Timorous Beasties
It might be slightly old news but you’ve gotta love a story about a Cat Chasing a Bear Up a Tree.
A Refreshing Site
Next time you’re sat in front of your computer dilligently hitting refresh whilst waiting for your Robbie Williams or Glastonbury tickets, your ebay auction to end, watching forums, keeping an eye on UPS delivery status or trying to find a place with stock of Wiis then you need Refresh Thing – just tell it how often to refresh and then sit in front of your monitor and wait.
New Company email footer regulations in the UK
Apologies for the dull post but I know some of our readers own companies in the UK. If that’s you then go check out the new email footers regulations for the UK – they need to be implemented by 2007 so you don’t have long.
Merry Mixmas
Tis the season to not get around to not get around to making xmas mixtapes in my house so please post all your links to uploads here so we don’t have to listen to Grom’s Val Donnican collection at the Pri.me towers Eggnog and cheese party.
Some for starters:
Paperthinwalls
DJ Riko Merry Mixmas
Woxy Holiday Mixer
Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
Darth, Freddie, Leatherface and Count D skip across a field hand in hand to the soundtrack of Silent Night whilst even Mac and PC finally make up.
All I want for xmas is a PSP – update
For all you cringe freaks out there I thought you’d enjoy seeing a mirror of that devastatingly bad Sony fake blog for the PSP that got pulled down. It’s also inspired a spoof PS3 blog which features photos of the terrible graf campaign Sony also tried for the PSP. My innovative idea for a PSP campaign would be releasing a decent game for it.
Birthday experiment update
OK, so you guessed correctly. The answer is 23. The reason? If you have 3 people together there are 3 possible two person combinations (use your fingers if it helps). If there are 5 people there are 10 possible combinations, 10 people = 25 combinations, 23 people = 253 (see the non-linear growth?). This results in the probability of a match reaching approximately 0.507 (over a 50:50 chance). This can explained much more proficiently by Ivars Peterson than myself.
At the time of posting, only 20 birthdays have been left in the birthday experiment article below and as yet we have not had a match (although we have a suspicious cluster leading up to Xmas eve, and Groms large & small are almost exactly 1 year apart to the day).
If you haven’t left your birthday date in the comments of that article yet then please do… your missing out on unprecedented amounts of fun. Come on…
Winnie Cooper has grown up (my, how she’s grown up)
Remember Winnie from the Wonder Years? Gosh Danica Mckellar‘s all grown up now. Don’t think, however, that this is a normal dirty old man post – nope – the main reason to mention her is that she’s one of the few people who can ever have an Erdos-Bacon number and that’s a rare thing indeed.
*Edit*Original link seems ot have gone but you can see the photos at their source at the Stuff magazone site
Little Phatty
If anyone is still wondering what to get me for Xmas then how about a Little Phatty from Moog? Mind you, it’ll probably get lost in the post like all of the rest of my presents that you lot have sent me.
The Living Camera
Stephen Wiltshire is a stunningly fantastically talented autistic guy. He really has a photographic memory and the ability to turn things into architecturally accurate drawings. Check out this video of him drawing the city of Rome after only ever seeing it in a 30 minute helicopter flight and then recreating it over 3 days in a 15 ft panorama(I know the link says 45 mins but his own site says it was a 30 min flight).
WarGames Sequel Now (unfortunately) Filming
As we hinted at a month or two ago, the sequel to WarGames is now filming and if that in itself wasn’t enough to make you avoid it, it seems MGM are suing wargames.com for the rights to the domain. The lawyers seem to have decided that they ‘own’ the rights to a word/phrase used by numerous groups or people before their original film came out. I hope they realise that they have no right to this domain and could easily use wargames-the-movie.com or wargames.mgm.com etc. Merely by filming a sequel (that is 100% guarenteed to suck or I’ll give you your money back) they’ve besmirched the memory of a decent film that summed up the era it was based in.
Futility is resistance
Here’s some very tasty t-shirts for you t-junkies out there from the Resist Today collective who hand print all their shirts and To Die For who create shirt designs inspired by tattoo art.
Birthday Experiment
With the quality and integrity of our site I’d like to think that we attract the reader with a slightly higher than average intelligence factor, and for that reason I am would like to try this little statistical experiment. I must point out that I am relying on you guys to get off you lazy 4rses and leave a comment! otherwise there will be nothing but desolate, abject, pitiful (and slightly embarrassing) failure. We don’t care who you are, whether you’re regular visitor or a first timer, just feel free to join in.
Question: How many people do you need to gather before there is a greater than 50% chance that any two of those people will share a birthday?
50? 100? 364? 1000? The answer to this question may surprise you and I will endeavour to give it in the next few posts. OK, now click where it says “Comments” at the end of this post and (if the comment system is actually working) leave your birthday. We don’t need your year of birth, nor do we want your name if you don’t want to give it… we just want your birthday; be honest, and leave just one post. Whilst you scroll down the list check it out for people who may already have left the same date as you and perhaps append your post with something like “Woo! I share a birthday with xxx”.
You park like an asshole
I could have done with a few of these notices ready to stick on offending windscreens when I lived in the UK’s narrowest street.
This should be crap
but these photoshopped images of political leaders faces on the bodies of women are mostly very funny.
Old jobs bite back
Gregory Meyerkord worked for US agency Zipatoni and one of his roles was registering domain names for various projects. He left the company in 2000 so imagine his horror when he suddenly found himself at the sharp end of an online hate campaign over a terrible fake blog created by Zipatoni for the Sony PSP six years later. The poor guy has been hounded by citizen journalists, had to pull his blog and go into virtual hiding all because his name was still being used for domain registrations by Zipatoni. All thats left of the PSP campaign is the google cache, a ton of blogs slating it, an apology from Sony and one innocent IT guy bemoaning his two minutes fame.
Top Ten Sex Toy Patents
To see how easy it is to get a patent provided you can keepa straight face and delude yourself that there is actually a market for your product, have a looksee at the Top Ten Sex Toy Patents and shake your head in disbelief. NSFW
Gideon’s backlash
Annoyed by hoteliers leaving bibles in hotel rooms this chap leaves a copy of Origin of the Species in every room he visits. Yeah science power!
Metal re-interpretations
We’ve posted the ‘re-interpretation of Pantera‘Fcuking Hostile’ before and the same guys have managed to re-do Angel Of Death by Slayer just in time for Xmas. Nice work and NSFW.
cheers John
Murderous MySpace
OK this post is a little dark and if you’re easily spooked then perhaps don’t go any further. A little background for our non-UK visitors: there has recently been a spate of murders in the UK – the naked bodies of 5 women (all prostitutes) have been found around Ipswich (near London) over the course of the past two or three weeks and it has been strongly suspected that it is the work of just one person. Well, a man has been arrested on suspicion of these murders and, peculiar to this day and age (if not rather spooky), you can go and read all about him on his Myspace page. Sign in to look at his other images – if you don’t have an account check out these links “Steve sitting suspiciously in woods”, “Steve in Silence of the Lambs” and “Steve as BNP member”. Sorry if this post has spooked anybody. Cheers Sputnik
Top ten fashion tips for guys in 2007
Our inbox is always bulging with emails you all send us telling us about great products you use so solve your own impotency problems. So to say thanks and to help you save a fortune in pills we compiled a top ten of hot fashion tips for guys.
1. Walk tall in heels for boys.
2. Hang out in men’s sweatpants
3. Get a body to be proud of with a NSFW knitted hairy skinsuit.
4. Cruise through airport security with a Spinal Tap Knife shieth.
5. Protect your sensitive skin with a SFW knitted fetish mask.
6. Spend your hangovers in a hidaway trenchcoat.
7. Broadcast your style with an mp3 rabbit ears hat.
8. Or a muttering hat saves you the effort of muttering.
9. Sell your house, buy more beer and live in a Selk bag.
10. Bag a free tshirt and hit the Cilais again.
These books are made for talking
So, if listening is the new reading, then it’s obvious that books should have headphone sockets rather than pages?
Robot chores
Not only can this four legged robot handle navigating some pretty rugged terrain, it also manages to keep its footing (and it’s cool) when getting booted in the ribs by it’s designer. I can see the Cylons eyeing up Caprica as I type.
Braile Scanner and reader
The design concept for this braile scanner and printer is fantastic – hope it goes into production – it’ll allow blind people to read any book they wish instead of the limited selection available at present. That can’t be a bad thing now can it?
Charlie Brown Christmas – Performed by the Cast of Scrubs
Ok, so it’s almost a corporate mashup and thus skating close to jumping the shark for mash-ups but I still like the Charlie Brown Christmas – Performed by the Cast of Scrubs as it made watching Peanuts bearable (I’ve never really liked Charlie Brown et al – they creep me out a bit). To be honest, anything featuring Zach Braff is going to go down well with me. This was done for a cast party and plays like an episode of Scrubs with flashbacks, rants by Dr Cox etc.
Guns for girls
Antonio Riello designs weapons for the wives of mafia bosses and arms dealers whose obsession for high fashion is only matched by their appreciation of extreme violence.
Sonic attack
I can imagine scenes of sonic warfare on UK shopping arcades, with security guards shooting off deadly rounds of Manilow at the Hoodie thugsters who return fire with their Ravezookas.
Teddy Scares
Time passed and you left me behind. I waited and waited for you to remember me as my insides rotted……
Patent search
Need to check out whether your latest design for a motorised cheese plane has already been patented? You could do worse than checking out Google beta patent search.
