A horkin’ great huge list of downloadable music videos. (Also, could someone please euthanise RealPlayer?)
On a similar theme, there’s a more frequently updated blog featuring new music videos over here. It seems to have a wider range of stuff than the previous item, but does seem a bit more mainstream.
Full MP3 samples of the latest [...]
Since I can never remember the names and download locations of all of the Firefox extensions I use, it’s kind of annoying trying to find them all whenever I end up having to use a different computer. To try to speed this process up for the next time, I made a page to try to [...]
Today’s threat to humanity comes disguised as Art(tm). A non-mobile full scale model of a robot from ‘Votoms’, built by a Tokyo artist. Currently, it’s only dangerous in that it’s an 11-foot tall sheet iron sculpture with a high centre of gravity, but that’s just to lull us into a false sense of security.
Never let [...]
More Google Maps fun. Click the link, zoom right in, then feel you brain dribble out of your ears as it tries to make sense of the perspective.
Of interest to everyone in the grips of a WoW addiction, a GPL’d World of Warcraft map viewer. It uses the datafiles directly from the game directory, and lets you fly around all of the in-game maps, as well as the hidden developer maps. There’s also a wiki documenting the game data formats they’ve reverse-engineered [...]
The latest threat to humanity comes from the severed back end of an AT-AT walker. Or it would if the video on that page didn’t show that it looks about as stable as Bambi. It does have mounted guns though, so would make an ideal commuter vehicle.
Google maps keeps getting swankier. It’s now able to [...]
Flicking around on the TV last night, I saw that Wanadoo are using ‘Velouria’ by the Pixies to try to sell ADSL. Fair enough, it’s one of their poppier songs, but I can remember a time when the Pixies would have been seen as being way too weird to use on a TV advert. I [...]
More science festival rambling. This time about ‘What If…’, a BBC Radio Scotland recording of a couple of speculative discussion panels. The panels, on finding a cure for aging, and on time travel, are going to be aired at 11.30am on the 6th and 13th of April (This and next Wednesday.) Should also be [...]
Even penguins are smart enough to avoid furries:
As the cameras rolled, the real penguins rose their beaks and gazed up at the purported Lord — but then walked away disinterested when he took off his penguin face to reveal himself to be zoo director Teruyuki Komiya.
An artistic way to make your unwanted computer hardware [...]
Larry Lessig’s talk at the Edinburgh Science festival today was pretty interesting, but I think there were a bunch of factors that sort of hamstrung it.
The format was of a presentation by Lessig, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Lilian Edwards of the AHRC Centre along with Bill Thompson and Andres Guadamuz, who is [...]