais podcasts
Comedy fans will be interested to hear of a new venture between The Guardian newspaper and Ricky Gervais (insert obligatory ‘from tv’s ‘The Office” here). Gervias has done a radio show on XFM in the UK (and online) for a long time now but the Guardian have teamed up with him and fellow comics Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington to release a series of podcasts. Simply go to this page and download the mp3 of the show. There’ll be one per week for the next 12 weeks (I think) and each show will be available for download for a 4 wk period.
Octopus Vs Shark
Whoa Nelly! I never thought that the outcome of Shark vs Octopus would be this result.
Kind of OOTTINLTO
Here’s an almost OOTTINLTO link – the GIS for Beach Frisbee does have an odd one out and also the optional NSFW link but in this instance they’re not the same image – still worth posting though.
cheers Toby
Turbo Spirit
Being a bit of a driving game fan, I often get somewhat disappointed by online, so called ‘racing’ games. Then I found this one. It’s remarkably enjoyable for a Shockwave racer. I might even go back to it.
king size
An advert for Manix King Size rubber johnnies. Nuff said. SFW… unless you work in a Catholic Church.
Text-Pong
It’s official. Text-Based Pong rocks!
3 foot wide car
And you thought the Smart Car looked stupid? This car looks like JC’s motor thats been through a crusher!
Wookiepedia
Want to know any fact about Star Wars? Normal sites not nerdy enough for you? Then help make Wookiepedia, the Star Wars wiki, the most nerdy site on the net.
NME Biased? Surely Not.
I’d have thought that anyone who didn’t realise that the NME was in the pocket of the record industry was a wee bit naive but it makes for an amusing article – the comments section is great – I wonder if anyone at the Londonist has done a reverse IP lookup on the comments that purport to be from Conor, the NME’s pimply faced editor.
Text-lite blogs
I quite like the idea of the happy palace blog – minimal text but instead images taken from the site being linked to so, although you get a flavour of the site, you still don’t know exactly what you’re getting (big bonus marks for linking to a site with loads of Nina Simone mp3s).
The Dawn of Dilbert
It’s interesting how often good ideas are rejected by companies and it seems that Dilbert was one of them. Now proven to be one of the most successful comic strips ever, The Dawn of Dilbert wasn’t the smooth ride that you’d have expected.
