Compare and Contrast

Compare what happens when you try to shoot some video in a public place in Britain…

25 Years on from the PMRC

I’ve written about my disgust about Al and Tipper Gore’s awful PMRC back in the 80′s which led to massive censorship of music and those warning stickers on cds. Well, as much as I’m not a fan of Dee Snider, you have to admit he certainly has a point…

Nintendo Mod Cartridges Now Illegal in the UK

Very unhappy to hear about this ruling. I’m confused that you can ban something on the grounds that ‘It might be used for both illegal and non-infringing purposes’. I could stab someone with scissors or I could cut paper with them, so surely scissors should be banned too? I use one of these carts – it saves my kids from breaking and losing the very expensive games and I’m quite addicted to the Colors homebrew application which needs one of these carts to run.

The News Raider

A man who has become an internet sensation for his regular appearances in the background of news programmes, including Channel 4 News, has revealed it is part of a campaign to fight for the rights of ordinary people

Flame thrower -vs- Fire extinguisher

Filmed on a Canon 7d with some really tasty HD slow motion action. “Ritalin” by Dancing Pigeons.

Stoatally Drunk

Brew Dog are like a punk brewery. they have created some very bizarre beers indeed as well as some of the strongest. The End of History is a 55%abv beer (yes, really!) served in a bottle stuffed inside a dead animal. Only 12 bottles were produced, 7 stoats and 4 grey squirrels (it doesn’t mention what the other bottle was) and all have sold out.
thanks Kim

Ron Livingstone ‘does’ Keyboard Cat

Here’s something to help you love the internet a little bit more than you did before reading this post.

Can you be a Web Designer

As part of Pri.me towers public service remit we like to offer a little career advice from time to time. This week we’ve found this useful diagram that’ll help you work out if you’ve got what it takes to make it big time in the cut and thrust world of web design.

“The Yes Men” Movie Launching on BitTorrent

If you’ve not heard of culture jamming pranksters The Yes Men, fire up your favourite Torrent app and download their new film in which they pose as corporations, governmental organizations and NGOs they believe are hypocritical or enacting harmful policies. They’re very cool guys and they get totally freaked out by the scale of what they’re achieving!

The history of the Beatles in hair

Hirsuit infographic showing the Beatles musical development via their haircuts

30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor

I am old enough to have not only seen most of these adverts when they came out but also to have owned many of the computers.. The cheaper ones though – looking at these 30 Old PC Ads That Will Blow Your Processor, it’s not the specs that amaze me but the prices – jaw-dropping.

Seinfeld – the action movie trailer

This could be the start of a good meme: re-arranging clips from a TV series to make an action-thriller movie trailer. So here is a Seinfeld trailer edited together with clips from the Serenity Now episode.

Possibly the best game ending…..ever

When it was revealed that the PC adventure ‘Limbo of the Lost’ had lifted its art assets from a slew of other games it was pulled from shelves and we never got to see it’s amazing finale.

Twirdie – a Twitter powered golf game

Type in words to power your swing. The more popular the word the further your ball goes. Simple, pointless fun with a geek twist – just how we like to roll at Pri.me towers

PC gamers rinse XBOX gamers

Rumour has it that Microsoft had to pull a project where PC gamers got to compete with XBOX gamers because the console players we’re getting thrashed so badly it was a PR disaster waiting to happen for XBOX.

WikiAudio – Tutorial Goldmine

If you make music using computers then bookmark WikiAudio – a great resource for those ‘how do I just…’ moments.

Newport State of Mind

Lovely riposte to Alicia Keys from Newport in Wales. It’s worth listening to if only for the extraordinary Welsh accent – if there weren’t subtitles you wouldn’t believe it was English.

Bizarre bike helmets

I do like these bizarre bike helmets designed by Russian ad agency Good, but I’m not sure I’d want to ride around with a giant tennis ball or ’8 ball’ on my head. Then again, having a ‘sexy bum’ on my helmet would possibly encourage drivers to be more bike aware (erk did that sound wrong?)

Flying donkey stuns holidaymakers

That must of been one hell of a creative brainstorming session to settle on the idea of flying a donkey over beach to promote a parasail company.

Thanks to Daz for this one!

60 Tetris inspired objects

Quite a wide range of tetris inspired items here spanning fancy dress outfits, crap haircuts to cakes.

Vinyl wall clocks

Pavel Sidorenko has crafted some rather good clocks from what I hope were bad records.

Faile temple

As part of the Portugal Arte ‘10 festival, the world-renowned street art collective Faile have created the Cathedral Project, a giant sculptural installation in the heart of the city of Lisbon. I may have to travel to Lisbon just to see this.

Outfits for your cat

This is what cats are for…..isn’t it?

Lagoa Multiphysics engine

A rather impressive demonstration of a new physics engine which does a rather good job of rendering crumbling stuff, liquids and fabrics.

Shazai – the art of apology

A guide from Japan on how to say sorry for various social misdemeanours with different bows.

Just too odd

So yesterday David Cameron gave Barack Obama a Ben Eine piece as he is one of Samantha’s favourite artists. Since when did the Tory elite get into streetart! Anyway I guess this means the value of Grom and my art collections is going to rocket or more likely plummet.

Bad boy Lego tattoos

Another Pen advert, but this time an ultra fine nibbed pen has been used to give Lego men quite amazingly detailed full sleeve tattoos.

It’s official: video games are bad for your health

Kid reacts badly to his mother cancelling his WOW account, but he’ll probably react even worse to the fact that kid brother secretly recorded his ‘freak out’ and uploaded it to YouTube.

Update: Apparently it’s already been outed as a fake, I thought the bit where he tried to stick his tv remote up his bum was quite convincing.

Post apocalyptic Tokyo

Tokyogenso has painted a number of scenes depicting erie cityscapes of Tokyo, some years after an apocalyptic event has wiped out all human life.

resizeMyBrowser

If you do any web development then it’s worth bookmarking resizeMyBrowser – – a simple Web application that does what it says.