Be a Jedi in the bedroom
Just like the originals these Jedi Dressing gowns are 100% cotton velour and machine washable on a cool wash.
People of Walmart
After several years Walmart still hasn’t been able to recreate their American shopping experience in ASDA UK.
UK Post Code Database
I know I’ve been very busy for the past few weeks but how did I miss seeing that the UK government database of all 1,841,177 post codes had been leaked? This is incredibly useful, non-personal information that is effectively paid for by the UK tax payers but is not available to them. Certainly the Guardian has been calling for this to be released for a long time.
Tomorrow’s World
Nice to see that the BBC have started a special mini-site dedicated to the classic and much missed series Tomorrow’s World. So far uploaded footage only seem to go as far as 1994 (with ”’Trevor Bayliss”” clockwork radio) so my small contributions aren’t there and I don’t know if my rather eccentric uncle’s 3 appearances will make a return either but you can see such highlights as the first mobile phone call, touch screen computers from 1982 and ”’Christiaan Barnard”’ discussing heart transplants in 1968.
We Are Not Protesting
I wish I had the tenacity of the guys who liberated Canary Wharf. This is one of the best protests I’ve seen before – “We are not protesting, we’re just talking through megaphones”. Very funny, and worthy of the great ”’Mark Thomas”’. It’s always nice to see the private security guards being pulled up for imitating the police.
My New Addiction
As a complete opposite to the Rammstein videos I posted yesterday I thought I’d share a cover version I just can’t stop from giving me a constant earworm – Pomplamoose – Single Ladies. An amazingly cute video.
Vegan vs Carnivore
Especially for Steve The Pirate.
Charlie Brooker Nails It Again
“I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. It is like the faint smell of p1ss in a subway. But I’m still not buying a Mac.”
(then again, I’m an Ubuntu fanboi)
Eric Idle Responds to Your Fatuous Comments
Youtube comments are a farce – that’s well known but whilst I merely ignore them completely, ”’Eric Idle”’ takes a different view and has Responded to Your Fatuous Comments in style.
Arial vs Helvetica
Being a type-geek, I love this image showing the differences between Arial and Helvetica.
Rammstein Take it Further Than Usual
Many of our readers will be familiar with ”’Rammstein”’, we’ve featured them often enough and they’re well known for over the top, outlandish or just funny videos. Their new one goes, as usual, just that little bit further – it’s called Pussy and has it’s tongue firmly in it’s cheek but still goes that bit too far. It was directed by Jonas Akerlund who also did the Mann Gegen Mann video which should give you a clue how NSFW it is. Seriously, Don’t ever try to watch a Rammstein video at work!
Winning Combo
We’ve previously featured the breathtaking animations of Blu and I’m glad to say he’s back with COMBO a collaborative animation with David Ellis. This one’s a doozy – my daughter has just watched this through 4 times in a row mesmerised.
The Prisoner Remake
Internally I’m screaming that the remake of The Prisoner is just plain wrong and yet the clips of ”’Ian McKellen”’ as Number 2 do make me want to give it a chance. I do think it would have been an ideal vehicle for ”’J J Abrams”’ to film.
Tallest Abandoned Structures on Earth
Steve the Pirate sent us this link to an article on The Tallest Abandoned Structures on Earth. It’s pretty damn good too.
Release the hounds pt 2
As a follow up to my failed post from Tuesday, here’s the link to the Shepard Fairey Obama campaign stylee posters to elect Mr Burn’s for mayor. I also found his campaign website when I was trying to track down the original photo.
I love fridays
Here’s a nice Twitter visualiser that feeds Tweets containing the emotive phrases I love, I hate, I believe, I feel and I wish.
How the other half work
Having spent the past 1/2 hour shredding 8 months worth of documents that had been piling up under my desk, I’m a little less Al Gore and more 37 Signals though I might buy a shed and go more Pixar. Workspaces of 9 famous people/companies.
Virtual Tenori-On
Finally I’ve found someone who’s made what is basically a virtual ”’Tenori-On”’the Yamaha musical instrument made famous by such artists as ”’Little Boots”’ (see here). This tool is called Nudge and rocks!!!
Birds on wire inspire song
“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes“. And a lovely melody it creates too!
Other Attorneys Will Be What?!?!
I’ve long suspected that most attorneys are deviants of one sort or another but either this is the best legal letter typo of all time or they’re just brutally honest.
Lose/Lose
The old War Games maxim, ‘The only winning move is not to play’ doesn’t stand as strictly true for Lose/Lose, the computer game that destroys your files. Seriously – it’s like Space Invaders but ever alien you kill, deletes a file from your pc. If you get killed then the game itself is wiped. If you destroy all of the aliens, you win, assuming that your computer is still running having had a number of random files removed. I think this is one psychological game I won’t be taking part in.
Release the hounds
A mayoral campaign poster in the style of the Shepard Fairey’s Obama prints to help get Charles Montgomery “Monty” Burns (Mr Burns to you) elected.
One Page Cookbooks
These One Page Cookbooks are a great idea. These ones cover all aspects of Indian food – anyone come across any other ‘flavours’?
Say It Isn’t So
Oh noes! Chas and Dave have split. This will mean nothing to our foreign or younger readers but you remember that catchy hook from ”’Eminem””s ‘My Name Is’ – well, it was sampled from ”’Labi Sifre””s song ‘I Got The’ and was played by Chas and Dave when they were session musicians.
Second Look
Regular reader/contributor and friend of pri.me.uk, Dan has had a photograph reach the final of the Bristol – A Second Look 2009 competition.
Please go and vote for his Don’t Jump photo.
Live classical cello / motion capture mashup
There is going to be a totally awesome live stream from King’s Court, London, this week involving a live classical/jazz cellist, ”’Matthew Barley”’. He’s going to be performing several pieces of music whilst being motion-captured and a VJ is going to be creating some great sounding imagery in a (probably) never been done before manner. There appears to be one on Wednesday and then three on Saturday evening running pretty much consecutively. Be there or be a philistine!
A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist
A glimpse into an alternate TV realty in which self-made billionaire Wilton Knight is a devout muslim and has decided to reconstruct Michael Long’s identity on a budget.
Seed of Destruction
OK, so Seed of Destruction is a game about riding on the back of a sperm but stick with me, it’s pretty good and the art and music make it so much better. I like it.
Lip sync? No Thanks
I love it when bands refuse to play along with the fake lip syncing on tv shows. Here’s Muse doing Uprising on Italian tv last week (funny interview afterwards). There’s a long history of UK bands doing this, from Syd Barrett not appearing to sing at this recording through Public Image Limited and Iron Maiden to Pop Will Eat Itself and The Smiths. Even American bands are not immune as this classic Nirvana Top of the Pops appearance and Queens of the Stone Age (use bugmenot to login if you have problems) demonstrate.
Happy Birthday to the Best Game Ever
Has it really been that long? Am I really that old? Oh well, that’s besides the point. I hope you will all wish Elite a very happy 25th birthday.
That game, contained in only 22Kb, is what sparked my interest in computing on my old ”’BBC Micro”’.
*Edit* Damn Carloz – that’s the 2nd time in a week that you’ve beaten me to a post!
