Oh Internet

Overheard on the way back from the train station today:
“See the noodle house on the corner? Noodle express kinda place, yeah? Fackin’ ‘orrible.”
Way more useful than your average review.

Batman Begins: First off, it’s the best Batman film by a country mile, but that sounds like damning it with faint praise. It’s much darker than the others, with no comic relief at all, but it still feels a bit reigned in. I don’t know whether it was to keep a low-ish age rating, but [...]

Things have taken a turn for the ‘interesting’ recently.
The company I worked for finally shambled too close to the cliff edge and, once the dust settled, the remains were separated and sold for parts. At a similar time, our landlords told us that the flat we were staying in was being sold. Combining this with [...]

Dear sweet Jeebus! The weather is trying to kill me. 2nd day in London, the temperature is 31 degrees C and will be 32 tomorrow. I may well melt before going into work on Monday.

Dance Dance Immoliation is a version of DDR created for Burning Man.
If the player messes up the dance steps, they get shot in the face with propane flamethrowers. I really like the bit on the page that says that because they’re using the proper flame retardant suits it’s all totally safe and that nothing [...]

Edinburgh pubs are considerably less annoying once the student population has buggered off home for the holidays.
Even ultra-pretentious places like Centraal have sofa space left, which never happens during term time. It’s amazing how quickly you can go from being a student yourself to being strangely glad when there are none of them left [...]

Contingency fund

Definition: A quantity of time and/or money which will, without fail, be entirely exhausted by the end of any given project. Even after taking into account the “Pick the largest number required, then double it” rule, this margin of error will be used in full. A new term is required for this concept because [...]

The Sin City movie is all kinds of awesome. If you haven’t seen it yet you will do so with no further delay.

How the Internet broke my mind, part 7348: The picture below is from an eBay auction. If, when looking at it, you see nothing but a clock, then I’m very glad for you. You’ve obviously avoided the web’s original “Ach! Mein eyes! Ze goggles, zey do nossing!” moment. Wonderfully, there is a work-safe description and [...]

Now, wading into the articles and subsequent comments on Kuro5hin.org is always a bit of a dicey prospect, and the article I’m about to link to is a prime example of that. Even for Kuro5hin it’s a horrible mess of personal attacks, name calling and whining without the slightest prospect of anything useful coming out [...]