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ATM's 'double your money' error

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:30:07 -0500

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 themselves to blame :-)

Pirates win music download battle

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:38:01 -0500

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!

freezebubbles

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:18:16 -0500

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 ;-)

Pick A Pomegranate

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:36:03 -0500

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!

Playing golf can 'damage hearing'

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:37:00 -0500

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.

UK short-selling ban to be lifted

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:36:00 -0500

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!

Blair's 2AM Reserve

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:26:22 -0500

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!

Woman uses tape to trick biometric airport fingerprint scan

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:09:58 -0500

Woman uses tape to trick biometric airport fingerprint scan:

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 anyone else watched Diamonds Are Forever recently ;-)

Rhys Millen nearly lands truck backflip Video

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:42:16 -0500

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 ;-)

Robbie Madison's Amazing Record Jump Video

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:26:48 -0500

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?

Free eBooks from eReader.com

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:10:19 -0500

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.

Photographs of Photographers

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:53:13 -0500

Photographs of Photographers:

I think this pretty much goes to show that photographers are basically nutters (hi Andy ;-)

Kite Surfer Vs House

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:08:45 -0500

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!”

The Day the Earth Stood Still Takes a Tumble

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:16:50 -0500

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 they were doing things on the cheap) and there’s a lot of commentary about how the general population of this planet are trying to f@&k each other over.

For a society that believes it is alone in the universe, a single shil, a single person and a single robot is such a fundamental shift in their world prespective they can’t cope …

Now, 57 years on from that film the new release of the film apparently (and I will freely admit at this point I’ve only see a couple of clips, reviews and trailers) needs one man, one ship, multiple GIANT HUGE SPHERES all over the world and some weird robotic bee things?!?

The nuclear war possible threatening othe planets thing has been throw away and replaced by an environmental theme , , , is it just me or does that feel a good 10 or more years late??

It’s a shame because it’a another crap film for Keanu Reeves … he was good in Bill & Ted (both of them, because, wtf), I liked him in Johnny Mnemonic. Point Break totally rocks, Men In Black, the first Matrix film is Uber cool and Constantine is pretty damn good too. The common theme running through all these films is that Keanu Reeves plays Keanu Reeves … don’t believe me, check out Dangerous Liasons, Dracula or Much Ado About Nothing (another film I actually quite like).

Anyhoo, back to tthe point. Yet another travesty, yet another film that didn’t need remaking just because it was in black and white of doesn’t have computer animation in it … leave these films alone and come up with an original idea for a change!!!

As a hint to the future if you want to piss me off some more please have a go at Fantastic Voyage, Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Citizen kane!!!!!

The Stories Behind Hollywood Studio Logos

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:16:35 -0500

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 :-)

Top 10 Incredible Food Facts

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:43:23 -0500

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!

Another 10 Fascinating Food Facts

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:40:38 -0500

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 :-)

'Time-bending drug' for jet lag

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:53:28 -0500

'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!

Anti-realistic photography

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:54:15 -0500

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 me how this technique works but it wouldn’t make any difference, I still wouldn’t understand it … bloody cool though :-)

GelaSkins, Protection with Style, not Bulk

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:33:01 -0500

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 they work out …