February 2011
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Brammo Empulse RR electric race bike goes... →
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hey, I like the idea of electric vehicles, and I’d be buying a Mitsubishi iMiev now if I could afford it, but there’s something about this, undoubtedly quick, bike whizzing past…
January 2011
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Skype 5 for Mac Exits Beta, Group Video Calling... →
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Skype 5 on Mac is absolutely awful….it needs a lot more than a few tweaks
Skype today announced that Skype 5 has gone gold, exiting the beta stage that began last November….
June 2010
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Samsung announces rugged Xcover handset with... →
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looks like the perfect festival phone - rugged and the battery life is epic ;-)
Prefer your cellphone to be more tough than smart? Then you might want to give…
James Whatley: TV star & Roaming Guru →
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Nice one Whatleydude … and ta for the Truphone nod :-) PS. we do a clever roaming SIM card now as well as the software ;-)
Hey! What’s that? It’s only James…
April 2010
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Very cool: super slow motion footage of Apollo 11... →
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Very cool camera shot and commentary explaining what’s going on :-)
Okay, okay, it’s totally freaking awesome. I really want to know what the film speed and exposure…
March 2010
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Publisher Experiments With 'Free' And Sees... →
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wow, a publisher that’s finally beginning to get it???
We’ve pointed to numerous studies, at this point, that have all found that, when done right, free ebooks can greatly…
Pulling the tablecloth out from under the... →
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he he he, hat’s pretty cool ;-)
This is a very clever way to promote your performance motorcycle: BMW chains a very, very long tablecloth with a very, very elaborate…
New Iron Man 2 Trailer Has Enough High-Tech Gear... →
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not only do they seem to be doing all the right things with this franchise but they have the gift of great music already written … Iron Man by Black Sabbath and now War…
This Watch Shouldn't Exist, But It Does... →
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If I wore a watch it would probably be something like this …
The more I look at Thomas Prescher’s Mysterious Double Axis Tourbillon watch, the more I think it’s…
Virgin America site drops Flash to court iPhone →
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excellent news, the first of many I hope
Virgin America late Tuesday said it has dropped Flash altogether from its website. The change, which quietly took effect Monday,…
February 2010
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Devotion to Duty →
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yep, I know people like this ;-)
Whisky toothpaste →
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Awesome, WANT!
(via Sociological Images)
Glastonbury gets six-year licence →
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cracking news … I’ll be back there next year :-)
Glastonbury Festival is given the go-ahead to continue for the next six years.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs openly... →
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it’s kinda like shooting fish in a barrel though isn’t it? Still funny though :-)
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January 2009
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ATM's 'double your money' error →
Bwwaahhhaaaahaaaahaaaaaa!
Sorry but well … the Banks do everything they legally can to shaft people out of their money, charging £25 for sending letters about 1p overdrafts, hiding extortionate interest rates for credit cards inside huge maasses of small print and they claim that they’re disapointed when people don’t report an error like this - really, they’re only got...
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Pirates win music download battle →
I call shennigans … nay, I call bullshit!
What a surprise, the record industry that’s been ripping everyone off for years bitching that they’re not making as much money at the moment by mudslinging around unsupported ‘facts’ that show that everyone in the world over the age of 3 weeks is a criminal … Fuck off!
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freezebubbles →
If you’re a photographer and you fancy trying something very cool in these currently Arctic like conditions, wait unti it’s really cold at night and go and bolw some soap bubbles in your back garden …
If it’s cold enough and you get the mix right they’ll freeze before they come down, just like the pics in this like. Very very cool indeed ;-)
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Pick A Pomegranate →
I’d never thought of how Pomegranate’s grow until I read this post … dunno why but it seems weird! Someone will be telling me that spaghetti grows on trees next!
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Playing golf can 'damage hearing' →
I was in the market for a new Driver sometime soon (actually about 3 months ago but other things got in the way). I tried some new drivers last year when the square drivers first came out and they were not only very loud but sounded horrible … fingers crossed that my search for a new model won’t permanently damage me.
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UK short-selling ban to be lifted →
Are they mad? Wasn’t it just shit like this (OK, not exclusivly but still) that caused this whole global financial mess in the first place?? They banned it for a reason … it’s people making money buy selling things they don’t own and hoping that they’ll be able to return them with some profit intact … totally stupid!
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Blair's 2AM Reserve →
Holy crap this stuff sounds nuts … “1tsp. of Blair’s 2AM reserve mixed with 1 gallon of sauce will produce extreme heat”, wow!
I’d be tempted to get some and chick some into a colleagues salad to see what happens but I’m afraid it might actually kill them!
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Woman uses tape to trick biometric airport... →
While governments and airports (amongst others) continue to push boldly into our sci-fi style future where biometrics-R-everywhere, it would appear that not only are the systems rubbish (no surprise there then) but you can already buy kits to help you get past them.
In this instance the woman brought some tape that had someone elses fingerprints on and got through the scanner no problem - has...
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Rhys Millen nearly lands truck backflip Video →
And for the third and final time we have a video of a nutter trying to backflip a truck … on the plus side he almost pulls it off this time and manages not to break his back again - I guess you’ve gotta call that one a win then ;-)
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Robbie Madison's Amazing Record Jump Video →
Well the guy makes it look pretty easy but jumping a motorbike onto the top of the Arc de Triumph in Paris, stopping and then jumping back off again has to be placed into the insane pile … doesn’t it?
December 2008
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Free eBooks from eReader.com →
Anyone get an eBook for Christmas? I’ve been using a Cybook from Bookeen for about 18 months now but free is free and not to be sneezed at. Some of these are already available from Project Guttenberg but there are some new books in this list too.
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Photographs of Photographers →
I think this pretty much goes to show that photographers are basically nutters (hi Andy ;-)
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Kite Surfer Vs House →
I get the feeling that this may be a viral add but it’s funny none the less … possibly noteable for the long warning at the start of the video about not doing stupid things like trying to kite-surf over a house and culminating with the wonderful phrase “if you take chances, at least wear a good video cam!”
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The Day the Earth Stood Still Takes a Tumble →
oh thank goodness … The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic 1950’s alien invasion film. It’s been referenced in films as diverse as Evil Dead III, Toy Story and Tron.
It’s an Alien invasion film but it’s really about, as a lot of films at the time were, nuclear war. In short, one alien ship lands, one man and one robot appear (OK, it’s the 1950’2 and...
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The Stories Behind Hollywood Studio Logos →
Have you ever wondered why film companies have the logo they do? No, neither had I until I saw a link to a page telling me about them … check it out, it’s kinda interesting :-)
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Top 10 Incredible Food Facts →
More interesting foody facts (actually the first lot from last year) mentioning amongst other things that “The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter” … eewwwwwwwwww!
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Another 10 Fascinating Food Facts →
Onions taste the same as Apples, Bananas have large hard seeds, Ketchup was originally a fish sauce and 7-up used to contain Lithium - the drug commonly prescribed now to sufferers of bi-polar disorder.
If you go to pub quiz’s this page could just win for you one of these weeks :-)
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'Time-bending drug' for jet lag →
I know a couple of people who are going to be interested in this, none of whom spend a lot of time travelling. One is a friend with a dodgy internal body clock and the other is theWife who sufferes from having to sleep next to someone who ‘allegedly ’ snores!
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Anti-realistic photography →
Most people using computers and graphics spend huge sums of money and time trying to make fake thing look as real as possible … it’s therefore a tad weird to see someone take pics of real and quite dramatic events and using some technique known as tilt/shift, make it look like a bunch of dinky toys!
I’m sure someone could sit me down in a pub and spend a long time explaining to...
November 2008
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GelaSkins, Protection with Style, not Bulk →
If you’ve currently got one of the more traditional covers or wallets for you iPhone/iPod etc and you’ve only got it in order to prevent scratches, then you might want to look at these GelaSkins.
They are, aparently, easily removeable, have some great artwork on and seemily fit just about anything. I might have to get myself a couple, I’ll let you know if I do and report on how...
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"Tickle Him!" →
Recently Maxin magazine conducted an interview with the guy who provides the voiceovers for, amongst other things, Mortal Kombat. You know, the scary deep voiced intro’s and fight ending “Finish Him!”
As part of the interview the persuaded him to record a few not so scary phrases in the same voice … a choine couple being the previously mentioned “Tickle Him!”,...
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Upside Down Dogs →
possibly the greatest upside down dog picture in the world … ever!
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Programmer Jokes . . . →
Lots and lots and lots and lots of really really techy and geeky jokes …
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Crazy: Jet Pack Crosses 1,500-Foot Long Colorado... →
A couple of days ago I posted a story about an insane man trying to back-flip a truck … now here’s another one jumping a Canyon, with the aid of a jetpack.
The flight taeks around 21 seconds, which isn’t bad, but when you consider that the ‘range’ of this jetpack is only just over 30 seconds (and you take a look at the size of the Canyon) you can see just how risky...
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HomePlug PowerLine PL-85PE 85Mbps Ethernet Adapter →
Do you own a really big house?? No, me neither … OK, so do you own or live in a 1950’s council house that seems to have unfeasably dense walls that mean from one room to the next your full power 802.11G wifi network is down to 20% 2 rooms away from the base station? Ahhhh, now we’re talking.
I’m running an Airport Extreme basestation capable of transmiting 802.11N and the...
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Darwin award, almost . . . →
Last year as part of the Red Bull Expirement, during a New Year TV special, an insane yank Rhys Millen was going to attempt to back-flip a truck. Despite all of the usual protestations of ‘WORLDS FIRST!’ during the commentary on this type of event, it’s very rare that they’re not, in fact, actually practiced and completed beforehand.
It was during one of these practice...
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BASE Jumping the Burj Dubai →
BASE jumping is clearly a somewhat insane thing to do (and this is coming from someone with 80 skydives in his logbook) … but if you’re gonna do it, do it big. At the moment the biggest is the Burj Dubai but there are plan afoot for buildings twice it’s size!! Now that sounds like real fun ;-)
Quiz of the week's news →
THings are looking up … I always always ALWAYS end up scoring 2 out of 7 on the BBC week’s news quiz. However, this week I managed 7!! w00t!
The reality rebellion →
Could it finally be true? Have the public, the people that have encouraged the ‘reality’ tv explosion finally got sick of it? Are they turning their back on it and deliberatly sabotaging the shows that they watch or have the program makers just finally gone too far in trying to sensationalise the shows by telling the judges to be overly harsh about the performers.
I don’t really...
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Bush 'seeks to ease wildlife law' →
Fingers crossed Mr Obama will reverse this one pretty quickly in a couple of months time - it’s clear that George ‘dubya’ Bush is not going to go down in history as having been a friend to the environment during his time in office.
From seemingly doing his upmost to stall any type of global envorinmental effort at the Kyoto summit, then refusing to take part in it (thereby...
Strictly stars support Sergeant →
Is this really what’s passing for news now? … is it a slow news day today? A guy in a popularity contest has walked out because he’s too popular and that might stop someone else from winning … bah humbug!
LOLGRIFFIN →
LOLcats Vs the BNP … he he he
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New Star Trek trailers, now available →
I’m probably not quite as excited for the new Star Trek movie as I am for Watchmen but it will be nice to see a new, fresh and re-imagined version of Star Trek after 20 years of the same formula being re-re-re-re-re-re-hashed … and the Trailer’s not bad either. Full marks to Simon Pegg for the comedy Scotty accent ;-)
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Kitty Cat Hitches Ride on Back of a Roomba →
Welcome to the anthisis of the previous post … a cat sat on a running Roomba. Now I don’t know if I’m just overly anthropomorphisising (real word or too many endings?) here but it looks to me like this cat is perfectly happy accepting this lift, but is somewhat bemused that he’s not ending up anywhere new or interesting, like at the food bowl.
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Police and teachers on BNP list →
So a bunch of people are members of a an organisation that either a) they’re not allowed to be, b) they’re ashamed of being and c) aparently is pretty lacking in it’s data security procedures.
I have zero sympathy for any of these racist bastards being outed as being racist bastards …
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IT Crowd third season starts on Friday! →
Oh hell yes ;-)