I have seen the future – and it’s goth

Before anyone has a go at me for the headline – it’s not mine, it’s from the article in the Guardian newspaper – I have seen the future – and it’s goth. The article amused me for several reasons but mostly because it quotes Choque who I used to know quite well (indeed, Carloz & I were both in a band with ex-Salvation members!) but also because the top ten list at the bottom brought back many, many memories.

GMT

Just a reminder to all of us in the UK to change our clocks forward this weekend.
I bet I still forget!

Sho-gun Wedding

Congratulations to my gaijin friend Alex aka Shiroi Baka who’s just gone and gotten himself a brand, spanking new wife (as opposed to a brand new, spanking wife I presume).

The Art Of Motion

The Art Of Motion is a great short video demonstrating stop-motion with a brilliant fight sequence in it.

Firefox bug causes couple to break up

An amusing bug report from Firefox – it seems a bug/feature of the password manager has caused a couple to split up after she saw dating sites that he visited in the list of sites that he specified that he DIDN’T want firefox to remember passwords for.
Well, it made me laugh.

How The Web Made Sure There Were Snakes On The Mother Bleeping Plane

There’s been a bit of an on-going malarky surrounding the upcoming Samuel L Jackson movie Snakes on a Plane. The movie sounds as b-grade as the title suggests but internet nerds have been making jokes about it since it was first mooted. The main issue most nerds had was that if the movie was as bad as suggested, the makers could at least acknowledge it by making it even cheesier and now they seem to have succeded as the makers have taken the almost unprecedented step of recalling the cast to shoot new scenes just so fans will get to hear Samuel L Jackson saying ‘Get those motherfarking snakes off my motherfrakking plane“.
Behold the power of the web!
I still can’t get over how much publicity this movie has drummed up from bloggers – I guess Samuel L Jackson will be having the last laugh.
Check out the trailer here – personally I can’t wait to see if it’s as good/bad as it looks – I think an all-time classic cult movie is about to be released.

OOTTINLTO

Today’s OOTTINLTO is brought to you by the words warcraft gargoyle – the results are SFW no matter what your settings for GIS are so don’t worry.
gracias Richard

Best Amazon wish list

Puerile but classic Amazon wish list of Unfortunately named authors.

Smarter playlists

Theres a relationship between the ever increasing size of my iTunes library and the utter disorganisation of my listening habits. This low pain guide to smarter playlisting will hopefully prevent my guilty pleasures from being aired in polite company.

Too many puppies

I know this is everywhere but it’s soooo hard not to shoot the puppy.

Linux for designers

It’s finally becoming feasable for designers to ditch OSX/Windows for Linux and use open source apps to replace the increasingly expensive Adooby and Macromoodia bloatware.

Floodlemap

Living by the British seaside is great, I eat ice cream every day, get to work on a donkey and use a deckchair at my desk. Thanks to climate change the seaside is getting closer to everyone and this Googlemap helps predict when to convert your shed into a B&B.;

PS this is why global warming needs rebranding

How to become a Rockstar programmer

Well, if you call Fightstar rock then I guess this is all good stuff. Personally I prefer my Rockstars dead, so forget coding and borrow Grom’s homemade PC to blow yourself into geek Nirvana?

New Bands worth checking

Anyone who’s met me in meatspace will be aware that I’m something of a music junkie (mind you, so are Solomon and Carloz – I just have better taste). I’m having a girl group buzz at the moment and would like to recommend local band (to me at least) The Sugars and the absolutely bloody marvellous Brighton band The Pipettes who cannot fail to bring a smile to your face.

Enhance your productivity in 1 step

1. Send this report to your boss and simply wait for the 30″ cinema display to appear on your desk.

One for the pixel pushers

Dust off yer mittens and create swirly osx stylee background images.

Ascii rugs

Get your ascii artwork on a rug

The Torn-Up Credit Card Application

I truly believe that Rob from cockeyed.com is one of the finest investigative journalists I’ve come across, not that he’d probably call himself as such. We’ve posted about his ‘pranks’ and research many times before but this time we’re highlighting his great Torn-Up Credit Card Application – not only did he destory and then repair the application form, he also changed all of the contact details and got it sent to another house and then authorised it using a cell-phone, ending up with a virtually untraceable card – free money if you are a person with few ethics or morals.

Mr. T on Fashion

Mr. T on Fashion because “Hey everybody gotta wear clothes and if you don’t, you get arrested”.
God, the 80′s sucked didn’t they?

Exit Music Songs with Radio Heads

If you haven’t heard Mark Ronson’s superbly funky cover of Radiohead’s ‘Just’ then click on the link and see the just as cool video for the tune. It’s taken from the forthcoming ‘Exit Music Songs with Radio Heads’ covers album and you can find the tracklisting here – worth checking out even if you’re not a Radiohead fan. Come on, it features pri.me.uk favourite RJD2 which can’t be a bad thing now, can it?

Dinosaur Rap

Some nice synching in this Barney as 2pac video (NSFW language).

ShakespearScript 2.0

> summer.lovelyness = 9;
> thee.lovelyness = 10;
It’s Sonnet 18 in Actionscript 2.0

Urban Star Wars Photography

I love these photos taken by French photographer Cedric Delsaux. The images are a combination of toys superimposed onto striking architectural backgrounds. The idea of Clone Troopers sniping from inner city tower blocks makes for a good picture. Many more of his shots here.
thanks Simon

Taxidermy oddities

Gordon Wilding is a Canadian artist who produces amusingly sinister sculptures from period clothing and deceased wildlife.

Sorry

Apologies if you’ve sent us any mails recently, I’ve not been able to access the mail account for the site for the past week but have almost fixed the error – please don’t be offended if I haven’t posted your submissions, I won’t have seen any recent submissions but rest assured, I’ll be back on track soon.

Massively Multiplayer Online Boggle

I didn’t think that an online version of Boggle could be so addictive until I realised that I’d just spent the last hour playing it and saying ‘just one more go’ to myself. It’s also a cool demo of some nifty coding, it should work on any browser and is all done without the use of plugins – you don’t even have to register.

Tiny puzzle game

The excellent little game El Complo is another of those ‘click the objects in the right order to make the short story unfold’ type of games. It took me about 20 minutes to finish this one.

iTrip PSP

Griffin Technology has been making really excellent iPod accessories for several years now. During the same time, our poor ol’ PSP hasn’t gotten much love in the way of quality accessories. That changes today with the introduction of Griffin’s new line of PSP gear. Our favorite is the iTrip PSP ($50), which lets you bypass the lame built-in speakers and wirelessly listen to your games, music and movies through your home or car stereo system. (nicked wholesale from uncrate.com ‘cos I’m way too busy today to re-write it.)

Ladysitters

Man oh man, I’ve gotta get me a Ladysitter.

Web 2.0 or Star Wars?

For the web monkeys out there, take this test to see if you can tell the difference between Web 2.0 or Star Wars names.