I’m sure the purpose of time off work is to bore you into wanting to go back.
I can’t leave the house, potentially until 6pm, since I have to wait for a courier who is carrying tonight’s Kristen Hersh tickets. TicketMaster can just go to Hell. They didn’t even give an option of using Royal Mail [...]
Tontie, is a whack-a-rat style thing from the guy who made the Grow games that I’ve waffled about in the past.
It’s a pretty neat memory- and reaction- based thing, but I’d wouldn’t recommend playing it on a laptop keyboard. That might actually drive you insane.
It also gets hugely difficult on the 10th (and last?) level. [...]
A pile of old movies I’ve seen but have been too lazy to write about until now. More to follow soon.
Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence
I think this is a film you have to watch a few times before it really sinks in. The first time, you’ll probably just sit around gawping at the [...]
Right now there are apparently people snow boarding in Trafalgar Square, but sadly it’s impossible to actually see anything unless you feel like scaling Nelson’s Column. The thing is pre-ticketed and the whole area is blocked off, which seems… kind of against the spirit of the whole thing?
Maybe it’s for the best though, the crowd [...]
Other countries get vaguely normal plush toys. Garfield, South Park, Cthulu, etc. Sweden, though? In Sweden they get Pee & Poo.
When it’s 1:15am on a weeknight and you’re wondering to yourself “Hmm, what should I do now?” the answer is almost certainly “Sheesh, go to bed you idiot!”
This is either the worst or the best thing ever: Mortal Kombat Vs Street Fighter 2 done in flash.
I mean, come on, everyone knows Scorpion would never be able to beat Ryu!
A government white paper on education has had to be reprinted at a cost of “just under £23,000″ due to a spelling error.
Education minister Lord Adonis, who made the admission in a written reply, blamed “minor drafting errors”.
A slogan was mistakenly spelt “Higer Standards, Better Schools for All”.
Threadless are having a sale, where each T-shirt is $10. The store’s getting hammered but orders do get through eventually.
(If you haven’t heard of threadless, they take user-submitted T-shirt designs, let everyone vote on them, then print the most popular ones to sell. Some of them are absolutely brilliant.)
Ginormo-apes lived alongside humans for 1 million years.
And you thought the NHS was bad? Probably not one to read whilst eating.
A coffee table made out of a 1970’s 26″ hard drive platter. Sweepstake on how long it takes someone to make an iPod out of one of these disks?
Some observations from watching MTV for the first time in a few years:
It’s impossible to take anyone seriously once you’ve seen them carrying a tiny, yappy dog around under their arm.
The world would be a very different place if the word “like” had never been invented.
No 16-year-old child needs a Landrover Discovery.
Nor does anyone else [...]
It’s probably a bad sign when you realise that you lost an entire lunch hour (and some time staying behind after work) playing Risk via Google Maps, right?
But it was raining outside! That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
India:
Scotland:
A portable speaker designed to look like a power-up box from Super Mario Brothers.
I’d love to get one, but I’m scared it would be broken by me or someone else head-butting it, hoping that an extra life would come out.
The worst software bugs in history.
Some days I’m really glad that I only work on software which is highly unlikely to kill anyone:
November 2000 — National Cancer Institute, Panama City. In a series of accidents, therapy planning software created by Multidata Systems International, a U.S. firm, miscalculates the proper dosage of radiation for patients undergoing [...]