Monday, September 30, 2002
The Office - new series starts tonight. Superb.
barnskiblog
Barney's blog.
Just a load of old shite really.
Saturday, September 28, 2002
Just a thought:
If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
If a man is talking in the forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Friday, September 27, 2002
Check out the Virtual Keyboard - all good gadget freaks should want one insanely. Broadband required to view the video (as if any self-respecting geek would be without...).
Go to The Feedroom (a generally excellent site, by the way), where a new browser window should automatically pop up.
In the new browser window, select "Tech" from the nicely animated menu on the left, and then you can see the Virtual Keyboard story at the bottom left - click on the image and watch the video.
They're not available yet, but you will want one......
Go to The Feedroom (a generally excellent site, by the way), where a new browser window should automatically pop up.
In the new browser window, select "Tech" from the nicely animated menu on the left, and then you can see the Virtual Keyboard story at the bottom left - click on the image and watch the video.
They're not available yet, but you will want one......
Thursday, September 26, 2002
IQ Test. Dunno how accurate it is, and I'm not telling my score.......
You have to give an e-mail address to get your score, and remember, IQ is indexed to age, so no porkies there if you want a real result please.
You have to give an e-mail address to get your score, and remember, IQ is indexed to age, so no porkies there if you want a real result please.
New Scientist.com - The World's No. 1 Science and Technology News Service.
Written by Professor Brainstorm and his army of crackpot superminds, this is titillating science theory. Witness such articles as "Acidic clouds of Venus could harbour life" or "Earth's magnetic field 'boosts gravity'".
I love the format of these articles: here's one I wrote earlier:
Webbed feet may be caused by Black Holes
A leading scientist in the field of follicular strumpeting has presented a theory that webbed feet are related to proximity to the super-dense matter at the centre of a black hole.
"If the mother is facing a black hole with a proximity of less than 500 gazillion light years at the moment of conception, positronic antimatter radiation can penetrate the fallopian tubes causing webbed feet in the infant foetus via flatulent transmogrification. Fortunately, this is only possible in February due to shielding provided my the gravitron field around the moon during the rest of the year."
A real scientist from NASA's Astrobiology Institute is sceptical - "We cannot reliably correlate the webbed feet syndrome with black holes at this time. It's complete codswallop. However, webbed feet are a bit weird, and make some people feel a bit sick. How they are caused is certainly a mystery."
See? - easy. I could be a scientific writer any day of the week......
Written by Professor Brainstorm and his army of crackpot superminds, this is titillating science theory. Witness such articles as "Acidic clouds of Venus could harbour life" or "Earth's magnetic field 'boosts gravity'".
I love the format of these articles: here's one I wrote earlier:
Webbed feet may be caused by Black Holes
A leading scientist in the field of follicular strumpeting has presented a theory that webbed feet are related to proximity to the super-dense matter at the centre of a black hole.
"If the mother is facing a black hole with a proximity of less than 500 gazillion light years at the moment of conception, positronic antimatter radiation can penetrate the fallopian tubes causing webbed feet in the infant foetus via flatulent transmogrification. Fortunately, this is only possible in February due to shielding provided my the gravitron field around the moon during the rest of the year."
A real scientist from NASA's Astrobiology Institute is sceptical - "We cannot reliably correlate the webbed feet syndrome with black holes at this time. It's complete codswallop. However, webbed feet are a bit weird, and make some people feel a bit sick. How they are caused is certainly a mystery."
See? - easy. I could be a scientific writer any day of the week......
Chili P's kayak page.
Had a look at the site behind the puzzles link and found some marginally interesting graphics bits and pieces at genarts, but way cooler was the link to sodaplay which has come on a bit since Jimlad first introduced me to the sodaconstructor all those years ago.......
Also fantastic is the linked page on steam rings - amazing stuff.
Also fantastic is the linked page on steam rings - amazing stuff.
Some mind-straining puzzles to annoy yourself with.......
Friday, September 20, 2002
Well, we all loved the Coca Cola World Cup advert and the Supermen Lovers "Starlight" video, and these are the guys that made them.
Especially cool are this new video and this one as well (Quicktime required).
Especially cool are this new video and this one as well (Quicktime required).
Friday, September 13, 2002
Beagle 2 : the British led exploration of Mars.
No people going though.........
No people going though.........
This week, Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 mission apparently slapped some filmmaker over accusations that the moon landing was falsified. The conspiracy theorist's website is here. Obviously, conspiracies abound, but there are some fairly convincing arguments if you're into that kind of thing. I'm keeping an open mind myself........
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Well done to Yahoo! News who have managed to use the September 11th anniversary as a reason for publishing this archive photo.
GroBoto - weird and wonderful animated 3D rendered objects. Soothing.
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Today's news article - shame there's no photo.......
"Road workers paint over dead badger.
LONDON (Reuters) - Local officials are reported to be furious after road workers apparently painted a white line on the side of a road right over the furry body of a dead badger.
The Sun on Tuesday splashed a photo of the badger across half a page, saying the picture was taken by a passerby who saw it on the side of the highway in Somerset.
The freshly-painted white line at the road's edge went right over the dead animal's back.
"This is totally unacceptable and we will be asking for an explanation," the paper quoted a local government spokesman as saying.
The lines were painted by an independent contractor, he said."
"Road workers paint over dead badger.
LONDON (Reuters) - Local officials are reported to be furious after road workers apparently painted a white line on the side of a road right over the furry body of a dead badger.
The Sun on Tuesday splashed a photo of the badger across half a page, saying the picture was taken by a passerby who saw it on the side of the highway in Somerset.
The freshly-painted white line at the road's edge went right over the dead animal's back.
"This is totally unacceptable and we will be asking for an explanation," the paper quoted a local government spokesman as saying.
The lines were painted by an independent contractor, he said."
Monday, September 09, 2002
The Framley Examiner - just had to blog this again having laughed so much at the new pages. Superb throughout, but when you've read a bit to get a feel for it, read the article about the junkie. Beautiful.
WARNING - the link below will take you to a website that contains material in very poor taste. If you are easily offended, don't bother.
If, on the other hand you can differentiate (for example) between quality flippant humour on very dodgy subjects and actual incitement to smack your children, then go ahead.
The Best Page In The Universe. Actually, it's not, because that would be a page of me receiving my lottery winnings from Kylie Minogue having just broken the land speed record in a jet car or something. However, it is very funny in places.
(I really nearly didn't blog this because some of the jokes are so out of order. If I finish reading the site and it gets any worse I will probably remove this link. The only reason it's here is because some of it has made me properly laugh out loud, e.g I am better than your kids or I will kick your ass).
If, on the other hand you can differentiate (for example) between quality flippant humour on very dodgy subjects and actual incitement to smack your children, then go ahead.
The Best Page In The Universe. Actually, it's not, because that would be a page of me receiving my lottery winnings from Kylie Minogue having just broken the land speed record in a jet car or something. However, it is very funny in places.
(I really nearly didn't blog this because some of the jokes are so out of order. If I finish reading the site and it gets any worse I will probably remove this link. The only reason it's here is because some of it has made me properly laugh out loud, e.g I am better than your kids or I will kick your ass).
Microsoft Security Vulnerabilities plague us again. If you do use MS software, I'd apply the patches, especially if you make online purchases. Note that this one is a clanger in IE and office, so even you mac users are at risk.
The article says "There's more to come."
No shit.........
The article says "There's more to come."
No shit.........
Saturday, September 07, 2002
Digital Blasphemy - superb 3D rendered images.
dutchbint - from whom I was going to nick a link, but the links are numerous and all superb, so just go there and bounce off her(?) blog.
Ahhh, a Saturday morning with nothing to get up for. Drinking tea and surfing the web is a fine way to ease yourself into the hangover.....
I've stuck the pod on because I agree with the premise that blogs cannot be measured against each other in any meaningful way. A blog is entirely subjective and can be used how and why the blogger wants, without constraint or rules. That's the point isn't it? So how can you rate them, other than in a subjective way? "Best blog" is therefore bollocks. Q.E.D.
Damned messed up hangover logic......... still, the "Not the Best Blog" moniker is accurate anyway.
I've stuck the pod on because I agree with the premise that blogs cannot be measured against each other in any meaningful way. A blog is entirely subjective and can be used how and why the blogger wants, without constraint or rules. That's the point isn't it? So how can you rate them, other than in a subjective way? "Best blog" is therefore bollocks. Q.E.D.
Damned messed up hangover logic......... still, the "Not the Best Blog" moniker is accurate anyway.
Plastic - Recycling the web in Real Time.
Friday, September 06, 2002
Gates steals other peoples good ideas again.......
How is iTunes mentioned in this description of Windows media player 9? - Media Player now does this cool thing that iTunes 2 did. Media Player now does these cool things that iTunes 3 does.
Jimlad, you've infected me. Jobs is the man with vision, Gates is a parasite.
How is iTunes mentioned in this description of Windows media player 9? - Media Player now does this cool thing that iTunes 2 did. Media Player now does these cool things that iTunes 3 does.
Jimlad, you've infected me. Jobs is the man with vision, Gates is a parasite.
Tuesday, September 03, 2002
Real Networks are to offer Ogg Vorbis support in their products with help from Xiph.
If that sounds like gibberish, then Ogg Vorbis is a good, healthy and nutritious Open Source compressed audio format that will (hopefully) compete with mp3.
We like Open Source because it promotes invention to meet the needs of the masses rather than the bank accounts of the mega-corporations. "Companies must not be allowed to use the infrastructure we all depend upon as a weapon against their rivals to the detriment of all others." For more, see the Xiph page or the Open Source Initiative.
Now I just need to get my sound card working properly under Linux......
If that sounds like gibberish, then Ogg Vorbis is a good, healthy and nutritious Open Source compressed audio format that will (hopefully) compete with mp3.
We like Open Source because it promotes invention to meet the needs of the masses rather than the bank accounts of the mega-corporations. "Companies must not be allowed to use the infrastructure we all depend upon as a weapon against their rivals to the detriment of all others." For more, see the Xiph page or the Open Source Initiative.
Now I just need to get my sound card working properly under Linux......
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